I acted like bull in china shop, says Sarah as she becomes show’s first casualty

SARAH Byrne has admitted she acted like “a bull in a china shop” as she became the first candidate to be fired by Lord Sugar in the new series of The Apprentice.

The 29-year-old (right) from Manchester, who runs an acting academy for children, faced off against Jasmine Kundra and Jackie Fast in the boardroom after the women’s team failed miserably in the first challenge of the series, a shopping task in Malta. The 16 candidates, who are all vying for Lord Sugar’s £250,000 investment in their business, were tasked with finding and buying nine local Maltese items and returning to the airport by 7pm.

But the women’s team, project managed by Kundra, failed to deliver all of the items, and confusion and heated arguments led to them buying one of the items twice and heading to the wrong location.

Byrne, who appeared in Channel 4’s Shameless in 2008, said: “Obviously, no one wants to be the first one to go and I accept that I came across as a bull in china shop at times. Maybe if I had taken a step back there is a chance I could have still been there.

“Claude said I came across as disruptive and forceful. However, I played a major role in the challenge which I could have been credited for.”

She also predicted that tennis events company owner Sabrina Stocker would go on to win the show.