THE Apprentice runner-up Anisa Khan has revealed the sweet off-camera promise Lord Sugar made to her when she failed to be crowned champion of the show.
Anisa, a pizza company owner from , fell at the final hurdle when she became runner-up to Dean Franklin during the BBC contest.
Despite impressing with her product, which was universally loved by all those who tried it, Lord Sugar opted to go for her rival as a result of being a bigger which was returning more money.
However, this has not stopped Anisa, with the TV candidate admitting her business has been “busier than ever” since she appeared on the show.
And it seems that Lord Sugar himself is still interested.
The business titan has kept in close contact with Anisa and has promised that he will take another look at potentially working with her again once “the dust has settled”.
In an exclusive interview, Anisa told Flying Eze: “Me and Lord Sugar have had a lot of contact actually.
“In the past year, I've been in contact with his team. We've had emails back and forth.
“I have his so we have been in contact.
“After the final, he did call to say he is still interested in me. He's still interested in my business.
“He just said, let the dust settle a bit and then we'll have conversations again.”
Despite making it all the way to the final two, Anisa revealed she wished the show's edit had shown more of her skill set and confessed negation processes were often cut down in the show and as such, did not accurately reflect the hard work she had put into the task at hand.
Anisa told Flying Eze: “I wish they showed more of the skills we used or highlighted our successes for everyone.
“I remember watching some things where, for example, I got a £250,000 investment initially.
“With that, I remember I negotiated really well. I said this point and that point and I fought really hard to get that.
“But on TV, all you see is me going £250,000 and shaking hands.”
Having managed to make it all the way to the end, Anisa remained inside house longer than anyone.
However, living with all the other candidates and an additional house and welfare team initially proved a struggle for the budding entrepreneur.
Anisa revealed: “I honestly I found it difficult the first few weeks because there was no room that was empty.
“It was hard to get privacy and obviously we shared a bedroom as well. And in our downtime we would just talk. We got to know each other very, very well.”
Despite that, there was little tension in the house with Anisa admitting that the candidates managed to leave any feelings from tasks outside the door.
“We all got along and at the end of the day, we're all adults. So we had to differentiate the difference between the process and the house,” Anisa said.
“There was no massive fight or anything like that in the house.
“For me, because I was giving my all to the task, when I came to the house, I always wanted to relax and just chill.
“Sometimes it's hard when you're with your teammates because then it's like work gets brought home.
“But I socialised with everyone and also made sure I had my own personal time to myself.”
