Apprentice boardroom bloodbath as three candidates are fired by Lord Sugar.

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Lord Sugar fired three contestants from The Apprentice, for only the second time in the show's history.

Elle Stevenson was eliminated before she even had a chance to name two colleagues for the final boardroom showdown.

The 68-year-old business mogul then sent sales account manager Mergim Butaja and boutique owner April Jackson packing.

The first triple firing, outside of the interview rounds, came in the 2014 run of the popular BBC One business-based reality show.

This week, the candidates were tasked with setting up and running a handyman business. They had to generate as much cash as possible over two days.

Lord Sugar designated 21-year-old Stevenson, a construction operations executive, as project manager of Team Versatile.

She appointed Butaja as sub-team leader, but Versatile got off to a disastrous start by missing the 9.45am deadline to print flyers for their business.

It went rapidly downhill from there as Kosovan-born Butaja lost the team money due to his ham-fisted attempt to fix a shelf and his second-rate painting efforts.


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