THE Apprentice fans were all saying the same thing after Shama Amin quit the BBC1 competition during Thursday night’s episode.
Shama, 41, travelled with the rest of the candidates to Mercato Metropolitano to meet Lord Alan Sugar and find out their task – but had an announcement for him.
Addressing Lord Sugar, Shama said: “I suffer from a condition called rheumatoid arthritis.
“Due to medial reasons and the process being so physically demanding, despite all the efforts the whole team has made, I’ve had to make the difficult decision to leaver the process.
“I’d just like to thank you so much for this opportunity.”
Lord Sugar replied: “Well, Shama, I’m really sad to hear that. I wish you and your family all the best for the future.”
But fans were slightly confused and questioned why Shama didn’t simply quit off screen instead of waking up at 4am and travelling with the others to do it so publicly.
One viewer tweeted: “Why would they make Shama publicly announce her reason for leaving? Something sketchy about that.”
Another said: “Not the producers making Shama go to location, stand up there and announce her exit and *then* go home.”
Someone else wrote: “*whispers* she could’ve phoned Lord Sugar and tell him that and gone back to sleep instead of being up at the crack of dawn.”
And a fourth added: “Oh no! Imagine having to get up at 4am to stand up for three hours waiting for Lord Alan to say you’re leaving #TheApprentice couldn’t she have done a VT?”
Ahead of her stint in the competition, Shama revealed that she signed up to be a role model for Asian women.
“Being a lady of colour, wearing a headscarf as well, and the challenges that we face on a daily basis, I just want to be a living example for the Asian women and South Asian women out there,” she explained.
Shama moved to Bradford with her husband, to pursue a high-flying career in banking.
However, she gave this up to raise her children, but the idea of what her future could hold for her family never left her mind.
After four years at home, she decided to open The Little Academy Day Nursery as a means of inspiring children to achieve their dreams.
The nursery launched in 2014 and is located on Manchester Road, Bradford.
