New ‘Apprentice’ Contestant’s Racist & Sexist Social Media Posts Unearthed Before Series Launch

There seems to be a strong correlation between Apprentice contestants and dodgy social media posts, and we’ve now got one from a guy named Levi Hague who will be featuring on the new series when it kicks off next week.

Hague, 33, made the rookie error of not deleting his old Tweets, and someone’s dug up a bunch of stuff from the early 2010s where he’s bigging up Tommy Robinson, referring to police as “pigs” and calling women “sl@gs.”

One post read: ‘Thank f*** that extremist dirty Muslim preacher getting took out of this country. Just a waste of money and waste of space. F*** off.’

The Tweets have now been deleted, and they’re so ancient that he had probably forgotten about them. But that hasn’t stopped it becoming a bit of a PR nightmare for the BBC.

The entrepreneur has now apologised after an MP questioned how he was allowed to take part in the show, which returns on January 29.

Hague said: ‘I am ashamed and embarrassed to have made these posts over a decade ago. I offer my sincere apologies to all who I’ve offended, as well as my fellow candidates, for the truly awful language and views that they contain.

‘I take full accountability for the publishing of those posts. They are not a reflection of the values I uphold today.’ 

The showmakers failed to spot the Tweets because Hague hadn’t told them about his account during the vetting process, but production company Naked assure they will be ‘reviewing’ this process moving forward.

A spokesperson said: ‘We work with reputable third-party providers to carry out comprehensive background and social media checks on all of our candidates as part of our rigorous due diligence before casting. On this occasion, these checks failed to flag the offensive posts, therefore we will be reviewing this process moving forward.’

It does seem a bit lame to be vilifying a guy over Tweets he made in 2012, when he would have been 19 years old. Teenager writes stupid comments on social media 15 years ago? Lock him up and throw away the key!

In fairness, he may feel the same way now as he did back then, and that would not be good. Still, there’s no evidence of that, and the entire series, including all 12+ tasks and boardroom firings, have already been filmed, so it’s too late to do anything about it now.

Imagine if Levi Hague ends up winning the whole thing and bagging Lord Sugar’s £250,000? Now that would be an interesting predicament for the BBC to find themselves in.

For the time Lord Sugar said people with non-binary pronouns should be shipped to Mongolia, click HERE.