Doncaster Apprentice star reveals he 'spewed up' outside Lord Sugar's boardroom

Former RAF gunner and HGV driver Levi Hague is one of 20 candidates aiming to win £250,000 of investment from the business mogul in the hit BBC show.

Earlier this month, pet urn entrepreneur Mr Hague was missing from the boardroom segment of the task, with Lord Sugar telling viewers he was absent due to ill health.

And in the following episode he didn’t feature at all as teams took part in a cooking task before attempting to sell their produce at London’s Greenwich Market.

The Doncaster business boss has now explained in grim and graphic detail his absence from the episodes in a TikTok video.

He said he was struck down with food poisoning that was so severe “he lost more weight than an Ozempic user”.

Taking to TikTok to explain his absence, Levi didn’t hold back as he explained: “The night before the task, we got in pretty late, about 10 o’clock at night, couldn’t be bothered to cook, I were being lazy, and I had some spaghetti bolognese, either that or some chicken, whatever.

“I got food poisoning, really bad. Diarrhoea and vomiting.

"The place where we went to do the boardroom, you have a like little chill out room before, and I spewed up getting out the car.

“More or less spewed up when we got into the chill out room, so they isolated me straight away, so I wouldn’t spread it to to any other contestants.

“So, yeah, that’s reason why I were down.”

Levi went on to detail that he was removed from the house and put in a hotel so he could recover away from the rest of the candidates.

Thanking the production company team for looking after him, he added: “Every single one of them looked at me, make sure I had water, make sure I had food, did hour checks on me.

“I went down for about four or five days. Had to go on some hardcore antibiotics. Put it this way…. I I lost more weight than an Ozempic user, and after I went toilet after 21 times in a day, I stopped counting after that.”

Trying to lighten the discussion, he added: “So if I walk in on next one like John Wayne, then you’ll understand why. I were hanging out my… I were proper man down.”

In an earlier Instagram video, he said: “I missed boardroom [episode] two, which I was gutted about, and I missed the whole task of week three.

“I couldn’t do anything about it.

“But don’t worry, tune in for the next one and you’ll still get to see this face and these rosy cheeks shining.

“Cheers for the support.”

After the first episode of the 20th series aired, Mr Hague was named as a rank outsider to win by bookies.

Before the BBC One show got under way he had been made 3-1 favourite.

But despite being on the winning team in a shopping challenge in Hong Kong in the opening episode, his odds plummeted to 50-1 after both sides delivered a calamatious perforfmance which enraged business tycoon Lord Sugar.

Ahead of the show Mr Hague said he will do the city proud, after issuing a video statement apologising for offensive messages shared when he was younger, releasing a three minute apology after a national newspaper unearthed old tweets.

He said: “I’m proud of the man I am today. It’s going to be a good show and I hope I do Doncaster proud. I’m proud to be from Doncaster, I’m proud to be a Yorkshireman.

“I am sorry for the tweets and if they offended anybody, the terminology wasn’t right and wasn’t very articulate – we’ll end that there.

“I am really excited to get this going – I do have some really good moments – I hope people get behind me.”

"On one episode, you’ll see that all this will be irrelevant. You’ll be blown away.

"I can’t go into it or give and spoilers but you will be surprised.

"Tune in and watch me do Doncaster proud – I hope you’ll all get behind me.”