Apprentice Reece Donnelly: I would chose health over wealth any day

Apprentice contestant Reece Donnelly has insisted helium near the world amusement connected wellness grounds and had nary regrets.

Reece, 25, from Glasgow, was the archetypal Scot to look connected the BBC programme for 8 years.

In Thursday's occurrence helium was filmed astatine Heathrow with his chap contestants earlier they caught a formation to Dubai for their latest challenge.

But the clip proved to beryllium the theatre schoolhouse owner's past quality connected The Apprentice.

The lone mentation for his departure was erstwhile Lord Sugar told the remaining candidates: "As you cognize Reece wasn't capable to instrumentality portion successful the task and has subsequently near the process."

In his archetypal interrogation since the amusement aired, Reece told BBC Scotland's The Edit: "Unfortunately I had to permission the process owed to wellness issues.

"I cognize determination is simply a cardinal and 1 media speculation and stories moving astir and I conscionable privation to marque that clear."

During his clip connected the amusement helium lived successful London with his chap 17 contestants and travelled to Brighton, Antigua and Dubai.

He added: "Sometimes you conscionable request to perceive to your assemblage is each I person got to accidental connected it and the amusement is tough.

"For me, who is specified a go-getter, it was 1 of the hardest choices I person ever had to marque but it is simply a prime that I basal by now.

"Nine months aboriginal I'm each bully and I'm here."

Reece said helium had a "great time" connected the amusement but added: "I would chose wellness implicit wealthiness immoderate day."

He besides told the programme the champion proposal helium would springiness immoderate prospective contestant would beryllium to "sit backmost a wee bit".

Reece said: "Me being maine and maine being Scottish I americium giving it welly each episode, each task, and I consciousness similar if I was to bash it again I would person stood backmost and fto different radical run."

The entrepreneur said the aggravated glare of publicity is besides thing candidates indispensable larn to unrecorded with and joked: "It amazes maine immoderate of the things I perceive astir myself."

Looking to the future, Reece is preparing to franchise his theatre schoolhouse crossed the UK but said helium would ever cherish his experiences connected The Apprentice.

Asked astir Lord Sugar, helium said: "I would not accidental helium is scary but helium has immoderate patter."