The Apprentice hopefuls have terrible track records as they’ve eight closed businesses and owe creditors almost £500,000 between them – despite boast they're top-level business experts

PILLOW company boss Thomas Skinner thinks he’s one of the favourites to win The Apprentice – but his business track record will give Lord Sugar sleepless nights.

He’s already got a string of failed firms to his name.

Londoner Thomas’s Fastway Furniture was dissolved in 2018, market research outfit Capital 6 Investments Ltd went down the pan in July and Essex Furniture Ltd ceased trading in 2015.

His Fluffy Pillow Company Ltd was founded earlier this year and is yet to file any accounts and Thomas admitted to being a bad planner.

The 26-year-old told the BBC ahead of the new series: “I don’t plan – I just do everything on impulse. When I plan, I always get it wrong."

He told The Sun: "I'm always having a go at new businesses and trying different ideas. And you've got to take the rough with the smooth, not every company can be successful, but that's business, if it was easy, everyone would be doing it. I thought god loved a trier?"

And he’s not the only one whose business track-record is not exactly stellar.

Dean Ahmad is a 20-year-old owner of a sports management agency from Essex but his Fine Edge Cricket firm has debts of £2,379.

He founded his company aged 15. He said: "I’ve definitely got the gift of the gab, I can persuade anyone to do anything."

Londoner Carina Lepore, 30, resigned as a director of food firm Dough Artisan Bake House in June.

Scarlett Allen-Horton, 32, from the Midlands owns her own recruitment company and claims: "I am an achiever. I have been the highest performer across every workplace I have worked within.

But her Harper Fox Partners Ltd firm has creditors owed £35,000.

Souleyman Bah is 20 and he is a para-athlete and motivational speaker from south east London. He trains with the Paralympic team and specialises in sprinting.

But his Shield Fitness company – founded in 2017 -was struck off this year.

Riyonn Farsad is a 30-year-old events manager from south London.

Hesays he has never come across someone that doesn't get along with him and "will use my poker face and tactics to always come out on top."

His games firm Riyonn Ltd was struck off in 2019 and another of his firms,  Middle East Kitchen Ltd,  has also been dissolved.

Shahin Hassan, 36, is a chartered engineer from Birmingham. He says: "I love business more than sharks love blood. I’m ruthless in my pursuit of success."

He is also a director of Bay Laundry Ltd which has a bottom line of £1,234.

Shahin is a director of Diamond Parul Nivas Ltd – a linen hire firm with debts of more than £460,000.

He also ran Shangatic Ltd – dissolved with debts of £27,482 – and another failed firm called Avon Wash Ltd.

Three other hopefuls – Marianne Rawlins, Iasha Masood and Kenna Ngoma – are also listed as running their own firms on Companies House but their outfits are yet to file any trading accounts.

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