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The Apprentice stars hook up in secret wooden shed at the show’s luxury house to avoid cameras

THE Apprentice stars hook up with each other in the garden shed of the show’s luxurious house in sordid sex liaisons, a former star has revealed.

Raef Bjayou, who was on the fourth series of the BBC show in 2008, told the Sun’s Bizarre column contestants would sneak out of the Notting Hill house and cop off with each other.

 The Apprentice house
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The Apprentice houseCredit: Cover Images

It comes as current contestants James White and Jade English and Anisa Topan and Andrew Brady enjoyed mixing business with pleasure.

Speaking at the reopening of Forty Dean Street in Soho, London, Raef, 37, said: "There were rumours - apparently people were using the shed in the garden as a kind of snogging, intimate room.

"I think they've changed the house, but in my year it was the garden shed.

"I could be wrong but I believe there were two people in my year who would go in there to snog."

 Inside the Apprentice house
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Inside the Apprentice houseCredit: Cover Images
 Raef Bjayou, top second from right, when he was on the BBC show in 2008
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Raef Bjayou, top second from right, when he was on the BBC show in 2008Credit: Handout
 He revealed some contestants would sneak off to the garden shed
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He revealed some contestants would sneak off to the garden shedCredit: Rex Features
 He says there they would cop off with each other
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He says there they would cop off with each otherCredit: Rex Features
 James White has romped with a fellow contestant
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James White has romped with a fellow contestantCredit: Handout
 He and Jade English have mixed pleasure with business
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He and Jade English have mixed pleasure with businessCredit: Handout

Raef, who now runs PR and property firms, revealed living with fellow contestants can be stressful and intense, having worked with them all day.

He said there was never much alcohol allowed in the house as production always kept a tab on them.

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And he defended stars’ cutting comments made in the boardroom to Alan Sugar but admitted it revealed their true colours.

He told the Sun: “I think there were one or two cans of lager. They kept tabs on what you drank. It wasn't like we were drowning in champagne.

 This year's The Apprentice stars
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This year's The Apprentice stars
 Anisa Topan has also bedded a contestant
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Anisa Topan has also bedded a contestant
 She and Andrew Brady got hot and heavy under the covers
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She and Andrew Brady got hot and heavy under the coversCredit: BBC

“It's quite intense because you're working really hard and obviously you'd prefer to have a bit of me time, but you don't because thrust into a house with other people so there's no opportunity for a bit of solace.

“I think there's a kind of agreement when you're in the boardroom you do within reason what you need to do to survive. And when you're not in the boardroom it's water under the bridge.

 Raef now runs PR and property firms
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Raef now runs PR and property firms
 He was on the fourth series
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He was on the fourth seriesCredit: PA:Press Association
 He defended what contestants say in the boardroom
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He defended what contestants say in the boardroom

“What happens in the boardroom stays in the boardroom.

“Also, you've only got something to worry about if you've said something that's really egregiously horrible either not true or fabricated. If you're one of those people you've probably got something to worry about. If you'd said it how it is you just forget about it.”

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