The Apprentice star found with half-naked rival in her hotel room during filming of hit BBC show

A star on an upcoming show has been caught with a half-naked male contestant in her hotel room, going against the show’s strict sex policy.

A new The Apprentice contestant has been found with a half-naked rival contestant in her hotel room during filming.

Amber-Rose Badrudin and the unnamed man broke strict “no touching” rules while in Turkey for Lord Alan Sugar’s new BBC series, The Sun reports.

“They were read the riot act,” a source said.

Entrepreneur Amber-Rose had reportedly written a love letter to the male contestant who was discovered undressed in her hotel room — before she later split from her boyfriend of four years.

Amber-Rose Badrudin and the unnamed man broke strict “no touching” rules while in Turkey for Lord Alan Sugar’s BBC series The Apprentice.

The 24-year-old later told fans she had broken up with her business partner Michael Nguyen but failed to admit why.

Amber-Rose was spotted with her show rival through a window by a member of the crew while filming an episode in Cappadocia, Turkey.

A source said: “Members of the welfare team then knocked on Amber-Rose’s door and saw the male contestant trying to hide in the bathroom to avoid being spotted.

“He was half undressed and appeared to be trying to cover himself with something.

“It’s a strict rule in their contracts with production company Naked that contestants mustn’t have relationships with each other, and most certainly shouldn’t share a room together.

“The pair were read the riot act by a senior member of production when they returned to London.

“They were reminded of the strict sex ban and physical contact clause in their contracts and how The Apprentice is a professional show.”

Amber-Rose wrote the letter when the male contestant was on the brink of being axed after his team failed to win a later task.

Amber-Rose later told fans she had broken up with her business partner Michael Nguyen.

Sources said she gave it to another candidate to sneak into his suitcase, but the note was intercepted.

The Turkey trip will appear in the 19th series of the show — fronted by Lord Alan Sugar, famed for his “you’re fired” catchphrase.

Also featuring Baroness Karren Brady and Tim Campbell, it starts on January 30.

The show’s contract rules state: “Candidates shall not engage in any intimate physical contact and/ or sexual activity with any other candidate or crew member or member of the production team during the competition.”

Production bosses enforced the no-sex rule after years of candidates forming relationships.

Last year, The Sun on Sunday revealed that two candidates enjoyed a passionate tryst in the show’s London mansion.

In 2017 winner James White got together with Jade English, while Harrison Jones and Michaela Wain became had a baby in 2018.

Lottie Lion and Lewis Ellis hooked up while filming in Finland in 2019.

Meanwhile in June, 2022 winner Harpreet Kaur and fellow contestant Akshay Thakrar became the first Apprentice stars to tie the knot.

Last night a BBC spokesman declined to comment.

Lord Alan Sugar hosts BBC's The Apprentice, which is filming its latest season in Turkey.

Amber-Rose, who often posts glam snaps on her Instagram account, told her 747,000 followers on TikTok about her “public break-up” from Michael.

They run an Asian food retail business called Oree Mart, based in Croydon, South London.

In July she said on her own podcast Tap Water she was “navigating” being single as speculation swirled.

She explained: “I’ve just come out of a four-year relationship.

“I realised that I haven’t been ­single for a very long time.

“I’m 24 years old and I don’t know what’s going on.

“It’s kind of crazy — the streets are wild.”

Amber-Rose is set to star in the series, which will air in late January.

She continued: “Obviously my relationship was public so I feel like I had to address it.

“It would have just been weird, it would have been the elephant in the room.

“But what I didn’t expect was all of the rumours that would come with it.

“Listen, you guys have to respect a person’s privacy. I’m a real-life human and I was saying on my Instagram Stories the other day, my family, my friends, his family, his friends — all have to watch me going through a public break-up and it’s not a joke.

“There’s things that I’d want to say and there’s things that I don’t want to say out of respect for myself, out of respect for him, out of respect for our relationship. If anything, I thought that being respectful towards him and not talking about the ins and outs and the nitty-gritties of what happened during our relationship would show you guys the type of level of understanding that we have towards each other, but it’s backfired massively because now everyone thinks that I’ve done him over — he’s like crying in a corner somewhere, I’ve glowed up and he’s rotting.”

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