The Apprentice star Brittany Carter has put Nick Showering romance rumours to bed - insisting the pair are just "really close".
The entrepreneur, who was knocked out in tonight's episode, revealed there is nothing going on between the pair, after fans suspected Brittany and Nick had a spark between them.
Brittany made history in the first all-female semi-final - but she lost out to Harpreet and Kathryn - who are this year's finalists.
After being fired by Lord Alan Sugar, Brittany has broken her silence on romance rumours.
She told The Sun : "We are really really good friends.
"There's no romance there, despite what people think.
"We're really close. Nick was one of the people I spent the most time with in the house because we just vibe off each other so well.
"He's so funny, and I think I'm really funny, so we get on so well together. But it's just a friendship, to set the record straight."
In tonight's episode, Brittany and Stephanie went home in a double elimination.
During the tough interviews stage, Brittany, Harpreet, Kathryn and Steff were faced with direct questions about their business plans, with Claude issuing the candidates with some incredible one-liners.
Upon consulting the four experts, Lord Sugar decided to send Brittany home - wishing her the best of luck going forward.
Brittany - who was pitching a high protein alcoholic drink business - was reduced to tears when Mike Soutar pointed out a huge flaw in her business plan, but she lied to her fellow candidates when they asked her if she had teared up during the interview.
"You're a very intelligent young lady," Lord Sugar later told her in the boardroom. "But you still back your ideas even when they're bad."
Alan then turned to her co-star Stephanie and said: "The pre-loved is not a market that is loved by me, you're fired."
Meanwhile, reflecting on her time on the show, Stephanie said she originally wanted to be a singer - but her dream soon changed when she was 16.
She shared: "When I was younger the dream was to become a singer and I lived and breathed it until I was 16, but after gearing myself up for it my whole life, it was at drama school when I realised my dream had changed."
*The Apprentice final will air on Thursday at 9pm.
