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"Former The Apprentice winner Yasmina Siadatan has told Digital Spy that she is &amp;quot;so proud&amp;quot; of Lord Sugar for standing up to series six champion Stella English when she tried to sue him for constructive dismissal. English launched a case against Sugar&amp;#039;s Amshold Group Ltd this year, claiming that the \u00C2\u00A3100,000-a-year job she won on the show in 2010 was &amp;quot;a sham&amp;quot;.    However, an employment tribunal ruled in Sugar&amp;#039;s favour, and the 66-year-old afterwards dismissed English&amp;#039;s claim as &amp;quot;a derisory attempt to smear my name and extract money from me&amp;quot;. Asked by DS if she thought the case had damaged Sugar or The Apprentice, Siadatan - who won the series prior to English&amp;#039;s - replied: &amp;quot;I think if anything it strengthened him and the show, and I&amp;#039;m so proud of him that he took her on and he went to court, because he had no reason to settle... If she&amp;#039;d have won, [it] would have been bizarre because she didn&amp;#039;t have a case.&amp;quot; She continued: &amp;quot;I [was] totally Team Sugar. All the press called me and the other winners up at the time to try and find out how rubbish our experience was and actually we all rallied round him. &amp;quot;They were hounding me, trying to get a negative story out of me, but no, I just had a great time. I&amp;#039;m really, really pleased for him, genuinely.&amp;quot;  Siadatan, currently working with ex-Dragons&amp;#039; Den star James Caan on The Start-Up Loans initiative, quit her job at Lord Sugar&amp;#039;s Amscreen in February 2012 after falling pregnant with her second child while still on maternity leave, but said that she would happily do business with him again. &amp;quot;I would love to go into business with Sugar,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;If I had my time again, I&amp;#039;d love to do it with this format to get \u00C2\u00A3250,000 out of him and go into business with him.  &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s an amazing man, so to have a him as a business partner would be fantastic. These people [on the new series] are very lucky.&amp;quot; Yasmina is Head of Media for The Start-Up Loans Company, a government-funded initiative aimed at aspiring 18-30-year-old entrepreneurs giving them the chance to kick-start their companies. See www.startuploans.co.uk for further details. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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