Alan Sugar ignites bitter feud with Gordon Ramsay as he accuses him of ‘ripping off’ The Apprentice

ALAN Sugar has ignited a bitter feud with Gordon Ramsay after accusing him of 'ripping off' The Apprentice.

The 75-year-old isn't happy with the celebrity chef's most recent show Future Food Stars.

The BBC programme, which hit our screens in March 2022, will be back with another series later this year.

It followed 12 food and drink entrepreneurs who battled it out for Gordon's investment into their business.

Within minutes of it airing, viewers all said the same thing - that it has a very similar format to Alan Sugar's The Apprentice.

Lord Sugar has finally spoken out about it, confessing that he thinks Future Food Stars is a "virtual rip-off" of his own show.

"I think broadcasters, Channel 4, Channel 5, and ITV have tried for many years at least for 17 years to try and replicate the elimination process of The Apprentice," he recently told the .

"I say this with great respect to them but they've failed.

"Last year, Gordon Ramsay, 56, had some cockamamie idea… I like Gordon and I think he's very good and should stick to what he should do, cooking and all that stuff.

"He had some thing, which was like, I don't know how the lawyers allowed it because it was a virtual rip-off of The Apprentice.

"No disrespect to Gordon but stick to your day job mate that's all I would say."

Plantain snack business Victoria Omobuwajo, 29, won the £150,000 investment last year.

The BBC has confirmed that there will be a second season of Gordon Ramsay's Future Food Stars.

Speaking about the second series, they said: “We are very proud of Future Food Star’s which is attracting a great young audience on BBC iPlayer.

"We start filming the second series in June and can’t wait for viewers to see what Gordon has in store for series two.”

The Apprentice premiered on February 16 2005.

It has gone on to have 16 successful series, with the seventeenth starting tonight at 9pm on BBC One.

The line-up was revealed last month, with an ex-Waterloo Road actor and bikini-loving TikToker.