The Apprentice candidate Lottie Lion has said she was spat on by a member of the public after it emerged she referred to fellow contestant Lubna Farhan as “Gandhi”.
“I came to London and this woman just came up to me, spat on me and said ‘You’re a disgusting racist’,” Lion said.
She acknowledged that Farhan ”might not have been as happy as she was letting on”, as it’s “hard to interpret messages”.
It was reported in October that Lion, 19, had sent the message in a WhatsApp group chat ahead of the premiere of this year’s series.