The Apprentice star Thomas Skinner has revealed he was expelled from school for selling porn DVDs.
Skinner, who appeared on series 15 of The Apprentice in 2019 and is known for his bubbly persona, was honing his business skills long before that when he was a schoolboy.
The star, now aged 31, has admitted how he flogged the DVDs to fellow pupils at his school, which his dad had bought from somebody he met in a pub.
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He said his business venture was initially a money spinner – as he made £200 from sales on his first day selling them.
But a few days later Thomas' illegal selling was exposed, when he leant over to collect his lunch from a dinner lady in the school canteen and some of the DVDs fell out of his bag onto the floor in front of a teacher.
He said the school later expelled him despite his dad's protests that he was just trying to teach his son about ''buying and selling'' – and asked that he should ''take the blame for it''.
Thomas couldn't contain his laughter as he discussed his short lived business with James English on his podcast.
He said: "So I went to school, I whacked the suitcase in me locker, me little JD string sports bag, knocking them out.
''I think I made about two hundred quid in my first day doing it. I was like 'this is easy better than selling chocolate bars'. After a couple of days I paid my dad back money for the DVDs that he bought off some geezer in the pub.
"I was in the lunch hall with my tray, I have gone 'miss can I have the sausage casserole please. Is that jam roly poly, I'll have that as well please'. As I've leant over the bag's split and a selection of porno DVDs are all over the floor on the lunch hall.'
''This teacher hated me, he didn't like me. 'What are they?' He said. I said 'c'mon sir you know what they are, look they're pornos obviously'. He said 'straight to my office'.
"After lunch I've gone into his office, I said 'where are my DVDs sir – can I have them back, I ain't paid for them ones yet'.
"He said 'no I've sent them to the headmaster', I thought 'here we go…'
"So I've had to go to the headmaster's office and I remember sitting there waiting and he's like 'I'm going to have to ring your parents'.
"I was thinking 'ring my mum, it's better for you, not for me'. And he's ended up ringing my dad and my dad's come down there and it didn't go well, it wasn't a very good meeting.
''My dad said 'look I'm just trying to just teach him how to buy and sell'.
"And the headmaster's gone 'they're illegal mate, I can't have that in my school'.
"My dad said 'c'mon he's only a kid, it's my fault I'll take the blame for it' and the headmasters says, 'I'm going to have to ring the police'. My dad went 'what's going on here?' That was it, it was my last day of school."
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