Hewer: 'Margaret Mountford is flirty'
Nick Hewer has claimed that his Apprentice sidekick Margaret Mountford is "quite flirty".
Hewer and Mountford act as Sir Alan Sugar's "eyes and ears" on the BBC One show.
Speaking about his colleague on This Morning, Hewer said: "She is a very attractive woman. She has beautiful eyes and is quite flirty."
He joked: "I'm beginning to gather my courage together to make some sort of move. She is, fortunately, not spoken for at the moment, which is good for me."
The former PR executive, who worked with Sugar's Amstrad firm in the 1980s, also admitted that he was reluctant to appear on the reality series at first.
"Sir Alan is very persuasive," said Hewer. "He said, 'Look, I'll sort out the money'.
"I thought it rather droll that he'd organise a fee for me, when for 25 years I'd been fighting to get my fee out of him!"