STUART Baggs has been tipped as the winner of this year's BBC one show The Apprentice – by last night's fired contestant.

The businessman from the Isle of Man survived another week after successfully winning a bakery challenge.

Fellow contestant Shibby Robati was fired by Lord Alan Sugar and said that he thinks Stuart could be this year's winner.

In an interview with the entertainment website Digital Spy Shibby said: "I think the dark horses are Stuart Baggs and Chris Bates.

"That might surprise people because one has been a bit controversial and the other has been a bit quiet. I think there is a bit more to come from both of them."

The former surgeon went on to say that he didn't think people had got the wrong impression of Stuart in the first week – after his aggressive selling technique became a national talking point.

 
He said: "No you know what – he is probably that bad. Stuart has got the best business acumen out of everyone in that house but he has to learn how to get people to want to listen to him. Once he can do that he will go far."

Stuart, 21, is the show's youngest ever contestant and was educated at Ramsey Grammar School.