The BBC has called on the makers of The Apprentice to carry out stricter background checks on contestants, after one due to appear on the forthcoming series was found to have made offensive posts on social media.
The messages from candidate Levi Hodgetts-Hague included discriminatory remarks towards Muslims and sexist comments about women, according to the Sun on Sunday, which first revealed the posts.
Naked, the production company behind the award-winning show, said social media checks had "failed to flag the offensive posts", and that the process would be reviewed.
Hodgetts-Hague has apologised for the posts, which have subsequently been deleted.
The messages from Hodgetts-Hague, from South Yorkshire, are said to have included attacks on Islam and used derogatory language to refer to women.
