One of Lord Alan Sugar’s most successful business partners has revealed she has no regrets over parting ways with the mogul and walking away from her business. Harpreet Kaur won The Apprentice in 2022, securing a £250,000 investment for her dessert company Oh So Yum. Just a year later, she split from Lord Sugar before then parting ways with her £300,000 company the following year. But despite the major career change, Harpreet insists she has no regrets.

In an interview with Metro, the 32-year-old said: ‘I wouldn’t say I have any regrets. I’m a no regrets person from a personal and professional front. ‘I honestly think that everything that you encounter, achieve or don’t achieve in life, it’s just a life lesson. ‘So I have no regrets, but a hell of a lot of lessons that will only guide me, shape me in my future and actually I really hope to be able to share some of those in the future in different formats that can help me inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs, or even as a South Asian woman, to help others feel confident that you’ve just got to give it your best.

‘We’re all human, we’re all going to make mistakes and if we approach everything with, “I don’t want to regret this one day,” we’re never going to get anywhere. So no regrets, but lots and lots of lessons.’. Speaking of parting ways with her former mentor, she went on: ‘Yeah, we parted ways, but it was all on amicable terms and actually who wouldn’t want to gain control of their business again?’.

Harpreet walked away from Oh So Yum in October, one year after shareholders funds were valued at £300,000 on Companies House, leaving the business in her sister’s hands. At the time, she said she had made the ‘difficult but exciting decision’ to ‘try something new,’ and that the dessert venture would continue to operate without her input. She added that she’d be working on new projects, her radio show, and as an ambassador for small businesses, concluding: ‘As much as I have loved and will miss this business, here’s to new beginnings, bold challenges, and endless possibilities. I’ll be sharing more with you all soon. The next chapter is going to be the best one yet! Watch this space.’.

Not all winners of the show achieve the success she has, but there was no moment where Harpreet wasn’t backing herself and faced doubt. ‘I base my success and my performance on my history,’ she explained. ‘Obviously the show has its own history, but I’ve been in business for nearly ten years, so I’m backing myself, I always have done and I always will, and I actually think that’s what Lord Sugar saw in me and the main reason he invested was because of my confidence.

‘If one door closes for me, I will just knock down another. ‘The thing is, you could say it’s the history of the show, but actually that’s the real world of business – there’s a very small percentage of businesses that make it past the first year. ‘But I was also presenting an opportunity to Lord Sugar to invest in something that I had solid experience and the history in.’. Harpreet refrained from teasing the next projects she’s stepping into, saying: ‘To be honest with you, I feel like in business, especially today’s generation of entrepreneurs, we always have our fingers in lots of different pies and as a public figure from the show, people only see one portion of my business success or what I’m achieving, it’s been amazing to have everyone involved as part of that journey for Oh So Yum, but I have been involved with a few of the things for a while now.

‘I’m really eager to reveal a little bit more, but actually I’m going to keep it a little bit more close to the belt for now because I am the type of person that likes to personally challenge myself and I want to make a raging success and then say to everyone, look what I’ve been working on. I don’t want to rely on like my profile to promote it just yet.’. There is one string she’d consider adding to her bow though, if the opportunity came along.

After appearing as a contestant on The Apprentice, Harpreet admitted she could see herself in a different role on the BBC competition. And amid the annual rumours over when Lord Sugar may step down, we simply had to ask whether she’d see herself stepping into his shoes. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video.

Up Next. ‘There will only ever be one Lord Sugar,’ she replied. ‘I would love to be more involved with the show, it’s done so much for me. I’ve been a fan, literally growing up as a little girl watching the show, and I’ve been a fan-girl over previous winners, and now I get the opportunity to meet these people and be inspired by them. ‘So if there was an opportunity where the show felt that I would have value to being part of it in the future, then I absolutely love that.’.