Irish contestant on The Apprentice reveals racism he experienced as the show aired

Speaking to JOE, he admitted that early on in the show, the comments online got to him.

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Speaking to JOE, the Dublin native spoke about his time on the show and the lessons that he learned.

These lessons varied from putting himself out there in the business world to then figuring out how to deal with negativity online.

Jordan said while he was on the show he felt that "every week he grew".

He said: "If you watch it in week one, I was very quiet, I was kind of sussing the situation out.

"And you could see as the weeks went on I came into myself, I realised how it went.

"I realised I can use my voice here to be heard and to get my point across.

"So as the weeks went on, I definitely found my voice. As someone who works online a lot, it's very different to come into the real world and have to go and fight for your place to be there."

Jordan added that now that he is out of the show and was watching the episodes as they air he has also been "growing every week".

This is mainly due to the criticism of viewers online, which at times turned to racism.

Jordan said: "At the beginning, I was going on Twitter and Reddit after episodes. Scrolling through the comments trying to see what they were saying about me.

"At first it was fine, there wasn't too much negativity but as the weeks go on you start to get some really nasty comments.

"And at the beginning, there was a little bit of racism from a lot of the Irish ones saying 'He doesn't look very Irish', or 'Send him back to this country'.

"I was born in Ireland, lived there my entire life, it's all I know, but I was getting sent quite a bit of racism my way and then after that it got into the show related stuff.

"I was letting it get to me and every week for the first four of five weeks was miserable because I was reading all this rubbish.

Jordan said that he reached out to past contestants of the show, who told him to just delete social media.

However, he was also offered alternative advice, which helped him with watching the show as the weeks went on.

He added: "Someone said go into the profiles and see the people that are doing it, it will most of the time be a fake account...yeah look at the person who is saying it and look at where you're at.

"Once I did that, I was able to watch an episode and laugh at myself...laugh at the fun and the circus of it all.

"I'm happy I went through the bad. If everything was sunshine and rainbows, we would never learn anything."

He also spoke about the support he has received in Ireland for making it as far as he did on the show.

Jordan added: "You'll walk down Grafton Street and have people stopping you asking for pictures and just letting you know 'We're rooting for you'."

Some fans even come up to Jordan with their kids and tell him how big of a fan their children are of him.

Proudly, Jordan spoke of this saying: "I'm having an impact on the kids and when I was a kid I was looking at some of the younger candidates thinking 'I want to be like them.'

"To see young people coming up to me and saying 'You're inspiring me' is amazing.

"You've never seen an Irish person go on the show that looks like me, it's not really happened.

"So it's showing people who are in that next generation of other cultures coming into the country that [you can] be proud to be Irish and proud of your other heritage.

"I'm proud to be half-Irish half-Nigerian...you shouldn't be ashamed to be Irish you should say 'yeah I am' and I'm going to do the country proud."

In the end, he finished third in the show, an impressive feat from the youngest contestant on The Apprentice this season.