Probably a contender...

I love Joanna.

Her and Stella are quite funny together too - good, dry humour.

Both extremely competent too. It will be a tragedy if they aren't both in the final.

I agree. Joanna saved this task for Stuart in my opinion. She's certainly a good salesperson - but I think we knew that already. It's also to her credit that she managed to patch things up with Laura after week 2 - they both seemed to work well together on this task.

I hope Joanna is PM again soon. She did a good job the first time, and I'm conifdent she'll do well again. She learns from her mistakes, evidently.

I have to agree - I hadn't been a fan of her, and she'd always come across as far too shouty and aggressive for my liking, but she and Stella were fantastic tonight. They won that task.

Likely to be popular with Sugar too as she has no qualifications and has built up her own business and has a family. He tends to prefer that background to those with good academic backgrounds (Liz), corporate backgrounds Stella, or (worst yet) academic and posh (Chris) who are the other good candidates.

I never seen her as a contender to win, but after tonight I could definitely see her in the final two.

I have always like her ever since she got that warning from A.S. which I thought was O.T.T. but she excepted it and changed her approach.

I loved the energy between her and Stella. It showed that two strong and capable women can work together without resorting to bitchiness (as is always expected of women). Kudos to them both.

I agree I was never a fan but i was very impressed with her tonight!!

That silly cry-baby Laura (is that her name? I'm so dismissive of her I can't really be bothered to learn it) could learn a lot from them.

Instead she appeared to be in Baggs' thrawl, hanging off his every word. then again, Alex kept her close last week. is she supposed to be attractive or something?

I like Joanna too. Easy on the eye, especially in that red dress.

She seemed to be the only one doing anything. She got it right for the kids, knew exactly what to do. I think Stella just plays along, not really wanting to win and has a cynical attitude to all of it.

I agree I wasnt keen on her before tonight, but she was great at selling and engaging with the kids and parents. I thought the medal idea was a really good one it made the experience a bit more rewarding/special for the kids.

Also I thought Laura's attitude to that man .who thought it was £10 not £15, was appalling!! I know they need to be ruthless but that was so unprofessional -Good on Joanna for insisting on the £10 price

For me she's always been one of the strongest and most consistent although to listen to some of the posters on here, I sometimes wonder whether I've watched a completely different programme.

She's direct, confident, hardworking and no-nonsense and the fact she isn't posh or over-polished shouldn't be a problem. Also, the other candidates appear to hold her in high regard. Apart from Stuart that is...who doesn't count.

She's pushed herself up the ReggieRebel board. She's listened and learned from the start of the process and, if you were picking teams playground style would be your first or second pick

She has common (business) sense, I don't see that from any of the others.

For me her communication skills are terrible and far too easily slips into rudeness and aggression. I'm not surprised she has a criminal conviction

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...inal-past.html

Disagree, I think she is a very good communicator. I would say forthright and not rude. haven't checked the article as that paper should just be used as toilet roll.

Agreed. Self-evident is the fact she already runs her own business...

Well, ok here is the story as published here on Digitalspy

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s108/...onviction.html

"The Leicester reality TV contestant pleaded guilty before she was due to stand trial. Reading Crown Court gave her a two-year conditional discharge for her part in the violent incident, which caused £1,000 of damage and left one taxi driver with a broken tooth."


A lot of them do. You can run your own business and still not be a much of a business person, it has to be said. It depends on the nature of the business and how well that business is doing, really.

She seems a lot better-behaved since she got shouted at. That argues for her character. Maybe she can learn from experience. Not sure how many of the others have sufficient self-awareness.

Did you miss the word 'self-evident' in my post? Personally not interested in anything reported in the rags about the candidates unless it's happened since or affects their performance on the show.

Try harder - much harder.:sleep:

I'm not a huge fan of Joannes; she's a bit too condescending for my liking. That said I believe she done a great job on the sales side of things and really helped attract customers.

I think she did let herself be bated a bit too much by Stuart; she allowed him to really rile her up. I think Stella dealt alot better with the ego that is Stuart; better to calmly take him down then to let him rattle you.

she is a bad communicator and whilst has common sense is also prone to lashing out verbally , not a good business "look" that.

Genuinely interested to know why you are not interested in someone's criminal convictions (in the context of this show, of course). For myself, I would think it potentially very relevant to whether I would employ someone to do a job, depending on the nature of the offence and circumstances of course.