"Phwoar", I imagine.

She's utterly useless and deeply unpleasant, but she's pretty. And it's not exactly like he's either competent or nice, is it? I don't think I can think of a better match, to be honest.

Spot on. Some people are praising Stuart for not joining in with her bitching, but Laura has similarily blanked Stuart's moaning about candidates in the past. No for me it is her consistently unprofessional immaturity when under pressure that makes her useless and unlikeable.

And, as one bad immaturity deserves another, here is who I think she looks like:

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur...w=1003&bih=567

Have a heart. Think of the children.

I quite like Laura though.

Ok, so she's got the whole passive aggressive thing figured to a tee and she's a bit stroppy and too bothered about self preservation, but overall I still think she's a heck of a lot more likable than some of the others.

She's still in there so she must be doing something right, but even if she is a bit useless in business, are we really convinced any of them are any good? I just think the show is entertainment- I don't think I've ever believed this is a genuine search for Sugars next apprentice.

I would have definitely employed Paloma. Oh yes. But let's just say she wouldn't have paid much tax on her earnings.......

Oh yeah...

I just can't see anything any of them have done this series, that any other reasonably intelligent person here couldn't have done themselves, were they on the show.

Ever get the feeling people are picked for the show for looks or irritant factor over actual business skills?

Is she an expert on circumventing IR35?

Laura deserved to get her arse fired this week. She did nothing but dodge blame, whinge and cock up her pitch. She has Stella and Joanna to thank for still being in the competition because she would definitely have been fired if their team had lost.

I feel she will go very soon. Sugar wouldn't want to lose any of the other girls ahead of her.

If that is a very clever euphemism, I bloody hope she is.

Perhaps they are both self-obsessed and only interested in their own personal grievances.

Though to be fair I can't recall Stuart moaning and whining like Laura does.

Doesn't follow. She should have gone out in week two and it was a travesty that she didn't. Since then, she's either been on the winning team (sometimes largely through the efforts of others, as this week) or hasn't been brought back in (because Alex can't read a room).

Well, I know if I was Lord Alan of the Sith, I'd rather her work for me than some of the others.

I can't remember if she's been in the board room before though. Has he spared her, when he could have fired her?

I do think she's a heck of a lot more pleasant and normal than some of the others.

She's been on the winning team by sheer luck and in every case the team would have won without her. If it's boys vs girls next week she'll probably coast through yet again!

I wouldn't mind but she manages to be graceless and nasty about those carrying her!

A few get carried every series, generally the likable people who nobody lets get a word in edgeways They fail because everyone else is loud and obnxious and they aren't heard.

Alan usually fires them for not being entertaining enough.

I agree it's weird Laura is still here. Maybe he fancies her?

He hasn't had the chance. She's been on the winning team for a few weeks and the last time she wasn't, Alex was too terrified of her to bring her into the boardroom.

If she was that bad, why would someone be terrified of her? That'd make her more vunerable to being fired and they'd bring her in.

But I don't think she's as bad as people make out really. I don't find her scary at all. Just your typical passive aggressive female.

I find passive aggressive behaviour even less attractive than blatantly aggressive behaviour.

It's manipulative and underhand.

I don't find her scary either; I just find her talentless, charisma-free and unpleasant - but then I'm female. However Alex inexplicably didn't take her in and paid the price for not doing so. It's not difficult to imagine him or any other man being terrified of a passive-aggressive, irrational b*atch.

I think that about most of them

I just see the show as entertainement.

Whether rightly or wrongly, I am far too cynical to take Lord Sugar and his search for the next apprentice seriously.


More fool him than her really. Why would Mr Sugar want someone who can't even make obvious decisions?

Maybe Laura would be better at picking people to go back to the boardroom?

Laura's certainly better at covering her @rse...which will only get her so far. Other than that, she's totally useless!

She would certainly had gone that week if Alex had taken her into the board room-LS said as much. Whinging moo.

You know, some of them are so stupid, they can’t see who the best person to bring into the boardroom would be, even though a million people watching at home are screaming it into their tv

I think those people deserve to be fired to be honest!

Sugar could have, and should have, fired her in week two. I don't know why he spared her. Admittedly, Joy, who was fired that week, wasn't very impressive and probably wouldn't have gone very far, but Laura was awful as PM on that task; weak and indecisive, when she did make a decision it was stupid, and a crybaby.

Is she the moaniest prospect ever to be a candidate?...

Many candidates have been negative, but I cannot remember another one that has been as bad as Laura. Was there ONE task where she wasnt a complete cry baby?.

Ha ha , me' and my other half actually thought they speeded up that segment