Stuart more or less told her that she'd do the tour and him and LIz would go and sell he was the PM so probably wanted to set the prices but it backfired on him and Liz.

Last week she was he one who least succeeded in seeing the big picture - even with Laura drawing it for her sitting next to her and Liz telling her what the picture was in advance. The problem is that in the rules of the Sugar boardroom no one can argue specifics against anyone else because LS claims thats his job and in this case it would challenge his dubious decision.

How does she dismiss them? They are obviously rubbish but Sugar seems to like people talking rubbish. She can't factually demolish Stuart's claims on his past career as she has no facts. Laughing won't work. If she says he made mistakes this task she will be asked why she didn't stop him. If she says I tried, the Sugar counter is usually you should have tried harder and he doesn't accept that some PMs don't listen. If she quotes Stuart's past mistakes, Sugar will say thats his job to assess them. She raises the selling point for that week, where she's more than twice as effective selling , but gets back that thats all she can do. She could argue that shows Stuart can't even sell, but that means accepting her own limitations. She can't argue from her show record because the stats show Stuart winning despite himself, and she loses because of mistakes like Stella's over the Truffles. She can't audit both their performances for quality as Sugar doesn't like detail and the Sugar version of history is different anyway. She can't play the immature 21 year old with drive - because she isn't 21 and has concrete achievements and because she can't overmatch the nonsense Stuart is coming out with. She can't even use her business CV - as that will be dismissed as not relevant to the job on offer. Mentioning that she's bright and has a good academic record is like a red rag to a bull.

She might make the point that only an idiot would be swayed by the nonsense Stuart is rambling, but she can see that Sugar is being swayed and trying to trap him that way, by telling him he is in danger of looking like an idiot, may backfire.

What do you wnat her to say?

The more I think about it the more amazing it is that Stella didn't get fired. What did she do that was so great? She messed up generally! In wanting the cockney tour so much, not realising that it would only appeal to a minority of people and I thought that from the off, judging from last weeks task, she wouldn't of sold tickets well, she wasn't a good tour guide even though she spent the best part of a day and an night swatting up on it and then she couldn't find the jellied eels van!

Unless she does really well in the interviews, I doubt she'l get the job, even if she does well in the interviews I wouldn't give her the job.

I think Stella is logically fatally holed by last week - but then Yasmina might have sunk under the weight of inedible bruschetta and cheap inedible chocolates sprinkled with sandalwood - and the dino impersonations and imaginative CV should have sunk Lee.

I don't think Stella can be fired last show though as he's not set it up to measure ability to research, communicate or entertain or guide. Its set up on everything Stella doesn't do on it - sales, negotiating and pricing . As usual, pricing is a mystery to all the candidates and selling becomes less important when LS wants it to be. You might argue Stella's concept was bad, sales followed the concept and Stella proved it trying to make it work - but LS didn't query that, and probably wouldn't like being told that exploring cockneys and their abodes was a dud idea.

As a task, though, its silly because the tour which takes up most of the air time can be pants with no impact or measurement of customer reaction. As every other decision was tactically and strategically down to the PM, after LS discounted individual sales performance, only one person could be in the firing line. This of course didn't stop his Lordship from shooting someone else to save Stuart.

Perhaps she was. The boardroom goes on for more than 3 hours in real life.

Remember that Sugar wasn't concerned about the quality of the tour.

He virtually said that once you've got their money it doesn't matter.

What he wanted to see was Stella moving from her 'comfort zone' which she did. In spades.

So he was happy.