Competent women very efficient and has clearly watched the show for years.

She has used the tactics of Stella and Yasmina knowing it was good enough but keeps forgetting its not the same job on offer

She has been created somewhere as hybrid, fembot of previous female winners

I dunno how she could have used Stella's tactics given the fact that the filming for this series barely overlapped the broadcasting of the last.

The 2010 series was filmed in 2009, so its possible that the 2010 series was actually on tv while the 2011 series was being filmed

It was, but barely.

No I dont agree! Stella was amazing and looked a great winner from the start but Helen is just so dull and I think that she has been very lucky to win so many tasks just as Natasha has been lucky not to be in the losing team the last couple of weeks. More luck than judgement for both of them I think!

I think that Sir Alan wanted Natashas team to lose tonight so that he could get rid of her, hence the reason that he fined her the £100 pounds hoping that she would lose!

But going back to Stella. I dont think that there has been anybody to touch Stella this year and Stella would have been a great candidate to have gone into business with Sir Alan rather than working for him, I think! What a shame that they did not do this partnership thing last year!

If she has a great business plan or product idea I think Sugar would be crazy not to hire her. Are the other candidates miles ahead of her in ability? I don't think so.

Helen reminds me more of Liz who also displayed a slightly nastier, more devious side, towards the end.

I cannot remember who Liz is, can you remind me?

This should jog your memory Darcy:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/apprentice/series6/liz-locke.shtml

She started off strongly and then faded towards the end and got a bit catty towards Stella one episode.

Many thanks Sid, yes I remember her now. You are so right, she seemed really nice in the beginning and done very well but got real catty towards Stella near the end when she found her to be her biggest rival and used dirty tactics towards the end to get rid of her!

As you say, Helen does remind me a lot of her as well!

That's a great comparison.

Helen who is now displaying same streak as well, two weeks running.

It is significant that Helen and Tom are a team of two next week though

There were earlier hints when she joined Zoe in criticising Susan in the beauty task. Zoe's actions were bad enough, but at least she had the excuse of being PM. Helen had no reason to get involved then.

It's not Big Brother you know, the candidates don't have to be outgoing

Reminded me a bit of Dwight (or Gareth) from the office when she corrected LS, "I'm an executive assistant to a chief exec"

Well, considering the fuss Sugar apparently makes about being call 'Lord' Sid, what's sauce for the goose ...

Yasmina was my favourite from series 5, Stella was my favourite from series 6, but I'm not really taken by Helen at all.
She lacks the same personality and fire. Yasmina and Stella seemed to have different sides to them, especially away from tasks when they could relax. But Helen just comes across so one-dimensional.

Yes, she is rather dull. And is Sugar really looking for a faceless administrator? Helen may be efficient at organizing, but can does she have the panache to run a business?

True - I wonder what his reaction would be to "Alan", or "Al".

He sort of half-laughed at James saying it a couple of years ago. Although, James corrected himself immediately.