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Interesting development. Wonder if it'll affect the programme.

Oh one can only hope. It's time Sralan hung up his ermine cape and somebody else took over. The programme's gone right down hill in the last 2 series.

Between this and the whole The Brand debacle, it seems like series 6 is the most doomed series of them all.

It makes the whole Michelle Dewberry issue look like a walk in the park.

Still, at least I can say that I saw this coming (the second half of that series Stella did naff all).

Well serves Sugar right for appointing her winner in the first place. Seriously, she's easily the worst UK winner bar none. IMO, she would've been lucky to come fifth in her series: Joanna, Liz, Chris & Stuart Baggs were all better candidates than her...

What, worse than Lee McQueen?

Did you watch the series? Liz was so over-hyped after the boardroom record, it was unreal. Did you know Liz only won 4 tasks and lost the task when she was PM and had a miles better team.
Stuart came nowhere near to any of the other candidates at the interview stage and was only there in to generate controversy saved ahead of the hyped-up Liz.
Chris was good at the boardroom, but made mistakes on lots of the tasks. He wasn't in Stella's league imo.
Joanna was the only one who came close and should have been in the final with her. Tbh, her firing at the interviews came as a real shock to me.

Stella was consistent (Won 7/10 tasks and won twice as PM) and to me, was the obvious winner all the way through. It was one of the rare times when I was certain Sugar made the right decision in the final (along with Series 5 and possibly Series 1)

No, I didn't.:sleep:

From a hard faced girl, not surprising. She had a perfectly good job earning over 80k, but wasn't good enough for her. She hasn't much to stand on if what the paper said was true, re wanting to leave before her year was up.

From the way she was treated, it's not surprising. I don't know if she'll win; strictly speaking Lord Sugar did provide what she said he would, in that she did have a job and a six-figure salary. But if the job wasn't really of the level you'd expect and was only attracting that salary because it was specified, then it could be said that she hadn't really been given the prize. I expect a lot might depend on what the contracts actually say.

LOL!

Stella was very poor in the second half of the series:

- The wrong branding of the cd´s
- Choosing wrong flavours of crisps and seeing her whole team turn against her
- Trufflegate
- Being a lousy city guide

Heck, based on the second half of the series even The Brand was better then her! She was someone who was not as good as her track record made us believe.

I agree, Stella was great for the first half but went downhill quite a lot, I remember even being slightly worried she might get fired at one point (might have been the episode Laura went - though realistically I guess Laura was always going to go regardless). Despite liking her initially, by the end I wanted Chris B to win. Given what's happened, I think he'd have been a better choice.

Hmm... I simply don't agree. In the last few tasks she started to lose a bit of momentum but not to that extent.

- The flavours of crisps were fine. They sold a huge quantity to that hotel, remember? Her team didn't turn against her either. Joanna supported her the whole way through, Stuart didn't like her anyway and Laura moaned (like she always did) and threw her toys out of the pram just because she didn't do the hotel pitch. Based on her later pitch (where she talked way to fast), it was the right decision.
- I will admit that Task Nine was Stella's low point. However, Laura was also responsible for Trufflegate as well and thoroughly deserved to go, not just for the task, but because she had been completely crap for weeks on end.
- The whole point of her volunteering to be the tour guide was to show some personality and show she can break out of her corporate persona. None of the candidates were going to be exceptional, because none of them had prior experience as tour guides. I think Stella could have done a great job on the sales if she had needed to, but she knew she needed to show some personality and that's why she worked OK on her own.

Don't forget, as well, that she had to contend against a lot of the candidates disliking her towards the end of the series for no reason other than jealousy, such as Liz, Stuart, Chris, Laura etc.

EDIT: I forgot to ask - what was the wrong branding of the CDs? I assume it was on the task where they created their own video experience, but I can't remember what you're referring to.