Apprentice preview: Laura and Stella in crisps war

Apprentice preview: Laura and Stella in crisps war
Apprentice preview: Laura and Stella in crisps war

Apprentice hopeful Laura Moore loses her temper yet again in a clash with project manager Stella English as they try to sell English crisps in Germany. The candidates are getting competitive as Lord Sugar sends them to Hamburg to market and sell snacks to the Germans, but when it comes to the crunch, one team begins fighting among themselves. The candidates are told to pack for all weathers and big-mouthed Stuart Baggs jokes: "I don't think Lord Sugar is going to be nice to us, so he might be sending us somewhere completely obscure. I think either a war zone or somewhere hot." And he's almost proved right when his team Apollo, headed by Stella, decide to go with British-themed flavours, but Joanna Riley keeps trying to push for curry crisps. An irritable Laura complains: "I think we would have had some really good flavours if we didn't have Joanna bulldozing this curry idea through the entire time." Later, Laura is furious when Stella arrives early for their hotel pitch and challenges her for hijacking their appointment. Stella stands firm, responding: "I don't see an issue with who is doing what appointment. We've just to get the orders in!" A sheepish Stuart accepts that they must seek sales elsewhere, but Laura explodes: "That's unbelievable! We've got order books so it is total b*****ks! I just give up. That's it, seriously I don't give a s**t any more. They're pieces of s**t and they've left us with one s***ty cafe. This is not how business works!" Laura then refuses to make an effort to sell in protest, grumbling: "We might win, but in a way I hope we don't, because I don't think Stella deserves to win on this task. I think she has treated us outrageously." CLICK below to watch a clip of Stuart trying to speak German in The Apprentice:

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.