Telly Talk: Sir Allan and his Apprentice catfighters

Blog: In the words of Harry Hill : "Fight, Fight, Fight". Or should that be "catfight, catfight, catfight"? asks Tracey O'Sullivan. The girls were certainly going for each other on The Apprentice last night, ending in a boardroom bashing to beat them all.

I must admit I thought at any minute they were going to start pulling each other's hair and squealing, "But that's not fair Lord Sugar".

While I'm with Karren Brady on the whole "you give businesswomen a bad name" lecture, it left their potential boss speechless and his face was the funniest thing I have seen on television in a long time.

It was most definitely "shameful", but to be almost as brutal as the girls – it was fantastic viewing.

The wailing fishwives even managed to make Stuart "the brand" Baggs become invisible. Last week he was the most annoying being to ever grace the small screen – "everything I touch turns to sold" being my personal favourite of his most irritating lines. But last night you would hardly have realised he had turned up, so busy were the girls trying to out-shout each other.

But at least there was no doubt Lord Sugar aimed his finger in the right direction to ditch his latest candidate, joyless Joy. While the hissy fits from those who could never be described as the fairer sex were immature and unprofessional, at least they said something. It's no secret that it's the ultimate crime on this show to be bland.

Joy's only defense was that she didn't like the product – a portable bookstand. Then again, who would?

The result was Laura, the 22-year-old team leader, returning to the boardroom as the first project manager with no sales. No vital business insight there then, Joy.

And when you thought it couldn't get any worse she spent ten minutes with hand held aloft trying to say something while the other girls went hammer and tongs at each other. It was the boardroom Joy needed to conquer, not the classroom.

The problem is it's not just that the girls all appear to be regressing back to their playground days; it's that producers have picked what looks like the line-up for a beauty pageant rather than the business world (it's actually shameful the same can't be said about the boys). At least it does now that Joy has gone. Even mouthy Melissa has a look of model Agyness Deyn about her.

Is it just me or can you imagine this year's intake spending more time on preening themselves than actually honing their business skills.

I feared for their very lives, or at least their perfectly-manicured nails, as they hauled those bags of sand up two flights of stairs to help promote their new beach product in towering heels and tight-fitting pencil skirts. More inappropriate for the task than the boys' suggestion they buy a bikini with tassels on – yes it wasn't just the girls promoting the worst kind of gender stereotype last night.

On current form Lord Sugar has slim pickings in terms of business brains – with the exception of Stella who was catapulted into the boys' team last night and more than held her own, even though it was babysitting skills she was showing off most of the time.

But when it comes to entertainment the lot of them are doing a great job.