Sir Alan boots 'washerwoman' contestant off The Apprentice

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The 33-year-old was fired after Sir Alan Sugar dubbed her a "washerwoman".

You're fired: Gerri Blackwood was the fourth contestant to be booted off The Apprentice. Sir Alan described her as a 'washer woman'

She is now backing tough financial advisor Jadine Johnson, 27, to win the third series of the hit BBC1 show.

Blackwood, from Woking in Surrey, was on the losing team which wanted to turn Sir Alan's money into profit by setting up a kissogram service.

They made only £265 compared to £389 by the rival team, who set up a gardening business, almost doubling Sir Alan's money.

Sir Alan tells the women's team: "It don't sound too great to me. Sounds like another old profession I've heard of."

He fires Blackwood after telling her, team leader Naomi Lay and Johnson in the boardroom that he "has had enough of ...washerwomen arguing with each other".

Blackwood said: "I've no regrets about turning down MI5. Five days before filming started it was made clear to me that it was one or another. I couldn't choose both.

"I really thought about it, and for me there's still no regrets."

She said of Sir Alan: "He does exactly what it says on the tin. I thought that he'd not be as scary as all that and might be a bit of a pussy cat, but he's not. I've got a large amount of respect for him."

The former Transport Development Manager has lined up a job with an engineering consultancy and is also hoping to market a yachting product patented by her father-in-law.