Womens Fashion By Joanne Louise

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 Episode 9

Tuesday, 27 March
There are just five challenges remaining and with the score 4-2 to Better Half, this week’s task is more crucial than ever.
As the girls gather for their meeting, one WAG is absent as Charlotte (Better Half) is ill. But the girls refuse to let it deter them which is just as well as the challenge is an especially hard one - to sell a range of Isabella Oliver maternity wear for just one day. It will require all the skills they’ve learnt so far and more than a bit of hard work.
But, as Jadene (Better Half) and Nicola T (Bows) are revealed as this week’s shop managers, there is a twist and it is one that the girls were definitely not anticipating.
For this challenge, the managers will be swapping shops with Nicola taking on the Better Half boutique and Jadene in charge of Bows (and with it, the handful that is Michaela!)
There is one other rule this week - the managers can’t nominate themselves for the challenges. So, for Bows, the challengers are Julie and Krystelle and for Better Half, Elle and Heather.
As the girls return to the boutiques, the challengers get started.
Having each selected 100 items of clothing, the challenge gets harder as the girls TV presenting skills are put to the test with an impromptu spot on home shopping channel QVC.
But back at the boutiques, things aren’t quite so professional.
With Charlotte still absent and the others on the challenge, Nicola and Cassie find themselves on their own in Better Half and Nicola makes her stand as manager with a pyjama party!
Meanwhile, Jadene’s hardest task at Bows is getting Michaela to behave but could she have found a tactic that works? Instead of telling her off for not working as hard as the others, Jadene identifies Michaela’s strengths and crowns her Bows’ official entertainer, responsible for keeping the queues occupied as they wait to come into the boutique.
But, even this isn’t quite enough to keep Michaela in one place and soon she is in pyjamas and partying in Better Half, blaming Nicola for kidnapping her and making her have fun!
There is more trouble for Michaela as Jadene discovers mouse droppings in Bows and traces the source to Michaela’s half eaten food left lying in the stock room.
At Better Half, the situation isn’t much better as Nicola’s initial enthusiasm starts to diminish as she realises that she’s then only one doing any work.
Meanwhile, on the challenge, the girls aren’t having much more success as they struggle to find customers for their maternity range.
Even Cassie’s efforts to re-stock Better Half with a fantastic blag of 80 designer dresses leaves the others unimpressed and has her close to tears as Jadene tells her off for securing too much stock.
As Cassie says, when it’s all free, how can it ever be too much? Even the mentors agree.
So, with just four weeks remaining are the cracks starting to show and will the boutiques self-destruct as tempers fray and tension soars?
This week, Bows won the challenge, closing the gap to a 4-3 lead to Better Half.
But can they continue their winning streak or will Better Half hang onto their pole position?
There’s only one way to find out - tune in at 9pm, Tuesday, ITV2!

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