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The Apprentice (U.S. season 7)
The Celebrity Apprentice Candidates
The following is the list of candidates for this season,
placements.
with their original team placements The show went back
to its original concept of men versus women. The all-
women team named their team Empresario (a Spanish
term meaning "entrepreneur", albeit ironically, it de-
notes a male enterpreneur) while the all-men team
named theirs Hydra (after a monster from ancient Greek
Title Card
mythology.)
Winner Piers Morgan ^1 In an unaired scene available on the web, Trump gave
Season run January 3, 2008 – March 27, 2008[1]
Marilu Henner’s charity a $20,000 donation because he
felt she deserved to win money for her charity.
Filming Dates October 2007 – November 2007 Donald Trump, in an apparent gesture to reconcile his
Number of episodes 13 feud with Rosie O’Donnell, offered her a contestant spot
on the show but was turned down in a statement by
Number of candidates 14 O’Donnell’s spokeswoman.[9]
Teams Empresario and Hydra
Season chronology Weekly results
Previous season The Apprentice 6 The contestant was on the losing team.
Next season The Celebrity Apprentice 2 The contestant won the competition and was
named The Celebrity Apprentice.
The Celebrity Apprentice (also known as The Apprentice 7)
is the seventh installment of the United States version of The contestant won as project manager on his/
the reality television series, The Apprentice. This season her team.
features celebrity candidates vying for the title of Donald
Trump’s, "Best Business Brain," as a way to revitalize the The contestant lost as project manager on his/
series, with the winner donating their proceeds to chari- her team.
ty.[2][3] The series was designed after Comic Relief Does The
The contestant was called into the boardroom.
Apprentice, a charity special of the British Apprentice se-
ries.[4] This installment marks the series’ return to New The contestant was fired.
York[5] after spending the previous season in Los Ange-
les and features abstract paintings by Seattle-based artist The contestant lost as project manager and was
Maeve Harris.[6][7] The series premiered on NBC on Jan- fired.
uary 3, 2008 at 9:00PM.
This is the first season where the candidates did not The contestant quit the competition.
reside in a communal penthouse of Trump Tower which
was more as a meeting vicinity and also the boardroom. ^2 Tito Ortiz was absent from this entire task because he
The celebrities lived in Trump International Hotel and was attending a fight. He was not penalized, and returned
Tower. There are also no traditionally given rewards to for the next task.
the winning team apart from the winning project man-
ager receiving an amount of $20,000 along with available Episodes
proceeds from the tasks to be donated to his or her fa-
vorite charity. Nevertheless, the firing rule remained. Episode 1 - Selling Hot Dogs
America’s Got Talent judge Piers Morgan was the winner,
• : January 3, 2008
beating country music singer Trace Adkins in the finals.
• Each team had to sell hot dogs on the streets of New
York City for as much money as possible.
• Stephen Baldwin
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Candidate data[8]
Candidate Background Original Age Hometown Charity Result Raised
Team
Morgan, TV Judge / Hydra 42 Newick, Eng- Intrepid Fallen Heroes 13 The 13$754,300
PiersPiers
PiersPiers Mor- Tabloid Edi- land Fund Celebrity Ap-
gan tor prentice
(2008-03-27)
Adkins, Country Star Hydra 45 Sarepta, Food Allergy & Anaphylax- 12 Fired in 12$102,000
TraceTrace
TraceTrace Ad- Louisiana is Network the Season
kins Finale
(2008-03-27)
CarolCarol
Alt, CarolCarol Supermodel Empresario 47 East Willis- Tony Alt Memorial Foun- 11 Fired in 08$40,000
Alt ton, New dation week 12
York (2008-03-20)
Lewis, Len- Heavyweight Hydra 42 West Ham, Muhammad Ali Center 10 Fired in 07$40,000
noxLennox
noxLennox Champion London week 12
Lewis (2008-03-20)
Baldwin, Actor / Hydra 41 Massapequa, Carol M. Baldwin Breast 09 Fired in 11$89,324.79
StephenStephen
StephenStephen Author New York Cancer Research Fund week 11
Baldwin (2008-03-13)
Omarosa Reality Star Empresario 33 Youngstown, Positive Vibrations Youth 08 Fired in 04
Ohio Mentoring Program week 10
(2008-03-06)
TitoTito
Ortiz, TitoTito Ultimate Hydra 32 Huntington St. Jude Children’s Re- 07 Fired in 10$70,000
Ortiz Fighter Beach, Cali- search Hospital week 9
fornia (2008-02-28)
Henner, Mar- Actor / Empresario 55 Chicago, Illi- Physicians Committee for 06 Fired in 05$20,0001
iluMarilu
iluMarilu Hen- Author nois Responsible Medicine week 8
ner (2008-02-21)
NelyNely
Galán, NelyNely Television Empresario 44 Santa Clara, Count Me In 05 Fired in 03
Galán Executive Cuba week 6
(2008-02-07)
Pastore, Vin- Actor, "The Hydra 61 Bronx, New Lustgarten Foundation for 04 Quit in 09$50,000
centVincent
centVincent Pa- Sopranos" York Pancreatic Cancer Re- week 5
store search (2008-01-31)
Finch, Jen- Olympic Empresario 27 La Mirada, International Breast 03 Fired in 02
nieJennie
nieJennie Finch Gold Medal- California Cancer Research Founda- week 4
ist tion (2008-01-24)
Simmons, Rock Star Hydra 58 New York Ci- Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric 02 Fired in 05$20,000
GeneGene
GeneGene Sim- ty AIDS Foundation week 3
mons (2008-01-17)
Comaneci, Na- Olympic Empresario 46 Oneşti, Roma- Special Olympics 01 Fired in 01
diaNadia
diaNadia Co- Gold Medal- nia week 2
maneci ist (2008-01-10)
Fallon, Tif- Playboy Empresario 33 Ft. Laud- Walter Reed Society 00 Fired in 00
fanyTiffany
fanyTiffany Fal- Playmate erdale, Flori- week 1
lon da (2008-01-03)
• Omarosa • Hydra, with total sales of $52,286.
• Donald Trump; Ivanka Trump; Donald Trump, Jr.
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Candidate Original Week 3 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Final task Application Record as pro-
team team team team team team result ject manager
Piers Hydra Hydra Hydra Hydra Hydra Hydra The 2-1 (win in
Morgan Celebrity weeks 7 & 10,
Apprentice loss in week 5)
Trace Ad- Hydra Hydra Hydra Empresario Empresario Empresario Fired in the 0-2 (loss in
kins Season Fi- weeks 7 & 11)
nale
Carol Alt Empresario Empresario Empresario Hydra Hydra Fired in 2-0 (win in
week 12 weeks 5 & 9)
Lennox Hydra Hydra Hydra Hydra Hydra Fired in 2-0 (win in
Lewis week 12 weeks 6 & 11)
Stephen Hydra Hydra Empresario Empresario Empresario Fired in 2-0 (win in
Baldwin week 11 weeks 1 & 8)
Omarosa Empresario Empresario Empresario Hydra Empresario Fired in 0-3 (loss in
week 10 weeks 1, 6, & 10)
Tito Ortiz Hydra Hydra Hydra Empresario Empresario Fired in 1-1 (win in week
week 9 3, loss in week 9)
Marilu Empresario Empresario Empresario Empresario Hydra Fired in 0-2 (loss in
Henner week 8 weeks 4 & 8)
Nely Empresario Empresario Empresario Fired in 0-1 (loss in week
Galán week 6 2)
Vincent Hydra Hydra Quit in 1-0 (win in week
Pastore week 5 4)
Jennie Empresario Empresario Fired in
Finch week 4
Gene Hydra Empresario Fired in 1-1 (win in week
Simmons week 3 2, loss in week 3)
Nadia Empresario Fired in
Comăneci week 2
Tiffany Empresario Fired in
Fallon week 1
• Hydra used their celebrity status to drastically • Tiffany Fallon - for not being the most effective
up-sell the hot dogs and Gene Simmons used his saleswoman on her team, playing the game low-key,
contacts to put impressive numbers. Piers and for holding out on her contacts. While Omarosa
Morgan also came up with an idea whereby led the team to failure after she forbid her
anyone who paid $100 or more for a hot dog teammates to use their celebrity status and Carol Alt
would get to have their picture taken with one of was responsible for picking their bad location,
the celebrities, encouraging passers-by to make Trump was nonetheless impressed with their hard
more substantial donations. work, and he did not like that Tiffany (a Playboy
• Empresario, with total sales of $17,038.79. Playmate) did not call Hugh Hefner to help with the
• Empresario didn’t use their celebrity status to task. Tiffany stated that she was waiting for a more
the extent they could have and chose sound opportune event to use his services, but Trump
business principles instead. Many hot dogs were ultimately had fired her for it.
sold for much lower prices than Hydra had, and • • This is the first time the winning team as a whole
their location (which was near Penn Station) was watched the losing team in the boardroom. Prior
deemed awful by the Trumps. to this season, only the project manager was
• Omarosa, Tiffany Fallon, and Carol Alt allowed to do this.
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Elimination chart
Candidate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Piers IN IN IN IN LOSE IN WIN BR IN WIN IN IN CA
Trace IN IN IN IN IN IN LOSE IN IN BR LOSE IN FIRED
Carol BR BR IN BR WIN IN IN IN WIN IN IN FIRED
Lennox IN IN IN IN IN WIN IN BR IN IN WIN FIRED
Stephen WIN IN IN IN IN IN IN WIN IN BR FIRED
Omarosa LOSE IN BR IN IN LOSE IN IN IN FIRED
Tito IN IN WIN IN IN IN IN IN FIRED
Marilu IN IN IN LOSE IN BR IN FIRED
Nely IN LOSE IN IN IN FIRED
Vincent IN IN IN WIN QUIT
Jennie IN IN BR FIRED
Gene IN WIN FIRED
Nadia IN FIRED
Tiffany FIRED
• This is the first season where the firing process • Pedigree
started immediately after the results are • Each team must create a heart-warming commercial
revealed. Usually the winning team would be advertising for both Pedigree dog food and the
given a reward for their victory prior to the start Pedigree Adoption Drive.
of the boardroom, but the rewards were dropped • Gene Simmons
from the show at the start of this season. • Nely Galán
• Tito Ortiz brought his girlfriend Jenna Jameson • Donald Trump; Ivanka Trump; Terry Lundgren
to help with their task. • Hydra
• Jennie Finch brought New York Mets 3rd • Once again, Hydra utilized their celebrity status
baseman David Wright to help with her team’s to improve the quality of the commercial, using
task. Trace Adkins’ deep voice for the voice-over and
• Gene Simmons called in many of his contacts to having Lennox Lewis star in the commercial,
donate money, including fellow Kiss member which made it a success.
Paul Stanley. • Empresario
• Despite Omarosa’s original approach of not using • The client felt Nely got carried away during their
the celebrity status on the task, Marilu Henner presentation for their advertisement, and
called in some of her contacts, who brought in a Empresario did not utilize as much celebrity
total of $11,000 for her team’s total profit. power to sell their commercial. Although they
• This episode marked the beginning of the feud used Marilu Henner as a voice-over, it was not
between Omarosa and Piers Morgan, when distinctive enough to empower their commercial
Omarosa took offense to Piers mispronouncing (Trump expressing the opinion that Carol Alt or
her name and his claim to have no idea who she Omarosa would have been a better choice), and
was. Omarosa responded by claiming she wasn’t the other voice-overs that had been used were
familiar with his show, America’s Got Talent, but deemed undesirable for broadcasting.
Piers fired back by saying that it was the • Nely Galán, Carol Alt, and Nadia Comăneci
country’s most-watched show at the time. • Nadia Comăneci - While Nely Galán had admitted she
• $69,324 is the amount that both teams together had been too ambitious in the task, took full
raised, which is the amount that Stephen responsibility for the loss, and Trump felt that
Baldwin received for his charity. Marilu Henner should have been brought back
instead of Carol Alt, Nadia was ultimately dismissed
Episode 2 - Pedigree Community Aware- for not having a competitive spirit (despite her
ness Ad Olympic background) and for her inactivity during
the task. She also could not defend herself against
• : January 10, 2008
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Carol and Nely, after they both felt Nadia could not consequently failed to rely the necessary
lead the team well and they believed that Nely was information to the rest of the team.
an exceptional teammate. • Gene Simmons, Jennie Finch, and Omarosa
• • Carol Baldwin and her sister came to Trump • Gene Simmons, by default, as the other two
Tower to receive the money Stephen Baldwin candidates selected for the boardroom were not at
earned last episode fault. While Trump believed that Nely Galán was
• Members of Hydra became restless while Gene actually responsible for the loss, Gene believed his
Simmons and Stephen Baldwin did all the editing approach to the task was correct and the executives
for the commercial by themselves. from Kodak failed to see it, therefore, he took full
• Nely Galán chose to meet with the clients who responsibility of his actions and essentially tried to
were to judge this commercial in order to get a get fired.
more effective message while Gene Simmons did • • Gene Simmons moved to Empresario and became
not, believing that time was of the essence. project manager at the invitation of Trump at the
Trump has commented in previous seasons that start of the task. This marks the first time that in
you should always talk to the clients so you really two consecutive tasks a contestant was a project
understand what you are looking for, but in an manager in separate teams (Hydra in Week 2,
ironic twist, Hydra was the team that won the Empresario in Week 3)
task (despite not seeing the client). • A combination of Stephen Baldwin, Lennox
• Hydra’s commercial was shown at the Lewis, and Tito Ortiz tipped a conference table at
Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. the end of a photo shoot. This resulted in a coffee
• Gene Simmons insulted Ivanka by brushing off spill which damaged the designer’s laptop.
her requests for a status report and asked her if • Alec Baldwin was brought in by his brother
she would tell Empresario what the men were Stephen to help Hydra, and bought several
doing, accusing her of female solidarity in the printers.
process. Gene subsequently apologized to Ivanka • Jim Cramer hated the sloppiness of Hydra’s
in the boardroom. presentation, saying that it felt like a place to
• Gene Simmons won $20,000 for his charity in this throw garbage away and not a place to learn
task about Kodak ink.
• Gene Simmons originally wanted to bring in
Episode 3 - Mr. Outside the Box Omarosa only. Trump felt that bringing her only
• : January 17, 2008 was sabotaging his chances to stay in the show,
• Kodak as he implied that Nely Galán should be brought
• Each team must highlight Kodak as an ink producer in. He allowed Gene to invite one more person to
with significant cost reduction to consumers. Each bring back and he decided to bring back Jennie
team was provided with an empty Airstream trailer Finch.
to use as part of their sidewalk promotion. • Trump advised Gene that the Kodak executives
• Tito Ortiz did not like Nely’s approach at their meeting, and
• Gene Simmons felt that Empresario’s message was not the right
• Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, Jim Cramer one; however, Gene insisted that Nely not be
• Hydra fired, and that the executives were wrong in
• While their presentation was not as refined as their message. Even when strongly advised by
Empresario, Hydra was on target with the Trump to bring back Nely, Gene refused to do so,
message Kodak wanted to promote (the and ultimately, his independence and
reduction of ink costs with their printers). In steadfastness to his beliefs got him fired.
addition, Hydra raised more revenue than • In the final boardroom, Omarosa recommended
Empresario. that Trump fire both Gene Simmons and Jennie
• Empresario Finch; the former for his errors in the team’s
• Even though the judges believe that they had a strategy, and the latter because Omarosa thought
better presentation, Empresario did not use the that she had nothing to offer the team.
appropriate message, focusing more on the • Tito Ortiz won $20,000 for his charity.
functions of the printer and not so much the ink.
Trump considered this to be mainly the fault of Episode 4 - A Knight on Broadway
Nely Galán, who talked over the Kodak • : January 24, 2008
executives while meeting with them and paid • Nederlander Producing Company of America
little attention to what they were saying, and
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• Each team must sell tickets to Broadway shows. The Although Trace Adkins’ slogan "Wear Them,
team that raises the most money wins. Share Them" was generally liked, Hydra only
• Vincent Pastore prepared a donation bin without any additional
• Marilu Henner supporting materials e.g. flyers, T-shirts etc.
• Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, Vince McMahon • No final boardroom needed
• Hydra • Vincent Pastore - due to his resentment of working
• Hydra was able to get $2,000 dollars above in such a cut-throat work environment. He did say
Empresario with a minute and a half to go by that he would have stayed if Piers Morgan was fired.
securing $10,000 dollars from Richard Branson, • • In a confessional, Omarosa calls Carol Alt a twit
Piers Morgan’s contact. and says that she dislikes her. However, Omarosa
• Empresario is the first person to rush to hug Carol when she
• Only lost by $2,000 dollars; the money Nely Galán comes back from the boardroom.
had arranged came too late to be counted toward • Vincent Pastore and his ex-wife, Nancy Berke,
their total. ate at a café and he surprised her with the check
• Marilu Henner, Carol Alt, and Jennie Finch he won in the last episode.
• Jennie Finch, for her discomfort working in a cut- • Piers Morgan assigned Vincent Pastore to spy on
throat business environment like The Apprentice. Empresario, causing strife among both teams.
• • Marilu Henner had help from David Hyde Pierce This episode also intensified the conflict between
from the Broadway show Curtains. Bob Saget also Omarosa and Piers that had begun in the first
came in to Hydra’s area to buy tickets. boardroom of the season. Even Nely Galán was
• Vincent Pastore praised Piers Morgan for disgusted by Piers’s actions and hoped that he
bringing in the big bucks and willing to get his would be fired.
hands dirty. He also called him the MVP of • Stephen Baldwin denounced the espionage to
Hydra. Hydra, yet he still went with Morgan to joke
• Marilu Henner chose Jennie Finch and Carol Alt around about Empresario.
as she felt they were the weakest players on the • References were made to The Godfather with
team. Donald Trump being compared to Vito Corleone
• Members of Empresario started to become and Vincent Pastore being compared to Luca
concerned with the effect Omarosa was having Brasi.
on the team, with Carol Alt verbally denouncing • In the final boardroom, a lengthy discussion took
her while Empresario was in the boardroom. place on who should leave. Steven Baldwin said
• Ivanka Trump stated that Marilu Henner was that Piers Morgan should leave because of his
their only shot at victory because she came up dishonesty; Trace Adkins said that Piers should
with the big ideas. leave because he had delivered the team’s first
• Vincent Pastore won $50,000 for his charity on failure as a project manager, while Lennox Lewis
this task. said that Vincent Pastore should leave as he had
been a less effective contributor than Piers
Episode 5 - The Croc and the Rat overall. In the end, Vincent insisted on his
• : January 31, 2008 termination, adding that the show’s atmosphere
• Crocs would likely aggravate his existing health
• Each team had to come up with a marketing problems.
campaign dealing with donating shoes to children in • The final scenes of the episode were a parody of
Third World Countries. the series finale of The Sopranos.
• Piers Morgan • Tito Ortiz was absent from this entire task
• Carol Alt because he was attending a fight. He was not
• Donald Trump; Ivanka Trump; Donald Trump, Jr. penalized, and returned for the next task. This is
• Empresario the first time that an active candidate was not
• Despite the judges’ concern about the cost of present for the revealed results, though not the
their campaign, they created the most effective first time that a candidate had sat out a task
and creative marketing approach. entirely (Lee Bienstock and Dan Brody had sat
• Hydra out the third task of the show’s fifth season).
• Their marketing plan was viewed as not being as • Carol Alt was the first and only woman this
creative as the other team’s design. Moreover, season to win as project manager.
the team was criticized for not having the "entire • It was the first 2-hour episode of the season.
campaign package", which the other team did. • Carol Alt received $20,000 for her charity. In
addition, since she was project manager for this
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task, 10,000 pairs of shoes went to Third World from previous tasks. Nely asked Trump why he
Countries in her name. hadn’t "gotten over it" and essentially
challenged his authority in the process. This
Episode 6 - Window of Opportunity could have been a supplemental firing point in
• : February 7, 2008 her termination.
• Vera Wang by Serta • Lennox Lewis won $20,000 for his charity.
• Each team is to create a living window, using actors
and actresses in a shop window to promote Vera Episode 7 - The Mane Event
Wang’s new mattress line by Serta. • February 14, 2008
• Lennox Lewis • Each team is to make the most money using horse
• Omarosa carriages located in Central Park.
• Donald Trump; George Ross; Donald Trump, Jr. • Piers Morgan
• Hydra • Trace Adkins
• The Serta executives wanted to move away from • Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, George Ross
an existing "bridal" image, information Hydra • Hydra
learned during discussions with Vera Wang and • Despite an ongoing battle of choice words with
the Serta executive; Hydra used this information Piers Morgan and Omarosa throughout the task,
to help think outside the box, thus fashioning a many of Piers, Lennox Lewis and Carol Alt’s
more creative and original window than contacts came last minute which helped propel
Empresario. Hydra to their win.
• Empresario • Empresario
• Empresario created a display featuring a newly- • It was very hard to pinpoint any specific moment
married theme, which was too conservative and that Empresario did that caused them to lose
lacked creativity. because they always managed to have the
• Omarosa, Marilu Henner, and Nely Galán carriages moving and they worked in great unity.
• Nely Galán - for not helping Omarosa coming up with Most likely it was Hydra’s last minute donations
a better concept, along with her less than stellar that caused them to lose.
performances in past projects, and for behaving in a • No final boardroom needed
disrespectful manner towards Trump in the • No one was fired due to the team’s unity and hard
boardroom. work
• • Stephen Baldwin refused to work with Piers • • This was the first time in the history of The
Morgan after he had called Stephen a hypocrite Apprentice that no one exited the show.
in the previous episode’s boardroom. He also • At the beginning of this episode, the new Hydra
threatened to quit the show, but Trump consisted of Carol Alt, Lennox Lewis, Omarosa,
recommended that Stephen be transferred over and Piers Morgan. The new Empresario consisted
to Empresario in order to prevent this. Stephen of Marilu Henner, Stephen Baldwin, Tito Ortiz,
then became a member of the women’s team and and Trace Adkins.
lost the respect of his competitors after he • This is the first time where Trump himself picked
openly told his fellow competitors that he would the newly reshuffled teams (candidates were able
rather serve to the women than simply work out to choose their own teams in previous seasons).
his issues with Piers. • Once again, Tito Ortiz enlisted in the help of his
• Omarosa spoke for the women and respectfully girlfriend, Jenna Jameson. Stephen Baldwin also
declined Stephen’s invitation to the team, but enlisted the help of another Baldwin brother,
Trump let him transfer regardless. Billy Baldwin, to help with the carriages.
• Stephen Baldwin missed the first day of this task, • Trace Adkins received a surprise when John Rich
due to a prior commitment with his church. of Big & Rich assisted with Empresario. Adkins
• Originally, Omarosa was going to bring Stephen would later return the favor when Rich appeared
Baldwin back to the boardroom due to his as one of the candidates in the fourth Celebrity
commitment with his church and not the task, edition.
but Trump told her that it was not a good idea. • On the day of the actual task, Piers Morgan fired
Omarosa agreed and brought in Marilu Henner Omarosa within the first five minutes. She
and Nely Galán instead. refused to leave, however, and their feud
• In the boardroom, Trump continued to remind continued. The tension increased dramatically
Nely Galán that she "got lucky twice", which was when Omarosa made repeated allegations and
his opinion of her performances that stemmed references to Piers’ former marriage and about
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his children. This hostility resulted in Piers • Carol Alt and Marilu Henner have both done
telling Trump that he will never work with multiple stints on QVC, yet both of them were
Omarosa again and Trump will have to separate unaware QVC offered a payment plan.
the two or fire one or the another. Trump chose • Trump made a comment of noticing Piers
to separate them and declared that Omarosa Morgan sweat.
returns to Empresario, while Marilu Henner • Omarosa wanted Trace Adkins to practice his
moves to Hydra. In Empresario’s boardroom segment before going out to do it live; however,
session, Trump strongly hinted that Omarosa Stephen Baldwin opted not to do so.
would have been fired had Hydra lost the task. • As the victorious project manager, Stephen
• Piers Morgan won $65,000 for his charity. Baldwin won an additional $20,000 for his
charity. So far, he raised a total of $89,324 for his
Episode 8 - Quality, Value, and Chaos charity.
• February 21, 2008 • This was the last time Empresario won a task.
• QVC
• Each team is to promote their selected products on Episode 9 - The Money Shot
QVC live on television. • February 28, 2008
• Marilu Henner • Dial Corporation and Redbook
• Stephen Baldwin • Each team is to design a 4-page photo essay to
• Donald Trump; Ivanka Trump; Donald Trump, Jr. promote Dial Corporation’s Dial Yogurt on Redbook.
• Empresario • Carol Alt
• Trace Adkins (who was selected as the speaker • Tito Ortiz
for Empresario’s product) spoke clearly and • Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, George Ross
calmly while promoting their vacuum, which • Hydra
positively contrasted from his opponent, Marilu • Their message of incorporating both the Redbook
Henner, who had a hyperactive presentation of target audience and the Dial brand worked very
her product. Trump also liked the fact that Trace well, and the use of Carol Alt as the model also
used nuts and bolts to promote its strength and worked well for the target readers of Redbook.
utility. Additionally, they offered an alternative • Empresario
payment plan called "Easy Pay", which Hydra did • The theme and text for Empresario’s campaign
not. Empresario raised $43,000 to Hydra’s was not consistent enough for the executives and
$35,145. they didn’t take the necessary risks by adding
• Hydra more provocative images of Trace Adkins. Tito
• Hydra had a lower price point and sold fewer Ortiz also gave a very shaky presentation, which
units than Empresario. They were also unaware did not help with impressing Dial and Redbook’s
of an installment payment plan, and therefore people.
did not use it. Also, Trump believed Marilu • No final boardroom
Henner talked too much during the advertising • Tito Ortiz - for giving a bad presentation and for
of her product. letting Stephen Baldwin steamroll him for all the
• Marilu Henner, Lennox Lewis, and Piers Morgan decisions made for the team.
• Marilu Henner - for her over-zealousness and for • • Carol Alt admitted that it was a good choice for
not bringing back Carol Alt, who had been her to be project manager, as she has been on the
deemed the most accountable for the loss after cover of Redbook five times.
not knowing that the "Easy Pay" installment plan • When the celebrities met with Trump before the
existed, despite the fact that Carol had worked task began, Omarosa initially wanted to become
with QVC for years. the project manager and signaled this to her
• • Piers Morgan called Lennox Lewis a "sleepy boy" teammates. Almost immediately after, Trump
in the boardroom, and Trump took it as an insult then declared he would most likely going to fire a
to Lennox. project manager of the losing team. Omarosa,
• Originally, both teams wanted to use the ladder who then hesitated and changed her mind,
kart for their segment. A coin toss determined pressured Tito Ortiz into being project manager
that Hydra would take the ladder kart, so instead.
Empresario took the sweeper. • With seven candidates remaining, Carol Alt and
• This marks the only time that Hydra had Omarosa were the only two women. This is the
someone fired from their team all season. fewest number of women in the final seven in a
single season.
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• Omarosa wanted the pictures of Trace Adkins • Trump referred to this as the biggest slaughter in
and the two models with their shirts off. the history of the show, due to a catastrophic loss
However, Stephen Baldwin thought it was too of $157,000 on Empresario’s behalf.
risky for Redbook and convinced Tito Ortiz to go • Piers Morgan suggested that Trump fire two
a little bit conservative. members from Empresario (specifically Omarosa
• Even though Trump never gave Tito Ortiz the and Stephen Baldwin) because of their loss. He
opportunity to do so, Trump asked him if one also stated that this task is not just business, but
person had to be to saved, who would it be. Tito personal.
said that he would have sent Omarosa back to the • When called a closeted homosexual by Omarosa,
suite. Piers was invited back into the boardroom by
• Even though he was fired, Tito Ortiz went away Trump to defend himself. He went back and gave
with an additional $50,000 for his charity from Trace Adkins a kiss on the cheek.
Trump, along with the money he received being • Carol Alt was able to steal one of Stephen
project manager in episode three. For his charity, Baldwin’s contacts, after he was unaware of the
Tito raiseda total of $70,000. dynamic in which the galleries worked. She had
• Carol Alt received another $20,000 for being him buy a painting from her gallery, which went
project manager. into Piers’ team and not Stephen’s. Carol also
claimed to have almost stole one of Omarosa’s
Episode 10 - Painting By Numbers contacts.
• March 6, 2008 • Piers Morgan won $51,300 in this task. His
• Artaissance[10] charity money raised-to-date to $116,300 after
• Choose an artist, set up an exhibit, sell their works of this victory.
art, and earn the most profit. • Omarosa became the first candidate ever to be
• Piers Morgan fired twice on The Apprentice.
• Omarosa
• Donald Trump; Ivanka Trump; Donald Trump, Jr. Episode 11 - Bread and Badda-Bing
• Hydra • March 13, 2008
• They had earned $164,000 and blew Empresario • Quiznos Sub
(who had earned a mere $7,000) out of the water. • Each team is to create a new sandwich for Quiznos
Hydra picked an artist that had a much bigger and sell it over a two-hour period - without the
inventory with a higher price point and had sold benefit of their Rolodexes.
14 out of 20 paintings. In addition, Piers Morgan • Lennox Lewis
got several rich donors to come and support him. • Trace Adkins
• Empresario • Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, Daryl Roth
• Empresario had less volume and sold only 3 out • Hydra
of 16 paintings, which was not even a quarter of • While their sandwich appeared less out of the
their inventory. Stephen Baldwin also did not box and innovative (it was just an adaption of
make a single sale, despite bringing in some of Quiznos’ most popular sandwich), the fact that
his close contacts. they used Lennox Lewis as a marketing tool
• Omarosa, Trace Adkins, and Stephen Baldwin. primarily helped sell their sandwich.
• Omarosa - for a horrific record as project • Empresario
manager (0-3) and for being project manager in • Even though Empresario sold out, their
the worst defeat in the history of the show. marketing tool to sell Trace Adkins did not work
• • Empresario’s loss broke the record for the worst because he was not well known in the New York
loss in the history of the show. This record was area.
formerly held by the fourth season’s team of • Trace Adkins and Stephen Baldwin.
Excel. • Stephen Baldwin. While both members did
• For the announcement of the task, Trump invited equally well, it was discussed by Ivanka and
the remaining candidates to go to Trump Tower Donald that Stephen’s contribution over the last
to meet his wife Melania and son Barron. few tasks had not produced much for charity,
• Omarosa acknowledged that she had been fired and Ivanka felt that Trace Adkins would do better
in a task on her original season that also involved overall.
an art exhibit, but stepped up to be the project • • Hydra sold 313 "Champ Sandwiches," while
manager regardless. Emprasario sold 253 "Cowboy Clubs."
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• The "Cowboy Club" was more original and Trace the decoration and handling of the band task, while
advertised it as "The Prime-Rib Cowboy Club" Piers took over the food and auction events.
• At the end of the episode Trump stated that by • Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump Jr.
the end of the night two more celebrities would • • As opposed to Seasons 4-6 in the traditional
be fired, leaving only two of the final four (Trace format, interviews were conducted before the
Adkins, Carol Alt, Lennox Lewis, and Piers final task, and like Seasons 1 and 2 of the civilian
Morgan). edition, there were four people conducting the
• After 11 episodes, Empresario only won two interviews.
tasks, which gives this corporation the weakest • Despite having two failures and no victories as a
corporate record among all seasons. Likewise, project manager, Trace Adkins made into the
Hydra only lost two tasks, which gives this final over Carol Alt and Lennox Lewis, who both
corporation the strongest corporate record had two successful stints as project manager.
among all seasons. • Trump brought back four fired celebrity
• Trump stated during the boardroom meeting candidates, and let the final candidates Piers
with Empresario that he never really liked the Morgan and Trace Adkins choose them as
team name at all. teammates. A coin flip was used to decide who
• This is the first time that two people in a final goes first. Trace Adkins went first and chose
four were raised from somewhere other than the Marilu Henner and Lennox Lewis to be on his
United States. Both Lennox Lewis and Piers team. Piers Morgan chose Stephen Baldwin and
Morgan live in the United Kingdom. Carol Alt for his team.
• Lennox Lewis won another $20,000 for his
charity, coming to a grand total of $40,000 for Episode 13 - Season Finale: Under the
charity for his two project manager wins. Hammer
• March 27, 2008
Episode 12 - Going Once, Twice, You’re
• None
Fired • The task scope, introduced during the previous
• March 20, 2008 episode, was to organize a charity auction and
• Trump told the four candidates that two of them will concert featuring the Backstreet Boys.
be fired after first interviewing with Jim Cramer and • Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump
Erin Burnett. • Piers Morgan
• • Lennox Lewis, for his incredibly laid-back • Trace Adkins
demeanor and lack of focus during his • • Piers Morgan became the first ever Apprentice to
interviews. He also admitted that he really have lost a task as project manager (loss in week
needed Piers Morgan throughout the job process. 5).
• Carol Alt, despite impressing the interviewers • This episode featured two first-time occurrences
with her professionalism. Trump saw a feud for The Apprentice: a live satellite feed from
brewing between Trace Adkins and Piers Morgan, overseas (Tokyo, Japan) for Gene Simmons’
and finding it an interesting "good vs. evil" appearance and the first live musical
situation, he decided to see the men battle it out performance with Trace Adkins singing.
in the final task, therefore defying the • The episode aired live from Studio 8H at
interviewers’ recommendation (as they didn’t Rockefeller Center, the same studio that served
like Piers at all) and firing Carol in the process. as the home for The Apprentice Season 1 finale.
• Backstreet Boys, Auction Society The studio is also home to Saturday Night Live.
• Organize a charity auction and concert featuring the • Piers raised $376,000 with his auction items and
Backstreet Boys. The two competitors would need to $12,000 through the ticket sales. Trace raised
work together on the task; one would be responsible $64,000 with his auction items and $38,000
for decorations and handling the band, the other through the ticket sales. As opposed to previous
would be responsible for the appetizers and the episodes, the proceeds went directly to both
charity auction event. Both competitors would vie individual charities, instead of going entirely to
for a list of items to be donated for the auction, but the winners charity. As of the 3rd celebrity
they would be able to add any other items they could series, Piers had the record for the most money
to the auction. The winner would be judged on three earned on the show. However, this record was
aspects: how well they handled their task, how much later broken by Marlee Matlin in the 4th
money their items raised at the auction, and how celebrity series, where she raised $1,000,000
effectively they handled their teams. Trace selected
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Business Brain", Piers earned $250,000 for his win Fergie-50-000-cuppa-stopped-getting-fired-
coming to a total of roughly $750,000 for his again.html. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
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tickets, of his allotted 50, to the injured soldiers [6] Marian Liu (March 28, 2008). "Late-breaking A&E
he invited to the charity event, sacrificing a loss news -- Those "Apprentice" paintings? They’re by a
on ticket sales to Trace, and not providing food Seattle artist". The Seattle Times.
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