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The Apprentice (U.S. TV series)

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 series, The Apprentice. On April 29, 2009, NBC officially announced the renewal of Celebrity Apprentice for Spring 2010. The show premiered on Sunday, March 14, 2010. The two-hour season finale was on Sunday, May 23, 2010, from 9-11 p.m., ET/PT and the winner was Poison

Poison (band)

Poison is an American glam metal band that achieved great success in the mid-1980s to mid-1990s. To date, Poison has sold over 30 million records worldwide and have sold 15 million records in the United States alone. The band has also charted ten singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100,...

lead singer and Rock of Love

Rock of Love with Bret Michaels

Rock of Love with Bret Michaels is an American reality television dating game show. It stars Bret Michaels, the lead singer from the band Poison. The show closely resembles its sister show Flavor of Love. The first season featured 25 women competing to be Michaels' girlfriend. Each week, the women...

star Bret Michaels

Bret Michaels

Bret Michaels is an American musician, actor, director, screenwriter, producer and reality television personality. He first gained fame as the lead vocalist of the glam metal band Poison. Besides his career as lead singer, he has several solo albums to his credit, as well as one chart single...

. The Celebrity Apprentice is auctioning off items to help benefit the Hollyrod Foundation and the American Diabetes Association. Auction items include photos taken by Bret Michaels, clothing, posters, and other rare items signed by the cast.

Candidates

The candidates for this season, as officially announced.

Candidate	Background	Original Team	Age	Hometown	Charity	Result	Raised
	Rock Star, "Poison Poison (band) Poison is an American glam metal band that achieved great success in the mid-1980s to mid-1990s. To date, Poison has sold over 30 million records worldwide and have sold 15 million records in the United States alone. The band has also charted ten singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100,... "	Rocksolid	47	Butler, Pennsylvania Butler, Pennsylvania The city of Butler is the county seat of Butler County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, situated north of Pittsburgh. The population was 15,121 at the 2000 census.- History :...	American Diabetes Association American Diabetes Association The American Diabetes Association is a United States-based association working to fight the consequences of diabetes, and to help those affected by diabetes...  (Sponsor of Camps for Kids With Diabetes)	(05-23-2010)	$640,000
	Actress	Tenacity	45	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...	HollyRod Foundation HollyRod Foundation HollyRod Foundation is a non-profit organization founded by actress Holly Robinson Peete and retired NFL quarterback Rodney Peete that provides "medical, physical, and emotional support" to individuals living with Parkinson's Disease as well as families of children with autism...	09 (05-23-2010)	$597,893
	Music Manager / TV Star	Tenacity	57	London, England	Cedars-Sinai Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Originally established as Kaspare Cohn Hospital in 1902, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a non-profit, tertiary 958-bed hospital and multi-specialty academic health science centre located in Los Angeles, California, US. Part of the Cedars-Sinai Health System, the hospital employs a staff of over...  in support of Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program	09Fired in week 10 (05-16-2010)	$50,000
	Celebrity Chef	Rocksolid	34	Melbourne, Australia	Feeding America	08Fired in week 10 (05-16-2010)	$40,000
	Former WWE Diva WWE Diva Diva is a term used by World Wrestling Entertainment , an American professional wrestling promotion, to refer to its female talent. The term is applied to women who appear as wrestlers, managers or valets, backstage interviewers, or ring announcers....	Tenacity	28	Chicago, Illinois	Make a Wish Foundation	07Fired in week 10 (05-16-2010)	$20,000
	Grammy Winning Singer	Tenacity	56	Queens, New York	Stonewall Community Foundation for True Colors	07Fired in week 9 (05-09-2010)	$45,000
	Olympic Gold Medal Swimmer	Tenacity	37	Roseville, California Roseville, California -2010:The 2010 United States Census reported that Roseville had a population of 118,788. The population density was 3,279.4 people per square mile...	Right to Play Right to Play Right To Play is an international humanitarian organization that uses sport and play programs to improve health, develop life skills, and foster peace for children and communities in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the world...	07Fired in week 8 (05-02-2010)	$45,000
	Actor & Wrestler	Rocksolid	43	Bonsall, California Bonsall, California Bonsall is a census-designated place in San Diego County, California. The population was 3,982 at the 2010 census, up from 3,401 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Bonsall is located just east of Oceanside and Camp Pendleton....	Specchio Family Foundation in support of Sons of the Fallen	07Fired in week 6 (04-18-2010)
	Victoria's Secret Victoria's Secret Victoria's Secret is an American retailer of women's wear, lingerie and beauty products. It is the largest segment of publicly-traded Limited Brands with sales of over US$5 billion and an operating income of $1 billion in 2006...  Angel	Tenacity	27	George Town, Grand Cayman	Shine on Sierra Leone	06Fired in week 5 (04-11-2010)	$20,000
	Olympic Gold Medal Sprinter	Rocksolid	42	Dallas, Texas Dallas, Texas Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...	Laureus Sport for Good Foundation Laureus Sport for Good Foundation The Laureus Sport for Good Foundation was founded in 2000 by Daimler and Richemont and is supported by its Global Partners Mercedes-Benz, IWC Schaffhausen and Vodafone...	05Quit in week 5 (04-11-2010)
	Former Illinois Governor Governor of Illinois The Governor of Illinois is the chief executive of the State of Illinois and the various agencies and departments over which the officer has jurisdiction, as prescribed in the state constitution. It is a directly elected position, votes being cast by popular suffrage of residents of the state....	Rocksolid	53	Chicago, Illinois	Children's Cancer Center	04Fired in week 4 (04-04-2010)
	Baseball Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...  Star	Rocksolid	48	Los Angeles, California Los Angeles, California Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...	The Darryl Strawberry Foundation	03Fired in week 3 (03-28-2010)	$25,000
	Stand-Up Comedian	Rocksolid	53	Benton Harbor, Michigan Benton Harbor, Michigan Benton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan which is located west of Kalamazoo. The population was 10,038 at the 2010 census. It is the lesser populated of the two principal cities included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a...	Omega Boys Club / Street Soldiers	02Fired in week 2 (03-21-2010)
	Writer / Comedian	Tenacity	53	East Williston, New York East Williston, New York East Williston is an incorporated village in Nassau County, New York in the United States. The population was 2,556 at the 2010 census.The Village of East Williston is in the Town of North Hempstead.- History :...	North Shore Animal League America North Shore Animal League America North Shore Animal League America, headquartered in Port Washington, New York, is the largest no-kill animal rescue and adoption organization in the world. Since 1944, The League’s mission has been saving the lives of pets through adoption, rescue, spay/neuter and advocacy initiatives...	01Fired in week 1 (03-14-2010)	$10,000

Weekly results

Candidate	Original team	Week 7 team	Week 9 team		Final task team	Application result	Record as project manager
	Rocksolid	Rocksolid	Tenacity	Rocksolid
	Tenacity	Tenacity	Tenacity	Tenacity
Sharon Osbourne	Tenacity	Rocksolid	Rocksolid		Fired in week 10	1-1 (win in week 9, loss in week 7)
Curtis Stone	Rocksolid	Tenacity	Rocksolid		Fired in week 10	1-0 (win in week 5)
Maria Kanellis	Tenacity	Rocksolid	Rocksolid		Fired in week 10	1-0 (win in week 2)
Cyndi Lauper	Tenacity	Tenacity	Tenacity		Fired in week 9	1-1 (win in week 6, loss in week 1)
Summer Sanders	Tenacity	Tenacity			Fired in week 8	1-1 (win in week 3, loss in week 8)
Bill Goldberg	Rocksolid				Fired in week 6	0-1 (loss in week 6)
Selita Ebanks	Tenacity				Fired in week 5	1-0 (win in week 4)
Michael Johnson	Rocksolid				Quit in week 5	0-1 (loss in week 3)
Rod Blagojevich	Rocksolid				Fired in week 4	0-1 (loss in week 4)
Darryl Strawberry	Rocksolid				Fired in week 3
Sinbad	Rocksolid				Fired in week 2	0-1 (loss in week 2)
Carol Leifer	Tenacity				Fired in week 1

Elimination chart
Candidate	1	2	3	4	5	6	71	8	9	10	11
Bret	WIN	BR	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	WIN	BR	IN	CA
Holly	IN	IN	IN	IN	LOSE	IN	WIN	IN	LOSE	IN	FIRED
Sharon	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	LOSE	IN	WIN	FIRED
Curtis	IN	IN	IN	BR	WIN	IN	IN	BR	IN	FIRED
Maria	IN	WIN	IN	IN	BR	IN	IN	IN	IN	FIRED
Cyndi	LOSE	IN	IN	IN	IN	WIN	IN	BR	FIRED
Summer	IN	IN	WIN	IN	IN	IN	IN	FIRED
Bill	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	FIRED
Selita	IN	IN	IN	WIN	FIRED
Michael	IN	IN	LOSE	BR	QUIT
Rod	IN	BR	IN	FIRED
Darryl	IN	IN	FIRED
Sinbad	IN	FIRED
Carol	FIRED

¹ No one was fired during this episode because both teams raised a lot of money.

The contestant was on the losing team.

The contestant won the competition and was named the Celebrity Apprentice.

The contestant won as project manager on his/her team.

The contestant lost as project manager on his/her team.

The contestant was brought to the final boardroom.

The contestant was fired.

The contestant lost as project manager and was fired.

The contestant was absent during the project due to a previous engagement.

The contestant quit the show.

Episode 1

Task 1

• Airdate: March 14, 2010
• Actual date: October 2009
• Task scope: The teams had to run a New York diner called Burger Heaven. They'll be making their own menus. The team with the most money wins.
• Tenacity project manager: Cyndi Lauper
• Rocksolid project manager: Bret Michaels
• Judges: Donald Trump
  Donald Trump
  Donald John Trump, Sr. is an American business magnate, television personality and author. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts. Trump's extravagant lifestyle, outspoken manner and role on the NBC reality show The Apprentice have...
  
  ; Ivanka Trump
  Ivanka Trump
  Ivanka Marie Trump is an American businesswoman, socialite, heiress, and fashion model. The daughter of Ivana and Donald Trump, she is Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions at The Trump Organization...
  
  ; Donald Trump, Jr.
  Donald Trump, Jr.
  Donald "Don" John Trump, Jr. is an American businessman who is the first child of real estate developer Donald J. Trump and Ivana Trump. He currently works along with his sister Ivanka Trump and brother Eric Trump in the position of Executive Vice President at The Trump Organization...
  
  
• Winning team: Rocksolid
  • Reasons for win: Although they didn't get $10,000 from Joan Rivers, they earned a total profit of $57,905. Bret Michaels had Curtis Stone create a range of expensive truffle
    Truffle
    A truffle is the fruiting body of an underground mushroom; spore dispersal is accomplished through fungivores, animals that eat fungi. Almost all truffles are ectomycorrhizal and are therefore usually found in close association with trees....
    
    -based dishes to ensure that even the members of the general public would be giving large donations.
• Losing team: Tenacity
  • Reasons for loss: Even though they got $10,000 from Joan Rivers, they only earned $39,559. Ivanka said that Tenacity's price points were too low from tracking customers on the streets, and that the team were disorganized and failed to ensure that their big donors were served over the general public.
  • Final boardroom: No final boardroom - Cyndi could not narrow it down to just two people.
• Fired: Carol Leifer - by process of elimination. Carol's name came up the most when Trump asked the teammates who should be fired.
• Notes:
  • Joan Rivers said the burger she got from Rocksolid's restaurant was cold and that she wanted to eliminate Rod Blagojevich for acting like a politician to the other customers.
  • Trump came very close to firing Selita Ebanks, who brought in no money whatsoever during the task, but Ivanka spoke up in her defense and pointed out that she was the women's head chef and as such, deserved credit for the $10,000 given to the team by Joan Rivers.
  • After Carol Leifer was eliminated, she asked Trump if he could donate some money to her charity, The North Shore Animal League. Trump agreed, and then donated $10,000 out of his pocket for Carol's charity.

Episode 2

Task 2

• Airdate: March 21, 2010
• Task scope: Run a Kodak Storefront
• Task sponsor: Kodak
• Tenacity project manager: Maria Kanellis
• Rocksolid project manager: Sinbad
• Judges: Donald Trump
  Donald Trump
  Donald John Trump, Sr. is an American business magnate, television personality and author. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts. Trump's extravagant lifestyle, outspoken manner and role on the NBC reality show The Apprentice have...
  
  ; Ivanka Trump
  Ivanka Trump
  Ivanka Marie Trump is an American businesswoman, socialite, heiress, and fashion model. The daughter of Ivana and Donald Trump, she is Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions at The Trump Organization...
  
  ; Donald Trump, Jr.
  Donald Trump, Jr.
  Donald "Don" John Trump, Jr. is an American businessman who is the first child of real estate developer Donald J. Trump and Ivana Trump. He currently works along with his sister Ivanka Trump and brother Eric Trump in the position of Executive Vice President at The Trump Organization...
  
  
• Winning team: Tenacity
  • Reasons for win: They seemed to promote the product more than the men which is what the Kodak presidents were looking for despite numerous power outages that threatened them during the walkthrough
• Losing team: Rocksolid
  • Reasons for loss: While the men were praised for using their celebrity power (such as Darryl posing in a New York Mets jersey) with certain people the men missed the bill on getting the product out to the customers and also lost because of a card that had a website to find the pictures that were taken at the store: the website was nowhere to be found on the card, according to 2 secret shoppers that shopped at the men's storefront
  • Final boardroom: Sinbad, Bret Michaels, Rod Blagojevich
• Fired: Sinbad for not leading well as the team leader and for not being able to manage Bret, who disappeared for the first part of the task. Sinbad was criticized for the website card as well and also was fired for bringing Rod Blagojevich in when he was not responsible for the loss.
• Kodak Moment - America's Choice: Rod Mistaken For Donny Osmond
• Kodak Moment - Trump's Choice: Rod Mistaken For Donny Osmond

Episode 3

• Airdate: March 28, 2010
• Task scope: The teams were asked to create an advertorial for Norton 360 + Lifelock.
• Task sponsor: Norton 360
  Norton 360
  Norton 360, developed by Symantec, is marketed as an "all-in-one" computer security suite. The package includes an antivirus, a personal firewall, a phishing protection program and a backup program...
  
   and Lifelock
  LifeLock
  LifeLock Inc. which was founded in 2005, is an American identity theft protection company.According to the LifeLock website, for a minimum fee of $10 a month, the LifeLock Identity Alert system can identify fraudulent applications for some forms of credit and non-credit related services...
  
  
• Tenacity project manager: Summer Sanders
• Rocksolid project manager: Michael Johnson
• Judges: Donald Trump
  Donald Trump
  Donald John Trump, Sr. is an American business magnate, television personality and author. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts. Trump's extravagant lifestyle, outspoken manner and role on the NBC reality show The Apprentice have...
  
  ; Donald Trump, Jr.
  Donald Trump, Jr.
  Donald "Don" John Trump, Jr. is an American businessman who is the first child of real estate developer Donald J. Trump and Ivana Trump. He currently works along with his sister Ivanka Trump and brother Eric Trump in the position of Executive Vice President at The Trump Organization...
  
  ; Gavin Maloof
• Winning team: Tenacity
  • Reasons for win: The women had a better use of graphics and a more attention-grabbing, emotional connectivity in their ad content.
• Losing team: Rocksolid
  • Reasons for loss: The men's advertorial was too verbose to be effective.
  • Final boardroom: No final boardroom
• Fired: Darryl Strawberry - He functionally quit by asking to be fired, adding that he felt unable to keep up with the pace of the competition. Trump strongly hinted that Michael Johnson would have been fired had it not been for Darryl asking to leave.
• Kodak Moment - America's Choice: Rod's Computer Incompetence
• Kodak Moment - Trump's Choice: Michael's Photo Shoot
• Notes:
  • Not only did Summer win $20,000 for her charity but Life Lock and Norton would donate $10 for every sale. At the finale, she revealed she got an additional $25,000 from the sales.

Episode 4

• Airdate: April 4, 2010
• Task scope: To create a 3D experience for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
• Task sponsor: Universal Studios Florida
  Universal Studios Florida
  Universal Studios Florida is an American theme park located in Orlando, Florida. Opened on June 7, 1990, the park's theme is the entertainment industry, in particular movies and television. Universal Studios Florida inspires its guests to "ride the movies," and it features numerous attractions and...
  
  
• Tenacity project manager: Selita Ebanks
• Rocksolid project manager: Rod Blagojevich
• Judges: Donald Trump
  Donald Trump
  Donald John Trump, Sr. is an American business magnate, television personality and author. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts. Trump's extravagant lifestyle, outspoken manner and role on the NBC reality show The Apprentice have...
  
  ; George H. Ross
  George H. Ross
  George H. Ross is Executive Vice President and Senior Counsel of the Trump Organization. He is perhaps best known as one of Donald Trump's two advisors on the NBC reality television program The Apprentice; Carolyn Kepcher was the other...
  
  ; Erin Burnett
  Erin Burnett
  Erin Isabelle Burnett is the anchor of CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront. She was the co-anchor of CNBC's Squawk on the Street program and the host of CNBC's Street Signs program...
  
  
• Winning team: Tenacity
  • Reasons for win: The team was more focused on the theme park image and the team was better appealed by the demographic kids.
• Losing team: Rocksolid
  • Reasons for loss: The team agreed Rod was a poor project manager who lacked communication & technology skills. They also confused the key Harry Potter terms, such as saying "classes" instead of "houses."
  • Final boardroom: Curtis Stone, Michael Johnson, Rod Blagojevich
• Fired: Rod Blagojevich - for having poor quality leadership and not delegating the team correctly. He's also eliminated for not bringing Bret Michaels in. Trump wasn't considering firing Bret; but Bret did the research.
• Kodak Moment - America's Choice: Rod's Sleepy Journey
• Kodak Moment - Trump's Choice: Cyndi's Wacky Wizard
• Notes:
  • Selita Ebanks had won $20,000 to her charity.
  • Sharon Osbourne was still ill from Tenacity at the prop house.
  • Selita Ebanks and Rod Blagojevich were both flown to the Universal Studios Florida resort to carry out research, and had to delegate jobs to their teams remotely during the first half of the task. While Selita did this well, Rod struggled due to his lack of technical knowledge. Moreover, Selita worked and focused on the task during the flight to and from Florida, while Rod slept through both legs of the journey.

Episode 5

• Airdate: April 11, 2010
• Task scope: The teams are asked to develop a 30-second and 10-second separate commercials for Right Guard. Each team will have an ex NBA star.
• Results: Rocksolid selects Clyde Drexler and Tenacity selects Scottie Pippen.
• Task sponsor: Right Guard
  Right Guard
  Right Guard is a brand of deodorant for men. It is also a brand of shower gel. It is manufactured by the Dial Corporation unit of Henkel of North America, which acquired the brand in 2006 as a condition for Procter & Gamble's Gillette acquisition because P&G has other deodorant brands such as Old...
  
  
• Tenacity project manager: Holly Robinson Peete
• Rocksolid project manager: Curtis Stone
• Judges: Donald Trump
  Donald Trump
  Donald John Trump, Sr. is an American business magnate, television personality and author. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts. Trump's extravagant lifestyle, outspoken manner and role on the NBC reality show The Apprentice have...
  
  ; George H. Ross
  George H. Ross
  George H. Ross is Executive Vice President and Senior Counsel of the Trump Organization. He is perhaps best known as one of Donald Trump's two advisors on the NBC reality television program The Apprentice; Carolyn Kepcher was the other...
  
  ; Ivanka Trump
  Ivanka Trump
  Ivanka Marie Trump is an American businesswoman, socialite, heiress, and fashion model. The daughter of Ivana and Donald Trump, she is Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions at The Trump Organization...
  
  
• Winning team: Rocksolid
  • Reasons for win: Trump & The Right Guard Executives said that their commercial was perfect, and the 30-second commercial was funny.
• Losing team: Tenacity
  • Reasons for loss: Although they had the best 30-second commercial, especially the jingle was perfect for Cyndi's voice, the commercial's focus wasn't on the right demographic. Ivanka determined that they didn't use two separate ads.
• Quit: Michael Johnson, he had unknown issues to take care of. He did not disclose the issues, but admitted he hated to quit.
  • Initial boardroom: During the task, Holly went to the edit room that she heard something wrong in the audio. It played five times and she said, "What is that?". Holly brought up a point that Maria did not hear it. Then in the boardroom, Holly does not think that Maria is a loyal team player; which Ivanka brought that statement up.
  • Sent to boardroom: Holly Robinson Peete, Maria Kanellis, Selita Ebanks
• Fired: Selita Ebanks, because she wasn't as aggressive as the other contestants.
• Kodak Moment - America's Choice: Donald Shoots and Scores
• Kodak Moment - Trump's Choice: Donald Shoots and Scores
• Notes:
  • Right Guard gave Curtis & Feeding America a matching check of $20,000 for winning the challenge.
  • In the beginning, Trump made the celebrities shoot a basketball into the hoop. The person that made it would get $10,000. Maria from Tenacity got it, so she won $10,000 for Holly.
  • Holly was awarded $10,000 for her charity for the basketball hoop challenge.
  • Curtis Stone became the only man aside from eventual winner Bret Michaels to win as project manager this season, and the only man aside from Bret and Daryl Strawberry to raise any money for his charity.

Episode 6

• Airdate: April 18, 2010
• Task scope: To make over an aspiring country musician.
• Results: Tenacity selected Emily West
  Emily West
  Emily Nemmers is an American country music artist who records under the name Emily West. Signed to Capitol Records Nashville, she debuted on Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in early 2008 with the single "Rocks in Your Shoes". This song peaked at #39 early in the year, and is the first single...
  
   and Rocksolid selected Luke Bryan
  Luke Bryan
  Thomas Luther "Luke" Bryan is an American country singer who debuted in 2007 with the single "All My Friends Say", a Top 5 single on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. His debut album, I'll Stay Me, was released on Capitol Records in 2007. This album also produced chart singles in "We Rode in...
  
  .
• Tenacity project manager: Cyndi Lauper
• Rocksolid project manager: Bill Goldberg
• Judges: Donald Trump
  Donald Trump
  Donald John Trump, Sr. is an American business magnate, television personality and author. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts. Trump's extravagant lifestyle, outspoken manner and role on the NBC reality show The Apprentice have...
  
  ; Trace Adkins
  Trace Adkins
  Tracy Darrell "Trace" Adkins is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1996 with the album Dreamin' Out Loud, released on Capitol Records Nashville. Since then, Adkins has released seven more studio albums and two Greatest Hits compilations...
  
  ; Donald Trump, Jr.
  Donald Trump, Jr.
  Donald "Don" John Trump, Jr. is an American businessman who is the first child of real estate developer Donald J. Trump and Ivana Trump. He currently works along with his sister Ivanka Trump and brother Eric Trump in the position of Executive Vice President at The Trump Organization...
  
  
• Winning team: Tenacity
  • Reasons for win: Emily West had a much more genuine makeover, and her performance was more inspiring.
• Losing team: Rocksolid
  • Reasons for loss: Luke Bryan didn't look the best while performing, there were things that could have been changed.
  • Sent to boardroom: No final boardroom
• Fired: Bill Goldberg, for stepping up as project manager during a task that was better suited for Bret Michaels, and for being seen as a generally much weaker contributor to the prior tasks than Bret or Curtis Stone.
• Kodak Moment - America's Choice: Emily Idolizes Cyndi
• Kodak Moment - Trump's choice: Bret and Trace Bond
• Notes:
  • After getting $20,000 from Mr. Trump, Emily West
    Emily West
    Emily Nemmers is an American country music artist who records under the name Emily West. Signed to Capitol Records Nashville, she debuted on Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in early 2008 with the single "Rocks in Your Shoes". This song peaked at #39 early in the year, and is the first single...
    
     and Luke Bryan
    Luke Bryan
    Thomas Luther "Luke" Bryan is an American country singer who debuted in 2007 with the single "All My Friends Say", a Top 5 single on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. His debut album, I'll Stay Me, was released on Capitol Records in 2007. This album also produced chart singles in "We Rode in...
    
     will donate all proceeds at the next month of sales from iTunes
    ITunes
    iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
    
     with their new singles "Blue Sky" and "Rain is a Good Thing
    Rain Is a Good Thing
    "Rain Is a Good Thing" is a country music song written by Luke Bryan and Dallas Davidson recorded by Bryan for his second studio album Doin' My Thing. The song serves as the second single from the album, and was released on January 25, 2010...
    
    " to Cyndi's charity. At the finale, Cyndi had earned an additional of $25,000 from the sales.

Episode 7

• Airdate: April 25, 2010
• Task scope: To create a celebrity workout class for 24 Hour Fitness. The team that raised the most money would win both team's money of profit.
• Task sponsor: 24 Hour Fitness
• New Rocksolid Team: Bret Michaels, Sharon Osbourne, and Maria Kanellis
• New Tenacity Team: Curtis Stone, Holly Robinson Peete, Cyndi Lauper, and Summer Sanders
• Judges: Donald Trump
  Donald Trump
  Donald John Trump, Sr. is an American business magnate, television personality and author. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts. Trump's extravagant lifestyle, outspoken manner and role on the NBC reality show The Apprentice have...
  
  ; Ivanka Trump
  Ivanka Trump
  Ivanka Marie Trump is an American businesswoman, socialite, heiress, and fashion model. The daughter of Ivana and Donald Trump, she is Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions at The Trump Organization...
  
  ; Donald Trump, Jr.
  Donald Trump, Jr.
  Donald "Don" John Trump, Jr. is an American businessman who is the first child of real estate developer Donald J. Trump and Ivana Trump. He currently works along with his sister Ivanka Trump and brother Eric Trump in the position of Executive Vice President at The Trump Organization...
  
  
• Tenacity project manager: Holly Robinson Peete
• Rocksolid project manager: Sharon Osbourne
• Winning team: Tenacity
• Fired: No one — since everyone did an outstanding job in their fundraising efforts, Trump decided to keep the teams intact for another task.
• Kodak Moment - America's Choice: Barron Trump Tees Off
• Kodak Moment - Trump's Choice: Barron Trump Tees Off
• Notes:
  • At the end of the episode, NBC wished a speedy recovery to Bret Michaels, who was hospitalized just before this episode aired.
  • The total raised was $347,893, a Celebrity Apprentice record for an episode other than the finale.
  • For the second time in Apprentice history, nobody was fired.
  • Holly cut a portion of the raised money for Sharon's charity.

Episode 8

• Airdate: May 2, 2010
• Taskscope: To create three radio commercials for three different areas of a home repair company.
• Tenacity project manager: Summer Sanders
• Rocksolid project manager: Bret Michaels
• Dramatic decision: All seven celebrities escaped from the boardroom after the 24 Hour Fitness task. Trump promisied one of them will be fired; In fact, he hinted that it might be two people.
• Judges: Donald Trump
  Donald Trump
  Donald John Trump, Sr. is an American business magnate, television personality and author. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts. Trump's extravagant lifestyle, outspoken manner and role on the NBC reality show The Apprentice have...
  
  ; Ivanka Trump
  Ivanka Trump
  Ivanka Marie Trump is an American businesswoman, socialite, heiress, and fashion model. The daughter of Ivana and Donald Trump, she is Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions at The Trump Organization...
  
  ; Eric Trump
  Eric Trump
  Eric Fredrick Trump is the third child of Donald J. Trump and Ivana Trump, and is executive vice president, real estate development and mergers and acquisitions, at The Trump Organization, Trump Tower. He is also the founder and chairman of .-Early life and education:Trump was born in New York...
  
  
• Winning team: Rocksolid
  • Reasons for win: The executives of the company believed that their commercials were superior to Tenacity's in terms of clarity and originality.
• Losing team: Tenacity
  • Reasons for loss: Despite enjoying Cyndi Lauper's singing, the executives believed the team's commercials were too wordy, and they wanted to hear more of Cyndi's voice.
  • Sent to boardroom: Cyndi Lauper, Summer Sanders, Curtis Stone. Though Cyndi was sent out of the boardroom before Trump fired Summer
• Fired: Summer Sanders, for not defending herself.
• Kodak Moment- America's Choice: Holly's Surprise Visit
• Kodak Moment- Trump's Choice: Holly's Surprise Visit
• Notes: At the end of the episode, NBC wished another speedy recovery to Bret Michaels, who was recently hospitalized.
• This is the first time that Eric Trump
  Eric Trump
  Eric Fredrick Trump is the third child of Donald J. Trump and Ivana Trump, and is executive vice president, real estate development and mergers and acquisitions, at The Trump Organization, Trump Tower. He is also the founder and chairman of .-Early life and education:Trump was born in New York...
  
   has joined in as Mr. Trump's "eyes and ears".
• The executives decided to double the money making it into $40,000.
• Bret Michaels received $40,000 for his charity; he had now raised $140,000.

Episode 9

• Airdate: May 9, 2010
• Taskscope: To remodel and decorate an apartment
• Tenacity project manager: Holly Robinson Peete
• Rocksolid project manager: Sharon Osbourne
• Judges: Donald Trump
  Donald Trump
  Donald John Trump, Sr. is an American business magnate, television personality and author. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts. Trump's extravagant lifestyle, outspoken manner and role on the NBC reality show The Apprentice have...
  
  ; Donald Trump, Jr.
  Donald Trump, Jr.
  Donald "Don" John Trump, Jr. is an American businessman who is the first child of real estate developer Donald J. Trump and Ivana Trump. He currently works along with his sister Ivanka Trump and brother Eric Trump in the position of Executive Vice President at The Trump Organization...
  
  ; Richard LeFrak
  Richard LeFrak
  Richard LeFrak is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the LeFrak Organization.-Biography:Richard LeFrak was born in 1965 in New York, New York. He received a B.A. from Amherst College and a J.D. from Columbia University. In 1968, he joined his family real estate firm, the...
  
  
• Winning team: Rocksolid
  • Reasons for win: The Judges felt "solidly" about their decoration.
• Losing team: Tenacity
  • Reasons for loss: Tenacity on the other hand, they loved Cyndi's idea for the celebrity room. But the team made the apartment look cheaper than Zen and frankly the executives did not like the master bedroom that has the color "seafoam green".
  • Initial boardroom: Trump is initially critical to Bret because he felt that Bret is not being decisive about firing Holly or Cyndi.
• Sent to boardroom: Mr. Trump requested Holly Robinson Peete, Cyndi Lauper, and Bret Michaels to wait in the reception area.
  • Internal Review turning point: Mr. LeFrak considered firing Bret because he felt that Bret is not giving an answer to eliminate one person and Bret was off to a prior concert engagement, albeit for only one night. Don Jr. noted he would've suggested Holly, until Cyndi told Mr. Trump that it was actually Holly's idea to paint the celebrity room red. Because of this, Don Jr. felt that Cyndi made a huge "tactical error."
• Fired: Cyndi Lauper for telling Mr. Trump that the color of the celebrity room, which was the judges' favorite room and for which Cyndi was given much credit, was actually Holly's idea.
• Kodak Moment - America's Choice: Bret's Stair Climb
• Kodak Moment - Trump's Choice: Sharon's Prop House Espionage
• Notes:
  • Curtis made a reason why Maria and Sharon dislike him because they didn't work together; and he is now working with Maria and Sharon. So, Mr. Trump made Bret go to Tenacity and Curtis to Rocksolid.
  • Richard LeFrak decided to double the money that Sharon won making her total $40,000.
  • Rocksolid had won 5 out of 6 factors: Bathroom, apartment size, master bedroom, kitchen, and living room. The judges felt like the celebrity room turned into a media room. And it had no "wow" factor.
  • Tenacity had 4 out of 6 factors: Bathroom, kitchen, living room, and especially Cyndi's favorite red celebrity room. The apartment was smaller and the seafoam green room was awful.
  • Sharon Osbourne had won $40,000 to her charity. This also meant that every female competitor from this season had earned some money for their charity.

Episode 10

• Airdate: May 16, 2010
• Prologue: After the previous episode's boardroom, Trump summoned the remaining five celebrities, and told them that only four of them would get to take part in the interviews, while the weakest candidate from the final five would be dismissed there and then. Upon questioning, the celebrities (apart from Bret Michaels, whom Trump did not get around to questioning before the firing occurred) all agreed that Holly Robinson Peete was the strongest of the remaining candidates, and that Maria Kanellis was the weakest. Maria then responded to Curtis Stone's criticism of her by accusing Curtis of being arrogant by "taking a crap in our dressing room and leaving the stench in the room" during the previous task. Mr. Trump felt that statement was offensive to Curtis's character and "hitting below the belt," and Curtis told Mr. Trump that this was a "good depiction" of Maria's character. This, combined with the fact that Maria refused to apologise for her remark, resulted in her firing.
• Taskscope: Interviews with Bill Rancic & Joan Rivers
• Judges: Donald Trump
  Donald Trump
  Donald John Trump, Sr. is an American business magnate, television personality and author. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts. Trump's extravagant lifestyle, outspoken manner and role on the NBC reality show The Apprentice have...
  
  ; Joan Rivers
  Joan Rivers
  Joan Rivers is an American comedian, television personality and actress. She is known for her brash manner; her loud, raspy voice with a heavy New York accent; and her numerous cosmetic surgeries...
  
  ; Bill Rancic
  Bill Rancic
  William "Bill" Rancic is an American entrepreneur who was the first candidate hired by The Trump Organization at the conclusion of the first season of Donald Trump's reality television show, The Apprentice...
  
  
• Fired: Maria Kanellis, Curtis Stone, Sharon Osbourne
• Reasons for firing:
  • As described above, Maria was fired prior to the interviews due to her offensive remarks in the boardroom. Following her dismissal she still refused to admit any wrongdoing, and called Trump's decision "laughable."
  • According to Joan and Bill, Curtis was weaker than the other contestants, with Rancic even calling him "a one-trick pony." Holly, Bret, and Sharon all agreed, although they also complimented him being a gentleman and a fantastic contestant. He was also fired for not having what it took to be the Celebrity Apprentice.
  • Bill thought Sharon was not as strong as Holly or Bret, but Joan disagreed, feeling that Sharon and Holly should advance to finals. In the end, Trump heeded Bill's advice and fired Sharon, as he thought she may not be 'strong enough' to deal with the huge task that was to come. He also had concerns that Sharon was too much in awe of Holly, due to Sharon's lengthy praises of her prior to the interviews, and felt that Sharon was effectively acknowledging Holly as being a better candidate.
• Kodak Moment - America's Choice: Curtis Manipulates Bret
• Kodak Moment - Trump's Choice: Curtis Manipulates Bret
• Notes:
  • In this episode, three people were fired, revealing the final two.
  • Interviews were conducted by The Apprentice season one winner, Bill Rancic, and The Celebrity Apprentice season eight winner, Joan Rivers.
  • Coincidentally, all three of the people who were fired (Sharon, Curtis, and Maria), are all the last remaining members of Rocksolid, while Bret and Holly, the final two, were both on Tenacity.
  • This episode will be continued into the "finale" episode, where the winner will be announced.
  • Maria's elimination marked the first time a candidate was fired before a task began.

Episode 11

• Task scope: The teams were asked to develop a new flavor from Snapple. Then, the marketing materials they were asked is a 30-second commercial and a brochure.
• Bret's Team: Summer Sanders and Darryl Strawberry
• Holly's Team: Curtis Stone and Maria Kanellis
• Fired: Holly Robinson Peete
• Named the Celebrity Apprentice/Winner: Bret Michaels
• Kodak Moment Of The Season - America's Choice: Rod Mistaken For Donny Osmond
• Kodak Moment Of The Season - Trump's Choice: Rod Mistaken For Donny Osmond
• Notes:
  • Cyndi Lauper and Summer Sanders announced the extra money they have made from their respective tasks.
  • Cyndi performed a live song from her upcoming Memphis Blues
    Memphis blues
    The Memphis blues is a style of blues music that was created in the 1920s and 1930s by Memphis-area musicians like Frank Stokes, Sleepy John Estes, Furry Lewis and Memphis Minnie...
    
     album, in which she danced on the Boardroom table.
  • Donald Trump gave $25,000 to Darryl Strawberry's charity for coming back to the show.
  • Neither Sharon Osbourne nor Bill Goldberg returned to participate in the finale. Bill Goldberg could not return because his son Gage was sick. Sharon Osbourne could not return because of a "pre-existing charity commitment."
  • Both Bret Michaels and Holly Robinson Peete received $250,000 from Snapple.
  • Donald Trump never actually said "You're fired" to Holly Robinson Peete; rather, he simply turned to Bret Michaels and announced "You're hired!".
  • In the season finale, Joan Rivers clashed into Bill Rancic.
  • In an unaired scene from the television episode, Mr. Trump gave Sharon another donation of $10,000 to her charity because he felt she deserved to win more money.

US Ratings

Episode	Rating	Share	Rating/share Nielsen Ratings Nielsen ratings are the audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research, in an effort to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States... (18-49)	Viewers (millions)	Rank (Timeslot)	Rank (Night)
1					3	3
2	4.2	7	2.6/7	6.86	3	4
3	4.6	7	2.8/7	7.35	3	5
4	4.2	8	2.8/8	7.37	3	4
5	4.7	8	3.5/8	7.9	3	5
6	4.6	8	2.9/8	7.20	3	7
7	4.5	6	2.8/6	6.60	3	6
8	4.4	7	3.3/7	7.30	3	5
9	4.5	8	2.7/8	7.20	3	7
10	4.7	8	3.1/8	7.70	3	4
11	4.0	6	2.8/6	10.31	2	6

External links

• Official website