The Apprentice: Los Angeles is the sixth installment of the US version of The Apprentice

The Apprentice (U.S. TV series)

The Apprentice is an American reality television show hosted by real estate magnate, businessman and television personality Donald Trump, created by Mark Burnett and broadcast on NBC...

reality television show. It was confirmed on November 30, 2005. Like the other Apprentice seasons, 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...

 is the executive producer and host in his quest to hire a sixth apprentice. In a departure from the previous five Apprentice

The Apprentice (U.S. TV series)

The Apprentice is an American reality television show hosted by real estate magnate, businessman and television personality Donald Trump, created by Mark Burnett and broadcast on NBC...

 shows, this one was shot in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. As with seasons 2-5, The Apprentice: Los Angeles features 18 contestants (whom Trump calls "candidates"). 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...

 made her debut as a full-time boardroom judge this season (replacing Carolyn Kepcher

Carolyn Kepcher

Carolyn Kepcher is an American businesswoman, perhaps best known for her regular appearances on the NBC television program The Apprentice. She was formerly the Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, and General Manager for the Trump National Golf Club...

, who was recently fired). 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...

 also made his debut as a full-time judge this season (replacing 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...

, who didn't make an appearance due to the show's LA filming schedule, but made a cameo appearance

Cameo appearance

A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television...

 on the Season 6 finale).

Season 6 changes

In addition to the change of locale, the following changes (including some "Apprentice firsts") have been made in the show's structure for the sixth season as described herein:

• Candidates must earn the right to live in the provided Beverly Hills mansion by simply winning the weekly task. Otherwise, the candidates will live in "Tent City", a location across the hedge from the mansion's swimming pool.
  • Tent City will not have any access to electricity for common living tasks and will sleep in tents, outdoors.
  • Tent City does have access to two tents, private (cold) showers, fresh water, alcoholic drinks, and food (and a grill on which to cook it).
  • Tent City also appears to have access to an indoor "business center" adjunct to the mansion, with computers and Internet service, though the use of this room has only been shown during one task (Week 3).
  • Candidates appear to be able to communicate to each other over the hedge separating Tent City from the mansion's pool, based on footage from Week 5.
  • This season at the request of Trump is a battle between the "haves" (in the mansion) and the "have nots" (in Tent City).
• The candidates will be living next door to Trump's Los Angeles office mansion for this season.
  • The scenery and the elevation allows Trump to watch the teams in the top floor of his office mansion (both Tent City and the pool area) and observe the teams.
  • Trump, at his discretion, may also visit the teams while they are at the mansion to see some of the dynamics on the teams directly.
• The project manager from the winning team will continue to be the project manager for that team until the team loses.
• The project manager from the winning team will be allowed to attend and participate in the boardroom firings for the losing team.
• The final task was not between the final two candidates like in the previous five seasons. The final task involved the final four candidates instead. Stefani and James competed against Nicole and Frank, and neither team was fired during the episode. All four were invited back for the live season finale, where Frank and Nicole were ultimately fired first because they lost the final task. This was also different as four candidates had a chance to win on the final day, opposed to just two the first five seasons.
• This season is the only season to feature 8 men and 10 women competing instead of the usual 9 men and 9 women.

Candidates

The following is the list of candidates for this season, with their original team placements after teams were selected on Week 1. Some contestants did not have to audition but were recruited by the casting members.

Team 1	Team 2
Kinetic	Arrow

Candidate	Age	Residence	Result
Stefani Schaeffer Stefanie Schaeffer Stefanie Schaeffer is an American defense attorney from California. She was named Season 6 Apprentice on the reality show of the same name... - Defense Attorney	32	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...	Hired by Trump
James Sun James Sun James Sun is an entrepreneur, television host, and public speaker. He is the CEO and Founder of GeoPage.com. He was the host of a BBC television program called "Sun Tzu War on Business".-Early life:... - Internet Company Owner	29	Seattle, Washington Seattle, Washington Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...	Fired at the end of the Season Finale
Nicole D'Ambrosio - Real Estate Broker	25	Chicago, Illinois	Fired in the middle of the Season Finale
Frank Lombardi - Real Estate Developer	27	Bronx, New York
Kristine Lefebvre Kristine Lefebvre Kristine Leigh Lefebvre is a lawyer, and was a contestant on NBC's reality show The Apprentice who made it into the final group of six contestants before being fired. The credentials which garnered Lefebvre a spot on the show include her education and career as an attorney... - Licensing Attorney	37	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...	Fired in week 12
Heidi Androl Heidi Androl Heidi Androl is an American website host for the Los Angeles Kings and The Hockey Show on NHL.com. She also serves as a reporter for Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket on Kings telecasts, and for Showtime at Strikeforce Mixed martial arts events... - Sales Manager	26	Santa Monica, California Santa Monica, California Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, US. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is surrounded on three sides by the city of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood on the north, West Los Angeles on the northeast, Mar Vista on the east, and...
Tim Urban - Tutoring Company Owner	25	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...	Fired in week 11
Angela Ruggiero Angela Ruggiero Angela Marie Ruggiero is an American ice hockey defenseman. She is a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She is also the author of a memoir about her hockey experiences and a former contestant on the NBC reality show The Apprentice... - Olympic Athlete	26	Oyster Bay, New York	Fired in week 10
Muna Heaven - Family Law Litigator	28	Matawan, New Jersey Matawan, New Jersey Matawan is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 8,810. The name "Matawan" comes from a Native American Lenape word....	Fired in week 9
Surya Yalamanchili - Brand Manager	24	Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Cincinnati is the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located to north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits is 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's...	Fired in week 8
Jenn Hoffman - Publicist	26	Phoenix, Arizona Phoenix, Arizona Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...	Fired in week 7
Derek Arteta - Entertainment Lawyer	34	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...
Aimee Trottier - Surgical Sales Rep.	32	Chicago, Illinois	Fired in week 6
Aaron Altscher - Real Estate Sales Manager	25	Fredericksburg, Virginia Fredericksburg, Virginia Fredericksburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia located south of Washington, D.C., and north of Richmond. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 24,286...	Fired in week 5
Marisa DeMato - Class Action Attorney	28	Wellington, Florida Wellington, Florida Wellington is a village in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. As of 2006, the village had a population of 55,584 according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Wellington is part of the South Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...	Fired in week 4
Michelle Sorro - Real Estate Consultant	34	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...	Quit in week 3
Carey Sherrell - Marketing Firm Owner	25	Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...	Fired in week 2
Martin Clarke - Attorney/Professor	37	Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...	Fired in week 1

Olympic candidates

During the 2006 Winter Olympics

2006 Winter Olympics

The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Turin, Italy from February 10, 2006, through February 26, 2006. This marked the second time Italy hosted the Olympic Winter Games, the first being the VII Olympic Winter...

 in Torino, Donald Trump announced that 12 Olympians (eight men and four women) from Team United States 2006

United States at the 2006 Winter Olympics

The United States Olympic Committee sent 211 athletes to the 2006 Winter Olympics. Chris Witty, a four-time Olympian, who competed in both Summer and Winter games, and won a gold medal in speed skating at the 2002 Games, served as the flag bearer at the Opening Ceremonies...

 would be vying for a spot on this edition. Voting continued throughout the entire Olympics concluding on the Closing Ceremonies. Although not all of them made it to the "interview process", the 12 Olympians are as follows:

• Allison Baver
  Allison Baver
  Allison Baver is an American short track speed skater. Baver trains with the US permanent winter sports Olympic team, in Salt Lake City, Utah. In the 2005-2006 season, she was ranked third overall in the World Rankings...
  
  , short track speed skating
• Travis Cabral, freestyle skiing
• Casey FitzRandolph
  Casey FitzRandolph
  Casey J. FitzRandolph is an American speedskater.In 1997, FitzRandolph won the bronze medal at the World Sprint Championships in Hamar. He won another bronze medal in 2001 at the World Single Distance Championships on the 500 m.His best year so far was 2002...
  
  , speed skating
• Todd Hays
  Todd Hays
  Todd Hays and raised in Del Rio, Texas is an American bobsledder who competed from 1994 to 2006. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he won the silver medal in the four-man event at Salt Lake City in 2002....
  
  , bobsled
• Chad Hedrick
  Chad Hedrick
  Chad Hedrick is an American inline speed skater and ice speed skater. He was born in Spring, Texas.Hedrick revolutionized the inline speed skating world with his unique technique, called the double push or DP...
  
  , speed skating
• Danny Kass
  Danny Kass
  Daniel "Danny" Kass is an American professional snowboarder.He was born in Vernon Valley, NJ.Danny grew up in New Jersey where he began his climb into snowboarding history at the age of twelve...
  
  , snowboarding
• Joe Pack
  Joe Pack
  Joe Pack is an American freestyle skier and Olympic medalist. He received a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, in aerials.Pack is a Latter-day Saint.-References:...
  
  , freestyle skiing
• Jeret "Speedy" Peterson, freestyle skiing
• Angela Ruggiero
  Angela Ruggiero
  Angela Marie Ruggiero is an American ice hockey defenseman. She is a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She is also the author of a memoir about her hockey experiences and a former contestant on the NBC reality show The Apprentice...
  
  , ice hockey - Confirmed as an Apprentice candidate on May 30, 2006
• Katie Uhlaender
  Katie Uhlaender
  Katie Uhlaender is an American skeleton racer who has competed since 2003. She won four medals at the FIBT World Championships with one silver and three bronzes .Uhlaender won the women's Skeleton World Cup title twice...
  
  , skeleton
• Seth Wescott
  Seth Wescott
  Seth Benjamin Wescott is an American snowboarder. He is a two-time Olympic champion in the snowboard cross.-Life and career:Wescott was born in Durham, North Carolina, and lives in Carrabassett Valley, Maine...
  
  , snowboarding
• Chris Witty
  Chris Witty
  Christine Diane Witty is an American speed skater and racing cyclist and participated in the Olympic Games in both sports. However, she is more successful in skating....
  
  , speed skating

Team picks

• Using feedback from the candidates, Donald Trump picked the first project managers for the first task.
• Heidi and Frank were selected and picked their respective teams using alternate selections, one at a time.

font style="color:black;">	Kinetic	Arrow
PM	Heidi	Frank
1	Derek	Carey
2	Aimee	Tim
3	Marisa	Aaron
4	Angela	Nicole
5	Surya	James
6	Kristine	Stefani
7	Muna	Michelle
8	Jenn	Martin

Weekly results

Candidate	Original team	Week 4 team	Week 10 team	Week 12 partner	Final task team	Application result	Record as project manager
Stefani Schaeffer	Arrow	Arrow	Arrow	James Sun	Arrow	Hired by Trump
James Sun	Arrow	Arrow	Arrow	Stefani Schaeffer	Arrow	Fired in the Season Finale	2-1 (win in weeks 9 & 10, loss in week 11)
Nicole D'Ambrosio	Arrow	Arrow	Kinetic	Kristine Lefebvre	Kinetic	Fired in the Season Finale	0-1 (loss in week 2)
Frank Lombardi	Arrow	Arrow	Arrow	Heidi Androl	Kinetic	Fired in the Season Finale	0-1 (loss in week 1)
Kristine Lefebvre	Kinetic	Kinetic	Kinetic	Nicole D'Ambrosio		Fired in week 12	1-1 (win in week 8, loss in week 9)
Heidi Androl	Kinetic	Kinetic	Kinetic	Frank Lombardi		Fired in week 12	3-1 (win in weeks 1, 2, & 11, loss in week 4)
Tim Urban	Arrow	Arrow	Arrow			Fired in week 11
Angela Ruggiero	Kinetic	Kinetic	Kinetic			Fired in week 10	0-1 (loss in week 10)
Muna Heaven	Kinetic	Kinetic				Fired in week 9
Surya Yalamanchili	Kinetic	Arrow				Fired in week 8	2-1 (win in weeks 6 & 7, loss in week 8)
Jenn Hoffman	Kinetic	Kinetic				Fired in week 7	0-1 (loss in week 7)
Derek Arteta	Kinetic	Kinetic				Fired in week 7
Aimee Trottier	Kinetic	Kinetic				Fired in week 6	1-1 (win in week 5, loss in week 6)
Aaron Altscher	Arrow	Arrow				Fired in week 5	2-1 (win in weeks 3 & 4, loss in week 5)
Marisa DeMato	Kinetic	Kinetic				Fired in week 4
Michelle Sorro	Arrow					Quit in week 3	0-1 (loss in week 3)
Carey Sherrell	Arrow					Fired in week 2
Martin Clarke	Arrow					Fired in week 1

: Kinetic was exempt from week 3 as a result of their win in week 2. Arrow was split in two factions (Team Aaron and Team Michelle) during week 3.

: As there were no more project managers or team names for the final task, each team was identified simply as "James & Stefani" or "Frank & Nicole." However, an Arrow sign could be seen in the background of James' and Stefani's editing room, while a Kinetic sign could be seen in the background of Frank's and Nicole's editing room. For the final task, the final four candidates were directed to split into two teams, and each team was asked to choose two previously fired candidates to assist them. James and Stefani chose Angela and Aaron, while Frank and Nicole chose Tim and Surya.

: Trump fired three people during the course of the live finale. Frank and Nicole were fired in the middle of the finale, while James was fired at the end of the finale.

Elimination chart
Candidate	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	14
Stefani	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	font style="color:white;">HIRED
James	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	BR	WIN	WIN	LOSE	IN	FIRED
Nicole	IN	LOSE	IN	IN	BR	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	FIRED
Frank	LOSE	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	FIRED
Kristine	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	WIN	LOSE	IN	IN	FIRED
Heidi	WIN	WIN	IN	LOSE	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	WIN	FIRED
Tim	BR	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	BR	IN	IN	FIRED
Angela	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	FIRED
Muna	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	FIRED
Surya	IN	IN	IN	IN	BR	WIN	WIN	FIRED
Jenn	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	BR	FIRED
Derek	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	BR	FIRED
Aimee	IN	IN	IN	BR	WIN	FIRED
Aaron	IN	IN	WIN	WIN	FIRED
Marisa	IN	IN	IN	FIRED
Michelle	IN	BR	font style="color:white;">QUIT
Carey	IN	FIRED
Martin	FIRED

The contestant was on the losing team.

The contestant was hired and won the competition.

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

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

The contestant was called at the final boardroom.

The contestant was fired.

The contestant lost as project manager and was fired.

The contestant quit the competition.

The contestant didn't participate in the week 3 challenge.

Episode 1 - To Have and Have Not

• Airdate: January 7, 2007
• Prologue: The applicants were required to construct a tent as so they could determine how they worked along; this also served to determine which two candidates were to be the first project managers (Heidi and Frank). Heidi and Frank subsequently picked their respective team members using alternate selections, one at a time.
• Task sponsor: None
• Task scope: Each team was assigned a car wash to run for a day. The teams could use any method to try earning the most sales.
• Kinetic project manager: Heidi
• Arrow project manager: Frank
• Winning team: Kinetic
  • Reasons for win: The team immediately got to work, using signs on cardboard boxes and arranging for a free lunch (hot dog and soda) with every car wash. They also took advantage of the demographics of West Hollywood, hiring shirtless guys to hold the signs and to attract customers.
  • Reward: Dinner at Spago with Wolfgang Puck
    Wolfgang Puck
    Wolfgang Johannes Puck is an Austrian-American celebrity chef, restaurateur, businessman and occasional actor. Wolfgang Puck restaurants, catering services, cookbooks and licensed products are run by Wolfgang Puck Companies, with three divisions...
    
    , Donald, Melania, and Ivanka.
• Losing team: Arrow
  • Reasons for loss: Frank ran off early with another team member to attempt to make signs, leaving the rest of the team short on manpower. The price point of $10 for a basic wash, set by Frank after a brief discussion at the start of the task, may have been too low, as the team only lost by less than $120. Martin was shown to not contribute as much as other members of the team.
  • Task epilogue: "Team Frank" had to set up a second tent after their loss was announced.
  • Sent to boardroom: Frank, Martin, and Tim
  • Firing verdict: Tim was told to go back to the losers' tent after Trump announced Tim not responsible for the loss. Most of his team felt that Frank did not make some smart decisions but agreed he had the drive and the passion for the show. Martin was found to be annoying and a poor contributor by most of his team.
    • Ivanka was a heavy contributor to his decision to fire Martin, pointing out his inability to work well with others and her not seeing him ever being able to fit into a business like structure that the job would require in addition to a couple of unprofessional flaws Ivanka spotted during the first 5–15 minutes of the show (stating that he had to use the bathroom during his introduction). Trump agreed.
• Fired: Martin by process of elimination. Trump determined that both Frank and Martin performed poorly and contributed to the loss with their fatal mistakes. Trump stated that Martin would fit better within the fields of a professor or lawyer as opposed to a business executive for the Trump organization.
  • Postmortem: While deciding between Frank and Martin, Trump remarked that this was one of his toughest decisions in the history of the show.
• Notes
  • The season premiere aired for 90 minutes.
  • Although the teams at the time the episode aired were identified by names of their inaugural project manager, the team names were identified throughout the opening credits.
    • Kinetic, at the time the episode aired, was called "Team Heidi."
    • Arrow, at the time the episode aired, was called "Team Frank."

Episode 2 - Pink Is the New Black

• Airdate: January 14, 2007
• Task sponsor: Trina Turk
• Task scope: Each team was tasked to create a line of swimsuits (3 women's, 3 men's) for Trina Turk. The team with the most sales following a runway show (with the contestants as their own models) of the swimsuit line would win.
• Kinetic project manager: Heidi
• Arrow project manager: Nicole
• Winning team: Kinetic
  • Reasons for win: The team stayed with a conservative line of swimsuits as noted by the buyers, in contrast to Arrow's line, and primarily won due to Arrow's missteps. Kinetic earned $20,011.
  • Reward: An opportunity to meet up with Playboy
    Playboy
    Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
    
     founder Hugh Hefner
    Hugh Hefner
    Hugh Marston "Hef" Hefner is an American magazine publisher, founder and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises.-Early life:...
    
     and enjoy a pool party with his girlfriends
    The Girls Next Door
    The Girls Next Door, also known as The Girls of the Playboy Mansion, is an American reality television series broadcast on the E! cable television network...
    
     and several of the Playmate
    Playmate
    A Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of Playboy magazine as Playmate of the Month . The PMOM's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster, as well as a short biography and the "Playmate Data Sheet", which lists her birthdate, measurements, turn-ons, and...
    
    s at his Mansion
    The Playboy Mansion
    The Playboy Mansion is the home of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner. Located in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles, California, the mansion became famous during the 1970s through media reports of Hefner's lavish parties.-History:The house is described as being in the "Gothic-Tudor" style...
    
    .
    • Playmates that appeared during this episode's pool party reward are as follows: Alison Waite, Christine Smith, Cassandra Lynn, Athena Lundberg, Karen McDougal
      Karen McDougal
      Karen McDougal is an American model and actress. She is known for her appearances in Playboy magazine as Playmate of the Month for December 1997 and Playmate of the Year of 1998. In 2001, the readers of Playboy voted McDougal "No...
      
      , Holly Madison
      Holly Madison
      Hollin Sue Cullen, professionally known as Holly Madison, is an American model, showgirl and television personality. She is widely known for being one of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends on the reality television series The Girls Next Door...
      
       and others.
  • Apprentice first: As Trump promised, all of Kinetic will be exempt from the third task.
• Losing team: Arrow
  • Reasons for loss: Arrow actually sold more women's swimsuits than Kinetic, but fell down badly when it came to the men's products. Carey, in charge of the design of the men's swimsuits, insisted on making them too short and in colors and prints that would only appeal to gay men, as noted by many of his teammates; one particularly was pink, very short, and revealed "too much information
    Too Much Information
    "Too Much Information" is the third single released from Duran Duran's 1993 album, Duran Duran, popularly known as The Wedding Album.-About the song:...
    
    " when worn by Carey himself. As a result, the buyers at the fashion show bought less than $400 of the male swimsuit line (out of a total $19,616 in sales).
  • Sent to boardroom: Nicole, Carey, and Michelle
  • Firing verdict: Nicole brought up Carey's insistence on his designs and the lack of their appeal to the majority of the population. Other team members noted that Nicole, as PM, approved of Carey's designs despite her own questionable opinion of them. Carey defended his design selection, alluded to in the episode title, "Pink is the new black
    The new black
    "_____ is the new black" is a snowclone used to indicate the sudden popularity or versatility of an idea at the expense of the popularity of a second idea. It is the originator of the phrasal template "X is the new Y". The phrase seemed to have started in the 1950s or 1960s and became very popular...
    
    ", and also pointed to Nicole's poor management and Michelle's disagreeable personality.
• Fired: Carey for his critical design flaws and poor decisions throughout the task.
  • Trump permitted Carey to keep the pink swimsuit he wore for the show as a parting gift before Trump fired Carey.
  • While James and Ivanka raised concerns that she had failed to properly supervise Carey, Nicole was not considered to be primarily responsible for the loss since she motivated her team, met task deadlines, and held the team together.
  • Michelle was not held responsible for the loss as per the final boardroom.
• Notes:
  • Both Derek and Carey revealed that they are gay during this episode. Despite Carey targeting the gay market with his swimsuit designs, Derek admitted that he didn't find them appealing.
  • For the first time, the team names seen prior in the opening credits were officially used in this episode. Unaired footage available from the Apprentice web site shows the teams selecting their respective names after the return of Frank from the boardroom last week (Week 1) and prior to the start of the task this week.

Episode 3 - Hollywood Walk of Shame

• Airdate: January 21, 2007
• Prologue
  • Kinetic didn't have to participate in this task since they earned the show's first-ever team exemption from week 2.
  • Since Kinetic didn't have to participate, they spent an evening at Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel
    Loews Hotels
    -About Loews HotelsHotels:Loews Hotels currently owns and/or operates 18 hotels and resorts in the United States and Canada:-United States locations:*Loews Annapolis Hotel - Annapolis, Maryland*Loews Atlanta Hotel - Atlanta, Georgia...
    
    
  • Arrow was split into two teams, with Aaron voluntarily and Michelle on Trump's discretion stepping up as Project Managers and to select their teams. Aaron's team included James and Stefani, while Michelle's team included Nicole, Frank, and Tim.
• Task sponsor: Starline Tours of Hollywood and Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel
• Task scope: Each team was to design a unique Hollywood bus tour. The winner would be the team that had the best approval ratings from the tour bus customers.
• Team Aaron project manager: Aaron
• Team Michelle project manager: Michelle
• Winning team: Team Aaron
  • Reasons for win: The team came up with a plan to use the Los Angeles Laker Girls
    Laker Girls
    The Laker Girls are an all-female National Basketball Association Cheerleading squad that performs and supports the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team in home matches.They also perform at many other events and venues....
    
     to entice people onto the bus, and based on a pre-tour evaluation of the tour, offered water and snacks and provided a well-rounded tour experience with a high approval rating of 82% from the customers. Much of the credit for the win went to Stefani, who took over as the tour guide after James put in a very poor performance in the role at the start of the tour (coming across as hyperactive and incomprehensible), earning her much praise from the tourists and Ivanka.
  • There was no reward for this task since both factions had to compete against each other and were required to remain in the tents regardless of the outcome.
• Losing team: Team Michelle
  • Reasons for loss: Michelle and her team did not sleep the night before the tour, which made the tour route not well-planned and highly repetitive (based on customer comments). Problems with the microphone arose, which annoyed the customers. The team received an average approval rating of 58% from customers.
  • Sent to boardroom: No boardroom sessions
    • Reasons for foregoing a boardroom session: Michelle tendered her resignation immediately after the task results were revealed. Trump initially decided to carry out a boardroom session anyway, and told Nicole, Frank and Tim that they would return to the boardroom and one of them would be fired, meaning that two people would have left this week. After some discussion with his advisers though, Trump cancelled the end-of-task boardroom sessions, figuring that Michelle's resignation meant that she was primarily responsible for the defeat, thus sparing the rest of her team from judgement.
• Quit: Michelle at her discretion. Michelle determined that she did not care anymore about the job interview, and thus decided to tender her resignation after the results were tabulated. She stated that she did not expect herself to sleep in tents when her team loses and she cannot stand it anymore. Trump lectured Michelle about how quitting was an extremely bad decision but accepted Michelle's resignation.
• Notes:
  • No special team names were given to the sub-teams of Arrow, and thus are identified by their project managers.
  • This is the second time that someone quit, and the first time as part of the normal Boardroom sequence. The first resignation occurred during Season 3.
  • This is the first appearance of Donald Trump Jr. as a Boardroom member this season.

Episode 4 - Drive-Thru Duel

• Airdate: January 28, 2007
• Prologue:
  • Trump called both teams and instructed Kinetic to select volunteers to go over to Arrow in order to balance the teams. Surya, Aimee, and Marisa volunteered to join Arrow. Arrow decided on Surya as their new team member.
  • Sean Yazbeck
    Sean Yazbeck
    Sean Yazbeck is the winner of the fifth season of the reality show, The Apprentice, where candidates compete in several tasks on a 15-week "job interview" for a position in one of Donald Trump's companies...
    
    , Season 5
    The Apprentice 5
    The Apprentice 5 is the fifth series of The Apprentice, with Donald Trump as the Executive Producer and Host. Applications were available online and filming occurred in the fall of 2005. Sean Yazbeck was named the winner and hired by Donald Trump as the new Apprentice during the season finale...
    
     Apprentice, filled in for Ivanka for this task.
• Task sponsor: El Pollo Loco
  El Pollo Loco
  El Pollo Loco is a fast-food restaurant chain specializing in Mexican grilled chicken, headquartered in Costa Mesa, California. "El Pollo Loco" is Spanish for "The Crazy Chicken".Their main dish is pollo asado, a grilled marinated chicken...
  
  
• Task: Each team was to create a new menu item for the El Pollo Loco chain, and then run an El Pollo Loco store for a day to promote that item. The winning team was the one with the most sales (by dollar amount) of their new item.
• Kinetic Project Manager: Heidi
• Arrow Project Manager: Aaron
• Winning Team: Arrow
  • Reasons for win: Arrow promoted their store with balloons and banners and also attempted to make "bulk sales" outside of the store; as a result, the store was constantly busy during the day, with one boss ordering 23 of their products for his employees. Their total sales were $488.
  • Reward: A private performance from Andrea Bocelli
    Andrea Bocelli
    Andrea Bocelli, is an Italian tenor, multi-instrumentalist and classical crossover artist. Born with poor eyesight, he became blind at the age of twelve following a soccer accident....
    
     on the beach followed by a fireworks show. Tim received praise from his teammates for his own piano playing.
• Losing Team: Kinetic
  • Reasons for loss: Unlike Arrow, Kinetic had nearly no marketing advertising their dish and never saw a crowd similar to that gathered by Arrow. Potentially, their dish, combining chicken and fruit, may have also been considered unappealing, as stated by Trump. Their total sales were only $314.
  • Sent to boardroom: Heidi, Marisa, and Aimee
    • Key firing points: Marisa was blamed by her team for seemingly sticking to a single idea of having two people in chicken outfits to advertise their item, and for being unable to come up with any other marketing plan. Sean, as viceroy, also noted that the task was lost by marketing, which Marisa was in charge of for Kinetic.
• Fired: Marisa at the recommendation of Kinetic due to her being the weakest link in the team. And even she came up only one idea for the marketing.
  • Trump stated that while Marisa's firing was a hard decision, he admits that he sometimes has to listen to the recommendation of others, mirroring what he did during the one-on-one interviews in the first 3 seasons.
• Notes:
  • When finding out there was both dried fruit and chicken in Kinetic's creation, Trump said, "I wouldn't eat it."
  • This episode shows a connection between Tim and Nicole.
  • Trump had to tell Marisa to shut up in the boardroom.

Episode 5 - To Bee or Not To Bee

• Airdate: February 11, 2007
• Prologue:
  • Sean Yazbeck
    Sean Yazbeck
    Sean Yazbeck is the winner of the fifth season of the reality show, The Apprentice, where candidates compete in several tasks on a 15-week "job interview" for a position in one of Donald Trump's companies...
    
    , Season 5
    The Apprentice 5
    The Apprentice 5 is the fifth series of The Apprentice, with Donald Trump as the Executive Producer and Host. Applications were available online and filming occurred in the fall of 2005. Sean Yazbeck was named the winner and hired by Donald Trump as the new Apprentice during the season finale...
    
     Apprentice, filled in for Ivanka for this task again.
  • Donald Trump was away on business for the bulk of the task, including hearing the results and announcing the reward while in front of a crowd in Minnesota
    Minnesota
    Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
    
    , but was back for boardroom sessions.
• Task sponsors: Sue Bee Honey and Ralphs Supermarket
  Ralphs
  Ralphs is a major supermarket chain in the Southern California area and the largest subsidiary of Cincinnati-based Kroger. It is the oldest such chain west of the Mississippi River. Ralphs also operates stores under the Food 4 Less and Foods Co. names in California.-History:Ralphs Grocery Company...
  
  
• Task: To harvest and package honey for Sue Bee Honey brands and to sell the harvested honey through assigned Ralphs supermarkets locations. The winner was the team that sold the most honey.
  • Cliffhangers: During the harvesting event, the teams had to put up with angry bees to "grab" the honey needed for the actual sales of the honey. Kinetic was faced with having a couple of bumps on the road with some honey not on shelves while Arrow was bogged down by lacking honey sales.
    • Derek got stung by a bee when he went harvesting honey with his team members
• Kinetic project manager: Aimee
• Arrow project manager: Aaron
• Winning Team: Kinetic
  • Reasons for win: Kinetic had a good marketing strategy, with Derek creating a buzz with the bee suit, Angela with the slogan "Olympic Gold honey" since she was an Olympic winner, and Aimee's signage outside the supermarket labeled "Today is HONEY DAY". The price of each honey bottle is $4.99, buy 2 for $5. The team sold a total of 345 bottles and earned $836.48 in sales.
  • Reward: A basketball game against and training with basketball legends Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a retired American professional basketball player. He is the NBA's all-time leading scorer, with 38,387 points. During his career with the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers from 1969 to 1989, Abdul-Jabbar won six NBA championships and a record six regular season...
    
    , James Worthy
    James Worthy
    James Ager Worthy is a retired Hall of Fame American college and professional basketball player. Named as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History, "Big Game James" was a seven-time NBA All-Star and three-time NBA champion...
    
    , Los Angeles Lakers
    Los Angeles Lakers
    The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association...
    
     coach Phil Jackson
    Phil Jackson
    Philip Douglas "Phil" Jackson is a retired American professional basketball coach and player. Jackson is widely considered one of the greatest coaches in the history of the National Basketball Association . His reputation was established as head coach of the Chicago Bulls from 1989 through 1998;...
    
    , and player Brian Cook
    Brian Cook
    Brian Joshua Cook is an American professional basketball player. Cook was drafted out of the University of Illinois with the 24th pick of the first round of the 2003 NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Lakers...
    
    .
    • Correction: In actuality, the Lakers are second to the Boston Celtics
      Boston Celtics
      The Boston Celtics are a National Basketball Association team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. Founded in 1946, the team is currently owned by Boston Basketball Partners LLC. The Celtics play their home games at the TD Garden, which...
      
       in NBA championships. (The Celtics have won 16, while the Lakers have won 14.) Trump, apparently unaware of the Celtics' record, inaccurately claimed that the Lakers had won more NBA championships than any other team.
• Losing Team: Arrow
  • Reasons for loss: Aaron performed poorly as a project manager, there was no marketing strategy (such as signage) which Aaron claimed was Surya's responsibility, and Tim and Nicole were unsuccessful at any bulk sales. The offer of the honey bottles was "buy two, get one free." The team sold a total of 217 bottles and earned a total of $775.48 in sales.
• Pre-boardroom: Derek tells Aimee to help Surya in the boardroom
• Initial Boardroom: The developing relationship between Tim and Nicole was announced by Frank to everyone at the first Boardroom, including Trump.
  • Sent to boardroom: Aaron, Surya, and Nicole
    • Boardroom tension: Aaron reveals that Surya was a brand manager for Procter & Gamble
      Procter & Gamble
      Procter & Gamble is a Fortune 500 American multinational corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio and manufactures a wide range of consumer goods....
      
       and he blames Surya for the loss due to the lack of marketing strategy
    • Key firing points: Trump reflected Aaron's lack of input in the previous week's boardroom in addition to a couple of key flaws Trump and Surya pointed out. Although Nicole was brought to judgment, was not held liable for the loss since she did her best as far as bulk sales are concerned.
• Fired: Aaron for leaving the tasks to his subordinates intentionally, poor leadership, poor strategy, not helping the team during the supermarket portion of the task, and having inability to control over Surya and his team.
  • Surya did poorly due to his marketing strategies, but Trump decided to give Surya a second chance.
  • An additional factor in Aaron's firing was the fact that he contributed virtually nothing during the previous week's boardroom discussions (which he attended as the winning project manager). This, together with his lack of leadership in this task, led Trump to conclude that Aaron had nothing to offer the Trump Organization.
• Notes:
  • Unless Trump forbids, the opposing teams are apparently allowed to communicate with each other over the hedge that separates Tent City from the pool area that is part of the mansion, as shown by two scenes during the show.

Episode 6 - Travel Sweepstakes Smackdown

• Airdate: February 18, 2007
• Prologue: Irritated at the false testimony from the last boardroom, Surya opted to step up as project manager for the next task. The teams arrive at Los Angeles International Airport
  Los Angeles International Airport
  Los Angeles International Airport is the primary airport serving the Greater Los Angeles Area, the second-most populated metropolitan area in the United States. It is most often referred to by its IATA airport code LAX, with the letters pronounced individually...
  
   to receive their next task.
• Task sponsors: Priceline.com
  Priceline.com
  Priceline.com is a company and a commercial website that helps users obtain discount rates for travel-related purchases such as airline tickets and hotel stays. The company is not a direct supplier of these services; instead it facilitates the provision of travel services by its suppliers to its...
  
  
• Task: Teams were required to set up a kiosk at their assigned Westfield Shoppingtown malls, and then to get people to sign up for Priceline.com. The team with the most sign-ups over a 2 hour period (during lunch hours) would win the task.
  • Change of judges: For the first part of the task, two Priceline.com executives observed the teams.
• Kinetic project manager: Aimee
• Arrow project manager: Surya
• D-Day prologue: After the two Priceline.com executives gave Trump feedback, Donald Trump, Jr. took over the executives' place as the "close-of-task" judge.
• Winning Team: Arrow
  • Reasons for win: Tim came up with the idea to stagger their prize money into many separate prizes, which proved effective. During the task, several members, particularly Frank, were very aggressive on driving customers to their kiosk. They were able to sign up 359 people.
  • Reward: A private surfing lesson with professional and world-renowned surfers (Pat O'Connell and Lisa Andersen) on Santa Monica
    Santa Monica, California
    Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, US. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is surrounded on three sides by the city of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood on the north, West Los Angeles on the northeast, Mar Vista on the east, and...
    
     beach and brunch at Gladstone's of Malibu.
    • Apprentice first: While Nicole was thought to have suffered an ankle injury due to increasing waves, a hospital visit concluded that Nicole was stung by a jellyfish
      Jellyfish
      Jellyfish are free-swimming members of the phylum Cnidaria. Medusa is another word for jellyfish, and refers to any free-swimming jellyfish stages in the phylum Cnidaria...
      
      . Tim escorted Nicole to the hospital, prompting the two to skip their visit to Gladstones. This eventually led to a romance between Tim and Nicole after the reward as Tim and Nicole of Arrow were showing each other affection near the pool.
• Losing Team: Kinetic
  • Reasons for loss: Though Derek and Jenn were told that the mall had about a 50% Hispanic
    Hispanic
    Hispanic is a term that originally denoted a relationship to Hispania, which is to say the Iberian Peninsula: Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain. During the Modern Era, Hispanic sometimes takes on a more limited meaning, particularly in the United States, where the term means a person of ...
    
     consumer base from a mall executive, they did not relay this number to Aimee figuring that the demographics of the mall were obvious to anyone that was walking through it. As a result, they were not prepared to handle both the verbal and written language barrier at their kiosk, despite Derek and Muna being able to help with the language. They were only able to get 326 people to sign up.
• Pre-boardroom: Trump asked the executives' opinion on the task (whether who should get fired or who stood up). Both executives' compliment Derek and Muna's use of Spanish since many people at the mall do not understand English. Also, Derek revealed that he is half-Latino since his father is from Colombia
  Colombia
  Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
  
  .
  • Sent to boardroom: Aimee, Derek, and Jenn
    • Key firing points: Trump took time to bring up a couple of issues including but not limited to the following: Aimee not understanding the mall demographic, Derek and Jenn not making Aimee aware of the mall demographic, the fact that Aimee refuses to hear from her subordinates during certain times, and Aimee's weak overall leadership.
• Fired: Aimee for not understanding the demographics of the mall's frequent visitors, and not listening to her team for suggestions. Although Derek and Jenn didn't relay the important demographic information to their Project Manager, Aimee was eliminated instead for her lack of leadership qualities.
• Notes:
  • This is the first time a sponsor served as an in-task judge before Donald Trump Jr. took over as verdict judge.

Episode 7 - Life in the Luxury Lane

• Airdate: March 4, 2007
• Prologue: Randal Pinkett
  Randal Pinkett
  Randal D. Pinkett is a business consultant who in 2005 was the winner of season four of the reality television show, The Apprentice...
  
  , Season 4 Apprentice, served as a substitute boardroom judge.
• Task sponsors: Lexus
  Lexus
  is the luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corporation. First introduced in 1989 in the United States, Lexus is now sold globally and has become Japan's largest-selling make of premium cars. The Lexus marque is marketed in over 70 countries and territories worldwide, and has...
  
  
• Task: Teams were to create an event for Lexus VIP customers to present the features of the new Lexus LS 460. The team with the best rating from the event customers wins the task.
• Kinetic project manager: Jenn
• Arrow project manager: Surya
• Winning Team: Arrow
  • Reasons for Win: The team promoted the concept of luxury properly and allowed their guests to either take a look at the Lexus LS 460's features or to just simply take a test drive of the LS 460. Arrow received an overall rating score of 94 points (out of 100) from the attendees.
  • Reward: A chance to participate in creating a freestyle rap with Snoop Dogg
    Snoop Dogg
    Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. , better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school...
    
    .
• Losing Team: Kinetic
  • Reasons for Loss: The team had a horrendous idea of the go-karts. Randal thought the banners were awful. The presentation was shaky and flawed. They received an overall rating score of 84 points (out of 100) from the attendees.
    • Randal, who admits to owning a Lexus vehicle in Yahoo's uncut boardroom battle clips, brought up the go-kart blunder.
  • Sent to boardroom: No final boardroom.
    • Reason for not holding a final boardroom session: Trump indicated that he "did not want to waste time." Despite Jenn earning her team's respect, Trump had enough information to hold her liable for the loss (regardless of whom she would have selected to accompany her in the final boardroom).
• Fired:
  • Derek for his unprofessional behavior before the final intermission (he jokingly referring to himself as "white trash
    White trash
    White trash is an American English pejorative term referring to poor white people in the United States, suggesting lower social class and degraded living standards...
    
    ", to which Trump took offense)
  • Jenn at the end of the show for poor decision-making throughout the task, allowing ideas like the go-karts to be approved.
  • After Jenn's firing, Trump commented on his displeasure with Angela's poor performance in this task.
• Notes:
  • Effective this episode, The Apprentice 6 moved to 10 pm ET/PT, 9 pm CT/MT on NBC.
  • This is the first time that a candidate was fired in the middle of an ongoing boardroom session.
  • The commercials for this episode indicated that two words would get someone fired. This, of course, was a reference to Derek's comment in the boardroom ("White trash").

Episode 8 - Bend It Like Donald

• Airdate: March 11, 2007
• Prologue: Realising that Kinetic has been decimated, Kristine opted to step up as project manager to bring the team back to its winning track, hoping that herself, Muna, Heidi, and Angela will be the final four.
• Task sponsor: GNC
  General Nutrition Centers
  General Nutrition Centers is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based American commercial enterprise focused on the retail sale of health and nutrition related products, including vitamins, supplements, minerals, herbs, sports nutrition, diet & energy products.-History:In 1935, David Shakarian opened a...
  
  
• Task scope: Each team was to create a short halftime show promoting the GNC brand at a Los Angeles Galaxy
  Los Angeles Galaxy
  The Los Angeles Galaxy are an American professional soccer team, based in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson, California, which competes in Major League Soccer , the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada. It is one of the ten charter clubs of MLS, and the league's second...
  
   soccer game. The team with the best show, as determined by GNC's vice president of marketing, would win the task.
  • This halftime show took place during the Los Angeles Galaxy's confrontation with the Houston Dynamo
    Houston Dynamo
    The Houston Dynamo is an American professional soccer club, based in Houston, Texas, that plays in Major League Soccer, the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada. Founded in 2005 as Houston 1836, the team name was renamed to Houston Dynamo following protests from Hispanic...
    
     on June 24, 2006. This game happened to be during the World Cup
    FIFA World Cup
    The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body...
    
     and both teams were without star players.
  • Based on reports of people that attended this game, the crowd was asked after both presentations to indicate which show they preferred using colored placards underneath their seats. These reports also indicate that the performance from both teams was not well received by the fans.
  • 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...
    
    , the original Apprentice, filled in for Ivanka as a substitute judge.
• Kinetic project manager: Kristine
• Arrow project manager: Surya
• Task cliffhangers: Muna started to lash out against Kristine at certain points of the task. Surya started to lose the respect of his entire team.
• Winning team: Kinetic
  • Reason for win: GNC's vice president of marketing said that Kinetic promoted the GNC brand closely, and the crowd apparently liked Kinetic's show.
  • Reward: To golf with Trump and the head of TaylorMade Golf, Mark King, at Trump's own golf course in Los Angeles (Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles
    Trump National Golf Club (Los Angeles)
    Trump National Golf Club, Los Angeles is a public golf club in Palos Verdes, California featuring a course designed by Pete Dye and Donald J. Trump Signature Design....
    
    ).
    • Supplemental reward: A full set of golf clubs from Taylor Made based on the Donald J. Trump signature collection.
    • Trump thought that Angela was the strongest golfer, since she had a background playing hockey. Trump was surprised that Kristine, Heidi, and Muna did well.
    • Trump also commented that the last time he went golfing with the contestants from The Apprentice 5
      The Apprentice 5
      The Apprentice 5 is the fifth series of The Apprentice, with Donald Trump as the Executive Producer and Host. Applications were available online and filming occurred in the fall of 2005. Sean Yazbeck was named the winner and hired by Donald Trump as the new Apprentice during the season finale...
      
      , he commented that the team weren't stars due to their losing record.
• Losing team: Arrow
  • Reason for loss: GNC's vice president of marketing said that Arrow did not promote the GNC brand well, and presented a difficult boxing
    Boxing
    Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
    
     story to follow.
  • Pre-boardroom: Surya said he regretted leaving Kinetic for Arrow, and communicated through the hedge with Angela and Muna. The executive from GNC thought that the project manager should be fired for this task. Bill thought that Surya would be a target in the boardroom but James and Tim should be held partly liable for the loss since Tim came up with the concept and James made it difficult for the team to focus.
  • Initial boardroom tension: Although Surya defended himself by repeatedly mentioning his 5-2 team record, Arrow felt he was not functioning well as a leader or a team player.
  • Sent to boardroom: Surya, James, and Tim
    • Firing points: Surya said that he's a good follower, but Trump said that the Apprentice would have to be a leader rather than a follower. Tim was responsible for coming up with the losing idea for the project. Surya held James liable for being disloyal and very hard to work with during this task. Tim did agree with Surya's decision that James tended to make things difficult, but (Tim) would still fire Surya over James.
    • Bill acknowledged the fact that James always "covered his butt" by changing his ideas at the last minute.
• Fired: Surya for contributing as a follower rather than a leader, losing respect of the entire team, and basically not doing a good job on the task.
  • Trump believed that it was a very tough decision to make, because every single person on Arrow thought that Surya should be fired. He also said that James could not be held liable for the loss. Nonetheless, Trump said with the fire and attitude Surya possesses, he will have great success in the future.
  • Surya commented that 95% of the time he felt like an outsider and this show shows that the best person does not always win.
• Notes:
  • This is the first episode of The Apprentice 6 in which Bill Rancic appeared.
  • This is one of those rare occurrences where Donald Trump said "sorry" right after a firing.

Episode 9 - Soap Gets In Your Eyes

• Airdate: March 18, 2007
• Prologue: James becomes Arrow's project manager due to his belief that it's either "now or never."
• Task Sponsor: Dial Soap
  Dial (company)
  The Dial Corporation, a subsidiary of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA , is a manufacturer of personal-care and household-cleaning products based in Scottsdale, Arizona....
  
  
• Task: Each team was to create and direct a webisode
  Webisode
  A webisode is a short episode which airs initially as Internet television, either download or stream as opposed to first airing on broadcast or cable television. The format can be used as a preview, a promotion, as part of a collection of shorts, or a commercial.A webisode can be an episode...
  
   soap opera featuring a new Soft Scrub bathroom cleaner. The best webisode as determined by Dial Soap executives would win the task.
• Kinetic project manager: Kristine
• Arrow project manager: James
• Winning team: Arrow
  • Reason for win: Although Arrow had a weak cliffhanger, they explained the product well.
  • Reward: A private flight via Blue Star Jets to Sacramento
    Sacramento
    Sacramento is the capital of the state of California, in the United States of America.Sacramento may also refer to:- United States :*Sacramento County, California*Sacramento, Kentucky*Sacramento – San Joaquin River Delta...
    
     to meet California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American former professional bodybuilder, actor, businessman, investor, and politician. Schwarzenegger served as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 until 2011....
    
     for tea and to hear his story of his success at the California State Capitol
    California State Capitol
    The California State Capitol is home to the government of California. The building houses the bicameral state legislature and the office of the governor....
    
    .
• Losing team: Kinetic
  • Reason for loss: The executives said that Kinetic had a great cliffhanger, storyline, and webisode. But they couldn't get a lot of information out of Muna's dialogue of her heavy accent and Kinetic's product strategy in their webisode. Kinetic had to cut out some of the scenes entirely because it was too difficult to understand what Muna was saying about the product.
• Pre-boardroom: Muna was seen reading the Bible
  Bible
  The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
  
   whereas Kristine was reading Trump's book, Trump: The Art of the Deal. Kristine commented on how Muna should not be reading the Bible since God is not the one making the decision in the boardroom. Then, Heidi said to Muna, "If I would have one person, it would be you to be on my team." The executives said they only watched Muna and Heidi. Then, they also concerned about the person from the directing. And that led the person to the loss. They felt like the person in the monitor of directing should be fired.
  • Sent to boardroom: No final boardroom
    • Boardroom risks: Muna asked Heidi if Heidi would rather keep Muna or Kristine on the team. Heidi hesitatingly would take Kristine as a strong team player. Ivanka was questioned of why would Heidi take a weaker player of Muna.
• Fired: Muna by process of elimination. Most of Muna's dialogue was inarticulate and incomprehensible in the team's final webisode product.
  • Trump acknowledged that Kristine's absence during the early part of shooting and the general resulting effort of the team made his choice difficult between firing Kristine or Muna. Muna herself asked her teammates which of the two should not be fired. Trump declared this to be a risk by Muna. Both Heidi and Angela selected Kristine, though with some hesitation.
• Notes:
  • After Muna's firing, Heidi said that choosing between Kristine and Muna was the hardest thing she had ever done in her life.
  • Donald Trump rarely says sorry after firing a candidate, and in this episode it was one of the rare occasions he did.
  • When Muna and Heidi were in the mobile house in camera, Heidi thinks it's not wise to be the P.M. to leave in about 15 minutes of filming. Kristine should have be in the mobile house in those critical moments. Kristine was gone from getting the props for their webisode.

Episode 10 - Girls on Rollerskates

• Airdate: March 25, 2007
• Prologue: Trump directed James to send a member of Arrow to Kinetic since Kinetic was "decimated." With no volunteers, and with James stating that Frank and Stefani were invaluable to him, he selected Nicole. Nicole felt this choice was personal to send her to team Kinetic and said she will do anything to win this task to show James that he is wrong. With Tim and Nicole now on opposite teams, the two had several discussions throughout the episode over the hedge separating the pool from Tent City. The teams meet up at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre
  Grauman's Chinese Theatre
  Grauman's Chinese Theatre is a movie theater at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood. It is on the historic Hollywood Walk of Fame.The Chinese Theatre was commissioned following the success of the nearby Grauman's Egyptian Theatre which opened in 1922...
  
   with Trump and Ivanka.
• Task sponsor: Universal Studios Hollywood
  Universal Studios Hollywood
  Universal Studios Hollywood is a movie studio and theme park in the unincorporated Universal City community of Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is one of the oldest and most famous Hollywood movie studios still in use...
  
  
• Task: Teams had to sell special on-the-spot front-of-the-line passes and discount season passes at Universal Studios Hollywood
  Universal Studios Hollywood
  Universal Studios Hollywood is a movie studio and theme park in the unincorporated Universal City community of Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is one of the oldest and most famous Hollywood movie studios still in use...
  
   theme park using Adwalker, an advertising and media platform worn by its operators. The winning team would be the one with the most sales.
  • As noted by James, this was the first task in this season where both teams had to compete in the same area for sales.
• Kinetic project manager: Angela
• Arrow project manager: James
• Winning team: Arrow
  • Reason for win: Arrow used a fixed booth with signage and offers of free water bottles with the sale to draw customers at the entrance to the park. They also aggressively went after customers that were waiting in line to talk to Kinetic players and were able to take the business away from Kinetic. They earned over $32,000 in sales.
  • Reward: A private helicopter ride above Los Angeles
• Losing team: Kinetic
  • Reason for loss: The members of Kinetic, while using some sex appeal and being more mobile by being on roller skates, lacked credibility and a selling presence due to virtually no signage and were not as aggressive as Arrow in soliciting customers. The team sold approximately $7,000 less than Arrow.
    • Nicole predicted correctly that Arrow would be using large signs and sales pitches during Kinetic's brainstorming session for this task, and argued they needed to do something to counter it. This eventually resulted in the idea for using roller skates to increase mobility.
• Pre-boardroom: After James told his team that he will be going after the person who came up with the roller-skates idea (Nicole), Tim told Nicole that through the hedges so she could be prepared. This discloses some possible disloyalty in Tim's part.
  • Boardroom tension: After both teams heard the results, Kinetic was upset with Arrow's aggressive tactics of "stealing" customers away, but Trump dismissed this as being strictly business. Angela continued to argue this in her defense during the boardroom, though admitted that it would have not countered the entire $7,000 difference in sales.
    • Angela pointed out that Nicole was the one who came up with the roller skating idea.
    • James said that Nicole was the weakest link in his team out of members from Arrow.
  • Sent to boardroom: No final boardroom
• Fired: Angela for poor quality leadership and for not defending herself properly per Ivanka. Trump ultimately held Angela liable for the loss since he could not fire anyone else.
  • Postmortem: Nicole told Trump to request Tim to transfer over to Kinetic, but Trump said Tim was disloyal and that Nicole should dump him.
• Notes:
  • This was another rare occasion where Donald Trump said sorry after firing a candidate. This could be due to his immense respect for Angela as an Olympian, and that she was arguably just as strong as anyone else in her team.

Episode 11 - Shut Your Smartmouth

• Airdate: April 1, 2007
• Prologue: Tim's loyalty has been questioned in the eve after the elimination of Angela.
• Task sponsor: SmartMouth
• Task: Teams were to create a supplement for the Los Angeles Times
  Los Angeles Times
  The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
  
   newspaper for SmartMouth with photo access, studio, and graphic designer. The team with the best supplement as being judged by the executives will win.
• Kinetic project manager: Heidi
• Arrow project manager: James
• Winning team: Kinetic
  • Reason for win: According to the executives, the team used an eye-catching shape to their insert, focused on the use of the product throughout the day, and kept the message clear and simple.
    • Solid performance recognition: The SmartMouth executives used Kinetic's insert as their ad in the next run of the Los Angeles Times.
  • Reward: An in-mansion visit with their significant others (Kristine's husband, and Heidi's and Nicole's mothers), including a meal prepared by Kristine's husband, Ludovic Lefebvre, who is a well-known chef in the Los Angeles area
    • This was the first time Heidi's mother went to California
      California
      California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
      
      .
• Losing team: Arrow
  • Reason for loss: According to the executives, the team had a complicated and ineffective brochure. The front page made the people look like they were tired (as opposed to needing mouthwash), and the scientific chart was difficult for people to understand.
• Pre-boardroom: Tim met Nicole and her mother through the hedges, with Nicole commenting that her mother is the most loyal person Nicole has ever met. Nicole asked her mother for advice about her relationship with Tim, and her mother told Nicole to focus on the work tasks. The executives thought that James was a good leader and that Stefani was confident and presented herself well.
  • Boardroom drama: Trump told Arrow to compare their ad with Kinetic's ad. In addition, Trump and Ivanka jointly grilled Arrow due to a number of errors.
    • No action: Both James and Stefani are not the reason they lost.
    • Disciplinary action: Frank made a number of critical errors during the making of the supplement, and Tim displayed disloyalty per James.
    • Verdict: Trump asked James who would he want on his team either Tim or Frank. James had selected Frank.
  • Sent to boardroom: No final boardroom
• Fired: Tim for being disloyal of the team and for allowing his relationship with Nicole to distract him during the tasks.
  • Per Trump the whole team performed poorly in this task.

Episode 12 - Las Vegas, Baby!

• Airdate: April 8, 2007
• Prologue: Trump conducted another twist: Frank, James, and Stefani were told to move back into the mansion. Trump also directed that the six remaining candidates divide themselves into three teams with two members each. Henceforth, there would be no more project managers and, fortunately, no more "Tent City".
  • Teams: Frank and Heidi, Kristine and Nicole, and James and Stefani
  • Kristine thought that she was in Heidi's shadow, since the two always worked together. To prove to Trump that she had her own strengths, Kristine chose to pair up with Nicole.
  • Both Heidi and Frank were the original project managers from week 1.
• Sponsor: No sponsor - internal promotion involving the second building of the Trump Organization's Las Vegas Hotel and Tower
  Trump International Hotel and Tower (Las Vegas)
  The Trump Hotel Las Vegas is a 64-story luxury hotel-condominium located on Fashion Show Drive near Las Vegas Boulevard just off the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, named for famed real estate developer Donald Trump...
  
  
• Task: Each team was to prepare promotional materials for selling condominiums for the second tower to be constructed as part of the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Las Vegas. Teams had access to the demonstration suite and were given graphic artists to assist them. Trump would decide which team(s) would win and continue to the next task, and which would lose on this task.
  • Donald "Don" Trump, Jr. assisted his father in judging this task.
  • Trump initially stated that he would fire both members of the worst team on this task.
• Who succeeded at the task: James and Stefani
  • Reasons for success: As their presentation was first, Trump noted that both the presentation and additional material would be tough to beat by the other teams. Their theme was "The Height of Luxury." After the presentation, Heidi complimented it by saying she was "100% impressed."
• Reward: There were no rewards, except that James and Stefani were guaranteed slots in the final two weeks of the job interview, and were able to assist Trump in deciding which two of the other four to fire.
• Who failed at the task: Frank and Heidi, Kristine and Nicole
  • Reasons for Frank's and Heidi's failure: Frank's and Heidi's presentation did not have any sales point, unlike the other teams. Heidi stumbled and rushed through the two-minute oral introduction before the video, and she failed to mention their sales point. Their brochure did not contain any photographs, but only long text passages which Trump compared to a book that no one would read. Trump also noted that their video was poor in quality. Heidi seemed to lose her confidence in this task. When they were asked what the theme of their presentation was, Heidi said "World Class Luxury" but later contradicted herself by saying it was "World Class Amenities." However, Heidi forgot to articulate this theme during the presentation. Lack of a theme was a major criticism of the presentation.
    • Heidi and Frank engaged in heated argument, and Frank accused Heidi of changing the subject and being dishonest to Trump and Don, Jr. Heidi revealed that the brochure was done 15 minutes prior to the boardroom session.
    • Don, Jr. stated that Heidi was contradicting herself and he also stated that Heidi lied in front of Mr. Trump about 4 times in the boardroom.
  • Reasons for Kristine's and Nicole's failure: Nicole had difficulty activating the powerpoint presentation, prompting Trump to ask James to help her. Their theme was "Las Vegas is Turning Gold." Trump noticed that the contact telephone number on the brochure of Kristine and Nicole was different from that on the brochure of James and Stefani. Trump requested that James and Nicole step out of the boardroom to verify which telephone number was correct. After calling both numbers, James and Nicole verified that the brochure of James and Stefani contained the correct number of 6711, while the brochure for Kristine and Nicole had the wrong telephone number of 9933.
    • Trump noted that getting the wrong telephone number was a fatal mistake. Kristine admitted to this mistake.
    • While Nicole was outside, Kristine argued to Trump that Nicole slept while Kristine designed the brochure. Kristine displayed lack of teamwork by talking poorly of her partner behind her back. Kristine thought of herself, and not of her team, by picking Nicole over Heidi to work with in this task. Kristine thought that she would be the star player of the team composed of herself and Nicole.
  • Change of heart: With both the Frank/Heidi team and the Kristine/Nicole team failing the task, Trump changed his mind and opted to fire one candidate from each team, holding the one fired liable for the failure of the task.
• Fired: Heidi for giving a terrible presentation and excessive dishonesty in the boardroom, and Kristine for utilizing the wrong telephone number on the brochure. Trump thinks Kristine's and Heidi's horrible individual performances convinced him otherwise.
  • Heidi stated that the task failure was the worst in her career and that she would agree with Trump 100% if Trump chose to fire her solely based on this task. Trump fired Heidi immediately after she made this comment. Heidi immediately looks shocked and shakes her head.
  • Without warning or preface, Trump then immediately fired Kristine. Kristine protested that she was not given a chance to defend herself. Nonetheless, Trump considered her publishing a wrong telephone number on the promotional brochure to be the critical reason to send Kristine home without delay. Trump also said that had Kristine not put the wrong phone number on the back of their brochure that he would have most certainly fired Frank and Heidi immediately
• Post-episode Apprentice firsts:
  • The final two members from the original Kinetic team were fired. As a result, this is the first time that the final four candidates consist of members from one original team, Arrow.
  • Stefani becomes the first person to reach the final four without once serving as project manager on a task.
• Notes:
  • After being fired, Kristine and Heidi were offered an opportunity to appear in a pictorial for Playboy
    Playboy
    Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
    
     magazine. Kristine accepted the offer (while Heidi refused), and she appeared in the June 2007 issue.

Episode 13 - The Final Four

• Airdate: April 15, 2007
• Teams:
  • Kinetic: Frank and Nicole
  • Arrow: James and Stefani
• Prologue: Trump and Don instructed Frank, James, Nicole, and Stefani to head to The Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel
  The Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel
  The Beverly Wilshire Hotel is an historic hotel located at 9500 Wilshire Boulevard on the east side of South Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California. It was constructed by real estate developer Walter G. McCarty on the site of the former Beverly Hills Speedway...
  
   for a cocktail party and meeting with four of the five past Apprentices: Kelly Perdew
  Kelly Perdew
  Kelly Crawford Perdew of Carlsbad, California was the winner of The Apprentice 2.-Before The Apprentice:Perdew was born in Lexington, Kentucky and was raised in Florida and Wyoming...
  
  , Kendra Todd
  Kendra Todd
  Kendra Todd is a real estate agent in Seattle, Washington. In 2005, she was the winner of season 3 of NBC's The Apprentice. She was the first female candidate, and the youngest, to be hired on the U.S. Apprentice.-Overview:...
  
  , Randal Pinkett
  Randal Pinkett
  Randal D. Pinkett is a business consultant who in 2005 was the winner of season four of the reality television show, The Apprentice...
  
  , and Sean Yazbeck
  Sean Yazbeck
  Sean Yazbeck is the winner of the fifth season of the reality show, The Apprentice, where candidates compete in several tasks on a 15-week "job interview" for a position in one of Donald Trump's companies...
  
  .
  • 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...
    
    , the winner of Season 1, was unavailable due to business obligations.
  • Perdew asked the final four to split into two teams and then for each team to choose two previously fired candidates to assist them in the final task.
    • Frank and Nicole chose Surya and Tim, James and Stefani chose Aaron and Angela.
• Task Sponsor: Renuzit
  Renuzit
  Renuzit is a brand of air fresheners produced by the Dial Corporation. The Renuzit brand once included a solvent-based spot remover and cleaner as well.-How air fresheners work:Air fresheners are basically perfume dispensers...
  
   (Dial Soap
  Dial (company)
  The Dial Corporation, a subsidiary of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA , is a manufacturer of personal-care and household-cleaning products based in Scottsdale, Arizona....
  
  )
• Task Scope: The two teams were asked to produce a 60-second commercial for Renuzit
  Renuzit
  Renuzit is a brand of air fresheners produced by the Dial Corporation. The Renuzit brand once included a solvent-based spot remover and cleaner as well.-How air fresheners work:Air fresheners are basically perfume dispensers...
  
   that would be shown in a movie theater before the feature film.
• Executives' feedback: The Renuzit executives noted that James's and Stefani's team worked very well complementing each others' strength and weaknesses, while Frank took over while Nicole stayed behind the scenes. They did note that Frank was a very hard worker.
• Twists:
  • Trump made it clear at the beginning of the task that there would be no winners or losers for this task.
  • All four candidates were sent home by Trump after the Renuzit task, and were asked to return for the final live episode, during which Trump will hire one person out of the final four.
• Notes:
  • Dial, with its Renuzit brand, is the second sponsor to sponsor two Apprentice tasks in one given season.
  • As there are no more project managers or team names, each team was identified simply as "Frank & Nicole" or "James & Stefani". However, a Kinetic Corporation sign could be seen in the background of Frank's and Nicole's editing room, while an Arrow Corporation sign could be seen in the background of James's and Stefani's editing room.

Episode 14 - Decision Time

• Airdate: April 22, 2007
  • The final episode was aired live before a televised audience at the Hollywood Bowl
    Hollywood Bowl
    The Hollywood Bowl is a modern amphitheater in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, United States that is used primarily for music performances...
    
     (except in the west).
  • It was the first time Trump chose his apprentice from four candidates, given the twist he pulled in Episode 13.
• Apprentice Jobs: Trump gave the four finalists the choice of overseeing the construction of Trump at Cap Cana (in the Dominican Republic
  Dominican Republic
  The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...
  
  ) or Trump Towers Atlanta.
  • Stefani and Nicole chose the Trump at Cap Cana
  • James and Frank chose Trump Towers Atlanta
• Fired in the middle of the episode: Frank, for hiring Surya, who disliked him; and Nicole for her nepotism
  Nepotism
  Nepotism is favoritism granted to relatives regardless of merit. The word nepotism is from the Latin word nepos, nepotis , from which modern Romanian nepot and Italian nipote, "nephew" or "grandchild" are also descended....
  
   during the final task. In addition, Donald Trump preferred James's & Stefani's ad from week 12.
• The two finalists: James and Stefani
  • Brief appearance: 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...
    
     commented on the two finalists.
    • George said that James sometimes seemed to lose focus.
    • Stefani didn't really step up to show leadership as a project manager.
  • An American Idol
    American Idol
    American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
    
     joke: Surya recommended Trump to hire Sanjaya Malakar
    Sanjaya Malakar
    Sanjaya Joseph Malakar is an American singer of Indian origin, who was a finalist on the sixth season of American Idol. He gained national attention on the series, controversially advancing to 7th place with public votes, despite being poorly received by the show's judges, particularly Simon...
    
    .
  • Year of the woman
    Feminism
    Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...
    
    : Heidi and Kristine recommended Trump to hire Stefani.
  • The importance of technology: Aaron recommended Trump to hire James.
• Fired at the conclusion of the episode: James, since Trump was bothered by certain "things" that James had said, although what these were was never revealed.
• Hired: Stefani Schaeffer
  Stefanie Schaeffer
  Stefanie Schaeffer is an American defense attorney from California. She was named Season 6 Apprentice on the reality show of the same name...
  
  . While she never stepped up as project manager, Stefani won the respect of many people. She was well liked because she doesn't take credit for things and she never made any significant mistakes throughout the interview process.
  • No one pointed out that Trump's "dynasty" rule of recurring project managers essentially made it more difficult for people to step up, even when the PM was not the primary reason for a victory, a reason why Schaeffer was the first to be hired without being a project manager for a task.
  • Task: Schaeffer will oversee the Trump at Cap Cana project on a 1-year contractual basis with a salary exceeding $250,000.
• Notes:
  • Stefani Schaeffer
    Stefanie Schaeffer
    Stefanie Schaeffer is an American defense attorney from California. She was named Season 6 Apprentice on the reality show of the same name...
    
     becomes the first practicing attorney and the second woman to be hired by Trump.
  • Stefani also becomes the first person to win the U.S. edition of The Apprentice
    The Apprentice (U.S. TV series)
    The Apprentice is an American reality television show hosted by real estate magnate, businessman and television personality Donald Trump, created by Mark Burnett and broadcast on NBC...
    
     without ever being the project manager for a task.
  • This finale, as with the third season, was aired only for one hour.
  • About midway through the live outdoor broadcast, it began to rain.

Ratings

The sixth season of The Apprentice was by far the worst-received season of The Apprentice, and also the least watched on its initial run (the tenth season

The Apprentice (U.S. season 10)

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 would later receive considerably lower viewing figures). Critics and many fans alike were very unfavorable to the various radical changes the show had made (such as being a Project Manager until failing, or having a winning Project Manager serve in the boardroom and advise Trump on who to fire) and thought the show lost its original appeal. They believed that producers were trying to incorporate more of a sensational edge to the show, rather than focus on the aspects of the business world, and some speculated that the show was trying to specifically mirror Survivor, with having the weekly losing candidates live in tents with no power or running water. Moreover, footage of the actual projects that candidates would work on was substantially cut, after the tasks in this season often took up as little as a fifth of the episode, whereas the tasks in previous seasons took up between a third and a half of the episode's running time. Trump later blamed creator and executive producer Mark Burnett

Mark Burnett

Mark Burnett is a British television producer and executive producer, based in the United States. He currently is the executive producer of five network television series with seven hours of network programming. Works with which Burnett is associated have won multiple awards and recognition...

for these ideas, who ironically is also the creator of Survivor. The 90-minute premiere of the sixth season averaged 9.1 million overall viewers and a 4.1/10 rating/share in the Adults 18-49 demographic. The figure for total viewers for the show's sixth season debut was much lower than that of the show's fifth season debut. The second episode of season 6 averaged 7.3 million viewers.

External links

• Apprentice 6 Cast Revealed!
• NBC reveals 'The Apprentice 6' contestants, new season twists
• NBC's Apprentice 6 Official Site on NBC
• Armchair Apprentice Podcast
• POHDCC, Columbia University, Teachers College

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