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*'''Fired''': Steuart, due to credentials and experience. Both of Clint's and Steuart's credentials appealed to Trump, |
*'''Fired''': Steuart, due to credentials and experience. Both of Clint's and Steuart's credentials appealed to Trump, as did Steuart's metropolitan style. However, Trump determined Clint's credentials along with his life experience made him a better candidate to be The Apprentice than Steuart. |
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=== Episode 12: Tee'd Off === |
=== Episode 12: Tee'd Off === |
Revision as of 20:53, 3 December 2010
Template:Infobox Television The Apprentice The Apprentice 10 is the tenth installment of the United States version of the reality television series, The Apprentice. On March 17, 2010 NBC officially announced the renewal of The Apprentice for the fall of 2010.[1][2] For this season the show is going back to its regular version, with non-celebrities, for the first time since the 2006–07 television schedule. The theme of this season is "second chance" and contestants are those affected by the Late-2000s recession.
The format of the show is much the same as was employed between the first and fifth seasons, with the changes introduced in The Apprentice: Los Angeles being discarded. The biggest change is to the rewards; unlike the often lavish rewards that had previously been granted to the entire winning teams, the rewards for task victories in this season are the project manager of that task will be granted some one-on-one time with a famous businessperson and for the entire team to see the Boardroom of the losing team (Brought from "The Celebrity Apprentice").
Taping began June 1, 2010,[3] and ended on June 29, 2010.[4] The season premiered on Thursday, September 16th, 2010 at 9-11pm ET.[5]
Candidates
Candidate | Background | Original team | Age | Hometown | Result |
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Brandy Kuentzel | Former Corporate Attorney | Fortitude | 30 | San Francisco, California | |
Clint Robertson | Struggling Property Developer | Octane | 40 | Fort Worth, Texas | |
Liza Mucheru-Wisner | Struggling Business Owner | Fortitude | 30 | Corpus Christi, Texas | Fired in week 12 (12-2-2010) |
Steuart Martens | Fledgling Entrepreneur | Octane | 27 | Washington, DC | Fired in week 11 (11-25-2010) |
Stephanie Castagnier | Unemployed Banker | Fortitude | 34 | Chicago, Illinois | Fired in week 10 (11-18-2010) |
Poppy Carlig | Unemployed Grad Student | Fortitude | 24 | Richmond, California | Fired in week 9 (11-11-2010) |
Anand Vasudev | Struggling Business Owner | Octane | 31 | Tampa, Florida | Fired in week 9 (11-11-2010) |
David Johnson | Unemployed Account Manager | Octane | 34 | Portage, Michigan | Fired in week 8 (11-04-2010) |
Mahsa Saeidi-Azcuy | Assistant District Attorney | Fortitude | 29 | Brooklyn, New York | Fired in week 7 (10-28-2010) |
Kelly Smith Beaty | Unemployed Publicist | Fortitude | 30 | Fayetteville, Georgia | Fired in week 6 (10-21-2010) |
Wade Hanson | Struggling Realtor | Octane | 33 | Woodbury, Minnesota | Fired in week 5 (10-14-2010) |
Gene Folkes | Unemployed Financial Advisor | Octane | 46 | Wylie, Texas | Fired in week 5 (10-14-2010) |
Tyana Alvarado | Unemployed Sales Rep | Fortitude | 41 | Miami, Florida | Fired in week 4 (10-07-2010) |
James Weir | Unemployed Attorney | Octane | 31 | New York City, New York | Fired in week 3 (09-30-2010) |
Alex Delgado | Former Construction Engineer | Octane | 43 | Santa Ynez, California | Fired in week 2 (09-23-2010) |
Nicole Chiu | Unemployed Attorney | Fortitude | 27 | Palos Verdes, California | Fired in week 1 (09-16-2010) |
Weekly results
Candidate | Original team | Week 8 team | Week 9 team | Week 11 team | Application result | Record as project manager |
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Brandy Kuentzel | Fortitude | Octane | Octane | Fortitude | 1-0 (win in week 8) | |
Clint Robertson | Octane | Octane | Octane | Octane | 2-1 (win in weeks 4 & 9, loss in week 11) | |
Liza Mucheru-Wisner | Fortitude | Octane | Fortitude | Fortitude | Fired in week 12 | 1-1 (win in week 11, loss in week 7) |
Steuart Martens | Octane | Octane | Octane | Octane | Fired in week 11 | 2-0 (win in weeks 7 & 10) |
Stephanie Castagnier | Fortitude | Fortitude | Fortitude | Fired in week 10 | 1-1 (win in week 5, loss in week 10) | |
Poppy Carlig | Fortitude | Fortitude | Fortitude | Fired in week 9 | 1-1 (win in week 2, loss in week 9) | |
Anand Vasudev | Octane | Fortitude | Fired in week 9 | 1-0 (win in week 6) | ||
David Johnson | Octane | Fortitude | Fired in week 8 | 0-2 (loss in weeks 2 & 8) | ||
Mahsa Saeidi-Azcuy | Fortitude | Fired in week 7 | 0-1 (loss in week 4) | |||
Kelly Smith Beaty | Fortitude | Fired in week 6 | 0-1 (loss in week 6) | |||
Wade Hanson | Octane | Fired in week 5 | 0-1 (loss in week 5) | |||
Gene Folkes | Octane | Fired in week 5 | 1-0 (win in week 1) | |||
Tyana Alvarado | Fortitude | Fired in week 4 | 1-0 (win in week 3) | |||
James Weir | Octane | Fired in week 3 | 0-1 (loss in week 3) | |||
Alex Delgado | Octane | Fired in week 2 | ||||
Nicole Chiu | Fortitude | Fired in week 1 | 0-1 (loss in week 1) |
Elimination chart | ||||||||||||||
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Candidate | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | |
Brandy | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | |
Clint | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | LOSE | IN | IN | |
Liza | IN | IN | IN | BR | IN | BR | LOSE | IN | IN | IN | WIN | FIRED | ||
Steuart | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | WIN | FIRED | |||
Stephanie | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | BR | IN | BR | IN | FIRED | ||||
Poppy | IN | WIN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | BR | FIRED | |||||
Anand | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | FIRED | |||||
David | IN | LOSE | BR | IN | IN | IN | IN | FIRED | ||||||
Mahsa | BR | IN | IN | LOSE | IN | IN | FIRED | |||||||
Kelly | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | FIRED | ||||||||
Wade | IN | IN | BR | IN | FIRED | |||||||||
Gene | WIN | IN | IN | IN | FIRED | |||||||||
Tyana | BR | IN | WIN | FIRED | ||||||||||
James | IN | BR | FIRED | |||||||||||
Alex | IN | FIRED | ||||||||||||
Nicole | FIRED |
- The contestant was on the losing team.
- The contestant was on the winning team.
- 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 was fired on the winning team.
- The contestant lost as project manager and was fired.
- The contestant didn't participate in the challenge.
Episodes
Episode 1: Back to Work
- Airdate: September 19, 2010
- Task scope: The teams were tasked with creating an office workspace.
- Fortitude project manager: Nicole
- Octane project manager: Gene
- Judges: Donald Trump; Ivanka Trump; Donald Trump, Jr.
- Winning team: Octane
- Reasons for win: Mr. Trump expressed point blank to the teams that he didn't like either team's designs, however, he preferred modern SOHO design by Octane, resulting in Octane's victory.
- Reward: Gene is rewarded by having the opportunity to sit down with Donald Trump
- Losing team: Fortitude
- Sent to boardroom: Nicole, Tyana, Mahsa
- Fired: Nicole, for unanimously being blamed as a bad leader by her teammates, lack of overall quality leadership, losing respect of the entire team, giving the team no direction, relying on the team too much for decisions, and not effectively defending herself in the boardroom from Tyana and Mahsa.
Episode 2: Frozen Assets
- Airdate: September 23, 2010
- Task scope: The teams had to sell ice cream on the streets of New York.
- Fortitude project manager: Poppy
- Octane project manager: David
- Judges: Donald Trump; George H. Ross; Donald Trump, Jr.
- Tension: Constant bickering between Stephanie, Poppy, Brandy, and Liza flared.
- Winning team: Fortitude
- Reasons for win: They earned $1800 in profit.
- Reward: Poppy is rewarded by having the opportunity to sit down with Jack Welch, former CEO Of General Electric and two year scholarship to the Jack Welch Management Institute
- Fortitude: Their celebration was short-lived between Liza, Poppy, Stephanie, and Brandy.
- Losing team: Octane
- Reasons for loss: Lost by $300 with total profit of $1500.
- Sent to boardroom: David, Alex, James
- Fired: Alex, for lack of sales ability, not defending himself, and for not being a good overall contributor to the team, as well as not having enough "passion".
- Note: Trump simply pointed to Liza and said "You're fired!" But he admitted that he was just kidding and then announced that the women won.
Episode 3: Working Like A Dog
- Airdate: September 30, 2010
- Task scope: To organize and manage a doggy day care.
- Fortitude project manager: Tyana
- Octane project manager: James
- Judges: Donald Trump; Ivanka Trump; Donald Trump, Jr.
- Tension: At Octane, PM James prevented David from asking questions in the meeting with the owner of the doggy day care, which infuriated David. At Fortitude, PM Tyana did not want Mahsa working at reception, which infuriated Mahsa.
- Winning team: Fortitude
- Reasons for win: The women's team was run smooth and nicely done. Both the owner of the day care and Mr. Milan loved what the women did.
- Reward: A sit down with Russell Simmons, co-founder of Def Jam Recordings and founder of Phat Farm, and $10,000 Calvin Klein gift card
- Losing team: Octane
- Reasons for loss: The men's team was short one candidate when James decided to "bench" David, and the owner wasn't impressed and hated the job that the team did.
- Sent to boardroom: Wade, David, James
- Fired: James, for not being respected by his team players, inability to control his team, and for benching David.
Episode 4: Snack Attack
- Airdate: October 7, 2010
- Task scope: The teams are asked to develop a viral video for Popcorn Indiana.
- Fortitude project manager: Mahsa
- Octane project manager: Clint
- Judges: Donald Trump; Ivanka Trump; Donald Trump, Jr.
- Note: David did not compete in this task due to a tooth pain from a previous root canal.
- Winning team: Octane
- Reasons for win: Even though the judges criticized the violence in the viral video, they also said that the men's video was more entertaining.
- Reward: Clint got to meet with Steve Forbes of Forbes Magazine
- Losing team: Fortitude
- Reasons for loss: Even though the judges appreciated the irony in the women's video, they thought that their video was not extreme enough and felt more like a commercial.
- Sent to boardroom: Mahsa, Tyana, Liza
- Fired: Tyana – for being disloyal, unhelpful to Mahsa, lack of contribution, and for complaining about the team's concept of their viral video. Also, she didn't have an idea for the team's viral video.
Episode 5: Rock the Catwalk
- Airdate: October 14, 2010
- Task scope: The teams were asked to manage and present a fashion show presenting men's & women's shoe lines for Rockport.
- Fortitude project manager: Stephanie
- Octane project manager: Wade
- Judges: Donald Trump; Rockport executives
- Winning team: Fortitude
- Reasons for win: Despite the fact that one of their models was considered unattractive and some of their clothing choices were questionable, they were smoother and more effective in their presentation. Brandy was complemented for her excellent job as event MC. In an unusual move, Trump sent the women out of the boardroom before discussing the men's results.
- Reward: Stephanie received a personal interview with Rockport CEO Michael Rupp and participation in one of Adidas Group's advanced management training program
- Losing team: Octane
- Reasons for loss: While their models were well-dressed and attractive, Octane's presentation was extremely awful and unprofessional. The judges specifically noted that Gene was a horrible MC for the presentation. He repeatedly fumbled, stuttered, and mispronounced his words, was monotone and paused awkwardly occassionally, his presentation content was boring, and he presented from behind a computer.
- Sent to boardroom: No final boardroom – Trump decided that Wade does not deserve to select 1–3 people for the Final Boardroom because he delivered exceptionally poor results for his team.
- Fired: Wade for blatant quality of leadership, inability to control Gene, horrible choice of announcer, and for producing an awful presentation, along with Gene for being a terrible announcer and volunteering to be fired.
Episode 6: Pedicab Confessions
- Airdate: October 21, 2010
- Task scope: To run a pedicab ride in New York City.
- Fortitude project manager: Kelly
- Octane project manager: Anand
- Judges: Donald Trump; Ivanka Trump; Eric Trump
- Winning team: Octane
- Reasons for win: Although team member David was a burden to the team, Octane had a creative "Roman Chariot" theme and selected Trump Tower as their location, which provided a lot of tourists. They earned $950.
- Reward: Anand gets to sit down with the CEO of Fandango and DailyCandy.
- Losing team: Fortitude
- Reasons for loss: Although the team tried to make money from the wealthy business workers, their terrible location (Wall Street) and their lack of sales led to their loss. They lost by $630 into a total profit of $320.
- Sent to boardroom: Kelly, Liza, and Stephanie
- Fired: Kelly for failing the test, unable to control or take responsibility for the location, and for her poor leadership qualities in this task.
Episode 7: Broadway Boardroom
- Airdate: October 28, 2010
- Prologue: After the elimination of Kelly, Mahsa disclosed the numbers from the last task to Team Octane. Brandy thought it was being disloyal and started to swear at her.
- Task scope: To prepare a backer's audition for a Broadway play or musical.
- Fortitude project manager: Liza
- Octane project manager: Steuart
- Judges: John Yonover, Daryl Roth, and Broadway, film and TV star Kristin Chenoweth
- Winning team: Octane
- Reasons for win: Despite the fact that Steuart stumbled the ending of his presentation, the team's marketing material was clever and their musical was perfection.
- Reward: Steuart gets to sit down with Larry Glene, the CEO of Snapple.
- Losing team: Fortitude
- Reasons for loss: Despite the fact that the musical was great, and Kristin personally praised Liza, they made a fatal mistake: the contact information was not on their team's marketing material.
- Sent to boardroom: No final boardroom
- Firing points: From the sixth task, after the sales were done, Clint approached Mahsa and asked how much the women’s team had sold on that day, Mahsa stated $320 and Clint stated “well over a thousand”. Clint and his team marched back into the boardroom for the second time in Apprentice history. The men’s team backed up Clint’s story. Donald Trump thought it was disloyal to the team, and fired Mahsa. She denied it was disloyal. This firing had nothing to do with the task at hand.
- Fired: Mahsa, for being "disloyal" to her team.
Episode 8: Dressed To Kill
- Airdate: November 4, 2010
- Task scope: Create a four page advertorial for the Donald J. Trump fashion line at Macy's.
- New Fortitude Team: Anand, David, Poppy, and Stephanie
- New Octane Team: Brandy, Clint, Liza, and Steuart
- Fortitude project manager: David
- Octane project manager: Brandy
- Judges: Donald Trump; Donald Trump, Jr.; Eric Trump
- Winning team: Octane
- Reasons for win: The Macy's executives liked Octane's risky approach. The colors and model pictures were impressive. They liked the use of Steuart and Brandy in the advertorial, and felt that the actual presentation was fantastic.
- Reward: A sitdown with the chairman of Macy's, and Brandy's ad will be used as part of a marketing campaign for the Donald J. Trump Signature Collection at Macy's.
- Losing team: Fortitude
- Reasons for loss: Fortitude's model photos were chosen poorly. Also, one model's shirt was two to three sizes too big and the photos on the back page, designed by Poppy, were too small to show the product placement.
- Sent to boardroom: David, Poppy, and Stephanie
- Fired: David, for being a dictator instead of a leader, inability to manage Poppy or Anand, uninteresting graphics in the team's advertorial, and having a terrible record as PM of 0-2. His poor judgments as project manager ultimately led to his firing.
Episode 9: Fragrant Disregard
- Airdate: November 11, 2010
- Prologue: Anand is fired at the beginning of this episode for sending text messages during the Pedicab task, saying "Come to Trump Tower with at least $50 cash. Pretend like you don't know me. Need you to buy a pedicab ride from me or one of my teammates. I'm project manager; I'm getting close to the top." As a result, nobody came because they didn't respect him. This, along with the fact that he deliberately lied to Trump and claimed that he didn't do it, resulted in him being fired instantly. This is the first time in Apprentice history that somebody has cheated like this, and thus was fired prior to the week's task.
- Task Scope: Create an in-store display to promote Kim Kardashian's new perfume.
- New changes: Trump moved Liza to Fortitude to give each team an even 3 players so that Octane would not have 2:1 advantage.
- Fortitude project manager: Poppy
- Octane project manager: Clint
- Judges: Donald Trump; Kim Kardashian; Ivanka Trump
- Winning team: Octane
- Reasons for win: Kim liked the clean look of the display, and how the soft pink background made the bottles "pop"
- Reward: A meeting with Barry Sternlicht, the founder of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide. At this meeting, Clint received a $5,000 Gift Card to Pier 1 Imports from Mr. Trump.
- Losing team: Fortitude
- Reasons for loss: Trump, Kardashian, and the executives all felt that Fortitude's display felt tacky, cheap, and juvenile, with the sequins and feathered boas and thought that it did not accurately portray Kardashian's "glamorous" approach to her perfume. They went so far as to say that the contest wasn't even close.
- Sent to boardroom: No final boardroom
- Fired: Poppy was fired due to her involvement with the tacky and juvenile display and also with not accepting that the Kardashian portrait, which the executives did enjoy, was her idea, though it was actually Stephanie's idea. She also got fired because she didn't take ownership of the idea and didn't defend herself.
Episode 10: Must-See Mobile TV
- Airdate: November 18, 2010
- Task scope: Create and produce a 30-second commercial for AT&T mobile TV and FLOTV.
- Fortitude project manager: Stephanie
- Octane project manager: Steuart
- Judges: Donald Trump; Ivanka Trump; Donald Trump, Jr.
- Winning team: Octane
- Reasons for win: Despite Brandy's bad presentation and inconsistency of branding, the commercial was spot on with multiple accurate demographics and also that it branded the names quickly. Brownie points for showing an actual AT&T location.
- Reward: A meeting with Cathie Black, Chairman of Hearst Magazines and New York’s recently appointed School’s Chancellor.
- Losing team: Fortitude
- Reasons for loss: Despite the fact that Stephanie had a stellar presentation, the executives did not like the fact that the commercial featured people in a business meeting watching television on their phones. Trump also added that it took too long for the viewer to know the brand they were promoting.
- Sent to boardroom: No final boardroom
- Fired: Stephanie, for having no ability to control Liza, bad overall commercial, and for producing a concept that is pathetic and embarrassing in time management in this task. She was mainly fired for the "boardroom...watching TV" scenario, though.
Episode 11: Driving Miz-rahi
- Airdate: November 25, 2010
- Task scope: Write, direct, produce and star in a live sales segment on QVC.
- New changes: Trump moves Brandy to Fortitude.
- Fortitude project manager: Liza
- Octane project manager: Clint
- Judges: Donald Trump; headhunters Catherine Roman and Juan Betancourt
- Winning team: Fortitude
- Reasons for win: The profit from sales was over $800 more than Octane's.
- Losing team: Octane
- Reasons for loss: While their on-air segment was great and their strategies got them both of their desired points, both Mizrahi and Trump agreed that the price was too high. They lost by approximately 10 sales to the women.
- Fired: Steuart, due to credentials and experience. Both of Clint's and Steuart's credentials appealed to Trump, as did Steuart's metropolitan style. However, Trump determined Clint's credentials along with his life experience made him a better candidate to be The Apprentice than Steuart.
Episode 12: Tee'd Off
- Airdate: December 2, 2010
- Prologue: With the final three remaining, the contestants face Donald Trump and plead their cases. One of them will be fired.
- The Finalists: Brandy, Clint, Liza
- Fired: Liza.
- Reasons for Firing: According to Trump, Liza was the weakest of the three in contention. She also has to get along better with people.
- Brandy's Task: Organize a VIP Golf Tournament featuring Kathy Griffin
- Brandy's Team: Anand, Stephanie and Liza
- Clint's Task: Organize a Liza Minnelli concert and Tournament Dinner
- Clint's Team: Steuart, Mahsa and Poppy
- Judges: Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr, Ivanka Trump
Episode 13: Season Finale
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