The Apprentice (American TV series) season 9
Template:Infobox Television The Apprentice The Celebrity Apprentice 3 (also known as The Apprentice 9) is the ninth installment of the United States version of the reality television series, The Apprentice. On April 29, 2009, NBC officially announced the renewal of The Celebrity Apprentice for Spring 2010.[1] The show premiered on Sunday, March 14, 2010.[2] The two-hour season finale will be on Sunday, May 23, 2010, from 9-11 p.m., ET/PT.[3]
Candidates
The candidates for this season have been officially announced.[4]
| Candidate | Background | Original Team | Age | Hometown | Charity | Result | Raised |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Curtis Stone | Celebrity Chef | Rocksolid | 34 | Melbourne, Australia | Feeding America[5] | $40,000 | |
| Bret Michaels | Rockstar, "Poison" | Rocksolid | 47 | Butler, Pennsylvania | American Diabetes Association (Sponsor of Camps for Kids With Diabetes)[6] |
$100,000 | |
| Sharon Osbourne | Music Manager/TV Star | Tenacity | 57 | London, England | Cedars-Sinai in support of Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program[7] |
$170,000 | |
| Cyndi Lauper | Grammy Winning Singer | Tenacity | 56 | Queens, New York | Stonewall Community Foundation for True Colors[8] | $20,000 | |
| Summer Sanders | Olympic Gold Medal Swimmer | Tenacity | 37 | Roseville, California | Right to Play[9] | $20,000 | |
| Holly Robinson Peete | Actress | Tenacity | 45 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | HollyRod Foundation[10] | $347,893 | |
| Maria Kanellis | Former WWE Diva | Tenacity | 28 | Ottawa, Illinois | Make a Wish Foundation[11][12] | $20,000 | |
| Bill Goldberg | Actor/Wrestler | Rocksolid | 42 | Bonsall, California | Specchio Family Foundation in support of "Sons of the Fallen."[13] | Fired in week 6 (04-18-2010) |
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| Selita Ebanks | Victoria's Secret Angel | Tenacity | 27 | George Town, Grand Cayman | Shine on Sierra Leone[14] | Fired in week 5 (04-11-2010) |
$20,000 |
| Michael Johnson | Olympic Gold Medal Sprinter | Rocksolid | 42 | Dallas, Texas | Laureus Sport for Good Foundation[15] | Quit in week 5 (04-11-2010) |
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| Rod Blagojevich | Former Illinois Governor |
Rocksolid | 53 | Chicago, Illinois | Children's Cancer Center[16] | Fired in week 4 (04-04-2010) |
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| Darryl Strawberry | Baseball Star | Rocksolid | 48 | Los Angeles, California | The Darryl Strawberry Foundation[17] | Fired in week 3 (03-28-2010) |
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| Sinbad | Stand-up Comedian | Rocksolid | 53 | Benton Harbor, Michigan | Omega Boys Club / Street Soldiers[18] | Fired in week 2 (03-21-2010) |
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| Carol Leifer | Writer/Comedian | Tenacity | 53 | East Williston, New York | North Shore Animal League America[19] | Fired in week 1 (03-14-2010) |
$10,000 |
Weekly Results
| Candidate | Original team | Task 7 team | Application Result | Record as project manager |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bret Michaels | Rocksolid | Rocksolid | 1-0 (win in week 1) | |
| Curtis Stone | Rocksolid | Tenacity | 1-0 (win in week 5) | |
| Cyndi Lauper | Tenacity | Tenacity | 1-1 (loss in week 1, win in week 6) | |
| Holly Robinson Peete | Tenacity | Tenacity | 1-1 (loss in week 5, win in week 7) | |
| Maria Kanellis | Tenacity | Rocksolid | 1-0 (win in week 2) | |
| Sharon Osbourne | Tenacity | Rocksolid | 0-1 (loss in week 7) | |
| Summer Sanders | Tenacity | Tenacity | 1-0 (win in week 3) | |
| Bill Goldberg | Rocksolid | Fired in week 6 | 0-1 (loss in week 6) | |
| Selita Ebanks | Tenacity | Fired in week 5 | 1-0 (win in week 4) | |
| Michael Johnson | Rocksolid | Quit in week 5 | 0-1 (loss in week 3) | |
| Rod Blagojevich | Rocksolid | Fired in week 4 | 0-1 (loss in week 4) | |
| Darryl Strawberry | Rocksolid | Fired in week 3 | ||
| Sinbad | Rocksolid | Fired in week 2 | 0-1 (loss in week 2) | |
| Carol Leifer | Tenacity | Fired in week 1 |
| Elimination Chart | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||
| Bret | WIN | BR | IN | IN | IN | BR | IN | ||||||
| Curtis | IN | IN | IN | BR | WIN | BR | IN | ||||||
| Cyndi | LOSE | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | ||||||
| Holly | IN | IN | IN | IN | LOSE | IN | WIN | ||||||
| Maria | IN | WIN | IN | IN | BR | IN | IN | ||||||
| Sharon | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | LOSE | ||||||
| Summer | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | IN | IN | ||||||
| Bill | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | FIRED | |||||||
| Selita | IN | IN | IN | WIN | FIRED | ||||||||
| Michael | IN | IN | LOSE | BR | QUIT | ||||||||
| Rod | IN | BR | IN | FIRED | |||||||||
| Darryl | IN | IN | FIRED | ||||||||||
| Sinbad | IN | FIRED | |||||||||||
| Carol | FIRED | ||||||||||||
- The contestant won the competition and was named the Celebrity Apprentice.
- The contestant won as project manager on his/her team.
- The contestant lost as project manager on his/her team.
- The contestant was brought to the final boardroom.
- The contestant was fired.
- The contestant lost as project manager and was fired.
- The contestant was absent during the week due to previous engagements.
- The contestant quit the show.
Episodes
Episode 1
- Task 1
- Airdate: March 14, 2010
- Task scope: Running a New York diner. The team with the most profit wins.
- Tenacity project manager: Cyndi Lauper
- Rocksolid project manager: Bret Michaels
- Judges: Donald Trump; Ivanka Trump; Donald Trump, Jr.
- Winning team: Rocksolid
- Reasons for win: Although they didn't get $10,000 from Joan Rivers, they earned a total profit of $57,905.
- Losing team: Tenacity
- Reasons for loss: Even though they got $10,000 from Joan Rivers, they got a big line out in the door. They got $29,559; plus $10,000 into $39,559. Ivanka determined that their price points were too low.
- Final boardroom: None, as Cyndi couldn't narrow it down to just two people.
- Fired: Carol Leifer, by process of elimination. Carol's name came up the most when Trump asked the teammates who should be fired. On her way out, Leifer asked Trump for a donation to her charity, and Trump agreed to a $10,000 donation out of his own pocket.
Episode 2
- Task 2
- Airdate: March 21, 2010
- Task scope: Run a Kodak Storefront
- Tenacity project manager: Maria Kanellis
- Rocksolid project manager: Sinbad
- Judges: Donald Trump; Ivanka Trump; Donald Trump, Jr.
- Winning team: Tenacity
- Reasons for win: They seemed to promote the product more than the men which is what the Kodak presidents were looking for despite numerous power outages that threatened them during the walkthrough
- Losing team: Rocksolid
- Reasons for loss: While the men were praised for using their celebrity power (such as Darryl posing in a New York Mets jersey) with certain people the men missed the bill on getting the product out to the customers and also lost because of a card that had a website to find the pictures that were taken at the store: the website was nowhere to be found on the card, according to 2 secret shoppers that shopped at the men's storefront
- Final boardroom: Sinbad, Bret Michaels, Rod Blagojevich
- Fired: Sinbad for not leading well as the team leader and for not being able to manage Bret, who disappeared for the first part of the task. Sinbad was criticized for the website card as well and also was fired for bringing Rod Blagojevich in when he was not responsible for the loss.
- Kodak Moment - America's Choice: Rod Mistaken For Donny Osmond
- Kodak Moment - Trump's Choice: Rod Mistaken For Donny Osmond
Episode 3
- Airdate: March 28, 2010
- Task scope: Create a four page advertorial for Lifelock + Norton 360
- Tenacity project manager: Summer Sanders
- Rocksolid project manager: Michael Johnson
- Judges: Donald Trump; Donald Trump, Jr.; Gavin Maloof
- Winning team: Tenacity
- Reasons for win: Better use of graphics, more attention-catching, more emotional connectivity in the ad content
- Losing team: Rocksolid
- Reasons for loss: Men's advertorial was too verbose to be effective.
- Final boardroom: There was no final boardroom due to Darryl Strawberry asking to be fired.
- Fired: Darryl Strawberry. He functionally quit by asking to be fired. Donald Trump strongly hinted that the project manager (Michael Johnson) would have been fired if Darryl had not quit.
- Kodak Moment - America's Choice: Rod's Computer Incompetence
- Kodak Moment - Trump's Choice: Michael's Photo Shoot
- Notes:
- Not only did Summer win $20,000 for her charity but Life Lock and Norton would donate $10 for every sale
Episode 4
- Airdate: April 4, 2010
- Task scope: To create a 3D experience for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
- Tenacity project manager: Selita Ebanks
- Rocksolid project manager: Rod Blagojevich
- Judges: Donald Trump; George H. Ross; Erin Burnett
- Winning team: Tenacity
- Reasons for win: The team was more focused on the theme park image and the team was better appealed by the demographic kids.
- Losing team: Rocksolid
- Reasons for loss: The team agreed Rod was a poor project manager who lacked communication & technology skills. They mispronounce some roles like "classes" instead of "houses."
- Final boardroom: Curtis Stone, Michael Johnson, Rod Blagojevich
- Fired: Rod Blagojevich - poor leadership skills and not delegating the team correctly.
- Kodak Moment - America's Choice: Rod's Sleepy Journey
- Kodak Moment - Trump's Choice: Cyndi's Wacky Wizard
Episode 5
- Airdate: April 11, 2010
- Task scope: To write, produce, and direct a 30-second and 10-second commercial, starring two ex NBA stars, Clyde Drexler and Scottie Pippen, for Right Guard.
- Tenacity project manager: Holly Robinson Peete
- Rocksolid project manager: Curtis Stone
- Judges: Donald Trump; George H. Ross; Ivanka Trump
- Winning team: Rocksolid
- Reasons for win: Trump & The Right Guard Executives said that their commercial was perfect, and it was funny.
- Losing team: Tenacity
- Reasons for loss: The Executives loved the jingle, but in the end, the commercial's focus wasn't on the right demographic.
- Final boardroom: Holly Robinson Peete, Maria Kanellis, Selita Ebanks
- Fired: Selita Ebanks, because she wasn't as aggressive as the other contestants.
- Quit: Michael Johnson, he had unknown issues to take care of. He did not disclose the issues, but admitted he hated to quit.
- Kodak Moment - America's Choice: Donald Shoots and Scores
- Kodak Moment - Trump's Choice: Donald Shoots and Scores
Episode 6
- Airdate: April 18, 2010
- Task scope: To make over an aspiring country musician (Tenacity - Emily West; Rocksolid - Luke Bryan).
- Tenacity project manager: Cyndi Lauper
- Rocksolid project manager: Bill Goldberg
- Judges: Donald Trump; Trace Adkins; Donald Trump, Jr.
- Winning team: Tenacity
- Reasons for win: Emily West had a much more genuine makeover, and her performance was more inspiring.
- Losing team: Rocksolid
- Reasons for loss: Luke Bryan didn't look the best while performing, there were things that could have been changed, and his attitude was poorly maintained.
- Final boardroom: Bill Goldberg, Bret Michaels, Curtis Stone
- Fired: Bill Goldberg, for stepping up as project manager during a task that was better suited for Bret Michaels.
- Kodak Moment - America's Choice: Emily Idolizes Cyndi
- Kodak Moment - Trump's choice: Bret and Trace Bond
- Notes:
- As for being the winning project manager Cyndi would also get proceeds from Emily West's & Luke Bryan's single on Itunes
Episode 7
- Airdate: April 25, 2010
- Task scope: To create a class for 24 Hour Fitness.
- New Rocksolid Team: Bret Michaels, Sharon Osbourne, and Maria Kanellis
- New Tenacity Team: Curtis Stone, Holly Robinson Peete, Cyndi Lauper, and Summer Sanders
- Judges: Donald Trump; Ivanka Trump; Donald Trump, Jr.
- Tenacity project manager: Holly Robinson Peete
- Rocksolid project manager: Sharon Osbourne
- Fired: No one — since everyone did an outstanding job in their fundraising efforts, Trump decided to keep the teams intact for another task.
- Kodak Moment - America's Choice: Barron Trump Tees Off
- Kodak Moment - Trump's Choice: Barron Trump Tees Off
- Notes:
- At the end of the episode, NBC wished a speedy recovery to Bret Michaels, who was recently hospitalized.
- The total raised was $337,893, a Celebrity Apprentice record for an episode other than the finale.
- For the second time in Apprentice history, nobody was fired.
US Ratings
| Episode | Rating | Share | Rating/share (18-49) |
Viewers (millions) |
Rank (Timeslot) |
Rank (Night) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5.1[20] | 8[20] | 3.2/8[20] | 8.27[20] | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | 4.2 | 7 | 2.6/7 | 6.86 | ||
| 3 | 4.6 | 7 | 2.8/7 | 7.35 | ||
| 4 | 2.8/8 | 7.13 |
References
- ^ "NBC PICKS UP HIT SERIES 'THE CELEBRITY APPRENTICE' FOR SPRING 2010". NBC Universal Media Village. Retrieved 2008-12-03.
- ^ "The Celebrity Apprentice Two-Hour Premiere! Sunday March 14th, 9/8c". NBC.com. Retrieved 2009-12-10.
- ^ "NBC ANNOUNCES SEASON FINALE DATES". NBC Universal Media Village. Retrieved 2010-02-08.
- ^ Tuned In Blago Moves to the Private Sector, on Celebrity Apprentice. Retrieved 2010-01-04
- ^ Curtis Stone's charity
- ^ Bret Michaels's charity
- ^ Sharon Osbourne's charity
- ^ Cyndi Lauper's charity
- ^ Summer Sanders's charity
- ^ Holly Robinson Peete's charity
- ^ http://fans.wwe.com/maria/blog/2010/01/28/sevin_sins
- ^ Maria Kanellis's charity
- ^ Bill Goldberg's charity
- ^ Selita Ebanks's charity
- ^ Michael Johnson's charity
- ^ Rod Blagojevich's charity
- ^ Darryl Strawberry's charity
- ^ Sinbad's charity
- ^ Carol Leifer's charity