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The Apprentice | |
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Season 4 | |
No. of contestants | 18 |
Winner | Randal Pinkett |
Runner-up | Rebecca Jarvis |
No. of episodes | 13 |
Release | |
Original network | NBC |
Original release | September 22 – December 15, 2005 |
Additional information | |
Filming dates | April 2005 – May 2005 |
Season chronology |
The Apprentice 4 is the fourth season of The Apprentice , with Donald Trump as the executive producer and host. The show was aired on Thursday nights at 9 p.m. on NBC and started September 22, 2005.
This was the first season of the show not to place in the Top 20 Nielsen Ratings; it averaged #38 with 11.01 million viewers.
Starting with this season, frequent boardroom adviser George H. Ross began to lessen his involvement with the show, with The Apprentice first season winner Bill Rancic effectively sharing the role with him throughout this and the following season.
Unhappy with both the choice of candidates and the "street smarts" vs. "book smarts" premise from the preceding season, Trump went to the auditions and hand-picked 17 of the 18 candidates in season 4. In addition to candidate handpicking, Trump decided to go back to the premise of men versus women (there was eventually corporate restructuring). The all-women team named their corporation Capital Edge while the all-men team named their corporation Excel.
Recalling how some of the contestants in season 3 such as Michael Tarshi and Tana Goertz abused their exemptions from getting fired by choosing to be lazy instead of continuing to work hard on the tasks they were given, Trump made a new rule for exemptions in this season. The winning project manager, throughout the season, may be exempt from firing for the following week only if the majority of the other members in their team believed he/she did a satisfactory job. In the previous two seasons, the winning project manager would automatically be exempt from firing. The season had 3 episodes end with multiple firings, 2 of them were double firings, and one was a quadruple firing.
Team 1 | Team 2 |
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Capital Edge | Excel |
Candidate | Background | Original team | Age | Hometown | Result |
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Randal Pinkett | Consulting firm owner | Excel | 34 | Somerset, New Jersey | Hired by Trump (12-15-2005) |
Rebecca Jarvis | Financial journalist | Capital Edge | 23 | Chicago, Illinois | Fired in the season finale (12-15-2005) |
Alla Wartenberg | Salon & spa chain owner | Capital Edge | 31 | Las Vegas, Nevada | (12-1-2005) | Fired in week 11
Felisha Mason | Real estate developer | Capital Edge | 29 | Kansas City, Missouri | (12-1-2005) | Fired in week 11
Adam Israelov | Risk manager | Excel | 22 | Atlanta, Georgia | (11-24-2005) | Fired in week 10
Clay Lee | Realtor | Excel | 28 | College Station, Texas | (11-17-2005) | Fired in week 9
Marshawn Evans | Recent law school graduate | Capital Edge | 26 | Atlanta, Georgia | (11-10-2005) | Fired in week 8
Brian Mandelbaum | Print company executive | Excel | 23 | New York, New York | (11-10-2005) | Fired in week 8
Markus Garrison | Inventor | Excel | 41 | Sarasota, Florida | (11-3-2005) | Fired in week 7
James Dillon | Sales executive | Excel | 27 | Alexandria, Virginia | (10-27-2005) | Fired in week 6
Mark Lamkin | Wealth manager | Excel | 35 | Louisville, Kentucky | (10-27-2005) | Fired in week 6
Jennifer Murphy | Beauty pageant contestant | Capital Edge | 26 | Los Angeles, California | (10-27-2005) | Fired in week 6
Josh Shaw | Beauty company owner | Excel | 30 | New York, New York | (10-27-2005) | Fired in week 6
Kristi Caudell | Sales executive | Capital Edge | 24 | Gainesville, Georgia | (10-20-2005) | Fired in week 5
Toral Mehta | Investment banker | Capital Edge | 29 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | (10-13-2005) | Fired in week 4
Jennifer Wallen | Realty company owner | Capital Edge | 31 | Anthem, Arizona | (10-6-2005) | Fired in week 3
Chris Valletta | Marketing executive | Excel | 27 | Dallas, Texas | (9-29-2005) | Fired in week 2
Melissa Holovach | Real estate investor | Capital Edge | 30 | Tampa, Florida | (9-22-2005) | Fired in week 1
Candidate | Original team | Week 5 team | Week 6 team | Week 7 team | Week 9 team | Final week team | Application result | Record as project manager |
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Randal Pinkett | Excel | Capital Edge | Capital Edge | Excel | Excel | Excel | Hired by Trump | 3–0 (win in weeks 3, 7, & 10) |
Rebecca Jarvis | Capital Edge | Capital Edge | Excel | Excel | Excel | Capital Edge | Fired in the Season Finale | 1–2 (win in week 11, loss in weeks 3 & 9) |
Alla Wartenberg | Capital Edge | Capital Edge | Capital Edge | Capital Edge | Capital Edge | Fired in week 11 | 1–1 (win in week 6, loss in week 10) | |
Felisha Mason | Capital Edge | Capital Edge | Capital Edge | Capital Edge | Capital Edge | Fired in week 11 | 1–2 (win in week 9, loss in weeks 4 & 11) | |
Adam Israelov | Excel | Excel | Capital Edge | Capital Edge | Capital Edge | Fired in week 10 | 0–1 (loss in week 7) | |
Clay Lee | Excel | Excel | Capital Edge | Capital Edge | Excel | Fired in week 9 | 2–0 (win in weeks 4 & 8) | |
Marshawn Evans | Capital Edge | Capital Edge | Excel | Excel | Excel | Fired in week 8 | 1–0 (win in week 2) | |
Brian Mandelbaum | Excel | Excel | Excel | Excel | Fired in week 8 | 1–1 (win in week 5, loss in week 8) | ||
Markus Garrison | Excel | Excel | Capital Edge | Capital Edge | Fired in week 7 | 1–0 (win in week 1) | ||
James Dillon | Excel | Excel | Excel | Capital Edge | Fired in week 6 | |||
Mark Lamkin | Excel | Excel | Excel | Excel | Fired in week 6 | |||
Jennifer Murphy | Capital Edge | Capital Edge | Excel | Fired in week 6 | 0–1 (loss in week 5) | |||
Josh Shaw | Excel | Excel | Excel | Excel | Fired in week 6 | 0–1 (loss in week 6) | ||
Kristi Caudell | Capital Edge | Capital Edge | Fired in week 5 | 0–1 (loss in week 1) | ||||
Toral Mehta | Capital Edge | Capital Edge | Fired in week 4 | |||||
Jennifer Wallen | Capital Edge | Fired in week 3 | ||||||
Chris Valletta | Excel | Capital Edge | Fired in week 2 | 0–1 (loss in week 2) | ||||
Melissa Holovach | Capital Edge | Fired in week 1 |
Elimination Chart | ||||||||||||||||||
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No. | Candidate | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | |||||
1 | Randal | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | HIRED | |||||
2 | Rebecca | IN | IN | LOSE | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | LOSE | IN | WIN | FIRED | |||||
3-4 | Alla | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | IN | LOSE | FIRED | ||||||
Felisha | IN | IN | IN | LOSE | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | BR | FIRED | |||||||
5 | Adam | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | LOSE | IN | IN | FIRED | |||||||
6 | Clay | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | BR | WIN | FIRED | ||||||||
7-8 | Marshawn | IN | WIN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | FIRED | |||||||||
Brian | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | FIRED | ||||||||||
9 | Markus | WIN | BR | IN | IN | IN | IN | FIRED | ||||||||||
10-13 | James | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | FIRED | |||||||||||
Mark | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | FIRED | ||||||||||||
Jennifer M. | IN | IN | BR | IN | LOSE | FIRED | ||||||||||||
Josh | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | FIRED | ||||||||||||
14 | Kristi | LOSE | IN | IN | IN | FIRED | ||||||||||||
15 | Toral | IN | IN | IN | FIRED | |||||||||||||
16 | Jennifer W. | IN | IN | FIRED | ||||||||||||||
17 | Chris | IN | FIRED | |||||||||||||||
18 | Melissa | FIRED |
At Randal's recommendation, Trump rescinded what could have been the first multiple-hiring and a US Apprentice first. [14] Throughout the following week, many were critical of Randal's decision. In an interview with Larry King, Randal defended his decision and said he had no objection to Trump hiring Rebecca at a later date.
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