The Celebrity Apprentice Australia | |
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Season 4 | |
Starring |
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No. of contestants | 12 |
Winner | Sophie Monk |
No. of episodes | 10 |
Release | |
Original network | Nine Network |
Original release | 16 September – 18 November 2015 |
Season chronology |
The fourth season of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia premiered on the Nine Network on Wednesday 16 September 2015. Mark Bouris returned as CEO, while Kerri-Anne Kennerley and Shelley Barrett became the new boardroom advisors. [1] On 21 July 2015, the cast was officially announced. [2]
On 18 November, Sophie Monk was declared the winner of the season with the money going to her charity of choice, Make A Wish Foundation. [3]
Candidate | Background | Original team | Age | Charity | Result | Raised |
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Sophie Monk | Model and Actress | Fearless | 35 | Make-A-Wish Foundation | The Celebrity Apprentice (18-11-2015) | $263,412 |
Tim Dormer | Big Brother Winner | Dream Team | 31 | Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors | Fired in Finale (18-11-2015) | $28,152 |
Matt Cooper | NRL Legend | Dream Team | 36 | Sydney Children's Hospital Randwick | Fired in Task 9 (11-11-2015) | $20,000 |
Richard Reid | Hollywood Gossip Guru | Dream Team | 47 | Foodbank Australia | Fired in Task 9 (11-11-2015) | $15,000 |
Mel Greig | Ex Radio DJ | Fearless | 33[ citation needed ] | Endometriosis Australia | Fired in Task 8 (04-11-2015) | $10,000 |
Tegan Martin | Miss Universe Australia | Fearless | 22 | Sydney Children’s Hospital Westmead (Metabolic Clinic) | Fired in Task 7 (28-10-2015) | $130,782 |
Gabi Grecko | Tabloid Sensation | Fearless | 26 | The Gay and Lesbian Foundation of Australia | Fired in Tasks 1 & 6 (21-10-2015) | |
James Mathison | TV Host | Dream Team | 37 | Barnardos Australia | Fired in Task 5 (14-10-2015) | $25,000 |
Esther Anderson | Gold Logie Nominee | Fearless | 36 | Pink Hope | Fired in Task 4 (07-10-2015) | |
Gina Liano | Real Housewife | Fearless | 48 | Cancer Council Victoria | Quit in Task 4 (07-10-2015) | |
Geoffrey Edelsten | Celebrity Tycoon | Dream Team | 72 | Fight Cancer Foundation | Fired in Task 3 (30-09-2015) | $17,799 |
Blake Garvey | The Bachelor | Dream Team | 32[ citation needed ] | ReachOut Australia | Fired in Task 2 (23-09-2015) |
Candidate | Original team | Task 5 team | Task 6 team | Task 7 team | Task 8 team | Final task team | Application result | Record as project manager |
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Sophie Monk | Fearless | Dream Team | Fearless | Fearless | Dream Team | Fearless | The Celebrity Apprentice | 2-0 (win in tasks 2 & 8) |
Tim Dormer | Dream Team | Fearless | Dream Team | Dream Team | Dream Team | Dream Team | Fired in final task | 1-0 (win in task 6) |
Matt Cooper | Dream Team | Dream Team | Dream Team | Dream Team | Fearless | Fired in task 9 | 0-2 (loss in tasks 3 & 7) | |
Richard Reid | Dream Team | Dream Team | Dream Team | Fearless | Fearless | Fired in task 9 | 1-1 (win in task 7, loss in task 5) | |
Mel Greig | Fearless | Fearless | Fearless | Fearless | Fearless | Fired in task 8 | 1-1 (win in task 5, loss in task 8) | |
Tegan Martin | Fearless | Fearless | Fearless | Dream Team | Fired in task 7 | 1-0 (win in task 3) | ||
Gabi Grecko | Fearless | Fearless | Fearless | Fired in tasks 1 & 6 | 0-1 (loss in task 6) | |||
James Mathison | Dream Team | Dream Team | Fired in task 5 | 1-0 (win in task 4) | ||||
Esther Anderson | Fearless | Fired in task 4 | 0-1 (loss in task 4) | |||||
Gina Liano | Fearless | Quit in task 4 | 0-1 (loss in task 1) | |||||
Geoffrey Edelsten | Dream Team | Fired in task 3 | 1-0 (win in task 1) | |||||
Blake Garvey | Dream Team | Fired in task 2 | 0-1 (loss in task 2) |
No. | Candidate | Elimination Chart | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||
1 | Sophie | IN | WIN | IN | BR | BR | BR | IN | WIN | IN | CA |
2 | Tim | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | BR | IN | IN | FIRED |
3 | Matt | IN | IN | LOSE | IN | IN | IN | LOSE | BR | FIRED | |
4 | Richard | IN | BR | IN | IN | LOSE | IN | WIN | BR | FIRED | |
5 | Mel | BR | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | FIRED | ||
6 | Tegan | IN | IN | WIN | BR | IN | BR | FIRED | |||
7 | Gabi | FIRED | IN | IN | FIRED | ||||||
8 | James | IN | IN | BR | WIN | FIRED | |||||
9 | Esther | IN | IN | IN | FIRED | ||||||
10 | Gina | LOSE | IN | IN | QUIT | ||||||
11 | Geoffrey | WIN | BR | FIRED | |||||||
12 | Blake | IN | FIRED |
Airdate: 16 September 2015
Team Fearless Project Manager | The Dream Team Project Manager |
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Gina Liano | Geoffrey Edelsten |
Task | |
Sales Challenge - To sell a large container full of different products including gnomes, toilet papers and even Eels. | |
Winning Team | Losing Team |
The Dream Team | Team Fearless |
Reasons for victory | Reasons for loss |
Some of the members didn't keep promises which cost them money, however the team raised the most money | The team was split in two and did raise a good amount of money, but one team was going a far way to make their money and were not good at communication |
Sent to Final Boardroom | |
Gina Liano, Gabi Grecko & Mel Greig | |
Fired | |
Gabi Grecko - for not being a team player and was the weakest link to the group | |
Notes | |
• At the beginning, Mr Bouris took each celebrities phones off them so they couldn't use their own contacts, he assigned them new phones | |
Airdate: 23 September 2015
Team Fearless Project Manager | The Dream Team Project Manager |
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Sophie Monk | Blake Garvey |
Task | |
Tour Operators - each team must sell 30 tickets for cruise ship, they must deliver customer service and raise the most tips from the customers | |
Winning Team | Losing Team |
Team Fearless | The Dream Team |
Reasons for victory | Reasons for loss |
Raised the most money thanks to Gina's high-dollar ticket sales and the team's first class experience for guests | Geoffrey did not secure high-dollar value donations and the team did not create a first class experience |
Sent to Final Boardroom | |
Blake Garvey, Geoffrey Edelsten & Richard Reid | |
Fired | |
Blake Garvey - for not raising enough money and for being a poor project manager | |
Airdate: 30 September 2015
Team Fearless Project Manager | The Dream Team Project Manager |
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Tegan Martin | Matt Cooper |
Task | |
Fitness Program - Make a fitness DVD and sell the DVD for the most money possible | |
Winning Team | Losing Team |
Team Fearless | The Dream Team |
Reasons for victory | Reasons for loss |
Raised the most money because of both Tegan's contacts and the sales of DVDs to the people who attended their fitness program | Some of Geoffrey's contacts pulled out last minute, with him also not calling enough people and their awareness for the program was not good enough to get more people to come to their fitness class |
Sent to Final Boardroom | |
Matt Cooper, Geoffrey Edelsten & James Mathison | |
Fired | |
Geoffrey Edelsten - for not living up to his potential and not using his contacts to bring in more money | |
Notes | |
• Tegan Martin initially won $150,782 for her charity, but asked for $20,000 to go to Matt Cooper's charity. | |
Airdate: 7 October 2015
Team Fearless Project Manager | The Dream Team Project Manager |
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Esther Anderson | James Mathison |
Task | |
Financial Product - teams must sign up people to Mr Bouris's financial product, Guru. The winning project manager will receive $25,000 from Mr Bouris's | |
Winning Team | Losing Team |
The Dream Team | Team Fearless |
Reasons for victory | Reasons for loss |
The team was well informed about the product and were able to communicate it better to members of the public, getting more people wanting appointments. | Even though they had more people sign-up for interviews, fewer people overall translated into wanting appointments, as members of the team were not properly informed about the product, inhibiting their abilities to reign in appointments. |
Sent to Final Boardroom | |
Esther Anderson, Tegan Martin, Sophie Monk | |
Fired | |
Esther Anderson - for being unable to communicate and inform her team properly of the product information she had learned earlier in the day | |
Notes | |
• Gina Liano was hospitalised during this challenge and did not participate, revealing at the end of the episode in a video that she was leaving the competition because she felt she was unable to participate in the next challenge also. • Gabi Grecko was re-instated into the competition to replace Gina Liano. • The initial prize money for winning was $20,000 for the winning project manager's charity, however Mr Bouris was impressed with The Dream Team's performance and increased the total by $5,000. | |
Airdate: 14 October 2015
Team Fearless Project Manager | The Dream Team Project Manager |
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Mel Greig | Richard Reid |
Team Reshuffle | |
Tim Dormer was swapped to Team Fearless & Sophie Monk was swapped to The Dream Team | |
Task | |
Live Home Shopping - Teams must fill 25 minutes of selling products on a home shopping channel and make the most sales possible | |
Winning Team | Losing Team |
Team Fearless | The Dream Team |
Reasons for victory | Reasons for loss |
The team had great sense of direction, each segment was successful and they did a great job at selling their products | Despite Richard's great presentation he didn't make solid decisions, instead wanted the group consensus. Sophie choose a poor product to discuss and James had poor communication as the producer. |
Sent to Final Boardroom | |
Richard Reid, James Mathison, Sophie Monk | |
Fired | |
James Mathison - for not being able to communicate well to the presenters and not fulfilling his responsibilities as a producer | |
Airdate: 21 October 2015
Team Fearless Project Manager | The Dream Team Project Manager |
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Gabi Grecko | Tim Dormer |
Team Reshuffle | |
Tim Dormer and Sophie Monk were swapped back to their original teams | |
Task | |
Catering - Each team have to run a food stall at a Roosters home game, they must serve the people and try and sell tickets to the Corporate Box | |
Winning Team | Losing Team |
The Dream Team | Team Fearless |
Reasons for victory | Reasons for loss |
They sold all their corporate box tickets to one company, with the corporate box having a great atmosphere and worked together in the kitchen, constantly keeping it clean and keeping things in order | They didn't sell all their corporate box tickets and the atmosphere of their corporate box was uneasy. The team didn't work together in their kitchen, they were unclean and were not consistent. Gabi was also an ineffective project manager, not making too many decisions. |
Sent to Final Boardroom | |
Gabi Grecko, Tegan Martin & Sophie Monk | |
Fired | |
Gabi Grecko - for being unable to lead her team and being a poor project manager | |
Notes | |
• Mel Greig had a family emergency and could not attend this challenge, which equaled out the teams | |
Airdate: 28 October 2015
Team Fearless Project Manager | The Dream Team Project Manager |
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Richard Reid | Matt Cooper |
Team Reshuffle | |
Richard Reid was swapped to Team Fearless & Tegan Martin was swapped to The Dream Team | |
Task | |
Scavenger Hunt - each team must buy 10 items that represent Australia's biggest hopes and dreams. The team who spends the least money, after running around the city on a supersized scavenger hunt, will win. | |
Winning Team | Losing Team |
Team Fearless | The Dream Team |
Reasons for victory | Reasons for loss |
The team had good time management, were good negotiators and even though they missed three items, the items they did get were good quality | Even though the team got eight items compared to Fearless' seven, four of them were not in good condition and not to the right specifications. The team's time management also lacked. |
Sent to Final Boardroom | |
Matt Cooper, Tim Dormer & Tegan Martin | |
Fired | |
Tegan Martin - for not paying enough attention to the details of the items that she was getting, with three of four items that the team were penalized for being her responsibility | |
Airdate: 4 November 2015
Team Fearless Project Manager | The Dream Team Project Manager |
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Mel Greig | Sophie Monk |
Team Reshuffle | |
Matt Cooper was swapped to Team Fearless & Sophie Monk was swapped to The Dream Team | |
Task | |
Beauty Expo - each team will launch their own beauty service at a busy expo and try to make the most money for charity. | |
Winning Team | Losing Team |
The Dream Team | Team Fearless |
Reasons for victory | Reasons for loss |
Sent to Final Boardroom | |
Mel Greig, Matt Cooper & Richard Reid | |
Fired | |
Mel Greig - for assuming her teammates would pick up her slack when it came to donations, and for not learning anything in this challenge | |
Airdate: 11 November 2015
Team Fearless Project Manager | The Dream Team Project Manager |
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No Project Managers | |
Task | |
Creative Challenge - The teams need to find clues and get given tasks (sell fish, sell a wedding dress & make an advert for Couriers Please) at three Couriers Please locker stations around the city | |
Winning Team | Losing Team |
The Dream Team | Team Fearless |
Reasons for victory | Reasons for loss |
Both Tim & Sophie were the strongest links and were most creative in the challenge | Richard struggled to take control in this task and floundered under pressure and Matt was the weakest link creatively |
Sent to Final Boardroom | |
All | |
Fired | |
Richard Reid - for letting the pressure of the tasks get to him Matt Cooper - for being the least creative person left in the competition | |
Airdate : 18 November 2015
Team Fearless Final Celebrity | The Dream Team Final Celebrity |
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Sophie Monk | Tim Dormer |
Task | |
Australia Campaign - the final 2 celebrities need to create a unique and clever campaign to brand Australia, this will include a Print & Television Advert to be presented at a Finale Gala Event | |
Fired | |
Tim Dormer | |
The Celebrity Apprentice | |
Sophie Monk | |
Episode | Original airdate | Timeslot (approx.) | Viewers (millions) | Night Rank | Source | |
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1 | "The Shipping Container" | 16 September 2015 | Wednesday 8:40 pm | 566,000 | #19 | [4] |
2 | "Tall Ship Tour" | 23 September 2015 | 555,000 | #18 | [5] | |
3 | "The Gym" | 30 September 2015 | 593,000 | #15 | [6] | |
4 | "Yellow Brick Road Guru" | 7 October 2015 | 547,000 | #18 | [7] | |
5 | "Live Home Shopping" | 14 October 2015 | 643,000 | #15 | [8] | |
6 | "Celebrity Catering" | 21 October 2015 | 561,000 | #17 | [9] | |
7 | "Buy Ten Items" | 28 October 2015 | 599,000 | #16 | [10] | |
8 | "Beauty Expo" | 4 November 2015 | 646,000 | #15 | [11] | |
9 | "Couriers Please" | 11 November 2015 | 645,000 | #15 | [12] | |
10 | "Final Task" | 18 November 2015 | 638,000 | #13 | [13] |
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