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Nice Girls finish last

Summary:

Each team was given contact details for 5 celebrities

The challenge was to meet with the celebrities, pitch them and get a celebrity experiences to auction off at the Sotheby's celebrity auction for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

For the first time, it was obvious the teams could drop the Trump name since at one point Regis actually said "Trump would have 10 ideas to fire off at me"... right before Tammy suggested that he auction off a vacation weekend with Regis - at his own cost.

Project Mgrs: Omarosa – Protégé, Bill - Versacorp,

Show a little backbone would ya?

Wow - well... I guess it's clear now. Trump is looking for people who stand up for themselves. Jessie is the second Apprentice fired for letting Omarosa patronize her and run roughshod over her while Jessie continued to say she liked Omarosa and not defending herself when attacked. And come on... it's not like he didn't give her repeated opportunities. Kristi, too.

I'm becoming more and more impressed with how Trump is treating the people in the boardroom - or at least how he's edited. I’m not saying I would make the same decisions, but he is giving the people at risk not so subtle clues to what he thinks is an appropriate response to what is going on. In fact, in most cases he has given each of the potentials a very clear idea of what he's thinking and how they should respond in the last phase of the boardroom meetings.

I’m astounded that these women aren’t asking for Troy & Kwame’s advice on what Trump is looking for in the boardroom. They’ve seen the safety line and pulled themselves out.

If Kristi & Jessie are too dim to see Trump throwing them a line - how can he rely on them to pick up subtle clues in a real business situation?

Omarosa on the other hand, seems to try and pick up on these clues –almost too late, but not quite. Omarosa’s “sharp edge”, rude, and superior nature has pissed everyone off, including Trump, George and Carolyn.

Episode 6 - Rules of the Game

Nothing really surprising in this week's dossier - only that they weren't allowed to ask for items - just experiences.

No budget, no reward... no missing money.

Celebrity appearances on Episode 6

Another "Super-sized" episode scheduled for Feb 12th.

What Charity - Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

How Long do they have? - The Apprentice teams have two days to petition 10 celebrities to donate “a special experience” and/or auction items.

How are they going to do it? - "Contestants scramble to schedule face-to-face meetings with celebrities and the team whose auction items sell for the most money is the winner. " Which implies they are given a contact list of celebs to work with.
The 10 celebrities featured in this episode are:

Preparing for a Sotheby's Celebrity Auction

Celebrity items are a big deal, just look at the fiasco Kwame signing footballs caused. People will pay for something signed by someone they think is famous, and even more for something signed by, worn by or owned by someone they know is famous.

Sotheby's dates the beginning of the celebrity auction craze to 1981, when it says it held the first such event of its kind. Now celebrity items are auctioned daily without fanfare on eBay.

Challenge 6 for The Apprentice teams to compete to raise money for charity in a celebrity auction at Sotheby's. They are asking celebrities to donate items to be sold at Sotheby's for their charities.

Since much of the interest in Sotheby's items is generated by their auction catalogues and press attention to the items on the list - are these just filler items to pad an existing auction? Or will they also have the opportunity to promote the items available.

Preview: Episode 6 - Tit For Tat

TIT FOR TAT -- The teams compete to raise money for charity in a celebrity auction at SothebyÓs. While one project manager is too controlling, another candidate embarrasses their team by asking for outrageous items from the celebrities. A romance starts to blossom between two of the candidates.
Airs 02-12-2004 at 8:42PM.