- The teams (men vs. women) are tasked with creating original artwork, which is then sold for charity. One member has a bit of a meltdown, one leaves for personal reasons, and another is fired.
- Task scope: Celebrities must create their own work(s) of art and sell them for charity.
Backbone project manager: John Rich
A.S.A.P. project manager: Marlee Matlin
Judges: Donald Trump; George H. Ross; Donald Trump, Jr. Winning team: A.S.A.P
Reasons for win: Despite setting up the gallery 5 minutes prior to opening, the team raised a total of $986,000.
Losing team: Backbone
Reasons for loss: They raised over $626,000, but ended up losing by $360,000.
Sent to boardroom: No final boardroom - Trump had even let the A.S.A.P. team stay during the internal review and advise Trump on whom to fire.
Fired: Richard Hatch - for raising the least amount of money in the task.
Notes: Jose Canseco had to withdraw from the show after learning that his father, who was battling cancer, had become terminally ill. Before he left, Trump gave $25,000 to his charity. This was the third time on The Apprentice that a male celebrity decided to leave the show on the fifth episode. The others were Vincent Pastore in Season 7 and Michael Johnson in Season 9. This was the first task in Apprentice history in which Trump kept the winning team in the boardroom and allowed them to advise him on the firing. The total amount raised for charity in this episode, including the totals of both teams and the money given to Jose Canseco and La Toya Jackson's charities, was $1,676,000, which is more than has previously been raised on any season in the show's history. Because Marlee let John Rich keep the $626,000 he raised, Trump decided to level Marlee's earnings to an even $1 million, instantly giving her the record for the most amount of money ever raised by a single contestant. The previous record holder had been Piers Morgan, who raised $754,000 in the first Celebrity Apprentice. This also made Matlin the first person to ever earn $1 million on the show. She held the record until the end of the season, when John Rich surpassed her total. La Toya Jackson won an award for having the "best hat", which earned her $25,000 for her charity. Her hat was dedicated to her brother, Michael. John Rich made an Apprentice record by raising the most money from a single transaction by selling his guitar for $470,000.
source: wikipedia.com
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