Having sort of redeemed himself somewhat the week before, David finally met his demise in The Apprentice Season 10 Episode 8.
Trump calls everybody back into the boardroom. He’s been given disturbing news that Anand has been text messaging people telling them to bring in money. Anand denies doing this, which would be a clear violation of the rules, and Donald Trump’s the only one allowed to cheat on this show. Just for clarification, he’s saying he did not do anything wrong? Correct. Would he like Trump to read him a text message? After hearing the text message read aloud, Anand comes clean. How honorable of him.
Now that he’s sitting in the boardroom facing Trump, he crossed the line. But otherwise, he didn’t?
Anand, you’re fired. Fair choice. No need to keep a cheater and a liar around.
Stephanie’s got her fingers crossed that Liza does not get put on her team. Request denied.
The teams will be designing and constructing an in-store display for Kim Kardashian’s fragrance. They will then go to work at Perfumania.
Clint will be the project manager for his team; Poppy steps up for her team.
Stephanie says that Poppy has no business experience, and Liza has no brains, so she’s with dumb and dumber. Oh, a task in which Stephanie thinks she’s the genius. Again.
The women have decided to go with a life sized Kim Kardashian that people can get their pictures taken with. Poppy wants to do lots of bedazzling, which Liza fears will look cheap.
The other team, lacking much in the way of girl power, hopes they can lean on Brandy. No such luck. She says she’s not as feminine as the other women in the process. Her realization is that, since they’re asking her for her approval on everything, she’s going to be blamed if they lose.
At her own request, Liza stays behind to do construction, while the other two head off to do some shopping and graphic design. Convenient for everybody. Liza fears that the stuff they’ve bought is tacky and not at all representative of Kim Kardashian.
The boys are thrilled with their display case. Brandy’s not overly convinced, but she’s going to have to live with it.
As a surprise to both teams, Kim Kardashian is there, and she will be helping make the decision as to who will win. Knowing this, Poppy takes the opportunity to overdo the compliments.
Clint believes the backlit acrylic made their project a winner, and because of that, Steuart was the star of the team. Brandy, however, was disappointing because she is the team’s female.
Steuart says Brandy was good, and Clint was great.
Poppy has compliments for both her teammates, but she will not offer an answer as to who did better.
Liza thinks the other team did a great job. Not so fast to compliment, Brandy says the other team’s project looks like arts and crafts, and Clint chimes in that it looks cheap.
The judges felt Poppy’s team’s display looked cheap, juvenile, and unsophisticated. On the other hand, for the other team, they loved the clean lines and elegance and the sophisticated and understated look. Obviously, Clint’s team wins. For his reward, Clint will be meeting with the head of Starwood Hotels.
Poppy came up with the sequins and the boas, which Trump calls a bad idea.
Why should Stephanie be fired? Because she backed the idea. Not a convincing argument.
Liza agrees with the judges. The idea was fantastic, but it didn’t look good.
Poppy needed to separate Liza and Stephanie. Yeah, no kidding.
The only thing the judges liked was that a photo could be taken with the life sized Kim. Whose idea was it? Stephanie’s. Except not if you ask Liza. She thinks it was a team effort. No, wait, maybe it was Poppy’s idea. Whoever’s idea it was, it was not Stephanie’s.
Ivanka wants Poppy to chime in. However, Poppy does not like to talk over people, particularly with two people already shouting at each other. Good luck lasting in a Trump boardroom. Typically, the loudest person is viewed as the most entertaining, and, hence, safe. Poppy is not overly sure whose idea this was, but she’s willing to take credit if that’s what Liza is saying. Regardless, her argument is that she did a great job leading, as she prevented conflict between Stephanie and Liza.
Poppy would fire Stephanie because she supported her. What is she hoping to accomplish by saying this?
Whatever the case, the tacky aspects of the task were Poppy’s ideas, and she is fired. Following her departure from the show, Poppy is now doing stem cell research, working to solve problems with muscular distrophy.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Apprentice Season 10 Episode 10, which airs Thursday at 10/9c on NBC.