Last night's NBC broadcast of The Apprentice 4's season finale ended as many viewers had long expected it to -- with Donald Trump telling Randal Pinkett, a 34-year-old consulting firm owner from Somerset, New Jersey, "you're hired."
Although Chris Valletta, a 27-year-old marketing executive from Dallas, Texas, was The Apprentice's latest losing project manager, he found himself on the receiving end of something rarely feted on losing managers: George and Carolyn's praise. But in the end it was not enough to save him when he disregarded Donald Trump’s recommendations on who to bring back to the final boardroom, causing him to become the second candidate fired from the fourth edition of NBC's The Apprentice.
After letting Martha Stewart grab the media spotlight for her own upcoming The Apprentice spinoff series for the last week, NBC and Donald Trump today released the identities of the eighteen contestants who will be competing on the fourth edition of Trump's original The Apprentice series that will debut on Thursday, September 22 at 9PM ET/PT.