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."
Following the most lopsided defeat in The Apprentice history, Donald Trump fired not one, not two, but four contestants from the losing team. Josh Shaw, Jennifer Murphy, Mark Lamkin, and James Dillon were all fired after their Excel team lost by over a 100% margin during last night's The Apprentice 4 broadcast, making them the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth contestants to be eliminated from the reality competition.
Toral Mehta, a 29-year-old investment banker from Philadelphia, PA continued to demonstrate her inability to work with her teammates during last night's The Apprentice 4 broadcast, and as a result, she became the fourth contestant to be fired by Donald Trump.
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.
Melissa, a 30-year-old real estate investor from Tampa, Florida who was outspoken and critical of her team throughout the first assignment, became the first contestant fired from NBC's fourth edition of its Donald Trump-helmed The Apprentice series.
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.