So this was the final episode and it was shown with a live audience. As we all know, the final event was to run a charity event. Trace Adkins\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 dilemma continued with the Backstreet Boys\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 demands as there was this humorous moment where one of the band members mentioned that they forgot their black nail polish and so Lennox Lewis and himself had to go find some from a store. I just couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop laughing at that moment.<\/p>\n
At the actual event the auction was interesting as some of the bids for the items were enormously high. Most notably, Piers Morgan had three items that generated $100,000 bids from one of his supporter. The items were a private tea with Sarah, the Duchess of York and a night with the Ozzies. <\/p>\n
The last bid was a $10,000 shopping spree with Ivanka Trump. At first there was a person in the crowd that bid $20,000 for it, who I think was a Trace Adkins supporter, and then out of nowhere Piers Morgan mentions that someone from London wanted to get into the bid for the charity event. The person happened to be Simon Cowell, most notable as the judge from American Idol. <\/p>\n
He immediately raised the stakes to $50,000 and the two had a bidding war. The person went up to $85,000 and decided to stop when Simon Cowell mentioned $100,000. Lennox Lewis was definitely shocked over that. <\/p>\n
The boardroom was very lively and got kind of personal. Specifically, Trace Adkins felt that Piers Morgan was belittling his guests so to speak at the event in terms of the amount of money that the people he invited could afford to donate. It kind of raised that question too where if a person was a multi-billionaire and donated one million dollars does that mean he cares less than say a middle class worker who donates ten thousand dollars? <\/p>\n
There were a lot of hilarious moments too such as when Trace Adkins continued with his bash fest in regards to his experience with the Backstreet Boys. He even said something along the lines of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Could I have pulled the veteran chops on them and started smacking them around? Yeah, I could have beat up the whole band by myself\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n
The results in the end were as follows though in terms of raising money:<\/p>\n
Piers Morgan<\/strong> Trace Adkins<\/strong> A key reason why Piers Morgan sold less ticket sales was that one of his strategy was to give away a lot of free tickets to have some of the members of his charity show up as an additional push to get people to spend money for the items.<\/p>\n Then came the live deliberation as all the contestants were invited back to comment on the two finalists. Omarosa was there too and of course they showed clips of her and Piers despising each other to try to get them riled up I suppose. There was actually an interesting mini scuffle between Trump and Carol Alt as she mentioned that she should have been in the finals. Gene Simmons couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make it to the event as he was in Tokyo. However, he appeared through a live broadcast. <\/p>\n They decided to re-invigorate the reason he was fired in regards to the episode regarding the Kodak printer and how he believed Kodak was all wrong for not choosing his team as the winner. A Kodak executive was live at the show and mentioned how they have doubled their sales since their last campaign to prove that they were right and regardless Gene Simmons stuck to his views. They had a constant \u00e2\u20ac\u0153polite disagreement\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with each other. I would say just being on the show was a key reason that sales went up no?<\/p>\n Overall, it looked like the majority of people were rooting for Trace Adkins to win with the Good VS Evil theme continuing. Before announcing the winner they showed a long clip for both Trace Adkins and Piers Morgan in regards to the charity they are raising money which was great as with that you know that they both gave their charities a lot of awareness and exposure regardless of who won. Donald Trump also mentioned that he would donate an extra $250,000 to the winner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s charity as well.<\/p>\n The winner of the show though was a clear no brainer in this case I thought. While Trace Adkins was definitely the more likeable person, Piers Morgan was pretty much in a different league all together in terms of the success rate when it came to winning and raising money. In the end, Piers Morgan was chosen as the winner of celebrity apprentice.<\/p>\n This final episode was super entertaining I thought and is definitely a memorable one. The main thing that stuck in my head in the end from a business perspective was this whole nice guy vs bad guy scenario they were portraying and how it is easy to get sucked into a stereotypical view of people which doesn’t happen to be the case. It can actually hurt you too as a result. <\/p>\n From my experience, the funny thing is that in business and life many times those people that seem to be nice and portray this harmless personality all the time are actually some the most malicious liars that I have seen while leaving a trail of unadmirable actions that most people would never even imagine they would do . Vice versa, many times the people who you would assume are the worst since they seem like ruthless decision makers that come across as very aggressive can be some of the most loyal and honest people you will ever meet.<\/p>\n Because of that, I tend to try and evaluate one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s character based on their consistency of certain actions as well as if they contradict themselves a lot. While this may not be a fair assessment since I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exactly know the person, as an example based on what was shown in this entire season I would say a person like Stephen Baldwin would give me that unsure feeling as his actions seemed very contradicting many times. So while I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure he seems super charismatic and likeable, that type of personality would cause me more worry rather than a say a person who is aggressive in a professional sense yet consistent. 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\nAuction Event: $376,000
\nTicket Sales: $12,000<\/p>\n
\nAuction Event: $64,000
\nTicket Sales: $38,000<\/p>\n