The Apprentice | |
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Season 5 | |
No. of contestants | 18 |
Winner | Sean Yazbeck |
Runner-up | Lee Bienstock |
No. of episodes | 15 |
Release | |
Original network | NBC |
Original release | February 27 June 5, 2006 | –
Additional information | |
Filming dates | September 2005 November 2005 | –
Season chronology |
The Apprentice 5 is the fifth season of The Apprentice, with Donald Trump as the executive producer and host. Applications were available online[1] (as in previous seasons) and filming occurred in the fall of 2005. Sean Yazbeck was named the winner and hired by Donald Trump as the new Apprentice during the season finale. Lee Bienstock, the runner-up to Yazbeck, proved to be very competitive and was hired outside of television a few months later.
This season of the show was the first to not rank in the Top 50 according to Nielsen ratings and the first to garner less than 10 million viewers on average; it ranked #51 with an average of 9.73 million viewers. This was the last season to have George H. Ross and Carolyn Kepcher as main boardroom judges, although Ross's role was largely taken over by Bill Rancic in this season. The show moved to Los Angeles, California the following season and Donald Trump's children became the most prominent judges after him.
The Apprentice 5 on Monday February 27, 2006, right after the new hit game show Deal or No Deal.[2] NBC, facing a ratings slump, opted to put future seasons of the show on Monday nights (as opposed to its past Thursday 9 pm ET slot). The network hoped to build the show's audience by making this move, as the program had witnessed a fairly substantial erosion in ratings since The Apprentice 1. However, the show faced tough competition with the Fox's fifth season of 24. The finale for The Apprentice 5 took place in Los Angeles on June 5, 2006. Season five's finale was the lowest rated ever, down 23% from season four and down 28% from season three's final episode (in the important 18–49 demographic).[3]
The Apprentice 5 marked the debut of Donald Trump's children, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr., as boardroom judges when either George and/or Carolyn were unavailable.[4] Jack McConnell, the First Minister of Scotland, makes an appearance in one of the episodes.[5]
For the first time in Apprentice history, all episodes of this season (including the Clipshow with never-seen-before footage) could be obtained at iTunes for indefinite viewing after the episode has aired.
This is the first season where not all of the candidates were exclusively American; this season contained cast members that were originally from Uzbekistan and the United Kingdom.
Team 1 | Team 2 |
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Gold Rush | Synergy |
Candidate | Background | Original team | Age | Hometown | Result |
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Sean Yazbeck | Recruitment consultant | Synergy | 33 | London, England | Hired by Trump (6–5–2006) |
Lee Bienstock | Business analyst | Gold Rush | 22 | Brooklyn, New York | Fired in the season finale (6–5–2006) |
Allie Jablon | Medical sales manager | Synergy | 30 | Columbia, South Carolina | (5–22–2006) | Fired in week 13
Roxanne Wilson | Appellate attorney | Synergy | 26 | Austin, Texas | (5–22–2006) | Fired in week 13
Tammy Trenta | Wealth manager | Synergy | 33 | Edison, New Jersey | (5–15–2006) | Fired in week 12
Michael Laungani | Management consultant | Synergy | 29 | Chicago, Illinois | (5–8–2006) | Fired in week 11
Tarek Saab | Hi-tech manager | Gold Rush | 27 | New Bedford, Massachusetts | (5–1–2006) | Fired in week 10
Charmaine Hunt | Real estate consultant | Gold Rush | 27 | Nashville, Tennessee | (5–1–2006) | Fired in week 10
Andrea Lake | Sticker company owner | Synergy | 31 | San Diego, California | (4–24–2006) | Fired in week 9
Leslie Bourgeois | Realtor | Gold Rush | 28 | Houma, Louisiana | (4–10–2006) | Fired in week 8
Lenny Veltman | Trading company owner | Gold Rush | 37 | Tashkent, Uzbekistan | (4–10–2006) | Fired in week 7
Bryce Gahagan | Home builder | Gold Rush | 28 | Kansas City, Missouri | (4–3–2006) | Fired in week 6
Dan Brody | Clothing company owner | Gold Rush | 31 | Miami, Florida | (3–27–2006) | Fired in week 5
Brent Buckman | Attorney | Synergy | 30 | Fort Lauderdale, Florida | (3–20–2006) | Fired in week 4
Theresa Boutross | Psychotherapist | Gold Rush | 36 | Barrington, Illinois | (3–13–2006) | Fired in week 3
Jose "Pepi" Diaz | Attorney | Synergy | 25 | Miami, Florida | (3–6–2006) | Fired in week 2
Stacy Schneider | Criminal defense attorney | Synergy | 38 | New York, New York | (3–6–2006) | Fired in week 2
Summer Zervos | Restaurant owner | Gold Rush | 30 | Huntington Beach, California | (2–27–2006) | Fired in week 1
As with the previous season of the show, Trump hand-picked the candidates. Furthermore, Trump personally selected Tarek and Allie to be the very first project managers and to draft their own teams before the first task is issued. This is the first time in the history of The Apprentice that the teams were not formed by a certain set of characteristics, such as gender (Seasons 1, 2, 4) or educational status (Season 3).
Because this process was conducted after only preliminary introductions, some reasoning for certain selections had been somewhat arbitrary—such as Tarek picking Dan because he was a father, or Allie picking Tammy because she had the qualities of "a real tiger". For the first time since the original season of the show, the successful project managers would not be exempt from firing the next week, therefore everyone had to do a satisfactory job in order to be safe.
Using alternate selections, one at a time, both of them picked their respective teams in the following order:
Synergy | Gold Rush | |
PM | Allie | Tarek |
1 | Tammy | Dan |
2 | Andrea | Bryce |
3 | Michael | Charmaine |
4 | Sean | Leslie |
5 | Roxanne | Theresa |
6 | Stacy | Lee |
7 | Pepi | Summer |
8 | Brent | Lenny |
Candidate | Original team | Week 8 team | Week 11 team | Final week team | Application result | Record as project manager |
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Sean Yazbeck | Synergy | Synergy | Gold Rush | Synergy | Hired by Trump | 2–0 (win in weeks 6 & 12) |
Lee Bienstock | Gold Rush | Gold Rush | Gold Rush | Gold Rush | Fired in the Season Finale | 3–1 (win in weeks 2, 9, & 13, loss in week 11) |
Roxanne Wilson | Synergy | Synergy | Synergy | Gold Rush | Fired in week 13 | 2–0 (win in weeks 5 & 11) |
Allie Jablon | Synergy | Synergy | Synergy | Fired in week 13 | 1–2 (win in week 1, loss in weeks 9 & 13) | |
Tammy Trenta | Synergy | Synergy | Synergy | Synergy | Fired in week 12 | 1–2 (win in week 10, loss in weeks 4 & 12) |
Michael Laungani | Synergy | Gold Rush | Gold Rush | Fired in week 11 | 1–0 (win in week 7) | |
Tarek Saab | Gold Rush | Gold Rush | Synergy | Fired in week 10 | 0–1 (loss in week 1) | |
Charmaine Hunt | Gold Rush | Gold Rush | Fired in week 10 | 1–1 (win in week 4, loss in week 10) | ||
Andrea Lake | Synergy | Synergy | Synergy | Fired in week 9 | 2–0 (win in weeks 3 & 8) | |
Leslie Bourgeois | Gold Rush | Gold Rush | Fired in week 8 | 0–1 (loss in week 8) | ||
Lenny Veltman | Gold Rush | Gold Rush | Fired in week 7 | 0–1 (loss in week 7) | ||
Bryce Gahagan | Gold Rush | Fired in week 6 | 0–1 (loss in week 6) | |||
Dan Brody | Gold Rush | Fired in week 5 | 0–1 (loss in week 5) | |||
Brent Buckman | Synergy | Fired in week 4 | ||||
Theresa Boutross | Gold Rush | Fired in week 3 | 0–1 (loss in week 3) | |||
Jose "Pepi" Diaz | Synergy | Gold Rush | Fired in week 2 | 0–1 (loss in week 2) | ||
Stacy Schneider | Synergy | Fired in week 2 | ||||
Summer Zervos | Gold Rush | Fired in week 1 |
Elimination Chart | ||||||||||||||||
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No. | Candidate | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | |
1 | Sean | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | IN | IN | BR | WIN | IN | HIRED | |
2 | Lee | BR | WIN | IN | IN | BR | BR | IN | BR | WIN | IN | LOSE | IN | WIN | FIRED | |
3 | Roxanne | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | BR | FIRED | ||
4 | Allie | WIN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | LOSE | IN | IN | BR | FIRED | ||
5 | Tammy | IN | IN | IN | LOSE | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | FIRED | |||
6 | Michael | IN | BR | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | IN | FIRED | ||||
7 | Tarek | LOSE | IN | BR | IN | BR | IN | IN | IN | IN | FIRED | |||||
8 | Charmaine | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | FIRED | |||||
9 | Andrea | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | FIRED | ||||||
10 | Leslie | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | FIRED | |||||||
11 | Lenny | BR | IN | BR | IN | IN | BR | FIRED | ||||||||
12 | Bryce | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | FIRED | |||||||||
13 | Dan | IN | IN | IN | IN | FIRED | ||||||||||
14 | Brent | IN | BR | IN | FIRED | |||||||||||
15 | Theresa | IN | IN | FIRED | ||||||||||||
16 | Pepi | IN | FIRED | |||||||||||||
17 | Stacy | IN | FIRED | |||||||||||||
18 | Summer | FIRED |