Not that I’m suggesting Martha Stewart would do anything sketchy. Or that she’s such a control freak that she might’ve pre-selected the two finalists for her NBC Apprentice spinoff prior to the show even filming. But isn’t it a tad peculiar that, as PopWatch reported back in August, Bethenny Frankel (at right) used to date the son of Martha’s cigar-chomping sidekick Charles Koppelman, and that Dawna Stone (at left) is a former coworker of Donald Trump’s previous Apprentice Kelly Perdew?
Anyhow, those little coincidences, combined with the fact that toxic obnox Jim made the final three, kind of makes me happy that just this weekend, with my DVR at 97 percent full, I went through and erased seven backlogged episodes of The Apprentice: Martha Stewart.
For those of you who’ve stayed faithful to the ill-fated series, who do you think will take home the top prize when the series’ finale airs tonight at 9 p.m. EDT on NBC: Bethenny or Dawna?
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This show just got worse and more boring each and every week. I stopped watching a couple of weeks ago.
Failing to fire Jim until the final 3 has destroyed Martha’s credibility, along with the fishy finalists.
Dawna should win – that other chick is baked.
Bethenny…Dawna has business sense, but I don’t think she’d be creative enough.
I don’t understand why people did not love this show. Martha is far more interesting to watch than Trump was over the past season. True, her daughter as Martha’s Carolyn is a dead fish as far as providing any relevant assistance or input, but, the tasks have been more creative and less of a collection of glorified advertisments like Trump’s. I have truly enjoyed this season and wish it wasn’t being cancelled.
I agree that Jim, personally, should have gone a long time ago, but, just looking at each task, Jim was never really the one who specifically caused the loss of his team and when he was project manager (twice), he won both times. His inexperience and immaturity didn’t really show up to Martha until last week’s interviews and he was rightly fired.
As far as who I want to win, while Dawna does tend to over think things at times, she has proven herself to be more intelligent and business minded than Betheny who really was carried the whole time by Jim. Betheny also showed her poor decision making by choosing Carrie and Ryan as her team member’s in the final task. I hope Dawna pulls through.
There’s a very good reason that Jim made it to the final 3…he was the only thing intersting about the show! What would he say or do next? It kept me coming back to a show that was full of boring people. Whoever wins…doesn’t matter….neither were very impressive.
I think it will be Bethenny. She’s a nutjob, but she’s more creative than Dawna.
As for the show, it’s too bad that they tried to make Martha an exact clone of Trump. They should have had to do more “craft” projects like they did on “Wickedly Perfect”.
Only a man would right the headline “Is something Fishy” when the story is about women.
For some reason I have watched every episode, even though I found it tragic. No one interesting (granted I am as boring as cardboard, but I’m not on tv). Its almost as if a minority decided, in revenge for all the other reality shows: “I am going to make a show with a bunch of whites and they are all going to be dumb, uninteresting, and unattractive.” I guess America did not like someone holding up a mirror. Oh well.
I am not thrilled with either of these two, but I think they are the best of a very mediocre bunch. I don’t like the connections that they seem to have, either. But, realistically, they really were the only two decent choices from the group. Thank goodness Jim is gone finally. He should definitely have been out of there much sooner – talk about a loose cannon. I must say I have never seen anyone act like such an idiot when interviewing. The look on the faces of the executives was priceless during the interview segments that they showed. I would love to see the outtakes. But he did make things interesting. You never knew what crazy thing he was going to do next. I think that Dawna’s experience will win out in the end, but I do think that Bethenny has more creativity and a lot of potential.
Bethenny should win. She may not have the pm record, but she has the creativity, the pizzazzness that is needed for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and knows how to cook….Oh yeah! And can play scrabble….which Dawna CANT!
Um, okay, I waited all fall to hear Martha say “our dentist got married here last year.”? Please, send her back to jail, grand larceny of tv viewers, that type of thing …
What an anti-climactic ending. It was so boring how she “offered” Dawna the apprenticeship. I think the problem with this show was that Martha didn’t have an exciting tag line like Donald’s “You’re fired!” It was all just too nice and therefore too boring.
Totally agree that the finale was lame, but then, when I heard Martha on Letterman a few weeks ago mention in passing that she had had no input whatsoever into selecting the contestants on the show (they were selected by Burnett and his producers using standard reality show priorities), I realized that the whole thing was bogus at the core.
Here’s a flash… NY Post Page Six column reported yesterday that Bethenny had been chosen as the winner, but Koppleman’s grand daughter (age 6) blurted it out in the rehersal for the final show, and Burnett had to change the winner to Dawna. It seems Martha didn’t even get to pick the winner, Burnett had it all pre arranged!
Here’s another flash, according to Martha in a Business Week interview, she had no input at all into what happened on the show… Here’s some quotes from the article…
Martha Stewart is doing her best to dissociate herself from the show that bears her name—and the lackluster candidates she has to select from on The Apprentice: Martha Stewart. In an interview with Business Week, she says,
“Yeah, we’re getting close to which of those inappropriate contestants we are actually going to have to hire. I can’t believe people behave like that. They’re exhibitionists and opportunists, those kids. I did not choose them either, by the way. I just want you to know I had nothing to do really with the choice of the contestants or who wins. That’s part of reality television.”
She also says she did the show simply because “it would get attention.” She insists “it was just a job. I got paid a fee, $100,000 per episode. I have no participation at all in the show other than reading the script off the teleprompter.”