Just saw the episode - yay for Stefani! I didn't have a problem with Frank & Nicole being fired, only that the reasons were silly. Frank seemed to be sacked for picking Surya for the final task, and Nicole for her romance with Tim. If your going to fire someone, at least give them a proper reason!


Oh, and who's the clever boy that had Stefani pegged as a winner all the way back in week 4?

Very please that Stefani was hired!!!!

But am I missing something? What was the "certain dialogue" that prevented him from hiring James? I'm guessing it wasn't aired

i havent found anything on the net that exposes what james said that could have swayed trump so

I wonder if it was the boardroom where Surya was fired, and Bill called James out in sitting back and pre-empting the boardroom?

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That was a rather underwhelming finale

I agree, particularly with the reason for Nicole. The thing that's annoying is Trump has known about her romance with Tim since about Week 7/8, and she's been in the boardroom since then...and just waits till Week 14 to fire her? If he hired her, she wouldn't even be WORKING with Tim!

It's stupid, it's just like on America's Next Top Model when they get rid of a girl at Final 6 for 'looking too old'...when it's like, well she LOOKED that old when you CAST her!

As for picking out Stefani from Week 4...brilliant. I was doubting her victory up until the second it was announced, because I actually thought her edit was too UTR...

Well, it kinda felt like she won by default really, so kinda disapointing really. Everyone else was just too incompetent.

I don't like the live finals, they seem to make them for themselves rather than the audience.

This series has been been disappointing, the contestants never interested me and the program appeared to spend less time showing the task than previous years.

One thing struck me as odd, is that Mr Trump seemed top go out of his way to condemn office romances, odd considering he seemed to be encouraging it in a few programs.

read jame's blog and he doesnt know what trump was talking about when trump said it was the things he said.... sounds like trump just wanted a girl to even out the crowd

Worst.finale.ever.

It was just so flat....well first it was cheesy, then it was flat. The fired candidates barely got a word in and it felt like even the final 4 didn't get time to say much. I was just glad when it was over.

Worst.final.4.ever.

In the end I was really rooting for James, I think he deserved it more than under the radar Stefani, but I couldn't even bring myself to care when he didn't win (plus I was busy trying to work out what James had said that Trump referred to when he fired him...like the rest of you, no clue!). Was glad Frank and Nicole went first, but felt it was obviously going to happen...and as others have said, the reasons given were ridiculous. A simple 'you both suck, badly' would have been better than what they got.

Overall probably the worst ever season, the tasks, the concentration on Tim and Nicoles 'relationship', the lack of really interesting characters, the lack of decent people as Trumpys 'eyes and ears' - I am not at all surprised to hear it didn't do too great in the ratings.