Episode 9
- Task 10
- Airdate: April 26, 2009
- Task scope: Create a 4 page advertorial, starring David Lee, for Right Guard deodorant
- Athena project manager: Brande Roderick
- KOTU project manager: Clint Black
- Judges: Donald Trump; Ivanka Trump; Jim Cramer
- Winning team: KOTU
- Losing team: Athena
- Sent to the boardroom: Brande Roderick, Annie Duke, Melissa Rivers
- Boardroom tension: Brande Roderick was highly criticized by Jim Cramer in the boardroom for being not effective as a leader and questioning that if she think of her self as a strong player which led her to being extremely defensive and eventually changing his mind of firing her over Melissa Rivers.
- Fired: Melissa Rivers - Solely for raising less money when compared to Annie and Brande.
- Notes:
- To even the teams, Jesse James was sent back to KOTU.
- Jesse declined to cooperate with Clint Black on the project, after the better part of Jesse's ideas were not used. Clint and Joan Rivers understood, and even Jesse acknowledged Clint as a good project leader and congratulated him on the winning ad campaign.
- Melissa Rivers asked Annie and Brande for more involvement in the task, but they refused, and then complained in the boardroom that Melissa didn't do a lot.
- Melissa Rivers accused Annie Duke and Brande Roderick of conspiring against her because they had left her out of participating in the team project, an accusation that both Annie and Brande denied, despite such conspiracies being caught on tape, and airing on the show.
- After being fired, Melissa completely lost control and she verbally attacked her teammates, calling them "whore pit vipers" and then refused to do an exit interview, hurling abuse at the show's behind-the-scenes staff in the process.
- Joan called Annie a Nazi and a "piece of s***" after Melissa was fired, and she also said that "poker players are trash". Joan also called Brande a "stupid blonde" before exiting with Melissa in a fury.
- Clint Black won $20,000 for his charity.
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