| Genre: | Reality television series |
| Runtime: | 80-minute episodes |
| Country: | Ireland |
| Language: | English |
| Network: | TV3 |
| Num Series: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 6 |
| Related: | The Apprentice |
Celebrity Apprentice Ireland is an Irish reality television series, in which a group of Irish celebrities compete for the chance to win €25,000 for their chosen charity.
Caroline Downey, the managing director of MCD is the head judge in the competition with the two advisors being former politician Liz O'Donnell and entrepreneur John McGuire.[1]
Edele Lynch beat Amanda Brunker in the final which aired on 28 October 2013. Caroline Downey awarding Lynch the title after her team's renovation challenge in a Down Syndrome Ireland Latch On educational centre, using items sourced from donedeal.ie.[2] [3]
| Celebrity | Background | Original Team | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edele Lynch | Singer from B*Witched | Athena | The Celebrity Apprentice | |
| Amanda Brunker | Gossip columnist | Athena | Fired in the Season Finale | |
| Frances Black | Singer | Athena | Fired in week 6 (28/10/2013) | |
| Daniella Moyles | Model and Presenter | Athena | Fired in week 6 (28/10/2013) | |
| Mikey Graham | Boyzone member | Iconic | Fired in week 5 (21/10/2013) | |
| Nick Leeson | Rogue Trader who caused Barings Bank to collapse | Iconic | Fired in week 4 (14/10/2013) | |
| Maclean Burke | Fair City actor | Iconic | Fired in week 3 (07/10/2013) | |
| Michael Conlan | Olympic bronze medal winning boxer | Iconic | Fired in week 3 (07/10/2013) | |
| Emma Quinlan | Model and Burlesque performer | Athena | Fired in week 2 (30/09/2013) | |
| Martin Moloney | Hardy Bucks member | Iconic | Fired in week 1 (23/09/2013) |
The first episode aired on TV3 on 23 September 2013. Martin Maloney of Hardy Bucks was the first celebrity to be sacked on the first show. The first task involved designing and selling custom-made T-shirts in high street store Penneys. The task was won by the girls team.[5]
Emma Quinlan was the second celebrity to be fired after the second episode which aired on 30 September. Both teams were challenged with rolling out a themed event for Carling lager with Quinlan's team winning the public vote for the best entertainment event. However bosses at Carlsberg overturned the vote and claimed that they had missed the brief in that their event could not be rolled out to pubs nationwide. Nick Leeson and Edele Lynch were also brought back into the boardroom before Quinlan was fired.[6]
| Candidate | Original team | Week 2 team | Week 3 team | Week 4 team | Week 5 team | Application result | Record as Project Manager | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athena | Iconic | Athena | Athena | Iconic | The Celebrity Apprentice | 1-0 (win in week 4) | ||
| Athena | Athena | Iconic | Iconic | Iconic | Fired in season finale | 2-0 (win in weeks 2 & 5) | ||
| Athena | Athena | Iconic | Iconic | Iconic | Fired in week 6 | 1-0 (win in week 3) | ||
| Athena | Athena | Athena | Athena | Athena | Fired in week 6 | 1-0 (win in week 1) | ||
| Iconic | Iconic | Iconic | Athena | Athena | Fired in week 5 | 0-2 (loss in weeks 1 & 5) | ||
| Iconic | Iconic | Iconic | Iconic | Fired in week 4 | 0-1 (loss in week 4) | |||
| Iconic | Athena | Athena | Fired in week 3 | 0-1 (loss in week 3) | ||||
| Iconic | Athena | Athena | Fired in week 3 | |||||
| Athena | Iconic | Fired in week 2 | 0-1 (loss in week 2) | |||||
| Iconic | Fired in week 1 | |||||||
| No. | Candidate | Elimination chart | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Edele | IN | BR | BR | WIN | IN | CA | ||||||||||
| 2 | Amanda | IN | WIN | IN | BR | WIN | FIRED | ||||||||||
| 3 | Frances | IN | IN | WIN | BR | IN | FIRED | ||||||||||
| 4 | Daniella | WIN | IN | BR | IN | BR | FIRED | ||||||||||
| 5 | Mikey | LOSE | IN | IN | IN | FIRED | |||||||||||
| 6 | Nick | BR | BR | IN | FIRED | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Maclean | IN | IN | FIRED | |||||||||||||
| 8 | Michael | IN | IN | FIRED | |||||||||||||
| 9 | Emma | IN | FIRED | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | Martin | FIRED | |||||||||||||||
On the losing team
Won as project manager on his/her team
Lost as project manager on his/her team
Was brought to the final boardroom
Was fired
Lost as project manager and was fired
Did not participate in the task
Winner of the competition
Celebrity Apprentice: You're Fired is the follow-on show to Celebrity Apprentice Ireland. The first show directly followed the first episode of Celebrity Apprentice Ireland on TV3. The show is hosted by Anton Savage. The 30 minute show features a two-person celebrity guest panel in front of a studio audience that discusses the episode just aired and the fired apprentice from that episode is also interviewed.