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By never stepping up, Stefani Schaeffer made it all the way to the top.
Donald Trump tapped the 32-year-old defense attorney to be the sixth Apprentice Sunday night, with the real estate mogul assuming that Schaeffer is leader material despite her having never served as project manager this season.
"Behind every great director, there's a great producer," Schaeffer said when the blank spot on her resume was broached. "You need someone behind the scenes moving everything along, making sure the whole big picture comes together—and that's where I come in."
Actually, Schaeffer did not have as many opportunities to step up as she might have, thanks to the series' new rule that the leader of the winning team remain the PM until his or her team lost.
But that lack of face time in front of the firing squad—aka Trump and his Wharton Schooled offspring, Don Jr. and Ivanka—obviously worked to her advantage, making it appear as if everyone liked her and giving her the opportunity to attract attention in a positive way. In fact, even though she spent plenty of time languishing in the backyard tent where the losers had to sleep, none of Schaeffer's PMs ever took her into the boardroom, much less tried to pin the blame on her.
The Burbank, California, native opted to oversee the construction of the Trump at Capcana resort in the Dominican Republic as her entrée into the jet-set, party-with-the-Donald world that she and her fellow contestants sampled over the course of their 13-week job interview. She will earn $250,000 for her troubles.
During what ended up being a rather chilly live season finale at the Hollywood Bowl, thanks to the persistent threat of a very un-L.A. drizzle, Schaeffer faced off against Frank Lombardi, Nicole D'Ambrosio and season-long teammate James Sun, whom she had successfully paired off with for the final two tasks—creating a marketing campaign for one of Trump's new Las Vegas buildings and producing a 60-second ad for Renuzit soap.
Boardroom veteran Lombardi was the first to go after Trump called him out for choosing arch-nemesis Surya Yalamanchili to work with him on his final task, despite the fact that they hadn't gotten along all season.
"I love lots of things about you, but there are certain liabilities," Trump said about the Bronx-born contractor.
Next went D'Ambrosio, a real estate broker, who couldn't have really thought she was going to win after engaging in a Real World-style romance (replete with a poolside kiss) with Tim Urban, the same distracting liaison that got the 25-year-old tutoring company owner ousted several weeks before.
"I'm not a believer in interoffice romance," Trump said, despite the fact that season-five winner Sean Yazbeck had an obvious jones for castmate Tammy Trenta.
Actually, D'Ambrosio was thisclose to getting the boot in week 13, but she had the good fortune to be partnered with Kristine Lefebvre, who received an automatic out after printing the wrong phone number on a mockup brochure touting Trump's latest gold-slathered tower.
So it came down to Schaeffer and Sun who, despite having a 2-1 record as PM, bothered Trump in certain indescribable ways.
"Something, sometimes, seems to be missing, don't you think?" Trump asked the 29-year-old Internet entrepreneur.
So despite Schaeffer's low profile, Trump must have figured that she had the integrity to be his protégée, having never taken credit where credit wasn't due (unlike James), and having won the respect of her fellow competitors while not annoying the snot out of anyone (unlike Frank and Nicole).
That, and he hadn't picked a female Apprentice since season three.
"You've gotten along with everybody, you're obviously brilliant," Trump said, concluding with, "You're hired. Good luck."
Cue the fireworks.
Mercifully pared down to one hour instead of the previous seasons' two, the season-six finale concluded The Apprentice's lowest-rated installment to date— 7.4 million viewers a week, per Nielsen Media Research. Despite the flagging interest in how many different ways Trump can say "You're fired" and the fact that NBC has left the show to languish on Sundays, and also the fact that people might not pay attention to the show because they are too busy talking about who was evicted from the Loft an hour before, however, a seventh season of the product placement-heavy competition has been ordered up for 2007-08.