'The Apprentice' takes on swimsuit design

With Martin now departed and the teams now named Kinetic and Arrow, season six of The Apprentice rolled on Sunday night with its second episode.

This time, the teams were charged with designing swimwear, a task the Donald felt suited the show's new location in California. The morning after Martin was fired and Frank returned to Arrow - the team having been relegated to living in the garden for losing the first task - the two teams were called to Pacific Palisades Park for a meeting with Trump.

Trump and daughter Ivanka then outlined the task facing the teams: they will have to design swimwear for both men and women under the aegis of Trina Turk. He also revealed another twist in the show: the winning team will be exempt from next week's task.

It wasn't long before the in-fighting began. Aaron - a sales manager from Fredericksburg - wasn't impressed with the tight-fitting designs drawn up by Carey - the president of a marketing firm based in Atlanta - because he felt that Carey - who Aaron revealed is gay - wasn't designing to appeal to a wide demographic of males with one particularly tight and pink proposal.

Kinetic was suffering from the opposite problem, with dominant leader Heidi worried that their team's design would be too bland.

The arguments continued back-and-forth, with other Arrow team members criticising both Carey's tight-fitting, primarily pink designs and his somewhat forceful personality, and Michelle's opinionated approach to discussions. The team stalled when trying to determine a price point for their product.

Kinetic went first on the catwalk, with Trump asking of one of the models: "Does she work for us?" Arrow went second with Carey modelling his white-and-pink ensemble to a mute reception. Derek, an entertainment lawyer from Los Angeles, said: "I'm gay but what a shock it was. He had nipples erect, his fiercest catwalk walk, the guy looked good but literally they needed to get a fire extinguisher on that runway because he flamed it up. I mean, on fire."

Judgement time arrived. Arrow sold $19,616-worth of swimwear while Kinetic topped that with $20,511. Turk blamed a weakness in Arrow's lineup for males for their loss.

Kinetic were treated to a meeting with Hugh Hefner and exempted from the next task. Arrow were once again relegated to tents.

The task barely totalled half the episode, with the remaining half given over to watching the winners revel at the Playboy mansion and the losers duke it out in the boardroom with Trump. Carey admitted that he designed the pink number for a gay audience, but blamed Michelle for causing tension in the team. Nicole then brought back Carey and Michelle with her to the boardroom, with most of the team of the opinion that Carey should be fired - which he ultimately was.

"Carey," said Trump, the suit in question dangling unceremoniously from the end of his pen, "I'm going to give you that suit, but Carey... you're fired!"

Episode three will feature Kinetic living a live of luxury and Arrow in a task with the girls of the LA Lakers.