'Celebrity Apprentice' Finale Tonight

It's a fight to the finish tonight on the season finale of Celebrity Apprentice.

Country singer John Rich and Oscar winner Marlee Matlin successfully completed tasks, survived boardroom firings and dealt with unpredictable team members to become the finalists to face Donald Trump in the last boardroom. They’re also each other’s biggest fans.

“Let’s start with how smart Marlee is,” Rich said during a conference call with reporters. “She’s wickedly smart, she has a great sense of humor and she’s very charming.

Matlin discovered early in the season that Rich was not to be underestimated.

“There was an instant and immediate sense of respect,” the deaf actress said through an interpreter. “It was about eye contact. I’m good at reading people’s faces, and the moment I saw his face I knew he was a formidable competitor.”

In seasons past, viewers had such contestants as the venomous, yet ultimately successful Piers Morgan to root against. In this finale, there is no such villain. Even when the two finalists admitted to being frustrated with some of their fellow celebrity players, it always ended with a kiss.

Last week, in a great setup episode, the candidates were handed a task that actually sounds both fun and funky: design a campaign, complete with TV ad and packaging, for the return of 7Up Classic, the original Uncola, made with real, genuine, old-style sugar, and not that fake syrup drinks use nowadays.

Both potential apprentices have great ideas for their campaigns, we'll see which one can deliver what the 7Up executives and of course Donal Trump want.

Someone will be fired and someone will be the new Celebrity Apprentice.