7.8 /10 1 Votes
Original network STAR World First episode date 25 January 2015 Number of episodes 10 | 7.7/10 IMDb No. of episodes 10 Website www.theapartmenttv.com Network Star World Genre Reality television | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Original release January 25 – March 29, 2015 Similar The Apartment ‑ Design Y, The Apartment Style Editi, Changing Rooms, The Amazing Race Asia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Apartment - Celebrity Edition is the 4th season of the reality television show design competition premiered on January 25, 2015 and aired on STAR World. Unlike previous seasons, the competitors will be celebrities competing as individuals for a grand prize of $100,000 to donate to their chosen charity. The judging panel includes mentor-judge Jamie Durie, judge Andrea Savage, and head judge Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. Production for the season is held in Phuket, Thailand, with luxury villas provided by Castlewood Group. The show is created by Riaz Mehta and produced by Imagine Group.
Contents
Format
Over 10 weeks, celebrities are given the challenge of designing one room or area in 1 of 4 luxury villas. For the first few weeks, the celebrities are divided into teams of 3 or 4 to collaborate on their designs. The winning team will receive a prize and may choose another team to share their prize with. Each team is evaluated by the three recurring judges and sometimes, with a guest judge, in the show's ""Design Court"". The losing team will face elimination and sign their stars on The Floor of Shame.
Elimination
In episode 2, Jamie had a conversation with Nicole and said that she would leave the competition due to the competition being maniplated by the producers. On the second design court, Rima and Mary Christina landed in the bottom two. None of them were eliminated.
In episode 3, Team Rima had won the challenge. The other two teams lost in the challenge. Because of that, Laurence let the two team leaders nominate one of their team members to be in the bottom two. Xiao nominated Ryan and Paula nominated Lucy. Both of them were safe, but Cindy was eliminated.
In episode 5, All teams failed except for Team Xiao. Nobody got eliminated.
In episode 7, Chef Lau and Ryan landed in the bottom two. Both of them were to be eliminated, but instead Ryan had been safe and Mary Christina had been eliminated. Mary Christina was eliminated because the judges made a decision that she was not a great interior designer, but Ryan was.
Episode 9 was a recap episode.
In episode 9, two will move to the finals and two will be eliminated. Laurence let the four finalists divide into pairs. One pair will be safe and one will not. Xiao was paired with Rima and Paula was paired with Ryan. This episode ends on a cliffhanger. In the beginning episode 10, Rima and Xiao had moved to the finals and Paula and Ryan were eliminated.
Broadcast
The show premiered on STAR World Asia on January 25, 2015 airing every Sunday night. STAR World Philippines aired the show 3 weeks later, premiering on February 17, 2015, and airing every Tuesday night.