That left a mystery: which tech industry chieftain would get to kick-off the show?
The Apprentice began in the US where billionaire Donald Trump began his catchphrase "you're fired" to kick contestants off the show.
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Earlier this month, he announced he had voted himself off the show.
" Wonder returned to finish off the show with "Signed, Sealed, Delivered.
The dance team with the lowest combined score is then voted off the show -- a fate that may await Wozniak on Tuesday night.
Partly, this is because we are finally introduced to the Reeds, Jojen and Meera, two characters who many people worried had been written off the show last season.
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Nintendo was already set up to kick off the show on Tuesday, getting the party started according to tradition with an early morning press conference ahead of show floor opening.
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Dressed in a black leather mini dress, the singer kicked off the show with a blaze of flames while she sang a brief a cappella version of her single Love on Top before launching into mega hit Crazy In Love.
And so for me to be able to be good to my word in that sense and show them that I didn't abandon them, that I was just getting off the show and I loved the characters and I love them.
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"I feel as though I'm kicking someone off the show because neither should be going, but I have to base it on that last performance, and for me the couple that edged it were Lisa and Brendan, " he said after casting the deciding vote.
Ms Dorries was the first contestant to be voted off the reality show, which was won by the EastEnders actress Charlie Brooks, and currently sits in Parliament without representing any party.
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Microsoft wasn't the only one with something to show off yesterday, the rest of the HD DVD camp was on hand to show off what they've done in the months since launch and what we can expect for the rest of the year.
Germany's Siemens also used the show here to show off the SIMpad, a prototype WebPad-like tablet device.
While companies like Canon and FujiFilm prefer to fly in the face of PMA and announce their cameras well ahead of the trade show, others, like Leica, have decided to hold their cards 'till the last minute and show off 'em at the show itself.
The exclusive service dedicated to the England team on and off the field will show the most up-to-date interviews with Sven-Goran Eriksson, press conferences, video player profiles, news and views from Germany and those all-important full repeats of England matches.
More than four million people changed channel or turned off when the show came on, according to figures from Nielsen-Media Research.
Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have made enough money off of the show, which debuted on Broadway in 2011, to launch their own production company.
Similarly, English outfit No Internal Combustion Engine (NICE, very cute) is previewing an all-electric sports car that it plans to show off at the London Auto Show in July.
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Even their long-sleeved, high-shouldered evening dresses are cut high at the ankle to show off the shoes.
Once in the stadium, the miniature Maradonas show off the work put in by the teams over the last year.
Neither could the imaging company show off the one-to-one connection that allows an auxiliary camera to be controlled from a primary unit.
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It was the Z10 -- a snazzy, touchscreen-only new phone -- that was used throughout the presentation to show off the system's new capabilities.
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Tesla used the space to show off the 2010 Roadster, which we still don't have full details on, but have heard features slightly improved circuitry, a locking glove box, and WiFi to enable remote, wireless diagnostics.
Ben Parr, co-editor of the social media and tech blog Mashable, said he had expected more from Microsoft's keynote, but that the company did show off the fact that it had a good year in 2009.
Bre Pettis just started delivering South By Southwest's opening remarks and may well have taken the wraps off the biggest news of the show.
"This makes it easy to approach for a kid, " Seydoux says while showing the toy off at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Thursday.
Walters will have surgery later this week to replace a faulty heart valve, and will take the summer off from The View talk show to recuperate.
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