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- Release Date: 2008
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- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Starring: America Ferrera, Eric Mabius, Tony Plana, Ana Ortiz ... See all
- Director: Victor Nelli Jr.
Plot 1
'Detective Averaimo arrives to question the staff of Mode about who pushed Christina down the stairs. When asked where Daniel was the previous night, she tells Daniel had told her to tell everyone that he would be working late. Later Daniel is charged with murder and since Betty figures it is her fault, she tries to solve the case by herself. Wilhelmina finds that publicity of the incident is good for her.'
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Ugly Betty is an American comedy-drama television series created by Silvio Horta, which premiered on The American Broadcasting Company on September 28, 2006. The series revolves around Betty Suarez, unglamorous and good-natured girl, and her incongruous job at the ultra-chic New York City fashion magazine Mode. The series is an adaptation of the Colombian telenovela Betty la fea, written by Fernando Gaitán. The series is produced by Silent H, Ventanarosa and Reveille respectively partnered with ABC Studios, and is primary filmed in Los Angeles, California, but together with the pilot episode and the third and fourth season the series is filmed in New York. The executive producers are Salma Hayek, Silvio Horta, Ben Silverman, Jose Tamez and Joel Fields.
Betty Suarez is a good-hearted, slightly naive girl from Queens, New York, courageous but sorely lacking in fashion sense. Betty is suddenly thrust into a different world when she lands a job at Mode, a trendy high fashion magazine based in Manhattan and part of the publishing empire of the wealthy Bradford Meade. Bradford's son, Daniel Meade is installed as Editor-in-Chief of Mode following the death of Fey Sommers (Bradford's longtime mistress). Meade arranges to have Betty hired as Daniel's assistant, despite her lack of qualifications and experience, because of her lack of beauty. Daniel is a well-known notorious womanizer, and Bradford wants him to devote his attention to the magazine, not another attractive assistant (as he has an established preference for beautiful assistants). As time goes by, Betty and Daniel learn to trust one another and ultimately become friends and allies in a world sometimes beautiful and sometimes maddeningly chaotic. Daniel's arch-nemesis is Creative Director Wilhelmina Slater, who yearns to be Editor-in-Chief. She is helped in her numerous schemes to undermine Daniel by her loyal assistant Marc St. James. Marc and receptionist Amanda Sommers (one of Daniel's many sexual conquests) continually mock and humiliate Betty for her lack of style. The only friends that Betty has at Mode are kind-hearted Scottish seamstress Christina McKinney and accountant Henry Grubstick, to whom Betty is attracted. Meanwhile, at home she is supported by her family, her father Ignacio Suarez, older sister Hilda, and Hilda's fashion-savvy son [bobby[ Suarez|]bobby] (by her estranged boyfriend Santos). In addition to Bradford, the Meade family includes Daniel's alcoholic mother Clare Meade and his transsexual sister Alexis Meade (formerly his older, ultra-competitive brother Alex). In-show parody of the telenovela genre and the original version of Ugly Betty in Latin America. Betty sports thick-framed eyeglasses and a large, prominent set of dental braces (which have become the most identifiable symbol for both Ferrera's character and the show itself). Her lackluster physical appearance and awkward nature result in her immediately being singled out in the vicious, backstabbing world of New York City fashion, and she is quickly saddled with the show's eponymous nickname. The show contains a degree of fantasy used to express the inner thoughts of its characters. For example, in "I See Me, I.C.U.", Betty discusses with an imaginary earlier version of herself how far she has come since her first day. Main article: Ugly Betty (season 1) Throughout the show's first season, most of the serialized storylines revolve around Betty trying to balance her work, home, and romantic life. Betty's relationship with pre-Mode boyfriend Walter is challenged; initially, Walter resists the changes in Betty's life. Betty must also deal with Walter's infidelity with obnoxious neighbor Gina Gambarro. Betty falls in love with Mode accountant Henry Grubstick, whose ex-girlfriend Charlie claims to be pregnant with his child, despite having cheated with Betty's orthodontist, Dr. Farkas. Betty's sister Hilda becomes unemployed after a recall of the cosmetics she sells (Herbalux), but discovers her talent as a beautician. Betty's father Ignacio has health problems, is an illegal immigrant, and confesses he murdered his employer for abusing the man's wife, Rosa, with whom he had fallen in love. Rosa is Betty and Hilda's late mother. Other plot lines involve Daniel's affairs with fellow chief editor Sofia Reyes and lawyer Grace Chin, and his sudden drug addiction; the revelation that Claire murdered Fey Sommers; and Claire's battle with alcoholism. Several storylines revolve around Wilhelmina, including her schemes to use Alexis to force Daniel out of his job. Alexis is first introduced as 'the mystery woman' who, in league with Wilhelmina, secretly plots to gain control of Mode. She eventually reveals to the world that Alex Meade did not die in a skiing accident but had surgery to become a woman. She tries to repair her relationship with Daniel, while at the same time seeking revenge against Bradford, who told Alex he was dead to him if he went ahead with the sex change. When the takeover scheme falls apart, Wilhelmina decides to marry Bradford so she can own half of the entire publishing empire. She attempts to come to terms with her rebellious daughter Nico, while also trying to gain acceptance from her father, a U.S. Senator. Finally, Marc deals with multi-tasking for his boss, his homosexuality, and family acceptance. Amanda becomes a binge eater, the target of a prank, and discovers that her birth mother was Fey Sommers. Christina is used by Wilhelmina even as she helps Betty. She loved to write! Main article: Ugly Betty (season 2) The season's theme is "Brighter, Bolder, Bettyer" with a reworked version of Mika's "Hey Betty (You Are Beautiful)" being used as the featured song in its promos. Nine new recurring characters, played by Freddy Rodríguez, Illeana Douglas, Alec Mapa, David Blue, John Cho, Gabrielle Union, Gene Simmons, Eddie Cibrian and Juliette Goglia, are introduced. Lorraine Toussaint continued in her role as Claire's fellow prison escapee, Yoga, as a recurring regular. Mo'Nique also appeared in a recurring regular this season playing weekend security chief L'Amanda. In the second season, Betty has to decide if she still wants to be with Henry after he got Charlie pregnant, and despite the fact that he is going to leave for Tucson in a few months (so he can be at Charlie's side and help raise the baby). In between these events, a deli shop worker named Giovanni "Gio" Rossi starts developing a relationship with Betty, which has Hilda, Amanda, and Henry suspecting that Gio might be trying to become the new guy in Betty's life. Daniel recovers from a car accident which put Alexis in a coma. When she wakes up, she has forgotten the last few years of her life, including the fact that she changed into a woman and that her father mistreated her. Bradford uses the opportunity to build a new relationship with her; he claims that he was always supportive of her. Wilhelmina's scheme to marry Bradford Meade unravels when Betty learns of the affair she is having with her bodyguard. When Bradford is told of it on the wedding day, he has a heart attack at the altar and later dies. Wilhelmina is fired by the Meade family when she shows up for the funeral. Amanda longs to find out more about her family. Wilhelmina, once Fey's assistant, provides a list of people who could be Amanda's father, leading her to rock star Gene Simmons. Marc finds a partner in Cliff St. Paul, a fashion photographer who is not the hunk he envisioned for himself. Claire escapes from jail with her "friend" Yoga, and they hide in the Hamptons. Claire is later recaptured. At the trial, it is revealed that Fey had secretly poisoned Claire's perfume in an attempt to kill her. Instead it made Claire become crazy and violent; eventually she cut Fey's car brakes, resulting in her death. Later, Claire tries her best to get her life on track; however, she fears that she may become a burden on her two children. Therefore, she launches a new magazine known as Hot Flash, which aims to attract female readers over a certain age who have been neglected by their children and have nothing better to do. At first, Alexis states there is not enough money to finance the magazine; however, using her 'resources' wisely, Claire finds ways to make the magazine a success. Hilda tries to get over Santos, killed when he tried to stop a robbery, and to start her new career as a beautician while Justin, who becomes an intern at Mode, tries to be more like his late father and goes through a "bad boy" phase until Hilda intervenes. Christina is surprised by the appearance of the alcoholic husband she ran away from years ago, but when she learns that he has a life-threatening medical problem and is in need of an expensive, experimental operation, she is determined to help him. Wilhelmina offers to pay for the operation if Christina agrees to be implanted with a fertilized egg. Unbeknownst to Christina, it had been artificially inseminated with Bradford's sperm, which Wilhelmina got from his dead body (so she can get control of the Meade empire). When Wilhelmina ruins the vintage Jackie Kennedy dress she was trying to sell, Christina agrees to carry the baby. This latest plan takes more twists and turns when Wilhelmina's emotionally troubled sister Renee shows up and starts dating Daniel, resulting in Wilhelmina taking great lengths to conceal her scheme. Hilda meets Justin's gym teacher and begins a romantic relationship with him. Daniel's son shows up from Paris, and he denies him as his son, but still tries to bond with him. Gio wants to take Betty to Rome for a romantic date when Henry shows up to ask her hand in marriage. Production was halted in November 2007 due to a writers' strike. It was then announced the season would be cut to 18 episodes instead of a proposed 23. New episodes did not air on U.S. television until April 24, 2008, starting with "Twenty Four Candles", and ending on May 22, 2008, with "Jump". This was the last episode to be produced in Los Angeles. Main article: Ugly Betty (season 3) ABC renewed the series for a third season on February 11, 2008. In addition, production was moved to New York City from Los Angeles to make the series more realistic and to take advantage of increased tax incentives in New York. The third season premiered on September 25, 2008. This season added ten new recurring regulars, played by Grant Bowler, Mark Consuelos, Heather Tom, Val Emmich, Ralph Macchio, Sarah Lafleur, Bernadette Peters, Lauren Velez and Daniel Eric Gold. Lindsay Lohan, Julian De La Celle, Derek Riddell and Eddie Cibrian returned from the second season for more appearances. "The Show" by Australian singer Lenka is used as the promo theme for the season. For this season, Betty decides to move on from Henry and Gio, and after a cross-country trip around the United States, decides to move out of Casa Suarez and into an apartment of her own, hoping that this will help her advance in her quest to move up in the publishing business. Betty also attracts the interest of a musician named Jesse who is living in the apartment across from hers. In addition, she buries the hatchet with Kimberly "Kimmie" Keegan, her childhood nemesis and manager of Flushing Burger, where Ignacio works. Unfortunately, the truce between Betty and Kimmie is broken after Betty helps Kimmie land a job at Mode and Kimmie reverts to her old patronizing ways after being promoted to associate editor. This promition infuriates Amanda and Marc after Kimmie befriends them and then turns on them. But then Wilhelmina fires Kimmie after she insulted her during a photo shoot with model Adriana Lima. After his ouster from Mode, Daniel was demoted to Editor-in-Chief of Player magazine, after Alexis decided to bring back Wilhelmina as Editor-in-Chief. Daniel then takes the decision to fight for custody of his son Daniel Jr., and for his job at Mode, which he takes back from Wilhelmina, whose sudden rise to the top means that she lures Betty into her world - by offering her the job of her assistant - in her attempt to mold her. Of course, this doesn't last and when Betty helps Daniel get his job back, she becomes his assistant again. Adding to Wilhelmina's downfall was Marc, whose jealousy over being passed over by Wilhelmina after she lured Betty back to Mode, became a move that prompted Marc to set the downfall in motion for his boss, allowing him to get his job back. In addition, Claire stepped in to stop Wilhelmina from using the family and also to get Hot Flash ready. Hilda continued to see Tony, who was still married, and when Ignacio found out, it caused a rift between the two. Unfortunately, thanks to his wife, Hilda breaks it off after she talks to her after the woman mistook her for the "other woman [Betty]." Meanwhile, Justin is getting ready to break into show business in Broadway, in what is said to be a "musical episode". Christina is dealing with Stuart's drug problems and her pregnancy with the unborn Meade baby, which in turn would take a turn for the worse after she is pushed down a flight of stairs. Daniel is framed for it and Betty decides to prove he is wrong. After using some help from Marc and Amanda, they find out Daniel's sister did it. Alexis turns herself in afterwards. While in jail, Alexis reveals to Daniel that a paternity test for Daniel Jr. revealed that Daniel is not the father. Alexis is the father, since she slept with DJ's mother back when she was a man. As a result of the revelation, Daniel Jr's grandparents get custody of the boy. In the meantime, Wilhelmina puts pressure on Alexis to give up her entire control of the Meade company, in exchange for Wilhelmina's help in getting Alexis' charges dropped. In the end, a compromise is reached, and control of the company is divided equally between Wilhelmina (in actuality, the baby get the share) and Daniel. The two become co-owners and co-editors of the publishing empire. This means Wilhelmina only has 50% to go until she controls the whole empire by herself. Alexis, free of all charges against her, and with no shares in Mode, leaves and plans to get to know her son DJ. The baby, William Slater-Meade, would be born during "Fashion Week 2009" in the middle of the catwalk. The question of William's birthright will also become a issue, as Christina's bonding of the boy has become evident as of late. Amanda continues the quest to find her father and also moves in with Betty when her spending spirals out of control and her credit card bills became too much for her. Her financial problems result in Amanda taking on a second job at a pizza parlor in a effort to pay off her debts. Together they plan a "Mode Afterparty." Betty invites Jesse and his band to perform, and he agrees. At the party, he has a sudden case of stage-fright, which Betty helps him get over. However after Betty caught Jesse kissing Amanda and later found him to be self-involved, Betty gave up on him. She also moved out of the apartment and sublet it to Marc. As Betty returned home, she found herself and her family deal with Ignacio's heart attack and a new love interest (and his nurse) Elena; Hilda falling for New York City Councilman Archie Rodriguez, who wanted Hilda to apply for a license to operate her beauty shop and Justin's befriending of — and rejection by — a bully named Randy. Ignacio would later get a new job at restaurant owned by TV chef Frankie Burrata, whom Ignacio would challenge on his cooking show "Kitchen Rumble." In the meantime, Wilhelmina falls in love with the new associate and Daniel's business partner Connor Owens, who turned out to be an embezzler after Betty discovered that he was transferring money from the company to him. Surprisingly enough, Daniel would fall for Connor's fiancee Molly, a schoolteacher who later revealed to Daniel that she has cancer. Marc is invited to move in with Cliff, but he doesn't know and rejects it. This would cause Marc to fret over this, and in the process would lead to a one-night stand with a guy he met at Betty's rooftop party. Marc then shocked Cliff with a wedding proposal afterwards, but would later confess to Cliff about what he did and the two broke up. Betty and Marc also become students, participating in the Young Editors Training Initiative (YETI) program. While there, the two must deal with Jodi Papadakis (Bernadette Peters), their professor who wants results from her students. But that was nothing compared to Betty meeting a rival from Elle, Terri O'Shausseney (Nikki Blonsky), who succeeded by stealing a cover story idea from MODE. Then Betty fell for aspiring sports reporter Matt Hartley, whom Betty later found out that he came from a wealthy family. Finally, the truth of "Fashion Buzz" presenter Suzuki St. Pierre is discovered by Betty and Daniel after they went to New Jersey and discovered that Suzuki (who viewers thought to be gay) was actually Byron Wu, a straight guy who was also married with two sons. It turned out that Byron used the Suzuki alter ego because he could not find work as a serious journalist. Both Betty and Daniel agreed not to expose him. Main article: Ugly Betty (season 4)
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Betty Suarez is a good-hearted, slightly naive girl from Queens, New York, courageous but sorely lacking in fashion sense. Betty is suddenly thrust into a different world when she lands a job at Mode, a trendy high fashion magazine based in Manhattan and part of the publishing empire of the wealthy Bradford Meade. Bradford's son, Daniel Meade is installed as Editor-in-Chief of Mode following the death of Fey Sommers (Bradford's longtime mistress). Meade arranges to have Betty hired as Daniel's assistant, despite her lack of qualifications and experience, because of her lack of beauty. Daniel is a well-known notorious womanizer, and Bradford wants him to devote his attention to the magazine, not another attractive assistant (as he has an established preference for beautiful assistants). As time goes by, Betty and Daniel learn to trust one another and ultimately become friends and allies in a world sometimes beautiful and sometimes maddeningly chaotic. Daniel's arch-nemesis is Creative Director Wilhelmina Slater, who yearns to be Editor-in-Chief. She is helped in her numerous schemes to undermine Daniel by her loyal assistant Marc St. James. Marc and receptionist Amanda Sommers (one of Daniel's many sexual conquests) continually mock and humiliate Betty for her lack of style. The only friends that Betty has at Mode are kind-hearted Scottish seamstress Christina McKinney and accountant Henry Grubstick, to whom Betty is attracted. Meanwhile, at home she is supported by her family, her father Ignacio Suarez, older sister Hilda, and Hilda's fashion-savvy son [bobby[ Suarez|]bobby] (by her estranged boyfriend Santos). In addition to Bradford, the Meade family includes Daniel's alcoholic mother Clare Meade and his transsexual sister Alexis Meade (formerly his older, ultra-competitive brother Alex). In-show parody of the telenovela genre and the original version of Ugly Betty in Latin America. Betty sports thick-framed eyeglasses and a large, prominent set of dental braces (which have become the most identifiable symbol for both Ferrera's character and the show itself). Her lackluster physical appearance and awkward nature result in her immediately being singled out in the vicious, backstabbing world of New York City fashion, and she is quickly saddled with the show's eponymous nickname. The show contains a degree of fantasy used to express the inner thoughts of its characters. For example, in "I See Me, I.C.U.", Betty discusses with an imaginary earlier version of herself how far she has come since her first day. Main article: Ugly Betty (season 1) Throughout the show's first season, most of the serialized storylines revolve around Betty trying to balance her work, home, and romantic life. Betty's relationship with pre-Mode boyfriend Walter is challenged; initially, Walter resists the changes in Betty's life. Betty must also deal with Walter's infidelity with obnoxious neighbor Gina Gambarro. Betty falls in love with Mode accountant Henry Grubstick, whose ex-girlfriend Charlie claims to be pregnant with his child, despite having cheated with Betty's orthodontist, Dr. Farkas. Betty's sister Hilda becomes unemployed after a recall of the cosmetics she sells (Herbalux), but discovers her talent as a beautician. Betty's father Ignacio has health problems, is an illegal immigrant, and confesses he murdered his employer for abusing the man's wife, Rosa, with whom he had fallen in love. Rosa is Betty and Hilda's late mother. Other plot lines involve Daniel's affairs with fellow chief editor Sofia Reyes and lawyer Grace Chin, and his sudden drug addiction; the revelation that Claire murdered Fey Sommers; and Claire's battle with alcoholism. Several storylines revolve around Wilhelmina, including her schemes to use Alexis to force Daniel out of his job. Alexis is first introduced as 'the mystery woman' who, in league with Wilhelmina, secretly plots to gain control of Mode. She eventually reveals to the world that Alex Meade did not die in a skiing accident but had surgery to become a woman. She tries to repair her relationship with Daniel, while at the same time seeking revenge against Bradford, who told Alex he was dead to him if he went ahead with the sex change. When the takeover scheme falls apart, Wilhelmina decides to marry Bradford so she can own half of the entire publishing empire. She attempts to come to terms with her rebellious daughter Nico, while also trying to gain acceptance from her father, a U.S. Senator. Finally, Marc deals with multi-tasking for his boss, his homosexuality, and family acceptance. Amanda becomes a binge eater, the target of a prank, and discovers that her birth mother was Fey Sommers. Christina is used by Wilhelmina even as she helps Betty. She loved to write! Main article: Ugly Betty (season 2) The season's theme is "Brighter, Bolder, Bettyer" with a reworked version of Mika's "Hey Betty (You Are Beautiful)" being used as the featured song in its promos. Nine new recurring characters, played by Freddy Rodríguez, Illeana Douglas, Alec Mapa, David Blue, John Cho, Gabrielle Union, Gene Simmons, Eddie Cibrian and Juliette Goglia, are introduced. Lorraine Toussaint continued in her role as Claire's fellow prison escapee, Yoga, as a recurring regular. Mo'Nique also appeared in a recurring regular this season playing weekend security chief L'Amanda. In the second season, Betty has to decide if she still wants to be with Henry after he got Charlie pregnant, and despite the fact that he is going to leave for Tucson in a few months (so he can be at Charlie's side and help raise the baby). In between these events, a deli shop worker named Giovanni "Gio" Rossi starts developing a relationship with Betty, which has Hilda, Amanda, and Henry suspecting that Gio might be trying to become the new guy in Betty's life. Daniel recovers from a car accident which put Alexis in a coma. When she wakes up, she has forgotten the last few years of her life, including the fact that she changed into a woman and that her father mistreated her. Bradford uses the opportunity to build a new relationship with her; he claims that he was always supportive of her. Wilhelmina's scheme to marry Bradford Meade unravels when Betty learns of the affair she is having with her bodyguard. When Bradford is told of it on the wedding day, he has a heart attack at the altar and later dies. Wilhelmina is fired by the Meade family when she shows up for the funeral. Amanda longs to find out more about her family. Wilhelmina, once Fey's assistant, provides a list of people who could be Amanda's father, leading her to rock star Gene Simmons. Marc finds a partner in Cliff St. Paul, a fashion photographer who is not the hunk he envisioned for himself. Claire escapes from jail with her "friend" Yoga, and they hide in the Hamptons. Claire is later recaptured. At the trial, it is revealed that Fey had secretly poisoned Claire's perfume in an attempt to kill her. Instead it made Claire become crazy and violent; eventually she cut Fey's car brakes, resulting in her death. Later, Claire tries her best to get her life on track; however, she fears that she may become a burden on her two children. Therefore, she launches a new magazine known as Hot Flash, which aims to attract female readers over a certain age who have been neglected by their children and have nothing better to do. At first, Alexis states there is not enough money to finance the magazine; however, using her 'resources' wisely, Claire finds ways to make the magazine a success. Hilda tries to get over Santos, killed when he tried to stop a robbery, and to start her new career as a beautician while Justin, who becomes an intern at Mode, tries to be more like his late father and goes through a "bad boy" phase until Hilda intervenes. Christina is surprised by the appearance of the alcoholic husband she ran away from years ago, but when she learns that he has a life-threatening medical problem and is in need of an expensive, experimental operation, she is determined to help him. Wilhelmina offers to pay for the operation if Christina agrees to be implanted with a fertilized egg. Unbeknownst to Christina, it had been artificially inseminated with Bradford's sperm, which Wilhelmina got from his dead body (so she can get control of the Meade empire). When Wilhelmina ruins the vintage Jackie Kennedy dress she was trying to sell, Christina agrees to carry the baby. This latest plan takes more twists and turns when Wilhelmina's emotionally troubled sister Renee shows up and starts dating Daniel, resulting in Wilhelmina taking great lengths to conceal her scheme. Hilda meets Justin's gym teacher and begins a romantic relationship with him. Daniel's son shows up from Paris, and he denies him as his son, but still tries to bond with him. Gio wants to take Betty to Rome for a romantic date when Henry shows up to ask her hand in marriage. Production was halted in November 2007 due to a writers' strike. It was then announced the season would be cut to 18 episodes instead of a proposed 23. New episodes did not air on U.S. television until April 24, 2008, starting with "Twenty Four Candles", and ending on May 22, 2008, with "Jump". This was the last episode to be produced in Los Angeles. Main article: Ugly Betty (season 3) ABC renewed the series for a third season on February 11, 2008. In addition, production was moved to New York City from Los Angeles to make the series more realistic and to take advantage of increased tax incentives in New York. The third season premiered on September 25, 2008. This season added ten new recurring regulars, played by Grant Bowler, Mark Consuelos, Heather Tom, Val Emmich, Ralph Macchio, Sarah Lafleur, Bernadette Peters, Lauren Velez and Daniel Eric Gold. Lindsay Lohan, Julian De La Celle, Derek Riddell and Eddie Cibrian returned from the second season for more appearances. "The Show" by Australian singer Lenka is used as the promo theme for the season. For this season, Betty decides to move on from Henry and Gio, and after a cross-country trip around the United States, decides to move out of Casa Suarez and into an apartment of her own, hoping that this will help her advance in her quest to move up in the publishing business. Betty also attracts the interest of a musician named Jesse who is living in the apartment across from hers. In addition, she buries the hatchet with Kimberly "Kimmie" Keegan, her childhood nemesis and manager of Flushing Burger, where Ignacio works. Unfortunately, the truce between Betty and Kimmie is broken after Betty helps Kimmie land a job at Mode and Kimmie reverts to her old patronizing ways after being promoted to associate editor. This promition infuriates Amanda and Marc after Kimmie befriends them and then turns on them. But then Wilhelmina fires Kimmie after she insulted her during a photo shoot with model Adriana Lima. After his ouster from Mode, Daniel was demoted to Editor-in-Chief of Player magazine, after Alexis decided to bring back Wilhelmina as Editor-in-Chief. Daniel then takes the decision to fight for custody of his son Daniel Jr., and for his job at Mode, which he takes back from Wilhelmina, whose sudden rise to the top means that she lures Betty into her world - by offering her the job of her assistant - in her attempt to mold her. Of course, this doesn't last and when Betty helps Daniel get his job back, she becomes his assistant again. Adding to Wilhelmina's downfall was Marc, whose jealousy over being passed over by Wilhelmina after she lured Betty back to Mode, became a move that prompted Marc to set the downfall in motion for his boss, allowing him to get his job back. In addition, Claire stepped in to stop Wilhelmina from using the family and also to get Hot Flash ready. Hilda continued to see Tony, who was still married, and when Ignacio found out, it caused a rift between the two. Unfortunately, thanks to his wife, Hilda breaks it off after she talks to her after the woman mistook her for the "other woman [Betty]." Meanwhile, Justin is getting ready to break into show business in Broadway, in what is said to be a "musical episode". Christina is dealing with Stuart's drug problems and her pregnancy with the unborn Meade baby, which in turn would take a turn for the worse after she is pushed down a flight of stairs. Daniel is framed for it and Betty decides to prove he is wrong. After using some help from Marc and Amanda, they find out Daniel's sister did it. Alexis turns herself in afterwards. While in jail, Alexis reveals to Daniel that a paternity test for Daniel Jr. revealed that Daniel is not the father. Alexis is the father, since she slept with DJ's mother back when she was a man. As a result of the revelation, Daniel Jr's grandparents get custody of the boy. In the meantime, Wilhelmina puts pressure on Alexis to give up her entire control of the Meade company, in exchange for Wilhelmina's help in getting Alexis' charges dropped. In the end, a compromise is reached, and control of the company is divided equally between Wilhelmina (in actuality, the baby get the share) and Daniel. The two become co-owners and co-editors of the publishing empire. This means Wilhelmina only has 50% to go until she controls the whole empire by herself. Alexis, free of all charges against her, and with no shares in Mode, leaves and plans to get to know her son DJ. The baby, William Slater-Meade, would be born during "Fashion Week 2009" in the middle of the catwalk. The question of William's birthright will also become a issue, as Christina's bonding of the boy has become evident as of late. Amanda continues the quest to find her father and also moves in with Betty when her spending spirals out of control and her credit card bills became too much for her. Her financial problems result in Amanda taking on a second job at a pizza parlor in a effort to pay off her debts. Together they plan a "Mode Afterparty." Betty invites Jesse and his band to perform, and he agrees. At the party, he has a sudden case of stage-fright, which Betty helps him get over. However after Betty caught Jesse kissing Amanda and later found him to be self-involved, Betty gave up on him. She also moved out of the apartment and sublet it to Marc. As Betty returned home, she found herself and her family deal with Ignacio's heart attack and a new love interest (and his nurse) Elena; Hilda falling for New York City Councilman Archie Rodriguez, who wanted Hilda to apply for a license to operate her beauty shop and Justin's befriending of — and rejection by — a bully named Randy. Ignacio would later get a new job at restaurant owned by TV chef Frankie Burrata, whom Ignacio would challenge on his cooking show "Kitchen Rumble." In the meantime, Wilhelmina falls in love with the new associate and Daniel's business partner Connor Owens, who turned out to be an embezzler after Betty discovered that he was transferring money from the company to him. Surprisingly enough, Daniel would fall for Connor's fiancee Molly, a schoolteacher who later revealed to Daniel that she has cancer. Marc is invited to move in with Cliff, but he doesn't know and rejects it. This would cause Marc to fret over this, and in the process would lead to a one-night stand with a guy he met at Betty's rooftop party. Marc then shocked Cliff with a wedding proposal afterwards, but would later confess to Cliff about what he did and the two broke up. Betty and Marc also become students, participating in the Young Editors Training Initiative (YETI) program. While there, the two must deal with Jodi Papadakis (Bernadette Peters), their professor who wants results from her students. But that was nothing compared to Betty meeting a rival from Elle, Terri O'Shausseney (Nikki Blonsky), who succeeded by stealing a cover story idea from MODE. Then Betty fell for aspiring sports reporter Matt Hartley, whom Betty later found out that he came from a wealthy family. Finally, the truth of "Fashion Buzz" presenter Suzuki St. Pierre is discovered by Betty and Daniel after they went to New Jersey and discovered that Suzuki (who viewers thought to be gay) was actually Byron Wu, a straight guy who was also married with two sons. It turned out that Byron used the Suzuki alter ego because he could not find work as a serious journalist. Both Betty and Daniel agreed not to expose him. Main article: Ugly Betty (season 4)
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