The Celebrity Apprenticeairs a new episode tonight April 29, 2012 entitled, “Jingle All the Way Home.” The task is to create and perform a new jingle to promote Good Sam’s Road Assistance Program. The project managers are Dayana for Forte and Arsenio for Unanimous.
Look below for a live blogging of Celebrity Apprentice 4/29/12 starting at 9 PM EST to find out who got fired tonight. Sorry, unlike usual, we have no spoilers for you on who gets fired tonight.
LIVE SHOW RECAP
Everyone in the suite is shocked that Team Forte returns after the boardroom without Penn Teller. Except for Clay who says he wants to win and a strong player out is actually good news for him.
Trump meets with the final six contestants and tells them they have done an amazing job so far. He also says he loves charity and a company which exemplifies that is Good Sam. Teams will have to produce a sixty second jingle for Good Sam and perform it live.
Dayana is having difficulty understanding the difference between a “Jingle” and “Jingle All The Way”. When Clay tries to help, she suggests they call Debbie Gibson for help. When the team is working on the jingle, Dayana gets frustrated when Clay tries to give his ideas. The executive comes for a visit and tells them about what Good Sam is about. He tells them not to play it safe but keep the branding their first priority.Arsenio has Teresa and Aubrey work with the graphic designer. The second Arsenio doesn’t watch, Aubrey starts working with the singers again. Clay wants to move things along before the musicians getthere. Dayana keeps making bad suggestions. Lisa worries that they’re wasting time because Dayana doesn’t understand music styles.
Dayana finally agrees to go with a 60’s jingle but asked the musicians to mix a bit of Pink into it. Dayana has no idea what the music lingo that the team is using means. Lisa starts writing and Clay sings. Dayana actually tried to tell Clay how to sing. Lisa does some of the voice overs and Dayana tells her to sound cuter. Clay says Dayana is not “the blind leading the blind”. He says she is instead “the blind leading the seeing.” Hilarious.
Clay thinks Dayana is the most frustrating person he’s working with. Donald Jr. comes to see how the team is doing and Dayana says she is lucky to have Clay on her team. Lisa jumps in and adds that Dayana is lucky that she has the two of them on the team. Dayana says Lisa has been loud –reality is that Lisa has been tempered on this task and she tells Dayana that. Lisa then has a complete breakdown and asks Clay to stand up for her which he does. Lisa calls Dayana a “little bitch” in front of Donald Jr., says she can’t take this any longer and walks out!
That didn’t last long. Lisa returns to her team and sees Dayana working. Lisa and Clay worry that they are short on time. Dayana wants to talk to Lisa but Lisa wants an apology before she’d even speak to her. The two fight again. Lisa says Dayana shouldn’t talk to her unless she’s apologizing and calls Dayana a “bitch” again. Clay stops the fighting or at least tries to.
Aubrey wants the women to wear cheer leading outfits and have Arsenio tap dance. Arsenio says he will not be stereotyped. Th team heads to the recoding studio and Aubrey and Arsenio are not exactly getting along well. Aubrey says she can write a song in two seconds and they should instead concentrate on the performance part. Arsenio disagrees.The executive comes for a visit and tells them that families are the key audience and it is more important to focus on the mascot which is their brand than get creative. When the musicians arrive, Aubrey takes over and tells them what she wants done. Arsenio respects her because he knows that she has the experience to get this done.
Donald Trump Jr. listens to the raw cut of the jingle and says execution will make it or break it. Aubrey takes Donald Jr. aside and talks trash about Arsenio, calling him non-creative. Donald is not happy about being accosted like that and says no one has even done this before [trash the PM] even knowing their team won or lost.
During rehearsals, Aubrey calls Arsenio and as he is giving her ideas, she says to the camera “homeboy is shifty and needs to grow some balls”. Once off the phone, she takes complete control over the rehearsal. She tells Arsenio when he joins them that she sent the mascot away. She also has not implemented anything Arsenio wanted done. Teresa tells the camera that she fears that they wont be able to do the performance since Arsenio and Aubrey have been fighting all day.
Arsenio said he is certain his team won even though Clay is on the other side. “I will put Aubrey against Clay any day,” he said. Wait till Arsenio watches this show and see how much Aubrey trash talked Arsenio behind his back. Clay overhears Aubrey singing and thinks Unanimous’ jingle is too contemporary. Team forte performs first and does well. Dayana as usual is backstage and sad that she is not front and center. When it’s finished, she comes on stage unnecessarily and awkwardly thanks the crowd.
Team Unanimous next performs and the execs seem to like it.
Teresa says she thought Arsenio did a good job. Donald then asks Lisa who should get fired if they lose and Lisa says Dayana, calling her unorganized and horrible. Lisa says Dayana insulted Clay’s musical capabilities and questioned how she could have the gall to do that when she has no knowledge of music. She said she and Clay did everything and had to give her a two-hour tutorial on American music.
Aubrey interrupts and stands up for Lisa and she said she could work with anyone on this planet and lead them and does not understand how Dayana could not lead her team. She also said she’s never seen Lisa not work hard for people she doesn’t like.
Dayana tells Lisa she is not Donald Trump and her big mouth and temper are not going to help her in business. Lisa says this is not “Celebrity Miss Universe, this is Celebrity Apprentice honey and if you can’t hang with the big boys, I suggest you don’t talk as much.” Lisa then stands up for Clay and says Dayana is grasping at straws for going after Clay who did nothing wrong so Dayana does not belong here.
Dayana then attacked Lisa for crying so much as an adult. Clay just sits back and smirks while Lisa continues to go off on Dayana. Finally when Trump asks Clay to speak and say who is right or wrong, he says other than the way she said it, there is not much that Lisa has said in the boardroom that Clay did not agree with.
The execs liked Clay’s singing and said he was phenomenal and they liked Lisa’s writing and said the jingle was energetic and the performance was enthusiastic. They did not like Team Forte’s branding and said it was off the mark. They said the 60’s theme was too safe and they wondered where Dayana was during the performance.
For Unanimous, the execs said the jingle was catchy and that there was good integration of the mascot. The negative was that it was too sexy for some of his target demographic.
The execs pick Arsenio’s team as the winner. Arsenio wins $45,000 for Magic Johnson’s foundation plus whatever the sales bring in from their concept. Someone will get fired on Dayana’s team.
THE FINAL BOARDROOM – WHO WAS FIRED?
Dayana said she felt disrespected but Donald asked, “Don’t you think you have to earn respect?” Dayana says Clay and Lisa were hard to manage. Donald asks Clay if he respects Dayana and Clay says that not after this task because she micromanaged him.
Donald tells Dayana he thinks she is fantastic person. He follows that by saying she is fabulous and she has an amazing career but she is fired.
YAY FINALLY DAYANA GOES HOME!!!!!!! I could never understand a word she was saying lol.
That’s because you’re a black bitch
dayana was strong classy cool and intelligent. creativity migHt not be her forte and english isnt her strength but she managed to last this long and overcame such vicious atacks. im quite impressed.
Lisa is a crude fat cow.
The funniest thing was Aubrey saying “she could work with anyone on this planet and lead them”… What a moron she is. You don’t work for somebody and “lead” them…. this is why she gets so much flack for being a narcissistic bully.
NOTE: actually she said “work FOR anyone” not “work WITH”