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Celebrity Apprentice will have an All Star cast next season when it premieres March 2013. And Donald Trump is pretty stoked with who is returning to his show for another chance at the title. Continue reading
Season 4 finale of Celebrity Apprentice aired May 22, 2011 and a new winner was announced when the night ended. But let’s start with the most important note: This show raised over 3 million dollars for charity this season. CONGRATS to the entire cast for that accomplishment.
Last week’s show ended with Def Leppard‘s manager throwing a monkey wrench into John’s plans. He called John and said his drummer won’t play kick drums. Instead of working things over the telephone, John told him he would deal with him in person once they got there. Marlee’s team was having problems of their own. Jeffrey Holder’s (the 1970’s voice of 7UP) lawyer refused to let Jeffrey sign the release. Meat Loaf called Jeffrey’s manager, Chuck, in an effort to resolve the issue but when he could not get a hold of him, he totally lost it and screamed, “I am gonna throw this f*cking phone across the room.”
AND THE WINNER IS….
Here is a great video clip recap of the episode. I will post the full episode shortly as well:
The April 24 Celebrity Apprentice started where the last one left off … with NeNe Leakes being hurt and wondering why La Toya Jackson would tell Donald Trump she would not keep in touch with NeNe once the show ended.
The men were all jubilant after the boardroom for having finally gotten rid of Gary Busey. Star told the men that they had rid their team of their weakest link and are now a strong team (be careful what you admit to Star!)
For this week’s task, the teams had to create an ad campaign for the Trump Hotel Collection. Star Jones and John Rich were the project managers of their teams.
John admitted, “I don’t know what the hell it means to promote the Trump Hotel Collection. When I am out on tour, I probably would not stay there myself because it is so high end. This is outside my range of expertise and that is a disadvantage right off the bat!” Star on the other hand told The Donald she has stayed at “several” of his hotels.
After meeting with the execs, Star, the self-proclaimed connoisseur of luxury, came up with the concept of “Individual elegance, collective luxury.” La Toya thought the idea was not creative enough but told the camera that Star is too strong-headed to be told that her idea isn’t good enough.
John felt severely challenged since his team is down to only three men. Lil Jon felt he didn’t know enough about the luxurious world because he just sleeps in hotels and doesn’t know much about anything else. Meat Loaf tried to convey the vision of his concept to the team but confused everyone. John told the camera Meat Loaf is like a “riddle wrapped in an enigma” – meaning, there are too many layers of complexity to his thinking which ends up confusing people. The men finally came up with concept of “Live the life.” BORING!
Star told the camera that La Toya is useless when it comes to making things happen so she asked NeNe and LaToya to run errands. NeNe knew the odd pairing of her and La Toya was strategic planning by Star. So, NeNe spoke up to Star and said, “I have a bit of an issue that you put me and La Toya to work together. That’s a bit of a problem. It’s very difficult for somebody like me to work with fake women. I’m very real and I cannot work with somebody that as soon as Donald Trump asks a question, suddenly, you throw one of us under the table. It’s not cool.” [I think NeNe meant under the bus…and this accusation is coming from the woman who, unrequested, hopped over to Don Jr. in a koala costume to tell him how awful La Toya was as project manager. Sorry, NeNe, that’s just me keepin’ it real.]
La Toya asked NeNe to explain herself. And NeNe said it was “unfair to sit in front of Mr. Trump and say NeNe ‘doesnt like me.'” La Toya said the only reason she did not name NeNe as someone she would call after the show ends is because she felt NeNe does not like her. “That is very wrong,” NeNe interrupted. “I don’t like it and it really pisses me off.” La Toya explained, “I truly felt yesterday that if I called you, you would hang up the phone…” NeNe asked, “I don’t know where you got that from.” La Toya said, “I felt that there were eyes rolling, talking behind my back. Girls, I am human, that hurts. It hurts me to see people rolling eyes. That day you just cursed me out, that hurt me so badly, but I tried to remain strong and I said she doesn’t even realize what she is doing.”
NeNe told the camera that La Toya’s explanation helped her to understand her more. But she still didn’t get the big picture and placed blame on La Toya. “I understand she has issues and I need to be more sensitive and not so rough around her.”
La Toya said she had no animosity against NeNe and that she thought NeNe has a good heart. “Actually, I love you and with that said, I’d like to give you a hug,” La Toya said. [GOD I LOVE YOU La Toya for being such a lady and class act!]
With all that, NeNe agreed to work with La Toya but still told the camera she doesn’t fully trust La Toya because it’s hard for her to trust anyone. Star said the boys are in trouble because now she’s rid the team of negativity and has nothing left but five woman working together with nothing but love.
The woman got manicures and had their hair done so they could represent the luxurious life in their photo shoot. Of course the men did no such thing. Instead, they worked on their project and John felt he and Lil Jon worked really well together.
While running errands, La Toya and NeNe continued their reconciliation with La Toya doing all the mending and saying how NeNe is sensitive and that she does not want to hurt her. The two were acting like old BFFs and La Toya told NeNe she better have a guest room ready when she goes and visits her in Atlanta.
Back at the ladies’ headquarters, the photo shoot got delayed because Star misjudged how long it would take for NeNe and La Toya to run the errands. As soon as the new BFFs got back to their team, Star told NeNe and La Toya they had five minutes to get ready which pissed off NeNe. “Bitch, what you talking about we have five minutes,” NeNe complained to the camera. She continued, “Star is definitely setting me up.” She told the ladies they think she and La Toya are “superfly,” expecting them to get ready in super speed. Star and NeNe kept fighting over how long NeNe’s directed shots of Hope were taking. Even with all the fighting, the women were somehow still able to finish the photo shoot in time but the finished brochure looked crowded and busy.
Meat Loaf “screwed up” on his one task by taking a picture of the hotel butler without him smiling. John definitely wanted a friendlier vibe for the ad and came up with yet another one of his verbal gems by saying, “It looks like an outlaw picture of a guy that got murdered and stood up in a casket in the middle of town and they took a picture of him.”
The men spent a lot of time trying to ensure that their extremely wordy promo brochure was proofread well and was devoid of spelling errors. But they failed to heed the words of the execs to stay away from the age-old concept of hotel and butler images in the brochure.
Each team presented their pitch to the exec judges. The men put on an engaging presentation whereas the women just spewed out word after word of attributes and adjectives such as “best of the best” and “sophistication,” which they felt described Trump hotels. They kept going on and on and on…It was “corny” as aptly described by La Toya to the camera.
The execs compared the women’s brochure to the junk flyers for “sleazy clubs” which we all find underneath our car windshield wipers. They liked that the name “Trump” stood out well against the crowded pics. They also said the women’s “jack in the box” style of spitting out attributes made them “cringe.”
But the execs didn’t like the men’s brochure either, finding it too wordy and demanding too much time to read. They also found many misspellings despite the care the men took to avoid them. The men also used a photo of a butler and an image of a hotel that the execs had specifically hinted at staying away from to avoid being mundane. The execs felt that the men’s brochure lacked a “call to action” – there was no 800 number listed, nor a website address or contact info. The execs did like the enthusiasm and energy of the men’s presentation and felt the men were coming from a place in their heart. As to picking a winner they said, “This is no easy discussion with Trump or an easy decision to make.”
The execs met up with Trump and told him the two teams were “not good at all,” and that they felt there was a “real disconnect” between the assignment and the end product. The execs felt the men really understood what the luxurious hotels were about but did not talk about the end product. The execs also felt it was terrible that no contact info was provided by the men in their brochure. As for the women, the execs felt the word “Trump” jumped out on their brochure but felt the photos in the ads were a mess. They picked the men as the better presenters and felt women were too “scripted.” As for a winner, they picked “the lesser of two evil” and said, “There really is no winner. The loser is…”
The women seemed united in the boardroom. Hope said Star is the most impressive team member. NeNe was asked who the strongest person on the team is other than herself and NeNe named Marlee Matlin. NeNe said she made up with La Toya but sort of threw her under the bus by saying the girls had felt La Toya was phony.
Now that NeNe doesn’t have a feud with La Toya, she picked on her next victim. She said she felt a couple of the girls were “crawling up Star’s ass.” She continued, “I felt even Hope or Marlee…I feel like they could be strong players if they just be strong players.” What was the response of our possible next President to this bizarre comment? Trump said, “By the way, much nicer now that she lost all the weight.” WHAT?!? Seriously?? Did Trump just comment on the size and nicety of Star’s post-weight loss ass?
This conversation did not end there. Star took it upon herself to comment on the hypothetical situation of her teammates actually crawling into her more cushiony old ass. She explained, “It would not have been very comfortable for you back then.” [Disturbing string of conversation — then again, it’s moments like this that make THIS SHOW one of the best reality shows out there.]
Back to the men — John said his three teammates took on Herculean tasks and there was no individual star but felt his team had done well.
Trump then dropped the bombshell that the judges disliked both of the team’s outputs and had even called the women’s efforts a “Greek tragedy.” So, Donald announced the loser as the women’s team. With that, he sent the men back to their suite.
Star tried to save her team by arguing that no one should be fired but Trump said the team had done so badly that she had no leg to stand on for such an argument. Donald said the men won because they had the better pitch. THAT ALONE should have gotten Star fired because the pitch was entirely her idea. But somehow, things did not work out that way.
Donald Trump Jr. said the bathtub shot directed by NeNe was cheesy and contained many mistakes (such as an uncorked bottle but a glass full of wine and Hope being in a bathtub…with a towel on!). NeNe would not say who should be fired but La Toya said it should be Star because she was the project manager. Marlee said she would fire La Toya because based on all tasks to date she does not deem La Toya a leader. Donald Jr. jumped in and said the same thing could be said about Hope but Marlee disagreed. NeNe cut in and said moving forward La Toya would be the weakest link.
Donald Trump said on two previous tasks the execs had picked La Toya as the best team player–a statement that shut the women down. Even so, Star picked La Toya and NeNe to come back to the boardroom to face the firing squad with her. Star admitted she was taking NeNe back with her so the two of them could team up against La Toya and get her fired.
While waiting to be called back into the boardroom, NeNe told the camera she felt she was being manipulated by Star. “La Toya and I just made a connection yesterday, so I just have to figure out what I am going to do.”
The women were called back in the boardroom. Star put the entire burden of her argument on what NeNe had to say about La Toya which should have been another reason why Star should have been fired. The star attorney actually made someone else make her argument for her? Really? And Trump let her get away with that? Anway, after some hesitation, NeNe said, “La Toya is not a strong player. Period. It’s just what it is. She’s not a strong player.” NeNe then threw her arms in the air as to indicate that’s all she was going to say.
La Toya begged to differ and explained why all losses in the past were directly Star’s fault. Star blamed La Toya as the cause for Star having had to “stop the progress” of the team on this task. Star claimed that at La Toya’s request (that never happened–it was NeNe who wanted to talk things out), Star stopped everything to have a “come to Jesus” meeting to resolve issues between NeNe and La Toya.
Trump said the men’s team is strong [They are?? They had lost three tasks in a row and barely ‘won’ this one] and the women need to get along to be able to keep up with the men. He also said that her teammates do not want La Toya on the team moving forward. So, to give the women’s team “the chance to fight” he fired La Toya.
Come again, Donald? Are you kidding me? The women did such a horrible job on this task that the execs called it a “Greek tragedy.” Who else could you blame for such a complete meltdown and failure on a task other than the team’s project manager? Donald surely kept Gary Busey around at the expense of the likes of Mark McGrath even though Gary’s entire team wanted him gone much earlier. But he fired La Toya for the same reason despite La Toya having kicked ass on two assignments including a win as a project manager? It sure looks to me that Trump wanted to keep the trouble makers on the show around for the ratings.
Star should have been the one fired because she was the project manager. As the self-proclaimed connoisseur of luxury, she failed miserably when her final product conveyed the look and feel of sleazy strip bars. Star wasted time getting a manicure but blamed time wastage on a bitch session started by NeNe and not La Toya. Star’s pitch was horrible and the execs specifically said the men won because their pitch was better. Star also failed to argue well for herself in the boardroom and delegated her field of expertise (lawyering) to NeNe instead. La Toya was just too sweet and too drama-free and so she suffered as a result.
After the boardroom, the usually outspoken and confident NeNe was shocked at the tactics Star was willing to take to win. She rightfully felt that Star had “orchestrated” the whole firing. She told the camera that Star “is willing to cut your damn head off to win. I did not know the competition was that way.”
NeNe told Star that her friendships meant more to her than “any of this.” “We have to be a team,” NeNe said. Star responded, “I don’t like losing.” NeNe finished, “You have to listen to other people.” Star said this was a learning experience for her.
On her limousine ride to who knows where, La Toya said Star is manipulative and thought Donald had made a mistake.
Next week’s previews make for a doozy of a show. Looks like we will finally get a great showdown between Star and NeNe – probably making Trump very happy with his decision to keep the outspoken ladies on for a final fight.
On Sunday’s Celebrity Apprentice, Gary Busey finally got the much-anticipated boot and was fired by Donald Trump. Throughout the season, Busey was incredibly hard to understand on the show yet on Monday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live Busey somehow had no trouble expressing his dislike for his former Team Backbone colleagues, Meat Loaf, John Rich and Lil John.
“They turned out to be not Backbone, [But] back stabbers,” Busey said of his former team. “When you see Lil Jon, John Rich and Meat Loaf, you know somewhere there’s three villages missing their idiots.”
I won’t ruin the rest of the clip – you just have to watch Busey speak and tell the tale of how things went down on the show in his own words. Watch:
On the women’s side, Hope wanted to host the show. Star Jones wanted Marlee to host one of the demonstrations because Star just can’t sit quiet and take assignments and listen. The women were surprisingly making some great meal selections and task assignments despite their lack of unity. Once they arrived at their test kitchen, they were all happy with the setup. The original menu was two steaks and a seafood meal, with La Toya Jackson having been tasked with making one of the steak meals. Ne Ne Leakes voiced her concerns that one of the steaks should be changed to a burger. So, Hope told La Toya to change her menu and cook a burger instead. La Toya deemed this last minute change as another tactic to give her a task at which to fail.
The men of Team Backbone were all simply stated, confused. Gary was all over the place and made no sense when giving instructions or speaking. Lil Jon was finally given a task: He had to cut up paper. John Rich was working on Meat Loaf’s menu but Gary came over and took charge and made changes. He told John to “Sit down boy!”
The women decide to not cook anything during the demonstration and just show off three finished meals instead. La Toya ran through her presentation as a test and Hope’s biggest piece of advice to her was to “speak up.” To the camera Hope said, “If she keeps baby talking, someone is going to smack her.” NeNe was getting frustrated because her test time was being cut and interrupted by having to wait for sign interpretation for Marlee Matlin. Hope was getting frustrated with NeNe because she’s “more nervous and gets more frustrated than anyone knows.” Despite all their cattiness, the ladies worked it out and did a pretty good job in cooking the meals.
Donald Trump met with the Omaha Steaks executives and this is what they told The Donald:
“The women were terrific. They were very well organized. They obviously really worked as a team (HUH?!) and gelled as a team. But the women didn’t do as much live cooking as the men.” They called out NeNe for failing to say “Steaks” when naming “Omaha”.
The women won yet again and actually looked like they were getting along well back in the suite. Well, I spoke too soon. There went NeNe telling the camera: “I was very happy for Hope. But I wasn’t feeling like celebrating because I keep getting a label in the boardroom. I don’t really like them. Really, of all the girls, I am the least negative, and I really can’t understand what I have done to be given a label.” Star stood up for NeNe saying she’s not a negative person and went over and consoled her. NeNe called La Toya a ‘bitch’ to Star for saying in the boardroom she would not call NeNe.
Tune in to Celebrity Apprentice next week because it looks like a great show down between NeNe and Star is in the works. And La Toya, who I must admit, I am falling in love with!
Celebrity Apprentice April 17, 2011 Results & Spoilers (Episode 7).
Who got eliminated on Celebrity Apprentice tonight? Who was fired tonight on the 4/17/11 result show? Scroll to the bottom to find out!
On tonight’s show, the players had to create a 20-minute live cooking demonstration for Omaha Steaks.
The project managers were *GULP* Gary Busey and Hope Dworaczyk. One of them doesn’t cook or eat meat while the other one simply unloaded the lion’s share of the task on a single team member and left the team with no time to rehearse.
On Sunday April 10th’s Celebrity Apprentice, our celebs were posed with the challenge of creating an engaging 10′ x10′ glass box public marketing display for Australian Gold sunscreen and body lotion.
When the Australian Gold execs visited the men’s display, Gary grabbed one of the executives by the arm and dragged them all away from Meat Loaf. Gary also cornered the execs and physically pushed Mark away when he tried to break up Gary’s monopoly hold on them. Finally, the men started singing their jingle chant and distracted the execs away from Gary.
It all started with NeNe, the constant nagger and tattletale herself, saying, “La Toya, I don’t appreciate you using my name in a negative way. You tried to act as if I said I don’t like you. And I have never said that. This has nothing to do with personal, this is strictly business.”
Then she started raising her voice, claiming she is real and if La Toya did not like what she heard, she could “go in the bathroom and hide.” La Toya kept her cool. NeNe went on, “Don’t you try and act you’re the reason we won. I worked my ass off while you sat there and looked like Casper the Ghost! Let’s be clear Casper, let’s be clear! Disappear ghost….the only reason you’ve gotten this far is because of your last name and you faked it for fifty years. You are very old and you need to play your age and not 12. You are a (sic) old lady.”
Thank God Star interrupted the rant and said, “Let’s watch the men self-destruct, we are owed that for god sake, please.” La Toya acted like a class act, did not say anything except tell the camera that she and NeNe were from different cloths.
On Sunday’s Celebrity Apprentice, things came to blow between Meat Loaf and Gary Busey.
On Sunday April 3rd’s Celebrity Apprentice, Meat Loaf had an epic freak out and gave Gary Busey the verbal beat down of a lifetime…
Rich warned his team and gave them a declaration of how things were gonna shake out. He told each of them if they didn’t bring in donations, they would be nailed to the wall. Matlin on the other hand used a gentler approach. She asked her team for help. She said, “We must win this task, we must raise a ‘$!##$#*’ load of money,” at which time her hands were blurted out signing a cuss word. [Side note: Did you know they blurt out fingers when sign cussing takes place on TV? Pretty interesting.] She then told her team, “I don’t want any more fighting, I don’t want any more backstabbing. We are a team.”
Matlin wanted to test LaToya Jackson’s capabilities and allow her to prove herself. So, Matlin called upon Jackson to reach out to her rich and famous family. Jackson told the camera she would not be able to get dollars in time from the west coast to New York in the few hours they had for the task, so, she suggested instead to create paintings which would read “I miss you Michael, I love you, something like that to show the sadness and the sorrow and to touch the hearts of people.”
Jackson also lovingly gave up for charity a special t-shirt she carries with her everywhere: A This Is It shirt signed by her brother Michael of which only two exist in the world. She said “this is what Michael would have wanted.” She continued, “We should be an example of the angel that he is…he is such an angel. Thank you guys.”
Jose Canseco had to leave the task and the show permanently due to an illness in the family. Canseco broke down as he told Trump that this father’s long-term battle with cancer had taken a turn for the worst. When Trump asked him if his dad would be OK, Canseco said, “I don’t think so, I think it’s pretty bad.” Donald bade farewell to the baseball champ and gave his charity B.A.T. which assists minor league players who need medical assistance a gift of $25,000.
Team Backbone decided to create one of the baseball caps in honor and with the name of Canseco’s dad. Richard Hatch, the man serving two separate prison sentences for tax evasion, questioned Canseco’s honesty and motives. He thought since Canseco did not raise much money during the team’s first fundraising task, maybe he had used his dad’s illness as a ploy to leave this task. He questioned, “Would Jose stoop to that level? I don’t know.”
Busey managed to piss off Meat Loaf in the art supply store when he asked Meat Loaf if he was buying art supplies for everyone. Meat Loaf told the camera, “My switch is this close and it’s ugly when I get angry.” Boy, was Meat Loaf under exaggerating his anger potential.
When the men go into their work studio, Meat Loaf could not find some of his art supplies (which were in plain sight in the room by the way). He then inexplicably lost his cool and called Busey a “M*ther f*cker” and lashed out at him saying, “I bought those m*ther f*cking sponges. Part of that paint is mine…I am so sick and tired of …” Meat Loaf then lunged at Busey and Mark McGrath bravely stepped in between an overly irate Meat Loaf and a justifiably befuddled Busey. Meat Loaf kept calling Busey the same MF name over and over again. “You look in my eyes and I am the last person in the f*cking world you ever want to f*ck with. You understand me?” We then luckily cut to commercial break.
After the break, and before any of us viewers could catch our breath, NBC cut right back to the feud between the two celebs. Rich took Busey out of the studio. And McGrath calmed Meat Loaf down and stopped him from “ripping Busey’s head off.” Busey came back in right before Rich found the missing bag with Meat Loaf’s supplies. But did that discovery calm Meat Loaf down and make him apologize? HELL NO. He threw Busey’s spray paint can which he had picked up while Busey was outside back at him and yelled at him to “shut the f*ck up.” Rich gave the team a speech about why they were all there and how the charities needed them, so, the men got back to making art. Once Meat Loaf started painting by bouncing a paint-wetted basketball onto a blank canvas, the men looked like they were back on track.
The women were slow on their artwork and kept pushing back their departure time for the gallery. They did not leave until 5 PM on a Friday and got stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic. Meanwhile, the men finished setting up their gallery and had time to relax, smoke, and chit chat.
NBC cut to Meat Loaf having a sit down with Busey. “I did the wrong thing in yelling at you this morning. It didn’t solve anything and I am so embarrassed by it. And I am so upset by it. Nothing ever gets solved when people do that,” confessed Meat Loaf. All Busey could mutter as he listened mostly quietly is, “I know, I am aware of that.” Meat Loaf then cut him off and said, “I have been beating myself up all day for it….I have to apologize and I am really really sorry.” Busey simply said, “I accept your apology.”
To the cameras, Busey said, “Meat Loaf had a battle going inside him and the best way he knew how to win it is to confront me in a confrontation of death. Beating me senseless, that was his way of confronting his own anger.” Busey then suggested to Meat Loaf to go to anger management and Meat Loaf admitted he already had. The two men then hugged it out. Busey came back to the camera and said, “Meat Loaf excelled to the level of dancing on a rainbow with no fear. And no doubt.” I’m really starting to really like Busey.
Back to the women’s camp. The ladies finally arrived at an empty gallery but their art had yet to arrive. The women started panicking because they could not start raising funds without the art. With only 5 minutes left until the opening, the art arrived and the women went into a mad rush to display everything. The women opened the gallery doors even though they were not done with their displays. But there was hardly a shopper waiting to come in.
The men on the other hand had a gallery full of people and were rolling in the dough! The celebs, other than Hatch, brought out all their very rich and extremely generous friends who ended up buying all the art.
Over time, the women started making more money as they started taking donations over the telephone and as more buyers came in the gallery. The women got three individual donations of $99,000 each over the telephone, one of which was for the sale of MJ’s shirt. They probably would have raised even more money had there not been a limit of $99,000 on credit card sales.
Not to be outdone, Rich sold his Gibson guitar which he hand-rhinestoned and had signed by the entire cast for a whopping $470,000.
Federico Castelluccio, star of The Sopranos, is also an accomplished painter and was asked by The Donald to come and select the winner of the baseball cap competition. Castelluccio chose Jackson’s hat which contained a replica of MJ’s hand as a design. So, Jackson won $25,000 as a result for her charity, AIDS Project Los Angeles.
In the boardroom, Rich said Lil Jon and Meat Loaf were his best artists. Meat Loaf admitted to having lost his temper to Trump. Everyone stood up for Rich’s management style. The women also praised Matlin’s passion and poise. Even Star Jones said, “It was an honor to work with [Matlin].”
When all was said and done, an incredibly-impressive fundraising record was set. In fact, so much money was raised by both teams that before the winner was announced, Trump made this offer: If both teams agreed, the the project manager of the losing team would keep the money he/she had raised for his/her charity instead of winner take all. Both teams agreed instantaneously.
The two teams raised a combined amount of $1,640,000 (including Jackson’s $25,000 prize) which was more money than ever raised in any single season of Celebrity Apprentice. The men raised $626,908 of that amount. But the women did even better if you can believe that! They raised $986,000 and obviously, won the task. Matlin is playing for Starkey Hearing Foundation and Rich for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital both of which will be much more wealthy after this episode. Trump threw in an additional $14,000 of his own money for the winner, making Matlin’s contribution to her charity a cool million.
The Donald then threw another monkey wrench into the game. Because the men had raised so much money, he asked the women to decide if everyone on the men’s team should be safe that week as a prize or if the women wanted Trump to actually fire a man from Backbone. Star Jones tried to whisper into Matlin’s ear and Matlin said, “I’m deaf, Star, I can’t hear!” Matlin then said she wished she wasn’t put in that position but then said she had an idea but asked for 30 seconds to consult with her teammates.
After talking it out, Matlin said, “With all due respect, my heart goes to Jose and his family. And I would do the same exact thing. Now, in terms of the team, which I congratulate them wholeheartedly for raising that much mullah, we have gone through hell with three firings in a row, and it was all business and I suggest you fire someone because it’s all business.”
With that Trump asked Rich who his weakest team player was. Rich said in this task he would have to rank the players by the amount of money each raised. McGrath raised $20,000. Lil Jon $10,000 -15,000. Meat Loaf about $11,000, leaving Rich with having raised most of the money. Hatch raised the least but Trump strangely used Hatch’s four years in jail as an excuse of why Hatch was not able to raise money. Trump asked the women who he should fire and the ones asked named Hatch.
Rich admitted moving forward the weakest link on his team would be Busey because the team will need more focus. The rest of the team agreed and named Busey as well. But Trump stood up for Busey and said, “I love the brilliance…I think Gary is a different kind of a guy. I think he’s very deceptive. I think Gary is really a very solid guy even though sometimes he pretends that he is not.” Busey agreed with Trump, and called himself, “Secretive and mysterious.” Matlin then stood up for Busey and called him, “Brilliant.” She told the men Busy is “More brilliant than I think any of you realize. He knows how to play the game and you need to look at the bigger picture..he is very passionate. He will fight.” Matlin suggested Hatch be fired.
So, in the end and without warning or asking Rich to leave the boardroom only to come back with his two weakest players, it was Richard Hatch which heard the famous, “You’re fired” words from Trump. Hatch was shocked! “I didn’t get to defend myself! I had a whole list!” No matter Hatch. Goodbye.
Another week of craziness went down on Celebrity Apprentice and this time, it was Gary Busey and Niki Taylor who were in charge of Backbone and A.S.A.P. teams, respectively.
Oh poor Busey. Although he was named Project Manager, he never seemed to be fully in charge. Of anything. He seemed discombobulated throughout the whole episode which is hard to do considering he spent half the show shooting the breeze with teammate Jose Canseco – to the point that Mark McGrath took video evidence of the two wasting time in case he needed proof in the boardroom.
This week, our favorite B-List celebrities were tasked with promotion of camping gear and RV’s through a display in middle of New York city.
“Niki, you’re basically willing to take responsibility for your loss? I respect that. Niki you’re fantastic, but other than that, you’re fired,” said the Donald.