Celebrity Apprentice recap, true colors send Cyndi Lauper home

Cyndi Lauper - 2010 Joyful Heart Foundation Gala - Arrivals - Skylight Soho, 275 Hudson Street - New York City, NY, USA

Things we learned last night on "The Celebrity Apprentice."

Eric and Donald Trump love Dep; The Donald must have been a Persian Prince in another life, Curtis Stone is the quintessential diplomat, Cyndi Lauper comes from the Pee Wee Herman's school of interior design, Sharon O is a blast to shop with and Maria K's true colors are showing full force.

And Bret Michaels will win this thing.

NBC's reality two-hour long advert for companies sponsoring that week's task has captured ratings, mostly because of Michael's medical drama, but also because of the two older women, Osbourne and Lauper, who together bring a unique fun to the show.



Now it's just Sharon, as Lauper was lopped off last night, her "biayatch" fest with "Holly Peete Whatevah" is over, and now the real players remain.

A note to Trump Sr. who corrects Donald Jr's reeling off of the sponsor names. "You blew it. The kid will never be his father." Jeez Donald, even in jest words hurt more than anything. Can you imagine the feeling these grown children have as The Donald trots out newest son little Baron and his latest wife on the show too?

BridgeStreet Worldwide executive apartments was the assigned task. Each team is appointed to decorate the corporate short-term apartments for the Fortune 500 types who live for a few weeks to ninety days while they're doing business in New York City.

The catch this week was that Maria and Sharon got Curtis as Trump sends our man Bret to balance Holly and Cyndi.

Tenacity:

The reluctant project manager is Holly, who has become a Jedi master at reining in Cyndi who goes off like a pinball machine inside a prop house. Cyndi bursts out, "nobody sticks up for the gays!' out of the blue, and Holly and Bret are like, "what?"

Cyndi gets to tart up a whore-ish red room (ceiling too) with eclectic pieces for a unique "Celebrity Room" and she does a good job, though that room would work most people's nerves after a month of looking at it.

The downfall of Cyndi happened when she melted down over the alleged nicked ottoman and was rude to the handymen hired to help them finish their task in 24 hours. Her honesty was the final nail in her coffin at the boardroom sit down, as the only positive note, the red room credited to Lauper, was revealed to be Holly's idea, not hers.

Bret took panoramic photos of New York and had a classic "Spinal Tap" Stonehenge moment. His photos were meant to be blown up to mural size, and came the size of a place mat.