Showing posts with label Apprentice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apprentice. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Donald Trump dumps Rachel Uchitel from 'Celeb Apprentice' list




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Only one reality show with "Celebrity" in the title for you, Rachel Uchitel.

"Celebrity Apprentice" star/producer Donald Trump, who was recruiting Tiger Woods' ur-mistress to be part of the next edition of the NBC show, has lost interest after she agreed to do VH1's "Celebrity Rehab."




"It's a terrible decision. We have zero interest in her now," Trump tells TMZ. "Look at what 'Celebrity Apprentice' did for Piers Morgan. He's getting Larry King's job. She made a bad mistake."

And this: "'Celebrity Apprentice' is a huge show and 'Celebrity Rehab' is not. ... I'm moving on."

We think maybe that Morgan's "America's Got Talent" stint and his well-regarded interview shows on British TV might have had something to do with his impending CNN gig, but we'll grant The Donald his point that "The Celebrity Apprentice" is much bigger (albeit not "huge") than "Celeb Rehab."

We just hope Dr. Drew can help Rachel with her love addiction.








Thursday, May 20, 2010

Junior Apprentice: Hibah Ansary is second teen to be sent packing after camping task disaster

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Fired: Hibah Ansary became the second casualty of the Junior Apprentice
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Project manager Adam Eliaz decided to bring Hibah and Zoe Plummer, left, back into the board room
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Lord Sugar decided Hibah's time was up, saying the cut-throat nature of business is not suited to her personality, seen here with Nick Hewer and Karren Brady
Hibah Ansary has become the second Junior Apprentice hopeful to be sent packing by Lord Sugar, after her team failed to make a single sale.

This week saw the two teams tasked with inventing a new camping accessory, which Hibah's team opted to make out of cardboard.

Hibah, 16, from Manchester, was on team Revolution, who created a multi-purpose storage unit called Flex N Store.
She helped with the photoshoot to promote the invention, but the task fell apart when the team struggled to put up a tent.

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This weeks the teams had to make a new camping accessory
Meanwhile, team Instinct invented a trolley aimed at festival-goers, named Slide Stuff.

After pitching their goods to retail giants including Argos, Instinct shifted a total of 3,100 units - while Revolution sold none.
Attention soon turned to candidate Emma Walker's questionable decision to create a camping product made out of cardboard.

Emma said: 'I don't think I should be criticised for coming up with the best idea that we had.'

But Lord Sugar's aide Nick Hewer interrupted: 'I think it was a terrible idea. Cardboard and camping equals soggy.'

Project manager Adam Eliaz decided to bring Hibah and Zoe Plummer back into the boardroom.
Lord Sugar told the candidates: 'Hibah, I've observed only in the last two weeks that you are very articulate.

'Adam, on balance, I like your spirit. Hibah, my instinct is that the cut-throat nature of business is not suited to your personality so, with regret, Hibah - you're fired!'

As she was driven away, Hibah said: 'This process has shown me how important success is to me.

'I really do fear failure. I'm still going to carry on with my dreams of studying medicine and I hope that I'll be really successful at it one day.'






Monday, May 10, 2010

Celebrity Apprentice recap, true colors send Cyndi Lauper home

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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.