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RudyRules:
Baldwin & Henner are the only two who appeal to me of the ones I've heard of.
puddin:
Teams Compete to Sell Hot Dogs on Tonight's Season Premiere of Celebrity Apprentice 1/3/08
"CELEBRITY APPRENTICE"
THURSDAY JANUARY 3 "701" (09:00PM - 10:01PM)
TASK: SELLING HOT DOGS
The celebrities try their hand at one of the most quintessential New York jobs: hot dog vendor. The team that makes the most money wins. However, being famous has its privileges, as candidates try to use their contacts to sell wieners at $5,000 and $10,000 a pop. The stars not only bring out their famous friends (including New York Met David Wright ) to help, but they catch the eye of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. For the first time the 14 celebrities are stripped of their managers, personal assistants, agents, and publicists and are thrown out of their comfort zones. They quickly begin to size up each others egos as they come face to face trying to create a team name and captain.
Trump's eyes and ears on the task are his daughter Ivanka and eldest son Donald Jr. As previously announced, the fourteen celebrity "candidates" competing for charity are: Trace Adkins, Carol Alt, Stephen Baldwin, Nadia Comaneci, Tiffany Fallon, Jennie Finch, Nely Galan, Marilu Henner, Lennox Lewis, Piers Morgan, Omarosa, Tito Ortiz, Vincent Pastore, and Gene Simmons.
Source: NBC Press Release
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--- Quote from: RudyRules on January 02, 2008, 11:35:11 PM ---Baldwin & Henner are the only two who appeal to me of the ones I've heard of.
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Rudy Rules, you must be so young. If you were 5 years old or more in 1976, then you would surely know of Nadia Comaneci, who got her perfect 10s in Olympic gymnastics and then went on to marry a top U.S. gymnast. I can understand how Omarosa, who you must surely know if you are a fan of The Apprentice from its first season, might not appeal to you(she doesn't to me either but somebody's got to be the villain). Gene Simmons of KISS, he is a superstar and apparently a decent human being; I am not a fan of his music but he appeals to me as a personality. Jennie Finch the U.S. Olympic softball star is someone I know nothing about other than her softball talent, but she is someone I want to know more about. The rest don't do anything for me going in(although I particularly want to see Piers Morgan on the receiving end rather than the dishing end), but they might as this series develops.
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The wait is over. The women name themselves Empresario and elect Omarosa, who campaigned as it her life depended on it, first Project Manager. The men name themselves Hydra and elect Sephen Baldwin Project Manager. The individuals who suggested the names, Gene Simmons and Nel Galan, look to me to be the power players for their teams(although Simmons appears to be in hot water with a remark aimed at Ivanka next week).
The task is selling hot dogs, but the men want to also capitalize on their celebrity. Omarosa overrules several on her team that want to use their celebrity. The women, based on a recommendation from Carol Alt, pick 8th Avenue and 34th St. as their sales site. The men pick Rockefeller Center. Before their planning meeting is over, Gene Simmons phones 3 people he knows and asks them to come tomorrow and pay big dollars for a hot dog. One actually shows up and delivers an unrevealed but large amount of money. The men do a good job and get dollars out of their celebrity. The women get off to a slow start until Marilu Henner calls her contacts, who come to pay $5000 each for a bottle of water. Omarosa criticizes Tiffani Fallon for not selling well. NYC Mayor Bloomberg shows up to sample one hot dog from each team and doesn't pick a taste winner. Jennie Finch gets David Wright to come and he buys out thet remaining hot dogs, offering them free to anyone there.
The boardroom opens with the usual baloney of Trump asking each Proejct Manager is they won. I only once have ever heard that they didn't so, so the truth quotient just isn't there. The women raise $17k and the men $52k. Baldwin gets the $52K for his charity and Trump says it will continue to happen that way. The men are excused and watch on closed-circuit TV form their quarters. Trump states that the location for the women was suspect and they did not use their celebrity effectively compared to the men, who location was very good. Omarosa, attacked initially by Piers Morgan when the men were around, is attacked again by her team but Nely states that she was an excellent leader except for the celebrity and location decisions and location was picked by Carol Alt. Omarosa goes after Tiffani as weak and ineffective at sales. Trump asked Tiffani is she called Hugh Hefner; she said she did not because she was saving him. Piers had made a prediction once the women-only part of the boardroom started that Tiffani would be eliminated and not Omarosa.
Omarosa selects Tiffani and Carol to come back with her. There is no time gap shown until the final boardroom, as those contestants wait outside and the Trumps don't even discuss it among themselves. It is clear that Donald Trump has already made up his mind. Carol Alt defends herself well. Omarosa defends herself even better, skilled infighter that she is. Tiffani is the lost soul wandering in the desert. Trump states that her unwillingness to call Hugh Hefner has cost her her slot. She is fired. I note that the $10K she might have gotten from Hefner would only have brought the women up to 52% of the men's total, so it should have been Omarosa going. However, Trump frequently rewards ability to defend effectively by keeping people around longer than they deserve. Also, it should be clear that there would be no alternate villain in the cast if Omarosa had been fired. She is good for another 8 episodes before her team(and it will be scrambled by then) knifes her in the back successfully.
michael:
ahh i hate this show
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