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RealityFreakWill:
“A Little Bit Obnoxious”
Reality series, CELEBRITY APPRENTICE is mid-season and things are starting to piss off Donald Trump! Before the show heats up last week’s winning team, ATHENA allowed PM Tionne Watkins to donate $20,000.00 to her charity, SICLE CELL FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA.
Donald has had enough of the women’s team winning. They have won 4 out of the past 5 tasks and he’s decided that it is time to split up the teams. By Donald’s design the new teams are set up as follows:
KOTU ATHENA
Clint Black - PM Melissa Rivers - PM
Herschel Walker Jesse James
Natalie Gulbis Brande Roderick
Khloe Kardashian Annie Duke
Joan Rivers Tionne Watkins
During this task Brian McKnight was missing due to other contractual obligations and will be assigned when he returns.
The task for this week is for each team to produce a 60 second Viral Video that can be viewed on the Internet to send a product message for ALL Small & Mighty Detergent. Kevin & Shannon of the ALL Corporation advise the teams that the focus should be on Originality, Buzzworthiness and Branding with special attention to their demographic, which is the modern, everyday woman who might find the video entertaining enough to forward to their online friends and family.
Team KOTU starts off with Herschel having to leave the task for several hours. Clint being the PM leads his team of women in brain storming for a catchy idea. Being that Joan Rivers is a seasoned comedienne one would think they would go straight to her for the funny….not so much. Clint comes up with some suggestive, somewhat raunchy idea that “doing the dirty laundry” is some kind of code for a sexual encounter and he is off and running…..and I do mean running. He runs the task like a dictator which is insulting to the women but in his old school, country way this short guy stands tall and basically does the task solo, allowing the ladies to sit around and look pretty. His behavior is obnoxious and when Joan challenges him continually on his terrible idea he tells her she is being obnoxious. Herschel returns to utter chaos.
On the opposite side of the spectrum is team ATHENA with Melissa Rivers acting as the organized, delegating leader who utilizes her talented team mates. Jesse James reluctantly agrees to appear in the video with the assistance of three little people who they label “migets” in the title of the video. Annie is her usual pushy self but Melissa does the smart thing and gives Annie the responsibility of branding and costuming so she is contained in her own little arena.
The judging for the viral videos is done by the ALL executives and a guy who is a self proclaimed, obnoxious celebrity wannabe, Perez Hilton. How this guy is connected to Donald Trump’s organization is out of my range of reality. In any case both execs dislike both videos for their lack of good taste and Perez likes ATHENA’S simply because smoking hot Jesse James is in it.
Off to the Boardroom they go where The Donald surprises everyone telling them that both teams are coming back because no body won. Melissa feeling that her entire team gave 100% asks for volunteers to join her for elimination…Tionne steps up and Melissa selects Brande as her choice. As much as Clint and Joan Rivers fought he was smart in bringing back Khloe and Natalie knowing he could strong arm them both.
Keeping with the obnoxious theme of the evening, Donald takes no time to remind Tionne of former Apprentice contestant, Bradford who volunteered to come into the Boardroom…he was instantly fired for being such a fool to volunteer and now so was Tionne…In Trump’s finest, most superior and obnoxious tone he sends Tionne packing.
He grinds Natalie and Clint for a few moments then levels Khloe Kardashian by verbally spanking her on network television for getting a DUI. He lets her know that he has no patience for drinking and driving and the irreparable damage it can cause if an accident occurs. He gives the spoiled Hollywood brat the boot and a beat down for acting like the rest of her above reproach peers telling her that she really needs to get it together. So that her charity does not suffer from her lack of responsible behavior Donald gives the BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION a donation of $20,000.00 while the door hits Khloe in the ass.
Next week there is a double task in store and now that the teams are split there is even more tension…don’t forget to watch Sunday on NBC.
http://www.tvgrapevine.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3452%3Acelebrity-apprentice-a-little-bit-obnoxious&catid=74%3Acelebrityapprentice&Itemid=1
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The $20,000 payoff in hush money to Khloe Kardashian reminds me that Trump would have had to pay her charity a similar "appearance fee" guarantee, so it isn't like he is being particularly generous by paying her charity that on her firing. Trump gets to look beneficent when he really probably isn't.
RealityFreakWill:
Khloe vs. Trump: The Feud Heats Up!
We've got a feeling a certain feud is leaving the boardroom and heading for the real world!
After Khloe Kardashian got the boot from Donald Trump on The Celebrity Apprentice, each side has taken to the Internet to air their issues. Khloe recently blogged about The Donald giving her the axe, which she blames on her history with alcohol abuse.
"The Donald fired me off of Celebrity Apprentice last night," she wrote on April 6. "It wasn't because of my work ethic, it wasn't because I was slacking -- it was because of my DUI, one of the biggest mistakes I've ever made that I will forever regret. I will NEVER say that what I did was right, but I think it is completely unrelated to my place on the show and I don't think I should have been fired for that reason alone. I have tried to bring awareness to how serious DUI's are and I am trying to make some right out of my huge mistake."
She goes on to skewer Donald for forgiving former Miss USA Tara Conner for her drinking, but not her.
"I find it weird that he can forgive and take back Tara Conner but he can't do the same with me?!" she adds. "The things people do for ratings!"
And now Donald is fighting back with a blog of his own, titled, "Point Counterpoint."
"There’s been a lot of commotion about alcohol lately. On The Celebrity Apprentice, two of our celebrities have admitted problems with it. One had a DUI conviction. People wonder why I take a strong position on this situation," he writes, clearly indicating Khloe, who was caught driving under the influence in 2008.
"My experience with alcohol is limited, as I don’t drink. Maybe that allows me to have a clearer view of what it can do to people who do not handle it responsibly. Many people can drink and live healthy and productive lives. Others cannot."
He goes on to detail his brother's struggle with alcohol, before delving into the Tara issue, writing, "Then people got into another commotion because I pardoned Tara Connor for her irresponsible behavior which also included alcohol use. Here’s the difference: She had just entered celebrity, which was a new arena for her, and these contestants have already had professional success as well as celebrity.
So if I take a hard line on this subject, maybe there’s a reason for it. I like and care for these people, and I don’t want to see them hurting themselves. Looking the other way might be an easier way to go, but that’s not the way I am."
The Celebrity Apprentice airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on NBC.
http://www.okmagazine.com/news/view/13237
marigold:
Joan Rivers Blogs:
Episode Six: Spreading a Clean Virus
This was the worst challenge so far, and it was the most unhappy that I have been since starting the show!
Our team was separated, and Melissa and I were split up. It was no longer the women vs. the men, and I tried to form new bonds with my teammates Clint, Natalie, Herschel and Khloe. The challenge was to create a viral video for All’s laundry detergent, Small & Mighty. (Small & Mighty, by the way, was my nickname for Tom Cruise for years—who knew he also got your clothes clean!?)
Right at the start, I learned something new. I found out what a viral video was. I had thought it was a film you watched in sex education class to warn you about promiscuity and sailors on shore leave, but a viral video is actually a funny or amazing clip that gets passed along from person to person via email. (It has to be outrageous, like David Hasselhoff eating a cheeseburger on the floor or Christian Bale’s tirade on the set of his latest movie.) Marketers have realized that ordinary people have the power to circulate these things better than any PR firm, and so All Small & Mighty wanted to capitalize on the phenomenon.
Clint was our project manager, and from the very start he took none of the team’s suggestions for the video. As writers working in a group, you bounce and bounce and bounce ideas until you come up with one you all love (or at least all like), but Clint was having none of this. I have never in my life worked with someone so dogmatic, so rigid and so dismissive. Clint ignored all of our ideas and did the video HIS WAY. I don’t know if it was because most of his teammates were women, but then why didn’t he listen to Herschel who is a very smart and successful businessman? After many attempts, my biggest contribution of the day was ordering lunch!
The entire team felt that Clint’s video concept was stupid and had no point of view. There was a strange masturbation undertone to it, which we all objected to.
At one point over lunch, while we all were arguing so fiercely with Clint, I came up with a great (or so I thought) idea for a video that people would surely pass along. I suggested we show Clint and me fighting over how to do our viral video. Clint would then walk away and I would (pretend to) spit in his sandwich. When he came back, we’d continue to discuss the merits of Small & Mighty while he ate the sandwich. Of course, he rejected that gross idea and we did it all his way.
Because we all hated our viral video, going to the boardroom was uncomfortable and awkward. We were all so over Clint’s “leadership.”
Melissa was project manager of her team and their video was adorable. They took the words small and mighty literally and had midgets coming out of washing machines and dancing with shopping carts. It was cute, cute, cute! But the executives from All were upset with both videos: ours because it was so stupid, and Melissa’s because they used the term “midget” (even though they asked their actors for permission first).
Because neither team won, one person from each was fired: Tionne and Khloe , from our team. (It should have been Clint!) It hurt me very much to see both women leave. They were great workers, and I guess it goes to show that snakes and connivers get places, and good girls sometimes finish last.
As we enter the seventh week, it’s getting down to the nitty gritty, and I feel like I should put aside trying to help the other contestants and just concentrate on winning—with humor! An undercurrent of trickery and guile is starting to permeate our environment. One of my biggest assets—and flaws I guess—is I say exactly what I think. I’m not much of a plotter.
http://www.joanriversblog.com/blog/
marigold:
Joan Rivers Blogs:
More Viral Videos!!!
Melissa and I were asked by All Small & Mighty to do more videos!!
Here’s the best part: They donated $20,000 to each of our charities as a thank you, and you can help too! Watch our videos here, and when you do, All will donate 50 cents to our charities.
Melissa’s is the Lili Claire Foundation, which gives counseling to families of terminally ill children. Mine—after God’s Love We Deliver—is Guide Dogs for the Blind. Enjoy!
Link to view the videos: http://www.all-laundry.com/
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