Thursday January 3rd was a milestone in Apprentice television history, as Donald Trump explored a new realm of employee, "hiring" 14 "celebrities" to do some dirty work for charity. Mr Trump selected a variety of celebrities (including some I had never heard of) for Season 7 of the NBC TV show, and split them into two teams: boys versus girls.Actor Stephen Baldwin took control of team Hydra (named after Lernaean Hyrda, a Greek mythological serpent-like water beast with several heads). Despite Piers Morgan's claims that even Hercules could not even kill the beast, according to legend Hydra was defeated by the Hercules at a swamp near Lake Lerna. The woman's team saw Omarosa become the first Project Manager and the name Empresario was decided upon (the Spanish word for a business mogul).
The teams first task? To sell hot dogs in New York City. Whoever made the most money won the challenge, simple as that.
And Omarosa just sucked! Her blatant disregard for flaunting the teams celebrity status was mirrored in the outfits the team wore which likened them to eachother, rather than making them stand out as individuals. Ivana Trump pointed this out in the boardroom stating that the red caps Empresario wore hid their celebrity status from the crowd. I suppose half of Empresario, including Omarosa wouldn't be recognized by your average Joe anyway.
On the other hand team Hydra completely exploited its celebrity status to its advantage. While the mens brainstorming before the challenge seemed quite uninspiring (until Gene Simmons whips out his cell phone and calmly asks a friend to come by their hot dog stand the next day and purchase a wiener in a roll for $10,000), the implementation was quite extraordinary.
In the end, between both teams, around $69,000 was raised for charity, going this week to the winning Project Manager, Stephen Baldwin. The Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund should be receiving a nice little cheque in the mail soon.
The boardroom ensued with the wannabe Omarosa, the playmate Tiffany Fallon, and the former model Carol Alt battling for survival against the Donald's finger and infamous catchphrase. Although Omarosa contradicted herself several times in the boardroom, she was fighting for her life and wriggled her way out of it.
The playmate was a little too nice, and despite Trump's reasoning for firing Fallon, we all know they real reason she was K.O.'d: Trump and the producers want to see the "killers" (or bitches) go at it. For this reason alone I think Omarosa will last a while in the race to become the celebrity apprentice. However, Omarosa will not win the celebrity apprentice. If I was to bet on anyone I'd be putting my moneybags on Gene Simmons.

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