Episode 6 of Celebrity Apprentice: Clint Dictates and Jesse Gets Dirty With Midgets
Before I get into Celebrity Apprentice, I am so excited because this morning I am taking the kids to Costa Rica! We are going down there for spring break…yay!
So, this week on Celebrity Apprentice the task was to create a viral video for All Detergent. As I suspected going into task delivery, the teams got shuffled up. I stayed on Team Athena along with Melissa Rivers, Brande Roderick, Tionne Watkins and Jesse James. Team Kotu becomes Herschel Walker, Clint Black, Joan Rivers, Khloe Kardashian and Natalie Gulbis. Brian McKnight was away at a concert but I assumed whichever team lost the task would end up with Brian on their team when he got back. Melissa volunteered to Project Manage Athena (since she has experience in production) and Clint volunteered for Kotu.
So, let me start with Athena because, once again, the less interesting stuff happened on Athena. As we were heading over to the war room, we started throwing out ideas. So we come up with this idea that Jesse could get scrubbed in a bathtub by midgets. Now, the original idea was Joan getting into a bathtub, little people scrubbing her with All Detergent, and Brande coming out of the bathtub. That would have been hilarious. But we didn’t have Joan on the team anymore, which really bummed me out because I figured Joan was the ace in the hole on this task. The reason we were focused on midgets was that the detergent was called All Small and Mighty and, as Isaid repeatedly over the course of the task, you can’t really say All Small and Mighty and viral in the same sentence and not expect to get little people. And, as you notice, KOTU wanted to use a midget as well but after the first guy couldn’t act the agency had no more options to send them since Athena had already booked the other three they had available.
At first, Jesse was very resistant to get scrubbed by the little people. To be fair, we did want him in a Speedo in a bathtub so the concept did evolve from what he initially refused to do. Let me tell you, when he was initially refusing to do it I was pissed off! I was very happy when Jesse got moved to our team (and even more sad to see Natalie move over to KOTU) but when Jesse said no to concept that the rest of our team liked I was really annoyed that he wasn’t being a team player. That being said, we did finally convince him and once he said yes he was the best addition to the team ever. Slightly bumpy start but then huge asset after that. And, yes, he is a totally awesome dude, too.
So, the concept is that we will have three little people dressed as All Bottles. I was put in charge of brand messaging. Tionne and I were also assigned to get the costumes and props. After doing the brand research I needed to and after Tionne found the places where we could get the costumes and props, T and I went off to do our errands while Jesse, Melissa, and Brande stayed behind to write the script. While I was gone, Melissa obviously took some shots at me in her interviews, saying she wanted me out of the room because I was disruptive and wanted to run everything. As usual, she said all that behind my back and not to my face. One of the reasons I love Brande so much is that the one time we had an argument she told me she was pissed off and why she was pissed off right to my face. She was direct and I love that. Melissa, on the other hand, could not have been nicer to my face at this point in the game. Yet, obviously, she was somewhat sniping when my back was turned. Lucky for me, every time we had been in a boardroom, Trump had asked the PM if I overstepped my bounds or stepped on their toes. I think Trump kept asking that because he suspected I was the type who would want to be the leader on every task. Yet, every PM who was asked that insisted I was very deferential, including Khloe on the Zappos Challenge. So whatever Melissa was saying about me wanting to be in charge, she was confusing that with me being willing to stick my neck out and get my ideas across. I actually specifically always deferred to the PM because I had seen on the previous season that not doing that was a huge mistake in the game. And, anyone who has watched the last three episodes has seen an Annie that was in the background, causing no conflict and doing whatever the PM told me to do. So, I obviously knew how to subordinate and not take over.
So, anyway, Tionne and I went off to get electric blue unitards, yellow wigs, blue gloves, and high tops for the actors to wear (so they would look like the All bottles). When we were at Home Depot getting the Scrub Brushes (we found yellow ones!) Tionne found these electric blue rubber gloves the same color as the unitards and she also found these yellow hard hats. I really enjoyed the afternoon with Tionne. I hadn’t gotten to spend much time with her before plus she had been sick coming into the show with a horrible sinus infection. That was finally clearing up at which point the real Tionne was emerging. She got her energy back and she is really freaking hilarious. She did a great job finding all the costume stuff and I had a really good time getting to know her better.
After we got all the stuff, we brought it all to the laundromat where they were setting up to film. I wasn’t at the war room when Don Jr. came by so I don’t know how true the edit was on the meeting but if it was edited fairly I wish Melissa had paid more attention to Don Jrs concerns about taming it down a little because in that case we could have left off that end bit with the midgets swearing. That is not to say I don’t stand behind the video, because I do. Melissa and Jesse did an amazing job writing it and it was really, really funny (as you saw when it got played in the boardroom). But Brande seemed to pay attention to what Don Jr had to say since she was concerned it might be too out there so it seems liek maybe the edit of that meetin was fair.Again, I don’t know. I wasn’t there.
Anyway, we got back to the set and dressed up the midgets and the rest of the day was just ridiculously fun. Jesse was a good sport and had a blast the whole day. He was awesome in the video. The midgets were amazing and game for whatever we did. Melissa did a really great job directing and producing. I made sure the branding was there. Everyone contributed and we all had a blast, never stopping laughing the whole day. Editing the piece was even more fun because even after watching it over and over we still thought it was hilarious, the sign of a good viral. I can’t remember the last time I laughed as long or as hard as I did those two days.
We had a harmonious team, and we produced a really funny product. It was a great day.
Now on to KOTU. Oh my lord. During the whole task, Melissa was getting texts from her mother telling her what was going on. We were also getting reports from Khloe and Natalie. By saying they were telling us what was happening, they weren’t selling out their team by telling us their ideas. They were texting us about what was happening with Clint, that Clint was locking them out of the process and being a complete dictator. The interesting thing about this challenge was that I was so upset that Joan had been moved to the other team when I heard what the challenge was. Joan Rivers starring in a viral video would surely get passed around by the target audience. We substituted Jesse but I figured Clint would obviously have Joan be the star and I knew we would lose to that. Joan was a huge asset for them. Also, this is right up Joan’s alley for what her wheelhouse is in the writing department. Joan is obviously known for being outrageous and pushing the envelope. And viral videos are meant to be outrageous. So here is KOTU with the most obvious star for the video and the most obvious writer for the script. I figured we were fucked.
But then it turns out we weren’t because Clint became a dictator, not a project manager, and decided to do the whole thing himself. And by himself I mean he locked out the rest of his team from doing anything, literally he locked them out of the editing bay. Clint wrote the piece (which was a dirty joke about masturbation which was not funny, offensive, and didn’t even make sense), he directed it, he made all the decisions about the actors and the editing. He was a one man show and despite his teams constant objections to the idea (and Ivanka’s objections as well) Clint refused to listen to any of them and just went full steam ahead. Ignoring the biggest asset he had on his team (Joan) was completely ridiculous and, frankly, disrespectful. I can’t say it enough, I thought Athena was sunk. In the target demographic there is no way we could compete with a Joan Rivers viral (even with Jesse starring in ours). All her ideas were very right on target and funny that she threw out on the show. Clint should have listened.
So, we get into the boardroom and, obviously, Joan was really harsh on Clint. No love lost between those two. Joan got very personal. Instead of focusing on why Clint failed as a project manager (as Khloe and Natalie did) Joan focused on why Clint failed as a human being, talking about how she never wants to see him again and that he is a bad man. Personally, I believe that no matter what your personal feelings are about someone that the boardroom is supposed to be about the task and who did their job well and who didn’t. So I felt Joan stepped over that line several times in the boardroom with Clint. While I wholeheartedly agree that Clint really screwed up as PM in a huge way, I feel the comments should have been kept to just that, the copious ways in which he screwed up as PM. The deeply personal comments made me feel bad for Clint in there.
Athena had no drama in the boardroom. We had all gotten along well and all stood by our product. In fact, when they showed our video the other team was laughing their asses off and we were told that Perez Hilton loved our video (thank you, Perez!) and hated KOTU’s. Seemed like a sure win. NOT.
The All executives hated both virals . While they loved the branding in ours (yay! I was in charge of that) they thought the rest was offensive. Now, I take offense to that in a lot of ways. Our video was great. Melissa did a fantastic job. Jesse did a great job. They wrote a really, really funny and, more importantly, viral video. Everyone on our team was on board and thought the thing was hilarious. And Perez thought it was really viral and really funny. So, my only explanation is that the All executives wanted a commercial and not a viral. I am not sure they understand the difference between a commercial and a viral because there is no question that we produced a viral, we gace them what they asked for. As I said the whole task, you can’t really say the words viral and All Small and Mighty in the same sentence and not expect little people dressed up as All bottles. Both teams went to the midget thing, afterall. I also feel like if All didn’t like either of them then Perez should have been the tie breaker. Why was he there otherwise?
So, we find out both teams lose (no surprise on the KOTU side). So both teams have to send people into the boardorom. Melissa picked Tionne, because she volunteered, and Brande. I think Melissa knew that I couldn’t get fired since the branding was the only thing praised with our video and Jesse couldn’t get fired since he had done an amazing job and worked his ass off. Brande got chosen kind of by default just because she hadn’t contributed quite as much as the others. Melissa got shafted, as far as I am concerned. She should have won as PM. But Tionne is really the one who got shafted here. Tionne did an excellent job on this task and had just come off a great week as project manager. She was just coming into her own in the game having finally gotten over her really bad sinus infection. When Melissa asked for volunteers, Tionne was the only one who wanted to support her in the boardroom which was a really nice gesture. Look, I knew not to volunteer. I know how Trump reacts to that. At the same time, Tionne didn’t volunteer to be fired, she volunteered to be by Melissa’s side. That makes her a really good person (better than I am for sure) and I was sorry to see her punished for that. Melissa knew she got a get out of jail free card on that one for sure. Trump made it clear that if T hadn’t volunteered that Melissa would have been fired.
Then there was the KOTU firing. Clint, to his credit, didn’t bring Joan in the boardroom with him. He was smart enough to know that Trump would never fire her for this task. So he chooses Khloe and Natalie who did absolutely nothing wrong. Also very much to Clint’s credit, he told Khloe and Natalie that he was absolutely the only one responsible for the failure and he would take the bullet, as he should. Whatever happened in the task up to the point, I feel like there was definitely some redemption here for Clint because he didn’t make any excuses. He took 100% full responsibility for what he had done.
In the boardroom, Trump commended him for just that. It was clear Natalie wasn’t getting fired since Trump was quizzing Natalie about Clint’s performance and not criticizing her at all. I really commend Natalie here because she kept her comments completely on the professionial level. She slung no personal insults towards Clint at all, just really descrbing his failures as a leader on the task. Then there was Khloe. As you are sitting there completely expecting that Clint will get fired (after all he was basically insisting to Trump that he take the bullet) Trump starts this conversation with Khloe about her DUI. Now, I want to make it clear that Khloe is doing everything required of her in regards to the DUI and I happen to know that she is deeply regretful of driving drunk and is making reparations. Trump didn’t care and fired her for it.
I can only say in regards to this WTF??? How does Khloe’s DUI have anything to do with the game? I have to say I was completely confused. Clint admitted it was all his fault. He LOCKED his team out of the editing room. Short of breaking down the door, his team had no way to even give any input in the project. There was no one else to blame but Clint. Instead of Clint getting fired, though, Khloe got fired for something she had done 6 months before she even came on the show. I found the whole thing bizarre. And, needless to say, I was shocked, everyone was shocked, when Clint walked out of that boardroom safe. I guess sometimes Trump acts in mysterious ways.
One thing, as a closing note…Herschel came up with a ridiculously funny idea for his team’s viral that wasn’t shown on TV. He wanted to get into a bathtub, have midgets scrub him with All detergent and then he gets out of the bathtub a white man. I thought that was hilarious (and similar to the Joan Rivers/Brande idea we had). Too bad Clint didn’t listen to that one. I am sure the All executives would have found it offensive but at least KOTU would have produced something that was really funny.
I have to agree with you on Chloe’s firing: WTF?
That is like a dream I had where I get pulled over by the police. In my dream, they ask if I have been drinking. I tell them no. They ask if I have ever drank and drove before. I say yes, many years ago..They then proceed to arrest me for DUI. I woke up sweating fromt that nightmare! Trump was way out of line to fire Chloe. If anything she should be commended for doing all she is suppposed to do for her probation. I can’t wait for next week to see how Clint and Joan get along. Clint seems like such an a–hole. KOTU’s viral video was unfunny and offensive (and I’m not a prude). I just thought it was really, really bad.
I think it would have been cool for Athena’s video, if they scrubbed Jesse and somehow you guys made it appear that all of his tattoos disappeared. Congrats on hanging in there. I’m a little nervous about Melissa’s back stabbing though. We’ll see…..
I agree as well with Chloe’s firing. It didn’t make real sense in this particular taks. The only thing that made it partially right was that Trump did send the $20k to Chloe’s charity. This in itself seems ironic, as it was an effort to put right a wrong. Trump seemed to scream with this action “I’m firing the wrong person here, and hoping that you’ll accept my wrong action with this token gift.” He all but admitted those words in the boardroom too.
The only thing that was missing from the epsiode was your twitter updates. They’ve become a staple for me while I’m watching the show, and I’m sad that I didn’t catch them this time.
It will be really interesting to see the dynamic now between Joan and Clint in the next episode. Can’t wait.
Hi Annie,
IF, there was a clause when a celebrity joins the show that they should have no infractions then it would be understandable to fire Khloe had she hid this fact. Khloe has been up front with this from the beginning. Trump said his staff neglected to tell him of her DUI. She did not deserve to be fired this way! As she said in the car she didn’t want to leave under these circumstances. Not setting a good example Mr. Trump we all know you give second chances to beauty queens!
Regardless I enjoyed the show up to that point. Glad, Clint took the blame for showboating
and not utilizing his “team”. Athena’s video was hilarious and Jesse is really growing on me. Nice guy. Kudo’s to you and your great ideas. Someone please cut the cord between Joan & Melissa!
Take care and have fun. See you next Sunday and on twitter.
As soon as I saw last week’s episode I told my son that the teams were going to be shuffled! And when Athena got Jesse!! I knew that you were going to win whatever task you got. I’m sorry but I respect Joan but don’t really like her or Melissa (especially Melissa). In my eyes your team won!! Funny that the exes or Trump didn’t see that right in the boardroom the exact demographic was responding to your video!! Are they that anal??
Clint should have been fired not Khloe. I agree that she shouldn’t have been punished for something she did in the past and she has been paying for it and redeeming herself. If I didn’t enjoy you and Jesse I would stop watching.
Good Luck!! Maybe I’ll get to see you later this month if ur back from your trip. My hubby is taking me to Vegas for our 26th anniversary!! =]
I look forward to your blog articles!
I completely agree with you Annie that Khloe should not have been fired.
I also feel the ALL executives were not very forthcoming in saying what were the boundaries for the viral film (there may have been more details explained, but in the episode it was very murky).
Take care, and have fun in Costa Rica<(*-*<)
Great re-cap Annie.
But to watch for 2 hours only to see 2 people get fired that had nothinig to do with the project was pretty disappointing. It made the first 1.5 hours pretty pointless.
You are doing great, and we know you are going to go very far in this competition!
I am surprised Clint was not fired as well but I don’t fault Trumps reasoning. If, character and integrity are important to you then he was justified in firing Chloe. Obviously the game is not more important than his values. Chloe’s charity is for Drug & Alcohol abuse!! She of all people should have known better. Saying it was a mistake and the fact that she is regretful is NOT an excuse.
Now about Melissa putting in her two cents, that was out of line and frankly a little creepy. Her mother is a tough cookie and can handle herself in the boardroom
What happened to Tionne last night was wrong on so many different levels! She is bright, organized, strong, smart and in my opinion, one of the front-runners on the show. What Trump did was flat out wrong. I get the whole “don’t volunteer for execution” thing. Don’t get me wrong, but what he did was unforgivable! Melissa should have gone home. She was already ready to sacrifice herself. She knew going into it that it was ultimately her fault, whether she did anything wrong or not. Tionne was ROBBED!
I thought the episode was great… until the boardroom. Was Trump wasted? Those were two of the stupidest firings I’ve ever seen on that show. I couldn’t believe Clint didn’t go because he literally did nothing right. (Not just this week, but the entire show). Tionne did fantastic last week and I thought it was admirable that she volunteered since nobody was to blame on this task. I agree completely that Khloe being booted off for a having a DUI was completely insane too. If Trump really is that against it, then why didn’t he do some research and not ask her to be on the show in the first place. Both firings literally had nothing to do with the hour and a half we had just watched.
Annie, Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Chloe’s firing. It’s interesting to hear that someone who is actually involved in the game, is viewing this the same way the majority of us stunned viewers are.
The only saving grace for leaving Celebrity Apprentice on my TIVO, would be an apology from Trump to Chloe. For him to admit he made a HUGE mistake in judgement would go a long way to repair a ton of disappointed CA watchers.
It’s obvious that we are watching this after the fact, but it would have been nice to see the remaining celebrities band together on her behalf, to plea to Mr. Trump to keep the game true to the rules.
Anyways, keep up the good work, and make sure if you have any skeletons in your closet, that they are well buried. God knows who the next cheap shot will be directed at. Too sad.
*For anyone who thinks that lack of character and integrity played a part in this, I would have to question how Rodman made the grade.
Great Episode
I’m tempted to say I can’t believe I’m recording and watching Celebrity Apprentice “religiously” .. but … I’m not going to say it ô¿~
I’m such a fan of ANNIE’s … amazing also.
How’d you like to see the video of Annie and her
kids going to Costa Rica? While they’re ALL still young!
INCREDIBLE! Who’d a thunk.
Keep up the good work Annie.
What a “unique” personality.
I will predict a “reality” show starring Annie
and her kids would be good. And Donald
is “starting” to take notice?
Lookout. Odds are … eventually.
You’re going to get FIRED ¤¿¤
But then RE-HIRED … again and again and again.
PAYS TO READ TO THE END
“One thing, as a closing note…Herschel came up with a ridiculously funny idea for his team’s viral that wasn’t shown on TV. He wanted to get into a bathtub, have midgets scrub him with All detergent and then he gets out of the bathtub a white man. I thought that was hilarious (and similar to the Joan Rivers/Brande idea we had). Too bad Clint didn’t listen to that one. I am sure the All executives would have found it offensive but at least KOTU would have produced something that was really funny.”
THAT … (In My Opinion)
Is A TOTALLY AWESOME IDEA !!!
I would even think it fair to say that it is “officially”
SoCô¿ôL !!!
I think Clint is a jerk. I can’t believe he’s still there. He caused problems with Dennis and Tom Greene before. He is a very strange person from what I have seen in the show…in my opinion. I feel like he has totally ruined his image to anyone who has seen the show.
That was horrible that Khloe got fired. I thought it was so rude how Donald Trump said, “I can’t stand people that drink and drive” to Khloe. Who does he think he is? She made a mistake, she’s paying for it. Like you said, what did this have to do with the show?
I love the show but not this episode!
I guess Trump felt like he had to fire two people because no one won. I was surprised to see who was fired at first but after thinking about it … it sort of makes sense.
I have only watched this show this season , never before. I only watch it for Annie and a couple others that were already fired. Also I am really starting to like Jesse. He seems like a really great guy.
I think Tionne was fired because she asked for it by volunteering. Trump has been very serious about telling people if they volunteer , that means they dont want to be there and he doesnt want them if they will not try 100% to win.
Also maybe he would have felt a little bad about being forced to fire Melissa because Athena was the winner out of the losers.
I think he fired Klhoe because … lets face it … this show needs to bring in the ratings and what was the most interesting thing about this weeks episode? The dynamic between Joan and Clint … maybe he is hoping next week will be even more entertaining between those two. I think thats half the reason Rodman lasted so long, because Trump thinks Rodman’s controversy brings in viewers.
As for the comercial needing midgets … maybe from a viral standpoint. But after the meeting with the executives from All … it was obvious they dont understand viral videos. I dont think they wanted a viral video. They just think they wanted one because it is new and hip.
I think they wanted a cute comercial about a little kid(the kid being the small and mighty) doing laundry and his mom discovers it thinking how cute he is, doing the laundry at such a young age all by himself.
Or something similiarly cute and heart warmingly funny.
Anyway great job … I thought Jesse was awesome in the comercial … he reminded me of the guy on the cranberry juice comercials.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkC-mCEDiR0&feature=related
maybe not the best example…
Its a shame to see Tionne go after she worked so hard behind the scenes like a trooper! Brande deserved to go this week as she didn’t contribute very much but Trump fancies her and loves Joan so he wouldn’t fire her daughter. But Tionne shouldnt have volunteered. Tough way to learn.
Khloe & Tionne were both totally WTF firings.
I don’t think those stick-in-the-mud All execs understood the point of “viral videos.” Whatsoever. Your vid was spot on and actually resembled being viral. If they didn’t want viral the challenge should have asked for a regular commercial.
Good luck for the rest, we’re rooting for you to take it all!
Hey Annie,
As usual, you are playing the game to perfection!
I’ve watched the Apprentice since the beginning, although sometimes I wonder why…it drives me insane. This season was a no brainer though…no way I would miss a season with you on it. Having watched the show for so long, nothing Trump does surprises me anymore. He must be a very different man in terms of running his empire, because if he ran it like the show, it would have been buried long ago. He seems incapable of staying on point and his logic is pretty much always seriously flawed. I don’t know why he bothers asking questions because he never seems interested in hearing the answers…just talks over the person he asked the question of. Anyway, your video was hilarious. I’ll continue to watch as long as you and Jesse are there. If this wasn’t a T.V. thing I would totally expect to see you win it all, but since it is and because of the Trump logic, I expect that it will probably come down to a battle between Joan and Melissa. If that’s the case, I won’t be watching the finale. Hope you and the kids have a great time in Costa Rica!
Very weird episode. I’ve not watched the show in prior seasons, so maybe this is a recurring theme, but it was clear to me from the start that it was a very hard task for both teams. Not the task in itself, but because the true task, as always, was to please the customer. in this case, those two wonks from Peoria. And the guy kept deferring to the woman’s opinion when any question about content and boundaries was asked. This seems like maybe it was a setup on the part of the producers to enable neither team to win decisively.
Athena almost pulled it off though. Great idea, very funny, effective, but a somewhat pointless final seven seconds.
BTW I don’t know any All-toting soccer Moms who would ever sling viral videos my way. Annie yes you sort of fit the demographic, except that you live in the Hollywood Hills and are in the 99th percentile in the all-around hip category.
As far as the results, I’m surprised nobody else pointed to the obvious conclusion: that this show is FIXED and The Donald wants certain people, Melissa and Clint among them, to stick around. He clearly wanted Dennis to stick around, giving him a pass two weeks running before eventually having to succumb to the inevitable. Not firing at least Clint here is hard to take.
Annie I just hope you are on Donald’s A list. Thankfully, I think you are.
PS, I am continually amazed at how much you guys can achieve in such a short amount of time. The product launch episode blew me away in that regard.
Seriously, Donald was as big a jackass when he fired Khloe than I’ve ever seen… This guy is not a frickin saint. He’s had how many wives, he’s had companies go under, he’s not perfect. And if mans up and admits a mistake and learns from it, that’s great. So to turn around and fire Khloe – that is major f-ed up. And Trump was the biggest jerk that night for doing it.
Hey Annie,
It’s Jason from Best Damn. Just finished watching Sunday’s episode and it really left me scratching my head. Trump’s bizzaro firings in essence rendered the entire two-hour episode irrelevant. Everything we’d just watched meant absolutely nothing because the two people that Trump fired were dismissed for reasons having nothing to do with the task. And for a reality show to base their eliminations on something completly arbitrary (Tionne volunteered) or completely irrelevant to the game (Khloe’s 6-month old DUI arrest) is absolutely ridiciluous. Of course, the producer in me knows that what happened had more to do with Clint and Melissa staying on the show than anything else. Very disappointing. Hopefully next week the task will actually matter! Anyway, good luck, hope you make it to the finale…
Yes, the All executives did ask for viral, but you have to understand that they cannot associate their brand with politically incorrect terms or vulgarities. The goal is not to get their brand circulated at all costs; it is to get their brand out with a GOOD image. In this respect, both teams lost sight of the bigger picture.
I agree that the firings were in poor taste. For Tionne I can understand because none of the three deserved to be fired and if you volunteer, that means you aren’t desperate enough to stay and it counts against you. But Khloe’s firing was completely unwarranted. Trump’s decision to fire her might be excused if this were the same situation where all three were equally undeserving of being fired – but Clint clearly deserved to be fired for his appalling behaviour in this episode.
I can surmise two reasons for the firing:
1) There were too few men and Trump wanted to even out the gender imbalance,
2) Khloe just didn’t make as interesting television as Clint. She was kinda like a wallflower in the show.
Moral of the story: If you want to stay around longer on The Apprentice, make sure you are entertaining(like Rodman, who survived way longer than he should have). Either that, or make sure you are a hot chick (like Brande, whose beauty Trump keeps referring to). Trump sure likes his women – witness the way he salivated over the actress in Kotu’s video. Shameful!
When I was watching the show, I totally noted to my girlfriend, “Notice Annie didn’t volunteer.” Then, after Trump told his story about Bradford, I figured you probably already knew that story and that’s why you didn’t volunteer. Glad to see you didn’t disappoint!
It’s been fascinating watching how your game theory and sort of intellectual-brute-force approach to interpersonal relations shakes out. I hope you go far on the show, or it’ll get a lot less interesting.
It really didn’t seem like the execs understood what good viral marketing is all about. That doesn’t mean you hit it, just saying that if you did they probably wouldn’t know the difference.
Yeah I agree with leo. In the end, it’s all about RATINGS, that’s why Tionne and Khloe were fired – they weren’t exactly “entertaining” compared to Clint and Melissa. I watched the show from Season 1, and this was the absolute stupidest boardroom ever. Like Annie said, I guess the task didn’t matter! Trump was actually negotiating with Natalie and Khloe to get them to quit! And I didn’t buy that bull*hit Trump was saying about how he had no idea of Khloe’s troubled past. Does he think we were all born yesterday??? In order to win, you basically have to: 1. add some entertainment value, 2. avoid making big mistakes during each task, 3. get along with your team, 4. know exactly what to say and do in the boardroom, and 5. know when to shutup! By the way Annie, is there a reason you haven’t put yourself up for PM yet…Playing smart I see. I like how you quickly realized you were kind of dominating early on and then moved to a more subordinate role. That’s how you do it!
How was Tionne’s firing unfair? She stepped up to be fired and Donald fired her and he was right when saying, “never ever set yourself up on the chopping block.” Why do people act so shocked that she was fired.
Why anyone would be silly enough to offer to be fired just to support someone else in the board room is beyond me.
Dear Annie, I have been a fan of yours ever since your brother taught you to play poker. You deserved to win on Apprentice, but you know how so-called celebs are. Love Ya.