+Episode 10 of Celebrity Apprentice: Jingle writing from the depths of despair (oh and I make the final 2)
Last week saw Melissa Rivers melt down, letting loose with a tirade like nothing I have ever seen on national TV. We also saw Joan Rivers quit and had a week of wondering if Joan would be back. Well, I knew Joan would be back because I figured she only quit for the drama anyway. It didn’t really matter because either way there was no upside for her to quitting. If she didn’t come back she looks like a diva drama queen who has to fight her daughter’s battles for her. If she does come back, she looks like a diva drama queen who is full of shit when she threatens to quit. Either way, she is a quitter. And I thought the one cardinal sin that you do not commit on The Apprentice was to quit. Tionne got fired for merely volunteering to come into the boardroom and support Melissa. I get that the quitting appears sympathetic because she is quitting over her daughter. But she knew when she signed up for the show that she would be against her daughter. She knew her daughter would be fired first (afterall she is Joan Rivers). And she knew she wouldn’t like the firing (who ever does). She signed up for that and knew what she was getting into. So that deep into the show when faced with the reality of what she signed up for she quits. In my book that still just makes her a quitter.
Now Melissa and Joan’s tirades came, in part, because the Rivers thought that I was manipulating Brande in some sort of conspiracy to get rid of Melissa, who they believed to be my stronger competitor. The opposite could not have been more true. Brande was by far my stronger competitor and I went against what would be good short term game playing to stick by Brande’s side. Against Melissa, Melissa has to be project manager so if we lose the next challenge she goes home since she would have PM’ed and is not an effective fundraiser. Against Brande, on the other hand, I have to be Project Manager so if we lose I go home since Brande is such an effective fundraiser and I am the PM. I knew that going into last week’s challenge. I knew it was to my advantage to take Melissa with me. But Brande deserved it more. Brande was my friend. She was the better player. So I went against my short term best interest in recommending Melissa get fired but I really felt it was in my long term best interested because I could then live with myself after the game.
Well, we go into task delivery and man, I have this big moment of regret on that decision. First, of course, Joan comes back in grand entrance style. Then we find out we are writing a jingle and a 30 second spot for Chicken of the Sea. A jingle? WTF? With Clint Black, grammy award winning songwriter on the other team? Are you kidding me? I know we have lost before we even start. I know I am going home. And somehow I feel it is justice. I recommended Melissa get fired when it was in my interest to keep her, the weaker player, around. With Brande on my team I am, indeed, PM which means we cannot lose the challenge. Period. Or I go home. I have been more than willing to take credit where credit is due me for what I do in the tasks (too much for most people’s liking, agreed). So it is some sort of poetic justice that I am going to die by my own overconfident sword.Whatever. I deserve it.
So Brande and I immediately are in the crappiest of crappy moods. I mean we are total BITCHES because we are in the depths of despair. We are already facing the boardroom in our minds. And we don’t like it. We get it together just enough to research Chicken of the Sea before our meetings with the execs. What we found out in that meeting was that the execs 1) like radio spots that are more serious and informative 2) Chicken of the Sea is bought by moms overwhelmingly and 3) The jingle should be catchy for kids because it is their moms who by the product.
Okay, so that meeting got us some focus and I immediately tasked Brande with putting together the 30 second spot while I went to work on the jingle. On the van ride over, I find out that while I always thought of myself as the least musical person on the planet it turns out that crown would go to Brande. I actually forbade her to sing! So I gave myself the jingle job by default. During the van ride over, me and Brande’s attitudes really changed. I think we realized the absurdity of what we had been tasked with. And we just decided to try to have as much fun as possible with the whole thing. I mean, I jsut got it into to my head that if I go home from The Celebrity Apprentice because I lost in a song writing challenge to Clint Black. Whatever. I could hold my head up high. From that point on we wpent much of the day just laughing our asses off.
In the midst of all the laughter, we did get our work done. Brande and I discussed the 30 second spot being a conversation between two moms on a playground and after we had the concept she went to work writing it and rehearsing it with Maddie (our singer). I went to work on the jingle and was dismayed to find out that despite the fact that we had professional musicians they were not allowed to write a single note for us. Dammit. I had some fantasy that we would write the lyrics and kind of hum a little but the musicians would do the actual work. Not so. Had to write every damn note.
So, Brande left me alone with the guy on guitar and I can’t explain what happened. Don Jr. had come by earlier and said he liked our lyrics. I figured out that lyrics to jingles just really have to mention the brand name a lot of times and I just went with that in writing it. That boosted my confidence some. But I still to this day don’t have any idea how I wrote the song. I just started humming notes and was trying to think contemporary yet nostalgic and out popped this jingle. Here are the lyrics:
Moms they want it fresh
Kids they want it fast
Chicken of the Sea is the name you can trust
Chicken of the Sea is the tuna that you know
For a healthy choice anywhere at home or on the go
Ask any mermaid you happen to sea
What’s the best tuna, Chicken of the Sea
I pretty much went with jingle writing 101 there (after researching jingles on the internet). I hit all the brand points of health and convenience moms and kids and repeated the brand name three times. Brande included all the same brand points in her 30 second spot and also included all the different products in the product line, like the fact they also carry other seafoods like salmon. Between the two I think we hit all the messaging and Brande did amazing voice over work for the 30 second spot.
After watching the reaction of our musicians to the jingle we had done I really came out of the depths of despair and found my hope again. They really liked what we had done. At that point I knew that if we lost it was not because we had given up, given in to our hopelessness in the task. If we lost it would just be because we couldn’t beat Clint Black in a songwriting challenge. And if that was how I got fired from Celebrity Apprentice so be it as I said before.
Before the boardroom, in my private interview, I teared up when asked about the challenge because this one was so stressful. I knew that if we lost, and at the beginning of the task I thought the possibility of that was 100%, I would be the one with my head on the chopping block having to argue myself vs Brande. And I didn’t want to have to do that. I had no desire to fight for my spot vs Brande. All I wanted was for the two of us to be in the final two together and I was stressed out at the prospect of both arguing against Brande and knowing I was going down anyway as PM of the project.
When we went in the boardroom, we got to hear KOTU’s jingle and commercial. When I heard the jingle I thought we really had a chance. I don’t think country was the right choice because it is a very narrow demographic. But more importantly I thought the song was not uptempo enough and didn’t say enough about the brand. I also didn’t think it was a song little kids would like as much as our jingle. I also didn’t like the commercial they did. That is my personal opinion, of course, but I didn’t think it was funny or informative enough. The executives did like the KOTU commercial in its tone and I am not going to argue with them on that. Their opinion matters more than mine. But they agreed that the brand messaging just wasn’t there.
The moment I knew Athena had won was when Don Jr. gave the positives and negatives of our jingle and commercial spot. All they said they didn’t like about it was we didn’t get in that the product also comes in pouches. That was it! One tiny thing on the negative list! The list of negatives for KOTU was pretty long and, yes, we did pull the victory out! At that moment Brande and I just grabbed each other in disbelief and friendship and solidarity. We had pulled through this thing together to get to the final four and we couldn;t believe we had managed to overcome such huge odds. I am embarassed that I cried in the boardroom but I was really overwhelmed by the whole two day experience.
I have to say that Clint was such a gentlemen in this challenge. He was so encouraging in that boardroom in saying that everyone has music in them and they just need to find it. He really menat that and you could see how much he just really loves what he does and really believes everyone ahs a little of that in them. And he was very gracious in the loss. The really great side of Clint really shone through that night and I hope everyone can see that, despite his drawbacks, there is a good and gracious man in there. I thought he exited with amazing class and grace. An interesting contrast to last week’s exit.
So, now we are down to the final four and we all have to go get interviewed by Piers. Before the interviews, while in the war room, Joan pointedly ignored me and Brande. And I mean pointedly. They didn’t show it but when we went in to argue for the final four in the boardroom Joan claimed to Trump that we had ignored her. WTF? I was so mad about that and glad they showed how she ignored the two of us on TV. Anyway, we go in to get interviewed by Piers and Brande is first to go. I thought it was unfair that Brande got painted as not bright enough for the final 2. Nothing could be farther from the truth. She is very smart. She runs her own business (Financially Hung) and I think she played the game brilliantly to get to the final four. In the end, the proof is in the pudding. And depsite both of the Rivers women coming at her with guns a blazing she managed to outlast Melissa quite nicely, even when it was in my best interest to have Melissa stick around. I wish people would give Brande Roderick more credit for that. But Piers didn’t see that, unfortunately so Brande ended up getting fired first.
When Piers interviewed Jesse James he mainly just pushed him on his lack of fund raising and really got on him about not leveraging his marriage to Sandra Bullock. I feel kind of two ways about this. First, I deeply respect Jesse for keeping his personal life out of The Apprentice and we should all respect his right to keep his private life private. But, on the other hand, I am disturbed by him saying that he was holding back for the end. I really felt all the charities were super important and all deserving of a share of the money raised on the show. I came out strong with the money because I really wanted to raise a lot of money for charity full stop, not just my charity in particular. So I think Jesse made a mistake there because it is really about the charities in the end. So Jesse got fired because he wouldn’t leverage his relationship with his wife. I think that is unfair. But what is fair is that he admitted to holding back. And that is a fair reason for the firing.
So that put me against Joan. When Piers interviewed Joan he gave her every opportunity to retract her statements about Hitler in regards to me. He gave her every out to say that was uncalled for and over the top. But she wouldn’t even admit those comments might have been just the littlest bit out of line. Gotta love a woman for her conviction, I guess. But Piers clearly was not happy about how personal she made her attacks and clearly agreed with me that the mother daughter thing had no place in business when they both knew what they were signing up for. In my case he just kept asking me about strategy and how I might have gotten my opponents to do what I wanted them to in the game. He also asked if I talk too much. I gave him a big fat YES on that one. No arguments there. When he asked me what my biggest fault is, which they didn’t show, I said that it is that I suffer fools so poorly. He actually said he thought that was a good thing since he is like that too. But I think it really is my absolutely worst quality. That and I talk to much 
After Trump decide on me and Joan as the final two, I said I respect her. I also said later, very harshly, that I don’t like her and she has made the game personal for me. Now I want to clarify why I said in the boardroom that I respect Joan Rivers because I understand it looks weird in light of the fact that I clearly don’t like her. I do respect her in as much as I hope I could still have her energy at her age and have the longevity of her career. She is clearly a very shrewd woman and I absolutely respect that about her, I respect her ability to persevere. However, that does not mean I like her. So my comments that she has made this personal for me and that I do not like her at all as a person in my private interview are not inconsistent with what I said in the boardroom. I would like you to find me the person who can come under 10 weeks of escalating attacks, being called Hitler and worse than white trash (what office environment allows that, btw?), and still like the person delivering those attacks. By this point in the show I am angry. She has attacked me without stop. She has attacked Brande. She has attacked all poker players spewing the most hateful comments about them. She had repeatedly told me I wasn’t even allowed to talk to her because I was so beneath her. Of course I took that personally. But that does not mean I don’t respect her energy or her longevity of career. It does mean I don’t respect her tactics or her boundaries of what is acceptible behavior. I don’t think Joan could understand that I could feel both things at once because for her it is all black and white. If she doesn’t like you then you are 100% bad with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. You are worse than Hitler in her eyes.
So next week is the live Finale. I am really excited for that and busy putting on my thinking cap about ways I can argue for myself in the final boardroom. I am leaving for New York Tuesday to shoot some stuff for the show then Thursday I am going to the Refugees International Gala. Then I head back to NYC where my family is meeting me for the finale. And I am having dinner with the gay guys from room 702 (remember the hotel challenge?) I can’t wait to see them! So tune in next Sunday to see who wins! And who I end up with on my team I can’t wait!
grats on final two, good luck
I think it should have been you and Brande.
I think Trump was trying to give Jesse a chance by asking him about fund raising .. I think if Jesse said yea I will do everything in my power to get people to donate. I think Jesse would have made final two…
Hard to say tho .. because maybe they think you vs Joan will bring in the ratings.
A quitter?? You really have an odd sense of reality. She left after her task was done, collected her thoughts and assessed the situation, then came back before the next task started. That’s not a quitter, you just hate her. And you are such a fake. Calling Joan a ‘crazy bitch’ and saying “there’s a reason she was fired from TV guide,” then in the boardroom you say how you respect her. If you win, it won’t mean a hill of beans because it’s not you winning. It’s someone you’re pretending to be. I hope that’s enough for you.
You also resorted to calling Joan ‘cancer.’ I hope you’ve never had to watch someone you love slowly die due to cancer because it’s the most unbearable thing imaginable. Cancer is truly the worst insult in the English language. You have stooped as low as you accuse Joan of. Congratulations?
You might wonder why I respond so many times but I respond as I read and don’t really care. It gets you more responses anyway, and you love your numbers.
Anyway, you laud Clint for his gracious loss, but you were the furthest from a gracious winner I’ve EVER seen on this show.
oh andrew shut the fuck up- I am tired of reading ignorant bullshit from stupid people on here.
Joan did quit, she said quite clearly she was NOT coming back.. she said at an earlier date, more than once that if Melissa gets fired she is quitting too.
You have selective memory Andywandy.
ANNIE
It is total bullshit who you got stuck with for the final task- they did show it in the previews- i guess not everyone came back for you to choose from (?)- and I assume Joan got to pick first.. what a load of bullshit.
Joan was on the show because she is a friend of Trumps. She was allowed an obvious advantage, having a family member on the show because she’s a friend of Trumps, and she got chosen for final 2 because she’s a friend of Trumps.
Joan should have been fired several tasks earlier, she’s fucked up so many times I’ve lost count. Trump would have NEVER put up with that from any other candidate.
Your comment about quitting and what happened to Tionne, I was thinking about that too as I’m sure many ppl were- this is total bullshit.
Joan has no redeeming qualities and had no business making it this far in the competition. and then we see who the team members are? jesus, if you can pull this out with those 2 clowns on your team then it will be a miracle.. we already know the odds are stacked in joan’s favor since trump favors her to a sick degree. i’m just furious to see who u got stuck with as team members (except Brande of course).. i thought some of the others from earlier in the show would be back to help. I was just flabbergasted when i saw rodman and the other douche sitting there on your side.. ugh.
By the way your jingle was way better.. I’m stunned trump and ivanka liked clint’s at all.. it was too slow for a radio commercial and the ad guys said they wanted “contemporary”… was clint listening!! your’s was embarrassingly better!
I will just assume you and Brande did most of the work and I hope you pull this won out (and I do mean “won”). If Trump let’s that old bitch walk away with this I’m sooo through with CA.
I have to add that I realize I’m in the minority but I didn’t like jesse and didn’t think he was good in the show at all.. He didn’t have “it” and I got sick of looking at him long ago.
Joan in final 2- what a scam.
Great job tonight Annie. I too felt you and Brande were doomed when the task was announced. Again Clint didn’t listen to his teammates, Joan said the jingle should be more upbeat. I don’t think Jesse was ever going to bring Sandra into the mix and that was his demise. Joan and Melissa’s comments throughout have been uncalled for and inappropriate for network TV. Great job Mr. Trump! Good-luck next week—It will make for an interesting night.
Congratulations on cementing “poker player” as a pejorative term in the American public. You have been a terrible ambassador of the sport. You may feel good about everything “you” accomplished and making it to the finals, but at what cost??
Donald’s company pays the bills. Donald gets to call the shots. Joan in finals is truly BS for all the reasons stated by others. But, Donald needs to make a profit and you vs Joan accomplishes that. Brande could have given you a run, but we are deprived of that. Jesse, get over yourself, admitted early on that he was holding back. He’s so deep into his own psyche, he seems lost.
Let’s face it you would win against any of them whether your’re stuck with bad teamates or not. You can do it all. If the bitch wins, it was rigged all along and there will be no CA on the air. Donald constantly contradicts himself. I lost total respect for the man when he did nothing about the name calling. It is a true shame that he has to be so transparent even when the game is about/for charities. I for 1 would not want to work for him. This game has NO rules. How can you play a game with no rules and no boundaries? There has to be a flow to the judging in order to have some consistancy(overall performance, not just current task). Based on that … Clint gone, cant paly well with others … Joan gone, living in another time zone(1948) … Jesse gone as greedy(not working hard for other’s charities) … that leaves you and Brande … woulda coulda shoulda been a great show worth watching. Please, remove the bitch from public life.
what a joke! if they remove the bitch, anne would be gone! I was so hoping you would get fired! I am not a big rivers fan, but how many times can we listen to I I I and me me me! awk!!!
I literally threw a bowl of popcorn in the air with joy when i saw you made final two. My best friend and I are at odds haha. we watch this show every week and have different favorites. She sides with joan [silly girl] but I know you’re going to take her down.
Joan doesn’t deserve to win this competition and andy needs to shut up. You’re deluding yourself, mister.
With brande out of the picture there shouldn’t even be a shimmer of a doubt to anyone who’s going to win this. I mean, i know the battle between you and joan will bring up ratings, but come ON. there’s is next to nothing she can do that you can’t do better short of being old and cranky. the woman quit. Trump should have been less of a selfserving jerk and fired her botoxed ass. seriously.
AND WHAT THE HELL WAS TRUMP TALKING ABOUT WHEN HE SAID NO ONE LIKES YOU? screw him and his bad hairdo. people got on planes to give you their money. OBVIOUSLY those people can’t stand you. WHo you are when you’re playing to win says nothing about who you are as a friend. a friend does all they can to help you out, and you are doing all you can and all you need to to win money for your charity. for deserving people. BOOFREAKINGWOO joan’s daughter got fired. so what. this is for charity. not to get them some attention and daytime television airtime. [yeah, i'm looking at you Ellen. I'm a little ashamed, have to say.] that comment had me yelling at the TV for like 5 minutes straight.
anyways, you, annie, rock. and I sincerely hope you win this thing. you deserved it from the start, when you drove your team to finish those cupcakes and make the sales they needed. you deserved it in the middle when you did fantastic presentations and earned frightening amounts of money. and you’ll deserve it in the end when you crush Joan Rivers into the decaying dust she is with your sharp mind and keen sense of people and what they need from you.
you’re the best thing to ever hit reality tv. your charity is lucky to have you.
Joan being in the finals is absolutely ridiculous. That stupid blond bitch doesn’t deserve it. She’s fucked up on more than one occasion, and as pointed out, she should have been fired for trying to quit. What she did was way worse than what Tionne did, and she still gets away with it. She has made huge mistakes, and she always gets away with them.
As for the teams next week, that really sucks for you Annie. It’s complete BS that you get stuck with those bumbling nimrods. In the other hand, one thing that confuses me is that in her twitter, Claudia claims she’s in the finale episode, which seems to contradict what’s shown. Maybe she meant in some other way, shape or form?
Regardless, I’ll be rooting for you Annie. You’ve been one of my favorites all season long, and I hope you can pull it out and manage to defeat that old wench one more time.
I kinda got half freaked last night watching the show….There were moments that I turned to my husband and said, “Who does that remind you of?” ( I was referring to Joan when she was complaining and being pushy) He knew! It was my own mother! Believe me it was uncanny. So saying that, my feeling’s for Joan have altered. I think now I get her. ( Now I’m really freaked) She’s old, scared out of her wits, doesn’t ever wanna get told or get the feeling that she hasn’t got it anymore, and on top of all that she thinks the world should revolve around her….her way or the highway. Annie and Brande took the full force of her wrath—–she’s just plain jealous!
I truly hope that you win Annie….and as far as Joan…she should be pitied.
Annie, I like you. You are playing a game. I used to like Joan but she is not a class act. It is all about her. Everything she says about you — she is really talking about herself. You go girl!
Annie, you are so awesome!
That Chicken of the Sea jingle was out of this world!!! It was truly professional!! While my friend and I were watching the show (tonight), we both said we had recognized that jingle, it recently was played on the radio here (I live in LA, CA) . Haha that was crazy, and we didn’t know it was you and Brande though when we heard it but it caught our attention! Either way, the only reason I’m watching the show is because you’re on it, and it’s the same reason why my parents are watching it! (uh for the record I do not live with them, but I call them after and we talk about it. I’ve NEVER seen them so into a show before).
Anyhow, (per the comment I left on your UB blog)…I still hate Joan….I mean, man I’m really taking her comments personal! I can’t believe she judged poker players so low, she doesn’t know poker obviously. SCREAMMMMMMMM ahhh I hate that she’s so old and ancient…otherwise, I would have bashed her more than that! ha!
You ARE GOING TO WIN, AND SHOW THE WORLD THAT POKER PLAYERS REALLY ARE THE MOST AWESOME PEOPLE!!! I’d wish you luck, but you don’t need luck, you have skill!
OOH ON MY EARLIER COMMENT: I didn’t mean I heard the jingle, but that was awesome, haha cute and catchy, um I think I memorize it..LOL. BUT we heard the radio commercial!!
annie, u already know that ur the winner, ur fascinating and wonderful, its crazy though becuz donald trump always does whatever he wants anyway its always the best out of the ones he doesnt dislike, hes an asshole for keeping clint, denis, andrew and other guys which he gave a lot of chances to after completely messing up, and u know i notice also he got rid of tboz, khloe and some other women for practically no reason, he is a male chauvanist pig and tries as hard as possible to keep the men on no matter how bad they are and the women already working way harder are almost always given the boot and humiliates them and talks to them as though they were brainless little girls, hes really sick, ive seen his show from the begining when it first came out and the constant theme is keeping the men on as much possible to allow them to make it to the finale, this is for charity though and was hoping he would be fair in this season but i havent seen it, however ive never seen a women like u ever on the show and i dont think i ever will and im glad he allowed 2 women to finally make it to the finale, but u definitely earned it and speaks volumes of ur capabilities, i know that u picked joan becuz she would pose more of a challenge than the other (useless)ones would but still for u beating joan is like taking candy from a crying baby having a loud tantrum, itll be hard to watch her attacks but youll take the money for ur charity, its wonderful and ive seen everything in Darfur with google earth its heart breaking, im rooting for u becuz ur the best and also to get some help for refugees. STAY AWESOME PAWESOME ANNIE
im glad a women is finally representing women in a positive light, its rare to find that, once again thank u JOSIE
you’ve been my favorite since day one, clearly ahead of everyone else on the show intellectually and stragetically. you should be proud of the great job you did on the show so far. you made a lot of new fans!
You absolutely deserve to be in the finals, but really get over yourself about writing a jingle. It’s not hard, and you’re not stupid. It wasn’t a big deal.
Annie, best of luck to you this coming weekend! You clearly deserve to win. Hopefully Trump maintains the integrity of the game and does choose you as the winner.
BTW, my biggest fault is that I suffer fools poorly too..Or as I put it, I have no patience for the dumbasses of the world.
I have to say I am shocked by the lack of class demonstrated by Joan and Melissa Rivers. On the one hand they try and market themselves as entertainment royalty, while on the other hand act like spoiled white trash divas. Utterly unlikable and despicable people. Comparing people they don’t like to Hitler, and refusing to retract the statements later, even after reason should have taken over from the heat of the moment.
I have never seen such a pathetic end to the show, when that spoiled entitled little brat Melissa, stormed off the show, refusing to give an exit interview and yelling at the producers. Joan then legitimized the behavior by joining in and quitting too.
At the end of the day Annie should clearly win. She is the smartest contestant, has raised the most, and as some people have already said, no company in the world would put up with that kind of diva bullshit we’ve seen from Joan and Melissa. If Joan wins, something is seriously wrong with Donald Trump’s head (other than his hair).
GOOD LUCK ANNIE!
Good Luck and BIT the cancer into the hell for all human beings in the world!
we love you here in Guatemala Annie
I knew it would come down to the two of you. Since Trump consistently talked of how much he liked Joan.I do not find your hate , anger vs respect out of line because all parents know just because you love someone, it does not mean you have to like them.
Do you talk too much maybe a tad, have you played the game…yes and you have shown everyone that there is a way to play and to play to win.
I have never really been into poker for fun or even professionally but having watched you I have started watching the ESPN poker tournaments and begun to play with my oldest son, unfortunately he is deploying to Afghanistan and no one else is interested.
Win it all and shove all that Hitler, whore Viper white trash crap down Joan’s throat, but remember the best way to celebrate the win will be to act as if it was just another day…it will dig in the most.
Unfortunately, Annie, for you, explanations only make you appear desperate. Look, I don’t doubt for one minute that what you received face-to-face from Joan and Melissa was exactly what you were spewing behind their backs. Here’s the thing that I noticed about you: While they’re in your face, you take on this angelic, “Oh My! What a horrible thing to say! I can’t believe I’m hearing this! I’m such a nice person!” attitude. But when you leave their presence and you’re off with Brandee, in your interviews, or in your twitter/blog you are sarcastic yourself and very critical too! For goodness sake, when Ivanka said to Clint that she preferred his song better, you jumped at the chance to have something critical to say! He gave you a good leg to stand on in that board room when he said that everyone has music in them (not that you needed a leg to stand on. Your ego was holding you up just fine) and, once again,(again, behind the person’s back) you let your attacking criticisms out (So Ivanka like his better. So what? You won. Let Clint walk away with something, for Pete’s sake. We didn’t need to hear your criticisms. For Pete’s sake we alreay know – because we heard it the whole episode – that YOU wrote the song and EVERYONE loved it so much that they were bouncing to the beat…..seech).
And that, my dear, is the biggest difference between you and Joan/Melissa and why I actually respect them more. Because they have the guts to say it to your face, while you use their backs as your blog.
Grow up. Be a woman and own what you say. If you have anything to say about them, say it to their faces. Stop your droning on about how you’re being attacked, yet you use every opportunity to attack them too. That to me is the mark of a bully. When they face you, you tuck tail, but as soon as they leave, you have plenty to say.
Own what you say. Stop saying it to us and say it to Joan/Melissa. Please. Otherwise, you’ll have solidified my two prejudices about you: your a bully and your ego is so enormous, it won’t allow you to do what’s right (who ever said that just because you get dumped on each episode that gives you permission to start dumping too…where’s the character in that???!!).
Annie;
FWIW; You are the best on the show; you also are probably the most intelligent; being an Ivy League graduate; writing a jingle was a snap for you; here’s hoping you kick that botox bitches ass.
Annie, you impress me the more I see of you. I think the final 2 of you and Joan should be classic. I also fully believe that the 2 reasons you are one of the final 2 are your IQ is measured with 4 digits, and you’ve got the guts to use it! One criticism I have for you is you made a comment that this is personal. I hope you put that aside, because you didn’t get that far by making it personal and keeping it all in perspective, reference Godfather movie series…
Anyway, win or lose, keep your chin up and go forward, because I think you’re great.
Joan+Melissa is that your name or just a handle?
I see it i think Rivers duo.
Maybe you should change it to Annie and me?
(No disrespect)
You make great points with the show and point out facts for the other readers THAAANK YOU! as I have had similar thoughts watching the same show.
The best of luck to you Annie. IMO, you are far better than Joan. I have no idea how she made it to the F@ except Trump is playing it strictly for ratings. Joan appears off her rocker and people like to watch others unravel. Joan is a nut job with little to no social skills and her value towards previous tasks were limited. Unless Trump “fixes” the final task I can’t imagine Joan wining. I can’t tolerate Joan’s persecution complex towards and even more I can’t stand the thought of that unstable Melissa person coming back for the final task.
Best of luck although I don’t think you’ll need luck.
I have watched you play Poker, and loved you on the CA. Great charity, great job you’ve done. Teach me Poker, girl!! I hope you win!!
You areso horrible annie, and I am a poker player, please don t act like some goddess that represents all poker players around the world. If that were true you would do it with a little more dignity. Joan sees you as you are.
Throughout Celebrity Apprentice you have been a tough player comparable to Piers Morgan. I have watched every episode and rooted for you. The jingle was simply universal. Way to go! You are going to win the Final hands down, even if you were blindfolded and dealt the worst poker hand ever, you cannot lose, you are simply the best. And like the movie, Annie Get Your Gun, anything Joan can do you can do better . . .
Annie, your are absolutely amazing and you are one of the best players ever (apart from Piers) to be on that show. You completely deserve to be there, and you definitely deserve to win. If Trump selects that bitch Joan I will be furious. You are smart, and driven to win. And on top of all that, you are one hell of a sexy lady!! Seriously… that outfit you were wearing last night was very very sexy, and you looked amazing.
Best of luck… and you go girl!!!!
Way to go, girl, you absolutey rocked the last challenge. When I heard the two jingles and ads side by side, it wasn’t even close. For one thing, yours complimented each other, while KOTU’s went from mellow country song to screaming. There was no continuity. You do need to calm down on congruatulating yourself, though. I knew it was going to be a Joan/Annie showdown for the finale–it’s the biggest ratings getter. I used to be a Joan Rivers fan from the red carpet days and her Howard Stern appearances. I liked that she was brave enough to dish on anyone, which no one in Hollywood will do because they’re afraid it will cost them a job someday. Either she’s lost it, or so desperate that she’s playing this to the hilt for airtime. It’s a game, for God’s sake, and it’s for charity. You’ve got the right attitude. And how can she call you white trash when you graduated from Columbia U?
I agree with Joan&Melissa Rosenberg. Andrew, shut the fuck up! Give it a rest. When someone says another person is a cancer , they don’t mean it literally Andrew. They mean that they are a negative influence. Please keep searching for reasons to hate Annie, (key word- searching)..Andrew, you are a CANCER to this site. Oh , and by the way, I have been being treated the past two months for breast cancer Andrew, and the remark did not offend me. Keep searching Andrew. Annie, you totally rock. I talked to you on the phone in December for private poker lessons. I was the one with the nerve problem….Annie has played this game brilliantly. No one has come close to her game play. Hopefully all poker players will come through for Annie if the final task is a fund raiser. Good luck Annie! Go to hell Andrew!
Great job so far. Perhaps Joan did get something right in her comments. Perhaps a little less “I did this” and a little more “my team did this”. If you out-class the lady you have a good chance to win–also less off color language is best-this is a sign of weakness. Best wishes for your win.
I hope Joan Kickes your ass! The name Hitler does fit you, Your a trashy nasty Poker Player. Every one I know hates you, Trump was right about that, and you are an idiot, stupid tramp, I can’t stand anyone who talks so highly of thierself. You aren’t anything, your a waste of Air Space.
I hope Joan kicks your ass, the happy ending I have been hoping for for numerous weeks.
I apologize Annie Duke, some people like you. I don’t.
Congrats Annie!
When you beat a grammy winner in a music challenge I was soooo happy for you. Seeing you light up when you realized you could do anything you set your mind to was really special. Some people might criticize how you kept patting yourself on the back, but that was just genuine amazement on your part and we all got to see you wearing your heart on your sleeve. It made you seem genuine and not like a pampered Hollywood celeb. I’m so happy you won. Obviously they pit you against Joan instead of Brande because it would get better ratings. I hope Brande understands that. In the end, it’s not about who had a better chance against you, because if the contest is a fair one you will almost certainly win. Instead, it’s really just about who can bring in the best ratings while losing to you. I am never going to use Starkist again after Chicken of the Sea picked you as the winner
Annie, over the course of the show you have won my respect and admiration. I love how you GRACIOUSLY listen to the insults that the “diva twins”, Joan and Melissa, hurl at you yet you keep your cool and still come out a winner! They think they are so much better than anyone else and it’s pathetic. To think I USED to be a fan of Joan! What she must think of the public who admire her so much! She has totally forgotten what her job is on the show. It’s not about cat fights but raising the most money for your charity. In that, the diva twins have shot themselves in the foot by being so high school and foolish about everything UNLESS that is their strategy? If it is . . . it sucks!
Andrew, you’re a real d%#b A$s! So Joan can call Annie Hitler, a whore, etc., etc., etc. and you get offended because Annie called her a cancer? I have relatives who have cancer and, yeah, I think Annie has every right to call Joan that. You are such a baby! Get over yourself!
Go Annie..Go Annie..sticks and stones may hurt my bones but a plastic old hag and her clone daughter can never hurt me.
Annie
You have it going well for you,I like getting a player angry and wanting to fight because they are easy to beat.
I cannot wait for next Sunday, while I dont watch that show , I only watched it because of you being on it. and you made my time worth it.
Go get her.
hehe apparently Mr Trump plays this game too. Annie vs JR it’s good for tv that’s for sure. Hope you win Annie, i’m going to tilt like hell if you don’t!
I am glad to see the two rivals in the final two. all will be proven who is the best. Regardless of Annie’s I I I. She has proven in all task that she brings the “goods” to every task that the project needed to win. Joan is just been very lucky that there has been a dummer person in her group to blame. In business….being cut throat and confindent as Annie is needed to be successful.
Annie, you are a great ambassador for poker players! Totally smart, you are there to play the game and I really, really, really hope you win. I will be praying to God that you win. As well, I read about Refugees International and the work they do is totally heartwarming.
Annie, I truly hope you win. You have been my favorite contestant all along. The jingle task was absolutelu amazing, I loved that you won!! Go Annie!
You have played this game brilliantly, especially in the past four episodes. You deserve this win, because you have — again and again — exhibited the skills necessary to win tasks. Joan, however, has only been herself. Talented woman, sure, but pretty one-dimensional. There’s no way she can pull off a win. And her personal attacks against you — puleeze — she’s trying to get into your head. You’re tougher than that! Shake it off and kick her ass, poker style!
Annie, I have been watching this since day 1 and Had you picked to win since day 1. Us poker players know how to play the game. You took the challenge extremely well. My male counterparts often argue about you but you know in the end they still back you up being your a hell of a poker player girl. Show Joan Rivers that us poker players are not the scum of the earth. I have been poker player over 35 years and there is a lot more to us than just the game of poker. Wish you all the best girl. Visit my post on you on FCP (Daniel’s site) Rose from Canada hope to see you come up and play the WPT NAPC at Niagara Falls Fallsview Casino this fall.
This is a very interesting contest and one that is totally confusing. Trump’s reasoning in the boardroom is inconsistent and his manner is unduly personal and scatter-shot. If “it’s not personal; it’s business,” he has violated his own mantra throughout. It’s really about entertainment. Annie has stayed because she plays the game very well. Joan stays because she’s entertaining. The fact that all of the contests are about ratings and not about how business is conducted is a real disappointment to me. The art and strategy of business is very interesting and can be very instructional — this show is only a show. But I thank Annie for playing the games in a way that was both entertaining and educational.
Congrats! I really like your attitude in Celebrity Apprence last night, Number one… Just ignore Joan Rivers. She always keeping said to you bad things, sound like she’s very jealous!
Be sure no say any dirty words about her, just go on.. and move on! All you can speak such like 100% Professional, That’s what Donald Trump really likes you the best. I believe you’ll win!
Good Luck!!!