I didn't expect Tom Cruise or Julia Roberts or even Teri Hatcher to sign up for this, but since when is Omarosa a "celebrity?" She's known for...um...The Apprentice!
And now she's going to compete on NBC's Celebrity Apprentice along with Marilu Henner, Carol Alt, softball player Jennie Finch, and America's Got Talent judge Piers Morgan. I think they were either going to do Celebrity Apprentice on a late night informercial or a cable reality show.
To be fair, there are some good names here, including Vincent Pastore and Gene Simmons, but overall the cast really leaves me cold. Not that I'm a regular viewer of The Apprentice (the first season interesting, and I watched the Martha Stewart version, and then...), but I would have definitely tuned in to this if they had gotten some more interesting celebs. But what do I know. This will probably be a massive hit.















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2-02-2008 @ 10:50PM
brad said...
The"Donald" is a "DIPSTICK" get out of the so-called limelight go back to selling houses you jerk
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11-19-2007 @ 3:50PM
Cincinnati Mike said...
No CC Deville? Chyna? Mini-Me? Don't tell me Ron Jeremy had another engagement!
This show actually used to be good. But increasingly stupid challenges, completely arbitrary judging, and an unlikeable host killed it.
Seriously, let's hope this is the final nail in The Apprentice coffin--a yuuuuuge nail!
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11-19-2007 @ 4:26PM
sitruc said...
I hope this is the end. What is the point of a "celebrity" Apprentice?
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11-19-2007 @ 5:03PM
stivo said...
seems like the idea of "celebrity" got lost somewhere between the desperate concept and pitiful casting. how many names can you put with faces? i can get about three/four, and that's pushing it. and, here i thought "dancing with the stars" scraped the bottom of the barrel for some of their contestants.
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11-19-2007 @ 5:05PM
gwangi said...
Wow! The very small interest I had in perhaps watching another season of The Apprentice has now completely vanished.
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11-19-2007 @ 6:33PM
RazorD said...
Hey! In our 'I'm a celebrity, get me out of here' (reality show in the UK), we've got someone from the office too. She didn't even win it. She walked out near the end cause she forgot to find someone to look after her kids..
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11-19-2007 @ 6:33PM
RazorD said...
Ops, i meant the UK Apprentice, not the office. Too much tv reading :(
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11-19-2007 @ 8:59PM
Whitecat said...
This is still a great show. Are you guys serious? You actually thought they would have bigger names? Brad Pitt? George Clooney? Johnny Depp?
This is still a fun show, and the celebrities are bigger names than most other so-called celebrity shows.
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11-20-2007 @ 4:30AM
Will said...
I think this flop and The Donald will only have himself to blame. Talk about beating a dead horse. Trump is a great business man, but he should have taken his success with the first Apprentice and been happy with it. And Gene Simmons! Shit, the guys already a rich man AND he's got his own tv show! He must be out of his mind.
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12-07-2007 @ 5:07PM
Jacob said...
This show is going to suck. Just like was mentioned in the article, Omarosa is not a celebrity - she is a poor little rich kid that sucks up to Trump and because the producers could not get anyone else on the show they opted to bring her back on. This show is not Celebrity Apprentice - it is Crap, find some people to deal with Donald's bad hair and business practices for three months Apprentice. This show is doomed to fail.
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12-27-2007 @ 2:00PM
green eyes said...
I have watched only part of the season that Omerosa was on.I just had to quit. I can't stand her. She is not a star Donald. I was interested in the Celebrity part, but now I will not be part of your audience. You are Fired Mr Trump from my line up of new shows to watch.
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1-05-2008 @ 1:06AM
darrellp said...
Gene Williams is one of your favorites? Last time I heard him was on "Fresh Air" where he displayed only how hyperinflated an over the hill rock singer's ego can get. Watching a knuckle dragging neanderthal like him declare his superior humanity over the others is more than enough reason for me to avoid the show at all cost. Maybe that's what the rest of the American public is looking for, but I am hoping that public taste is larger than the miniscule size required to give a thorough drubbing to a show like this.
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1-06-2008 @ 12:22AM
GDubya said...
If last year's idiotic "make the losing team live outdoors in tents" idea severely wounded this franchise, this new incarnation should deal the fatal blow. OK, so we get a few well-known and a lot more not-so-much celebrities. So what will the Windbag (er...the Donald) have them do? Well, the fact that all these folks presumably make their livings doing something other than business inevitably means it will be more about their personalities and eccentricities than business. With the very first task we see the problem that is sure to dog, and probably sink, the entire series: The entire actual sales task (hot dogs here) was just completely nullified when it simply became a show-me-up for whose friends could donate the most ridiculous sum for a crappy hot dog (I think that figure was 10 grand). Uggh. Heartburn for everyone! Then Donald has the nerve to fire the Playboy Bunny for NOT stooping to pumping Hef for big $.
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1-15-2008 @ 7:36AM
Debbie said...
Trump has saved this show! The idea of celebrities is brilliant! Who knew? And the charities are just the icing on the cake. Gene Simmons is amazing. That's a guy who says (and does) all the right things. Baldwin is a wonder. Marilu looks like she could win it all. Omerosa adds the spice. Can't wait to see what's next.
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1-24-2008 @ 1:17PM
Steve said...
Was avid watcher and gained some good ideas on working a team but judging from the new cast, I think they should look to me for ideas - no way I will watch. And what is this thing about amorosa - sounds like an Italian sandwich.
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