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Coming to a television near you January 3.

Celebrity Apprentice will feature:

• Country Music Star Trace Adkins
• Model/Actress Carol Alt
• Actor Stephen Baldwin
• Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci
• Playmate Tiffany Fallon
• Olympic softball player Jennie Finch
• Latina media mogul Nely Galan
• Actress and author Marilu Henner
• Boxer Lennox Lewis
• Omarosa (seriously?  yes, seriously)
• Journalist and author Piers Morgan
• Ultimate Fighting Champion Tito Ortiz
• Actor Vincent Pastore
• Musician Gene Simmons

So, what do you think?  Do some of these even qualify as celebrities?  Will you be watching Celebrity Apprentice?  Of course, if the strike continues, you may not have many choices of what to watch instead.

Last night, Donald Trump chose Stefani to be the sixth winner of the tv show The Apprentice.

James came in a close second. It was a pretty good season of the apprentice, but it seemed to lack a little something this year. I am not sure what it was, but it wasn’t quite as fun to watch as past seasons. Any idea?

You can read a good post show interview with The Apprentice: LA Winner Stefani Schaeffer over on Buddy TV. It was interesting to read her take on the editing of the show.

Anyway, I think she will do a really good job for Trump. What do you think?

Sunday night’s episode of the Apprentice was interesting, because they split up into three teams of two (James and Stefani, Heidi and Frank, Nicole and Kristine).

When my wife Jill and I saw the breakdown of the teams we both kind of looked at eachother and almost in unison said that if James and Stefani go home something is wrong with the Universe.

After the task, I really thought that Donald was going to fire two teams and let James and Stefani fight it out in the finals. Instead Trump decided to fire one player from each of the losing teams. I think that he definitely sent the right people home.

I am happy that the final four consists completely of people from Team Arrow. I liked Team Arrow a lot more than Team Kinetic, because they always seemed to be much more of a team and they always seemed to be having more fun.

Just a few more weeks and we will know who the season 6 apprentice winner is. I really expect either Stefani or James to be this season’s Apprentice. I can’t imagine Frank or Nicole working for Donald Trump, but anything is possible…

Team Arrow finally won!

It’s kind of funny that it’s their first time to win, since Tim and James are at the top of my list to be the next apprentice.

Surya spent one day outdoors, how lucky is that?

Heidi and Kristine were even luckier than Surya. Either Heidi or Kristine should have gone home, but Marissa did a terrible job in the board room. Heidi did a terrible job of marketing and not putting anyone in charge of sales was also a big mistake.

On the other hand, Kristine’s idea of mixing fruit with chicken in a fast food dish was a horrible decision. It reminded me of the mass marketing mistake that Carey made. In the fast food industry you are trying to appeal to a large audience, adding fruit to the dish made it nearly impossible for them to win. That coupled with poor marketing and no sales plan guaranteed their loss.

Next week is the SuperBowl, so the next Apprentice will air in two weeks.

If you are looking for a good recap of last night’s episode of the apprentice, go check out Yahoo’s recap by clicking here.

Buddy TV did an interview with fired apprentice wannabe Carey Sherrel.

Carey answered a question that I have been wanting someone to ask:

How big of a disadvantage was it for your team to compete against people who had been getting pampered inside the mansion?

It’s a big disadvantage. When we first got there it was very koom bay ah-ish; pulling out the guitar by the bonfire and whatnot. But after sitting in the heat all day and not being able to do things, and just sitting in the backyard, you become disgruntled and irritable. We had some fun moments, but after awhile it was like “I really don’t want to be here right now. I really want to be inside with the air conditioner.”

I would imagine that living in tents is going to make it much harder to win against the team living in the mansion and sure enough Carey says it is.

I found this quote real interesting:

What are your plans for the future?

I am, oddly enough, launching a swimwear line. Blue Motion Squared, BlueMotionSquared.com; it’s launching February 1. It will be board shorts, by the way, just so everybody knows. And I’m kind of challenging Trump on this. If the short is a loser, it’s a loser, but I will definitely be showing my quarterly earnings to Trump.

Ummm… dude none of the buyers would buy your swimsuit. In fact, one of them wrote that it was unsellable. I guess if he markets them to a certain community he might sell some, but I don’t expect to see them any major outlets.

Anyway, I am really looking forward to see what other twists “The Apprentice” has in store for us next week.

Buddy TV has an excellent interview with Martin Han Clarke who was the first person to be fired from the Apprentice this season. I found Martin’s final words very interesting:

Don’t forget to come visit GiveHimAChanceTrump.com, where you can vote me in at the end of the season.

Interesting that you can vote someone back in at the end of the season. Quite frankly, I don’t expect it to make a difference in the final results of the show, but I guess anything is possible.

This Sunday, Season 6 of the Apprentice starts and it should be a lot of fun. They are filming this season in Los Angeles, but that is not the only new plot twist for Season 6.

 For one, the contestants on the winning team will get to live like Trump in a really nice mansion.

 On the other hand, members of the losing team have to sleep outside in tents!  They will have port-a-potties, and out door showers to deal with. Yuck! 

Also, the winning project manager continues as project manager until his/her team loses. The winning project manager also gets to help advise Trump on who should stay or go from the losing team. Wow!  The winning project manager will sure have a lot of power. I imagine everyone is going to be fighting to be project manager the first week.

I like the new twists, how about you?

PS. I will be on vacation during the first episode, so I may miss it. I hope not!

NBC has announced the sixth season of The Apprentice will start on my birthday (January 7th). What a bummer for me, because I will be vacationing in Florida. I might miss the season opener…

The season opener will be a 90 minute special Sunday, January 7 at 9:30PM ET/PT. It will be airing regularly in the same time slot as Desparate Housewives (another bummer).

Anyway, to learn more about Season 6 of The Apprenitce you can visit NBC.COM.

Carolyn Kepcher, who was recently fired by Donald Trump was hired yesterday by Microsoft. Carolyn will be working as a judge for a new contest Microsoft is running called “Ultimate Challenge”.

The goal of the “Ultimate Challenge” contest is to find the best business idea in the country. The winner will get $100,000 for the business, free retail space in Manhattan, and software to help start up their business.

Details of the contest can be found here.

I will miss Carolyn next year on the Apprentice, but it’s good to hear that she found something new to work on.

How many times has Carolyn Kepcher blithely agreed with Donald Trump’s decision to fire an Apprentice candidate?  It looks like now she knows how that feels.  Trump’s company has confirmed that Carolyn has been “let go”.  My guess is she’ll have no problem with income or with getting another job, if she wants one.

Former Season 4 Apprentice candidate Jennifer Murphy married Extreme Makeover dentist Dr. Bill Dorfman last Friday night. Their wedding was at the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. More details can be found at People magazine.

I don’t remember much about Jennifer except that she got fired in the boardroom when Donald Trump decided to fire 4 people at the same time, because of how horrible the loss was.

Anyway, congratulations to the newlyweds! May they have a long, wonderful, and blessed marriage.

Donald Trump announced that he is starting up a new hollywood production company to produce a monopoly style reality tv show, where contestants try to become rich by developing real estate and at the same time causing other contestants to go bankrupt. You can read about it here.

Donald has hired Andy Litinsky, who was “fired” from the Season 2 Apprentice.

It sounds like an interesting reality show, but I am not sure I like the whole idea of making other contestants go bankrupt.

Anyway, you can read more here.