The awkward and anti-climactic finale for The Apprentice last night may have been that way for a reason: The show filmed Trump hiring both Brandy Kuentzel and Cliff Robertson, so they’d have footage to use in the event that NBC didn’t order a live finale. I learned of this from someone close to an The …
Brandy Kuentzel became the seventh non-celebrity winner of The Apprentice after Donald Trump chose her over Clint Robertson, and will now work with Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr, and their brother. That happened after a relatively flat finale that featured both Kathy Griffin and Liza Minnelli. This season was pretty great, from a confrontation about …
The Apprentice isn’t really popular at all among most viewers, but it’s the third-most popular show among people who make more than $100,000 a year. Since this season focuses on people impacted by the recession, maybe we can extrapolate that rich people like to watch Donald Trump fire already fired people again? Or maybe they …
Donald Trump fired candidate Anand Vasudev on The Apprentice 7 last night after Anand was confronted about violating the show’s rules, lied about it, and then confessed he both lied and broke the rules. Unlike the surprise firings such as Trump’s bizarre public shaming of Khloe Kardashian, this was both rational and amazing television. Speaking …
The Apprentice finally got rid of its “virus” David Johnson last night, but he was fired not for his crazy behavior–which has tamed in recent episodes–but for making poor choices as project manager, including choosing a shirt that didn’t fit a model. The episode involved product placement for Trump’s clothing line at Macy’s, and David …
Mahsa Saeidi-Azcuy is fighting back online after being fired from The Apprentice on last night’s episode. She posted a video to YouTube addressing Donald Trump directly and suggesting that he has privately acknowledged to her that she was unfairly accused of lying. Mash ends by asking for him to clear her name and adds, “if …
Donald Trump is fond of superlatives, which are the best and most important phrases ever, but when he said last night that he’d heard “the strongest group of words” ever on The Apprentice, he wasn’t just full of shit. Those words were spoken by Clint, who was eviscerating David, the freakish, obnoxious contestant who always …