The Celebrity Apprentice 3

Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, who spent his time on The Celebrity Apprentice maintaining his innocence, was found guilty by a federal jury of lying to the FBI; the jury deadlocked on 23 other counts, and he’ll likely be re-tried on those. The Chicago Tribune reports that “[a]fter a federal jury convicted him of just… continue reading

Celebrity Apprentice 3 contestant and hilarious break-out star Cyndi Lauper will get her own docudrama-style reality series produced by Mark Burnett. The New York Daily News buried this news in a profile, in which Cyndi says the new series will focus on her, her husband David Thornton, and their son Declyn, who’s 12–and “the comedy… continue reading

Ratings for The Celebrity Apprentice 3‘s two-hour finale on Sunday were up despite competition from the series finale of Lost, making it the second highest-rated finale in the celebrity edition’s history. Interest in Bret Michaels’ health probably contributed to the increase in viewers. The finale was watched by 9.3 million viewers, and it had “the… continue reading

Bret Michaels became the third Celebrity Apprentice, but Donald Trump came as close as he’s ever come to declaring two winners by giving both Bret and Holly’s charities $250,000, thus making Bret’s win about the title alone. While Trump gave no actual reason for selecting Bret, the Poison lead singer turned reality star certainly deserved… continue reading

Bret Michaels plans to be at the live finale of The Celebrity Apprentice 3 Sunday, although there are some caveats. “As far as I know, Bret will be there unless his doctors tell him otherwise. We’re cautiously optimistic that he will attend the finale. But ultimately, it’s up to his doctors,” Bret’s rep told People…. continue reading

Bret Michaels’ doctors discovered he has a hole in his heart after he was hospitalized again after having a mini-stroke sometime this week. There’s no clear information at this point about whether or not he’ll attend Sunday’s live finale of The Celebrity Apprentice 3. In a statement posted to Facebook and elsewhere, his representatives said… continue reading

Bret Michaels is out of the hospital and will recover from the brain hemorrhage that left him in critical condition more than a week ago. “I really expect that he will fortunately make a 100 percent recovery. He’s just one of those lucky people … he’ll make a complete recovery and be able to resume… continue reading

Bret Michaels’ team revealed yesterday that he “remains in critical but stable condition” and “[t]est results indicate a setback in Bret Michaels condition a side effect from the brain hemorrhage called hyponatremia a lack of sodium in the body which leads to seizures.” As to his hemorrhage, the update said, “Many people are speculating Michaels… continue reading

Bret Michaels remains in critical condition today and is undergoing tests to determine the cause of the brain hemorrhage he suffered on Friday. According to a message posted on his Facebook fan page Sunday: “Bret remains in ICU in critical condition. He is under 24 hour doctors care and supervision. We are hopeful that further… continue reading

Faced with firing either Bret Michaels or Sharon Osbourne, two of the three remaining Celebrity Apprentice stars who are household names, Donald Trump did something unsurprising for someone who never makes decisions based on entertainment alone: he fired no one. “I’ve decided that with over $347,000 raised, I’m not going to fire anybody tonight,” he… continue reading

Celebrity Apprentice 3 cast member and Rock of Love star Bret Michaels is in an intensive care unit after suffering a brain hemorrhage early this morning. People reports that Bret, who had an emergency appendectomy last week, had “an excruciating headache late Thursday night” and “was rushed to an undisclosed hospital where doctors discovered he… continue reading

Donald Trump insists he’s never fired a contestant on The Apprentice in order to keep someone who’s more entertaining. Seriously. “I make my own decisions,” he told msnbc.com. “I never make a decision based on entertainment value. If it’s going to hurt my credibility, I won’t do it. Once I lose that credibility, the show… continue reading

Once again, the predictable happened on The Celebrity Apprentice 3: Donald Trump fired the less-entertaining, less-famous person instead of the person actually responsible for a team’s loss. Snore. I only tolerate it because the entertainment comes from the celebrities interaction while performing tasks–like Maria Kanellis’ “you were my idol and now you are mean to… continue reading

Firings are nearly always lame on The Celebrity Apprentice, and when he’s not rationalizing his irrationality, Donald Trump is pretty much defining hypocrisy. Tonight he did both, fired Selita for not having “the same fire” as Maria (translation: Maria makes better TV, the only reason he keeps any celebrities), and giving a pass to both… continue reading

Not until The Celebrity Apprentice 3 teams presented their task did last night’s episode really hit, but it was amazing. They created walk-through displays to advertise Universal Studios’ new attraction The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, and between Cyndi Lauper shrieking, Goldberg dressed up as a tree and doing double-duty as the sorting hat’s voice,… continue reading

We all know how much Donald Trump hates quitters, but we’ve also learned how much Donald Trump cannot criticize his celebrity cast members, which is perhaps the worst part about The Celebrity Apprentice. The typical firing goes something like this: You absolutely sucked at this task, you wrecked the sponsor’s product, but I love you,… continue reading

The third episode of The Celebrity Apprentice 3 concluded with a title card saying the episode was “in memory” of D’Marco Ray, who worked in the sound department of several shows, including the third Celebrity Apprentice season, and died earlier this year of kidney cancer. A USC in-memoriam piece says D’Marco Ray Smith died “February… continue reading