In case you find The Donald’s hair too shocking to let you watch Celebrity Apprentice (and I totally sympathize), I’ll go ahead and sum up the latest episode: Annie Duke comes out smelling like a rose. A series of misfortunes and a client who doesn’t know what they want couldn’t stop Annie from doing her best - Project Manager or not.
Annie Duke looking fabulous for the Celebrity Apprentice
This week the teams switched around their line-ups. This was a terrible time to be divorcing Annie from Joan Rivers, because the project was a viral video/advertisement and Annie’s assessment (bear in mind that limit-pushing comedy is her specialty) was that Joan Rivers was the key to this project. Luckily Clint Black (who had volunteered as PM on the opposing team) completely squandered Joan for her writing and performing ability.
Viral Midgets! Really?
Team Athena ended up putting Jesse James in a bathtub and having little people wearing blue and yellow scrub him. Why? I have no clue. But for some unknown reason, the other team also tried to follow what could only be foreseen as the “midget video” theme in their attempts at viral promotion. Annie found the results a little giggle-worthy and it had the same effect on super special semi-celebrity guest, Perez Hilton. He certainly was not there for anything to do with his expertise in internet foolishness and provided only paltry comic relief.
Perez’s guffaws for the videos were smothered by the corporate higher-ups from “All” who thought that both clips were too offensive and not enough advertisement. They clearly don’t understand the viral video format, in the same way that The Donald doesn’t understand real estate, which is why he pretends to be the American-business version of Gordon Ramsey from Hell’s Kitchen.
In the debacle where no one knew what the hell was going on in the first place, everybody lost, especially the viewer. Fortunately Annie, who was perhaps the only person who got a fairly direct compliment from the All People (they liked her video’s branding, she was in charge of branding) didn’t have to go to the boardroom.
Who got fired by The Donald?
In the end, two people were sent home: Tionne Watkins was fired because she foolishly volunteered to accompany Melissa to the boardroom after a poor performance, and Khloe Kardashian got fired because she got a DUI in.
Despite having know clue what the Kardashian’s do, or why they are famous, I was curious about the DUI thing. People magazine reported the sister’s disdain at the firing as it was based on Trump’s hatred of people who drive under the influence, and not her performance. She has a point, but so does The Donald, and I quite like the fact that he is making a bit of an example out of a celeb (albeit an f-list celeb).
And so, the cycle of losing for the sake thereof continues. But not for Annie Duke, who continues to play her cards right.
