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Last night on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ was a very emotional night. As you all know, Bret Michaels got hospitalized this Friday for a stroke. The doctors said he may not make it, but he was there.
The show was live, so there was an audience. They started off by showing the rest of the clips from the Snapple project. Holly’s team named their Snapple ‘Compassion Berry’. With all the taste testing, and commercials and ads, this may have been the hardest task yet. But, they definetly gave it their all. When it was Holly’s turn to do her presentation, Maria and Curtis handed out their ads to each table and their new Snapple, “Compassion Berry”. The commercial was shown and the workers from Snapple seemed to like it. Bret’s team was a huge success too. They went for the “funny” side of things and showed their entertaining commercial. It went back live and they showed clips from last weeks show, most of the fired ‘Apprentice’ stars came out and talked about their best moments, worst moments, etc. Donald asked Maria why she brought up what she did in the boardroom last week. She admits it was a mistake. The two finalists came out, Holly was in a gorgeous silver dress, and Bret in his usual bandana. Bret came out strong, a fighter. Limping though. They talked, about their relationship, and how much they respected each other, about Bret’s condition. Everyone watching, was probably crying. Cyndi Lauper performed a song off of her new album, “Memphis Blues”. It went to a commercial, when they came back, they announced the winner. “Bret… You’re hired.” Everyone came over to hug the two finalists and the show went off air. I can’t believe this season is over! Congratulations Bret!

Thanks so much to Alicia of M-Kanellis.piczo.com for providing a recap for MKO.

It wasn’t surprising that Bret Michaels, the lead singer of Poison, was named the winner of “The Celebrity Apprentice” Season 3. What was surprising is that he even made it to “The Celebrity Apprentice” live third-season finale (which aired May 23 on NBC), without showing any outward signs that he had gone through a brain hemorrhage, an appendectomy, a mini stroke and a defective-heart diagnosis all within a span of a few months. Michaels had been released from the hospital just two days before the finale (after experiencing the stroke and after doctors found a small hole in his heart), and his speech and behavior were pretty much the same as they were before his recent health problems. “The Celebrity Apprentice,” hosted and executive produced by Donald Trump, features stars competing on various business tasks to raise money for their selected charities. Michaels’ chosen charity was the American Diabetes Foundation.

All of the former contestants of “The Celebrity Apprentice” Season 3 (except for Goldberg and Sharon Osbourne) attended the live finale show at the Skirball Center in New York City, and then celebrated at the after-party, which was held at the Trump SoHo Hotel. I caught up with many of “The Celebrity Apprentice” stars at the after-party, including a triumphant Michaels, who seemed to get rounds of much-deserved applause everywhere he went. Holly Robinson Peete, who came in second place to Michaels in the final round of the show, was very gracious about not being named the winner, because she (like the rest of the contestants) did not lose sight of the most important goal: to raise money and awareness for charity. Here’s what some of “The Celebrity Apprentice” Season 3 stars had to say when I chatted with them at the after-party.

Which do you like better: wrestling or reality TV?
I love all of it, and I love singing now. It’s one of those things that I think everybody grows from it. Everybody transitions from one thing to the next. You might love something for a while, but once you feel it’s enough, maybe it’s time to move on. Now that I’m involved in singing, it’s incredible, because I wrote the music and the lyrics. I know what I was going through, so being able to come from that place — it’s all mine — that’s really cool.

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Tonight was the live finale for Celebrity Apprentice, where Bret Michaels was crowned the new Celebrity Apprentice (congrats Bret!). Maria was of course on hand for the show and was at the after party thrown at Trump in SoHo. She looked absolutely stunning walking the red carpet, there are even some photos of Maria with her younger sister Janny.

EDIT: I’ve just added 16 additional photos into the gallery of Maria at the after party, along with 34 high quality shots. So head over and check them out!

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May 23rd – The Celebrity Apprentice Season 3 finale after party – New York City, NY
May 23rd – The Celebrity Apprentice Season 3 finale after party – High Quality

If you follow Maria on Twitter then you probably saw that earlier tonight she mentioned she was heading out to Maxim’s Hot 100 party. Well, we have some gorgeous photos of Maria striking a pose in her lovely purple dress on the red carpet. Be sure to check out the 5 shots we have and keep checking back, we’ll be adding more photos when they pop up.

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Appearances > 2010 > May 19th – Maxim Hot 100 Party – Los Angeles, CA