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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.

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This week’s week’s episode started with the 5 remaining contestants in the suite, celebrating. Sadly the celebration didn’t last long because Mr. Trump asked everyone to come back to the boardroom almost immediately. Once everyone was good and seated, Mr. Trump congratulated everyone for making it this far, then followed up by saying that someone was going to be fired right now. The 4 remaining players will then be interviewed by last year’s winner, Joan Rivers and the first ever Apprentice winner Bill Lansing before 2 more people are also fired.

Mr. Trump then began asking each of them why they shouldn’t be fired, Maria butted in during Curtis’ speech where he mentioned going out on his own at 21. Saying that they all started working for their dreams at a young age, then mentioning how she began modeling at 15. When Trump asked her if she should be fired, she quickly told him no because she’s not afraid of working hard and wants to keep fighting til the end. Almost everyone was then asked who they thought the weakest player was, Holly quickly answered that she thought Maria was the weakest. She said that she believed that Maria doesn’t come from the purest of places, that she never hesitates to basically throw everyone under the bus to save herself in the boardroom. Maria seemed to let her comments roll off her back, saying that she never says anything that isn’t supportive and then going on to say that she knows Holly has had a hard life and that she respects her. Sharon also thought Maria was the weaker player.

Curtis was then asked who he thought was the weakest and it seemed as thought he was on Holly & Sharon’s side because he too, thought it was Maria. He seemed to still be a little ticked over Maria’s not so nice words about him in the boardroom a few weeks ago, although he claimed to be “over it” and that her words were unfounded. Maria completely laughed it off, going on to talk about a rather “gross” thing Curtis did. Claiming that Curtis was “so arrogant” that he came into their dressing room and “took a crap” in their bathroom, leaving the stench behind. Everyone laughed it up while Holly said that it was completely random for anything like that to be said. Mr. Trump agreed with Holly then went on to say that her behavior was unfit for his boardroom then firing her. Maria thanked Trump for the oppurtunity and left the boardroom. Maria was upset abotu being fired, saying that it was laughable to be fired over a comment rather than losing a task or anything of that nature.

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This week’s task was to create an apartment for someone to live in, as well as create a ‘celebrity’ room. Holly was the project manager to Bret & Cyndi while Sharon was the project manager to Maria & Curtis. Both teams went out searching for furniture at a NYC furniture store. Sharon did not like Maria’s taste in furniture and sent her to work on the room with the colors and to begin painting. As Maria was midway through painting, Sharon called her and told her to change the color she had been painting with before. As time began to become an issue, Sharon & Curtis made it back to the apartment, along with some friends to help Maria paint. Things for Rocksolid (now Maria’s team) were going smoothly while Tenacity was having issues due to Cyndi’s spastic attitude. After the judges checked out both rooms, they liked Rocksolid but felt they lacked in the ‘celebrity’ room part of the task, which was a major part of it. For Tenacity, they felt it looked somewhat cheap and overdone as they tried to achieve the Zen look. In the end, Rocksolid was declared the winning team making them immune from elimination. Cyndi Lauper was the next celebrity eliminated. Only 5 celebrities remain — will Maria make it to the final 2? In a preview for next week’s episode, 3 celebrities will be fired.

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With no one being fired on last week’s Celebrity Apprentice, the stress was riding a bit high with everyone thinking more than one person would be eliminated from the competition. The task this week was creating three 30 second radio commercials for Clockwork Home Services. The ads would be representing, Benjamin Franklin : The Punctional Plumber, One Hour Heating & Air Conditioning & Mr. Sparky : America’s on time electrician. Bret took the reigns as Project Manager for RockSolid while Summer Sanders took charge for Tenacity.

RockSolid was having too much fun on the way coming up with ideas for the jingles, using a more perverse joking approach. When they sat down with the Clockwork exec’s they realized that they’d have to try and reign it in because, they were very no nonsense corporate business men. When the team sat down to run over ideas, Sharon & Maria were both showing concerns for a few of Bret’s “pushing the envelope” jingle pitches. However, Bret assured them that if things went south that he would take the fall for the ideas. Luckily it never came to that because once both teams hit the boardroom, Mr. Trump revealed that Clockwork has absolutely loved RockSolid and their creative jingles.

RockSolid was named the winner of this challenge, earning them $40,000 for Bret’s charity the “American Diabetes Association”. Before Trump sent RockSolid out of the boardroom he asked each of the members who they thought should be sent home, Maria & Sharon both chimed in saying that Curtis should be fired. Both saying that he seems very smug, Maria even mentioned how she wants to “punch him” when she looks at him. In the end, Tenacity’s Project Manager Summer was fired and sent home.

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On this week’s episode, Mr. Trump decided to switch things up. With RockSolid down to 2 members, Donald moved Curtis Stone over to Tenacity while Sharon Osbourne and Maria were moved over to RockSolid to team with the remaining Bret Michaels. This week’s challenge was creating and running an exercise class at 24 Hour Fitness, Sharon & Holly were the project managers.

The ‘new’ RockSolid were working well together and having alot of fun with their class theme, creating a “RockStar Bootcamp” with Maria taking lead as the trainer. Sharon took to getting donations for the challenge, hitting up the WWE since it just so happened her husband Ozzy was hosting Monday Night Raw that night. With a hefty donation of $10,000 each coming from the WWE, Vince McMahon and even John Cena RockSolid seemed to be on the right track. The class seemed to be a huge hit with everyone involved however, the employee from 24 Hour Fitness was a bit concerned with a few of the more “provocative” moves.

When it came down to the boardroom, both teams seemed to be playing the same card thinking that their competition had done a better job. RockSolid came out on top for a moment, winning the $24,000 bonus from 24 Hour Fitness and having that added to their total, leaving them with a total of $131,803 dollars earned for the challenge. However, with a total of $206.09 Tenacity took home the win for this week. In a surprising turn of events, Mr. Trump didn’t fire anyone from RockSolid seeing as both teams earned over $300,000 for the challenge.

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