You can see Maria posing for photos in the first 10 seconds or so, cute right?

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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.

Maria took part in King of the Cage: Honor event on Friday, working 5 interviews with the competitors. I’ve got all interviews up for download, in 720 HD all thanks to Revan. If you have trouble playing back the video, we recommend using the VLC player, its absolutely free and plays just about any video file. Also if you’d rather watch the interviews online, Chris over at Maria-Kanellis.org has added the videos onto Youtube.

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