It has been a crazy few weeks in her career as just a few days before appearing on Celebrity Apprentice, she was released from her WWE contract. The good news for her fans is that she appears to be in great spirits.

One of the pitfalls about reading an interview as opposed to hearing it is that you sometimes don’t get a feel for the mood someone is in. I can tell you that she was laughing and giggling at points of most of her answers. I would like to take credit for this and say that she was amused by my sense of humor, but the truth is that she has an incredible sense of humor and personality that hopefully will make it to print in this interview.

Eric: Can you tell me about how you got involved with Celebrity Apprentice?
Maria Kanellis: I actually met Donald Trump when he came to the show to do some work with Vince McMahon. He asked me if I wanted to do it and I said that I would love to and it all started from there.

Eric: Typically, there are charities involved with Celebrity Apprentice. I was wondering what charity you will be competing for and how you got involved with that?
Maria Kanellis: It’s the Make a Wish Foundation. I’ve been doing work for them for a few years now. I love that charity because it I giving wishes to kids, some amazing and strong individuals.

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In this premiere episode of the third season of “The Celebrity Apprentice,” Donald Trump divides the celebrities into men versus women and instructs them to choose a team name and in a surprise twist, Trump asks them to choose the opposing team’s project manager. For their first task they must run a New York City diner. The team who brings in the most money at the diner, including tips, wins. It isn’t long before the celebrities’ egos clash as they compete to see who will be the first celebrity to face Mr. Trump in the boardroom and hear the words “You’re fired.” Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. also star.

On the reality series, Blagojevich joins the likes of Bret Michaels, Holly Robinson Peete, Cyndi Lauper and Daryl Strawberry. He impressed contestant Maria Kanellis, a gorgeous WWE wrestler from Ottawa, Ill., who was raising money for the Make a Wish Foundation.

“The first day I met the governor, oh my goodness, I was like, ‘This was the governor of my home state!’ I couldn’t wait to tell my dad.”

Kanellis didn’t actually vote for him, but she can confirm that the governor is a politician at all times. “I’d be like, c’mon, just be normal, get angry!” she said. But Blagojevich stayed on message, on camera and off. “I wanted to get him drunk or something,” says Kanellis, whose EP “Seven Sins” comes out April 13. And oh yeah, there was one other thing about the governor: “He didn’t know how to text message.”

As you can imagine, there was one popular topic of conversation on “Celebrity Apprentice.” “They compared hair a lot,” Kanellis says. “Between Trump and the governor, and Sharon Osbourne and Cyndi Lauper and Bret Michaels, hair was hard to ignore.”

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