She'd probably be thrilled at the attention ('cause, you know, we're all sooo jealous of Miss Princess).

Isn't Amy's last name Henry? Fine job of reporting there, NY Post. They're called fact checkers.

Yes, it's Henry. Kristi's last name was Frank. The NY Post also called Katrina "Kristina" in the Kwaame related story on Page Six last week. The worst part? In the opening line they got her name right, in the closing line they called her Kristina. Forget about fact checkers...how about proof readers? That byte was only about 5 sentences long.

Newspapers don't use fact checkers due to daily deadlines.

(Though a copy editor should've caught that.)

nowandlater, are you sure that NO newspapers use fact checkers? I know that some newspapers have pieces that are written over long periods of time, even up to three years. Where I work (at a metro daily), we have a research department, and I'm pretty sure they sometimes check facts. Though I'm in sports, so what would I know about checking facts!? Kidding, of course. There actually are many facts/names/stats to be checked in sports (but THAT? is offtopic, so I'll shut it now).

Found some more of Carolyn's attitude and disapproval of how these women are dressing on the show.

This article is equally hilarious and shows more of George's personality.

I should amend that to say daily newspapers don't fact-check most articles. It's up to the reporter (and/or editors) to get everything right. Because of tight deadlines, it's hard to make sure everything checks out.

So the point is the NY Post reporter is solely responsible for screwing up Amy's name.

OK, back to topic.

NY Post article (heh) on Star Jones thinking she knows the winner. Apparently she's gone so far as to write the name on a piece of paper, seal it in an envelope, and give it to her producer for safe-keeping until after the April 15 finale. TD is quoted as not knowing himself who the winner is. Ah yes, Katty is also mentioned in the article for supposedly letting slip the name of the winner last week.

Katrina said this and Katrina said that and according to what Katrina said.

blah blah blah

Amazed that so many people are attaching significance and veracity to "what Katrina said".

1) Because she has a helluva lot more insight on the game, players and outcome than most anyone else watching the show, for starters! (Which is why I'd give her story more credence than some random member of The View coven.)

2) Because we are addicts hungry for every crumb we can pick at, analyze, and possibly discard.

3) Because any news item not containing Omarosa and her shenanigans is a welcome balm?

Katrina may be full of bullshit - or the person quoting her may be. (Who would willingly put themselves on the hook for $5M if they blabbed?) Who knows? At any rate, it's fun to hear about this stuff.

Ahhh...papergate all over again. Katrina should know the outcome of this one!

B Walters: So, Star, it's time to reveal your pick for the winner of The Apprentice!

*drumroll*

B Walters: "I want who Donald wants"?! Star, this is absolutely unethical!!

(Meredith leans over to Joy Behar and whispers "We got duped....")

Trump was quoted in Time's "Verbatim" this week:

"All of the women on the Apprentice flirted with me--conciously or unconciously. That's to be expected." --Donald Trump, on a side benefit of his hit TV series

Article about Trump's troubled businesses. The show makes an excellent smokescreen.

I seriously can't stand the girl, but I will admit she looks incredible in this picture. When she puts her hair back her face gets all sharp and angular, but with it down she's stunning.
http://www.nypost.com/photos/pg603272004e.jpg
(this is from that Post article linked on pg 76)

But look at her face, she's missing something. Anyone else see it? It's laugh lines. I think she'd be ten-times more stunning with laugh lines around her mouth. Seriously.

That is all kinds of wrong. No, Mr. Trump, those weren't "bedroom eyes"... they were dizzy from the tiger stripes.

I saw this too and cracked up. I'm intrigued by the concept of "unconscious flirting" and it sounds like a headache in the making for human resources personnel everywhere. Maybe he took the women's short skirts as a way of "unconsciously" flirting with him? ("I saw part of Tammy's knee when she crossed her legs. She's flirting with me. She wants me to see how well-toned her tibia is.")

More likely, I think this is part of The Donald's ongoing verbal masturbation in the media. He owns the biggest, most expensive, most beautiful, most popular, tallest, of everything. (And the yardstick for these qualifications? His own opinion.) He's talked about the physical beauty of the female contestants before, so of course he's going to flatter himself into believing that they all were flirting with him, whether they were conscious of it or not.

I think I can understand why he thinks they were flirting with him. They were dressed like Paris Hilton while trying to be sharp and witty and hold his attention all at the same time. If I could ever manage to do any of those things all at once I would probably come across as flirtatious as well. Sadly, I cannot.

I thought that said "she wants me to see how well-toned her labia is." Which is all kinds of funny. Especially with how freakishly short those skirts have been.

When I look at that photo of Katrina, all I see is a FL nose job. I've seen enough fake noses going to high school on Long Island to know one when I see one. And she's 23 years old. The laugh lines will come in time.

The quote from Trump about all the women either consciously or unconsciously flirting with him has put me off food for the rest of the day. He's taken self delusion to an art form. No wonder Assorama lasted as long as she did.

I think unconscious flirting only occurs after being hit in the head with drywall.

The horrific Assorama makes an appearance in Fametracker.com's Galaxy of Fame!

From the NY Post article re: Star Jones knowing the outcome:


I think that's the first time I've read that actually being admitted. Which, I'm guessing, means that all y'all (as we say in Oklahoma!) are right in speculating that the first half or more of the 2 hour finale will be on tape, probably whittling down from 3 to 2 and the last part will be live.

And that picture of Katrina is OK, but I acutally thought she was her most attractive when she was on Today last week (hootchie mama outfit aside). She had obviously had her hair cut in much more flattering layers, and it had been lightened. I thought it looked very good on her. I suppose seeing oneself on televisionm every week would make even the most attractive person feel the need for some self-improvement.



Hee hee! Loved it, radish!

Augh! Word on the "unconscious flirting". Maybe he took their skank outfits as a sign of flirting? I was more intrigued by his assertion "That's to be expected." Talk about ego....

They're called reporters. If a newspaper needs fact checkers, then its reporters should be fired.

I can't be too harsh, though, because I couldn't tell the difference between Ereka and Katrina and I've seen every minute of every episode.

...and very much a Cher impersonator.

Re: the Katrina picture.

I think she looks like Daisy Fuentes on crack.

Yeah, I agree. All I see is contouring. Girl needs to lay off the brown eye shadow.

OT: Almost all newspapers and news magazines employ fact checkers, though they're utilized far more frequently in magazines due to issues of turnaround time between writing and publication (so at newspapers, the burden for a lot of verification falls on the copy editors). They can be everything from interns to full-fledged researchers.

Wow! She does bear a striking resemblance to Daisy Fuentes. I think she looks quite pretty. I like the shorter layered hair. It looks lighter too. Myabe highlights?Her makeup looks much nicer. She did a better job of blending it in to create a softer look. Her features looked much sharper and meaner-looking on The Apprentice. She's quite tall too.

Well, it says here that during the 4/8 episode:



Two cut in the penultimate episode?

kattam6175 wrote about the BFFs at a "midtown fashion party", but that link keeps moving. It was a party thrown by the New York Public Library's Young Lions Committee, and here's a more stable link, albeit a slightly different picture. Ereka's totally trying to pull her jeans down. Maybe that's why they're both smiling so big. (Scroll about halfway down, pic is on the left.)

I put this info over in the Carolyn thread, but thought I'd mention it over here too. According to TIVO, Carolyn & George will be on the Jay Leno show 3/31 (10:35 pm eastern.) They're not listed in the TV Guide, but I trust that the TIVO info is correct!!

The Tonight Show's online schedule confirms it...

Swiping this from the Amazing Race thread...

Check the third question down (third red paragraph)

OK, not like it has any real relevance to the Apprentice, but I just thought it was funny.

Never mind. Please continue as you were.

TD and the NJ Gaming Commission....

Star Ledger article


He was also in the Sunday NY Times business section. Apparently the Taj is a mess.

I agree with The Donald that the women probably DID unconsciously flirt with him. but then, so did the men. "Flirting" isn't always a sexual thing. These folks are always trying to be charming and likeable. And they act sweet and cute and lighthearted. Troy's "li'l ole country boy me" act is flirting, regardless if it's aimed at a woman or a man. Amy was right about ther men using their charm, too. Now, I'm not defending the women's wearing of short skirts and tight shirts, but as far as the "charm" aspect, I feel like that the women get taken to task over it all the time, but the fact that the men do the same thing gets ignored.

Thanks for that, minxmarx. That is indeed interesting, since it says in the same show that the contestants will meet one on one with Trump and/or advisors (in the BR, I assume). So maybe that will be the first half of the show, and after that procedural two candidates will get the boot. Then the final two are given their final assignments and the chance to start working on them? I wonder if that will spill over into the next week? I had wondered how they were going to do any significant challenges during a live show. I hope that there is something in the final ep, though, except just a reveal. Because taking two hours to do a reveal? Sounds pretty boring.

Is each of the final two candidates given a separate challenge? If so, I wonder if the golf tournament and the Jessica Simpson concert are the final two challenges? (Not sure if that constitutes a spoiler, but better be safe). Would seem to make sense.

The article minxmarx linked to has a subsequent link to the application for The Apprentice 2, which contains the following statement in the Application Rules and Requirements:


Is this new for this season? I'm just thinking of Sam...Omarosa...Tammy...if they're in "excellent mental health", I don't know what to think!

I contend the producers knew exactly what they were getting with Sam, Omorosa, Tammy, etc. Mature, competent, pleasant businesspeople would make tremendously boring TV. A haughty, lazy, paranoid sociopath? Bring her on!

TV Guide Online interview with Katty.

Well, I'll at least give her credit for some self-awareness.

There.Are.No.Words. This girl is absolutely an embarrassment to women everywhere.

She's striking a delicate balance between delusion and self-absorption. Honestly, this girl needs her head examined. Perhaps by a large chunk of plaster. Thank goodness she is off my television.

What a self-important psycho this girl is. The entire interview was Amy, Amy, Amy. And then this cop-out in the end. How could telling the truth be a "compromise" in her integrity. Nope, she got duped. Amy played her and won. And I can't stand Amy.

I do agree that it takes a certain skill of playing the game to win this game, but I see that as true in many hard core corporate tasks. I bet DT didn't go to a stinking boardroom and punk out in the homestretch. DT would smell blood or weakness in a competitor and go in for the kill. Katrina HAD Amy at that point and could have at least gone down with a massive blow to Amy. But nooooo...Miss Thang punked out. And then wants to disparage everyone else by saying that they are doing so well because they are manipulatie or conniving.

Where did they find these people?

I got a big kick out of her, "FHM is about confidence. Playboy is just about nudity."

No, Kat. FHM is just about underwear instead of nudity.

As much as I don't care for Amy, her response was perfect. Ereka and Omarosa should take note.But what I don't understand is.....how can these people get away with exposing so much in their interviews. If Katrina is telling the truth....then she exposed quite a bit about the final 2.

Katrina, Katrina, Katrina. Shut. Up. And she's giving away so much in her interviews! Must be nice to be a top 3 realtor and be able to afford a $5 million fine just for the privilege of babbling away nonsensically.

My all-time reality show contestant hate list is top-heavy with Apprentices now.

She has given away an awful lot....



She basically tells us that Nick definitely makes it to the final two.



This means that Amy does NOT last very long.



And Amy too will eventually get fired.

Thanks for all the spoilers, Katty! That should suffice for at least half of the 5 million fine, shouldn't it?

Hi guys, delurking to point out that Proenza Schouler is not a "he," it's two guys whose names are not even Proenza Schouler (a combination of their mothers' maiden names). I certainly don't expect everyone to know that, but if you're going to go on record and act like you're so in tune to what's hot/trendy/cool etc., you should at least get your facts straight.

Yes, I'm that petty, but we're talking about Katrina here.

Ok, Katrina, Heidi, Ereka, Omarosa.. take note. That is called conducting yourself with class. And I loathe the fact that Katrina would sling around stories about Amy's alleged "sexual escapades". Number 1: who's business is it? Number 2: So what if she did? They're grownups. And Number 3: Shut up Katrina!

I mean, who the hell cares if two consenting adults "do it"??

And frankly, these people getting thrown off the show should know they're turning themselves into office poison just by acting the way they are. Makes me realize how classy Kristie, Bowie, and even Jessie were in their exits.

I can't stand Katrina. She needs to grow up, she needs to get some self-awareness and she needs to realize a competent, strong, capable woman (Amy) is something to be admired and something to gain inspiration from, not something to feel threatened by.

And notice Katrina loves the guys. Notice that? Argh. She isn't bad-mouthing Troy as badly as Amy! Notice she warned the guys in her exit interview?