I just heard about this, and would like to add that Behar is obviously the least classiest host on TV.

That sentence doesn't compute.

I heard on Chicago radio today that Bill is now dating Jen from the Bachelor (from the Andrew Firestone season.)

Wow, the boy gets around.

Ahhh...the FHM spread is on newsstand as is US Weekly with Amy/Bill/Nick/Trump/Katrina on the front cover and the yooge caption...


"Why the catfighting won't stop."



Some FHM Gems:

Katrina-
"People tell me my legs go on for miles an dmiles, and they basically do, but I don't have much of a torso."

"Before my confrontation with Omarosa, I had heard she had pushed a cameraman, that's another reason I was furious with her--I was very close with production. People were accusing me of being violent with her, but they didn't see her push the cameraman two second later."

Okay....so yet another example of "When Apprentices Attcak" that wasn't caught on amera. Either they were filmed 24/7 or they weren't which is it, ladies???



Krists:
"There was a lot more drinking on the show that they showed. Some days they wuldn't feed us and we'd have drinks. I think they'd hold off feeding us becuase delirious and wasted we would say anything."

Ereka:
:When we had to work at Planet Hollywood for ther day some guy was flirting with me. Katrina was like, "Doesn't she look like J-lo? She soun me around and waslike "Look at her ass!"

Amy--who loks the worst out of all of them:
"People e-mail me and say "I'd love to talk to you about a job with my company." In the past I would have beemn excited, but now I;m like, "They saw me on TV and want to offer me a job; that's scary." What they really want is an opportunity to talk further to ne...and take it further."

Yes, Amy, because as we all know you are just THAT irresisitable.


Bimbos...all of 'em.

I skimmed this thread fairly thoroughly to make sure that no one else had posted this, & I hope that I'm not breaking any rules by posting this, but I thought you all might get a chuckle. From April 6 Letterman:

Top Ten Signs You Are Obsessed With Donald Trump
8. Insist that people refer to your residence as the Taj Ma House
5. Instead of mowing your lawn, you let the grass grow very long then comb it over.
2. When blowing out birthday candles, you wish to be a 23-year-old Russian model so Trump will love you.
1. You're Donald Trump

Heh, it was sarcasm. I meant it as "take it for what it's worth (which is probably nothing)."

The creepy Fercos Bros kid was on The Next Best Thing on NPR just now. He said something about his take for being on The Apprentice was 10% profit plus a cellphone. During the interview his "nana" (grandma) kept interrupting him while she was babysitting him.

Well, DUH, isn't that the point? Why else would all these Apprentices have their own web sites with their resumes and "hire me for speaking engagements" sections? Haven't they been treating the show as a self-promotional tool?

Many of the bootees have been getting similar offers, so why is it so odd to Miss Amy that she should be getting offers too? If she's think they're stalkers obsessed with her legs, then I guess Sam and Troy have their fair share of stalkers too. <eye roll>

Amy, if you pose for an FHM spread and flaunt your physical assets, don't complain if it wrangles you some admirers.

This makes no sense at all... If she was mad at Assy for pushing the cameraman earlier, why would people see it "two seconds later"? She is a dum.

Oh, I'm sure that's true. There's nothing camera guys love more than a self-important, preening, I'm-so-pretty type. Because they never see that.

Okay, the article is about catfighting, but why can't Kwame, who is in the final four, be on the cover promoting the show instead of the insufferable Katrina? Bill doesn't participate in the catfighting, so why is he there? And if they wanted to do an article on catfighting, why not put Heidi, Ereka, and Omarosa on the cover?

US Weekly, I don't get it.

Thanks, hoodooznoodoooz. I had to get the whole list off the David Letterman/CBS website.

Top 10 signs you are obsessed with Donald Trump:

10. Every Thursday night, you fire one of your kids.
9. Instead of "Hump Day," you refer to Wednesday as "Trump Day."
8. Insist that people refer to your residence as the Taj Ma House.
7. Before going under for an appendectomy, you say, "If I don't make it, tell Donald I love him."
6. He goes by "The Donald," you go by, "The Kenny."
5. Instead of mowing your lawn, you let the grass grow very long then comb it over.
4. Wife filed for divorce after you converted the bedroom into a boardroom.
3. Your co-workers have given you the affectionate nickname "that loser who's obsessed with Donald Trump."
2. When blowing out birthday candles, you wish to be a 23-year-old Russian model so Trump will love you.
1. You're Donald Trump.

You're most welcome, djmama. (Sorry for editing the list to my favorites; I was nervous about possibly irritating others for using a substantial amount of space in the thread.)

From the Wahoo gazette portion of the CBS site (a recap of Letterman's show):

Bruce [Willis] enters wearing ... a Donald Trump wig ... Bruce is proud of his Donald wig ... ; the color – Sherwin Williams #35, Crimson Weasel.

A misstep on Dave's part. Should have been "The Sammy."

Bill is NOT dating Jen Scheft (of Bachelor 3). Apparently Trista and Ryan held some sort of weekend party in Vail for reality contestants. One of the "activities" included calling up contestants who were not present. Bill was there; Bill was handed the phone to speak with Jen. I think I read this in InTouch... though it could have been US Weekly. Who knows.

No misstep. Kenny is Dave's catch-all name.

Oh lord, it's just a matter of time before he starts hanging out at Belly. Don't do it Bill. Step away from the other famewhores!

You were expecting something Katrina said to make sense?

Here is a short blurb from the Cleveland Plain Dealer about season 2 of The Apprentice. The second blurb features an employer who recruited job applicants at the Cleveland casting call.

Trump and Burnett did a conference call with reporters this afternoon to discuss the season to date and the final two epsiodes. Most of it's non-spoilery, but I'll black out the few things that are.

Burnett tried to deny that Trump's comments are ever dubbed in after the fact and cling to the fiction that there are no retakes, but Trump admitted that they frequently recorded "commentary" later on.

Trump said he would seriously consider hiring a number of the Apprentices for lower-tier jobs if they didn't win, and he cited both Troy and one of the final four (I'll get back to that in a minute) among the people he was considering. Not sure if the latter person was a slip or not.

On the subject of the alleged hidden footage of Ereka using the N-word, Burnett said, “How big would my ratings be if I did have that (footage)?” he asked. “Do you think, if I did have that, I wouldn’t put that on TV?"

Spin-offs have been discussed, from one following the Apprentice winner in their new job to one about Sam, but Burnett said he decided against it, because he doesn't want to dilute the franchise.

The finale will be part live, part taped. The task portion will be entirely pre-taped.

Burnett said only Trump knows yet who he's going to pick, and the company the winner is assigned to run will depend on the person. Originally, Trump was going to stick the winner in some obscure Trump division, but he said he's been so impressed by the contestants that the winner will get a "big job."

The only big change for season two will be that the tasks will involve a lot more Fortune 500 companies who think the show is a great marketing tool. One of the rewards for this season was supposed to be a sit-down with Oscar de la Renta (ala the Steinbrenner reward), but de la Renta was afraid to appear on a show that could be a ratings loser.

The person Trump mentioned he might hire even if they don't win was ********Amy**********, and he dropped a couple of other hints (or red herrings) that this person wouldn't win. When discussing how the winner will be supervised, he said, "This is not going to be a man that's running off half-cocked." Could have been a slip of the tongue or I could be reading too much into that.

Burnett didn't want to say why Omarosa or Troy would come back, but he also said that all of the fired candidates would appear in the finale, and that the final challenges will take place over a longer period of time, with the two finalists acting more like real bosses than like members of a team.

So, Oprah showed a preview of tomorrow's show. It is in fact a new episode with Heidi, Oamrosa, Ereka and Trump. But...they show Ereka and Heidi in the audience and not on stage. Omarosa and Trump are the ones on stage.

Oprah looks at Ereka and says , "Did you call her the "N" word?" To which Ereka --of course--rolls her eys and says , "She's lying on national television." Omarosa and Trump are on stage together while Heidi and Ereka sit in the audience.

I realize I'm going to get something thrown at me for saying this but....if Omarosa did lie about this...don't you think she's taking it a bit far and opening herself up to a yoooge lawsuit by going on Oprah and continuing with this charade? Now that Katrina has come out with all these alleged flings and trysts and camerapeople pushing being done off camera or filmed but never aired (which contradicts Ereka/Trump's claim that they are filmed and miked 24/7)...how can we still be sure that Ereka never said it?

And...why does Ereka insist on dealing with this woman, as she said on her radio show last week with Sam, she is "soooo over Omarosa."

Are they both just playing into each other for attention?

This is a classic "(S)he said, she said". Both of them are sticking by their stories on national television. I'm not sure what to believe anymore because I think they're both idiots. The two things that have me leaning more toward Ereka being innocent are:
1. She's got TD, MB, Carolyn and most of the other apprentices backing her up.
2. That would mean Assy was also telling the truth about her 2 visits...er, 18 hours...er, 10 hours...er, 8 hours...in the emergency room after the piece of plaster...er, cee-ment...fell on her head and gave her a bump on the head...er, severe head trauma.

The only thing that still gives me pause, though, is the fact that no one - other than Ereka, I think - has emphatically denied it (if she ever really has, in fact, come out and said the words, "I NEVER, ever - without a doubt - did NOT call her that name). Everyone else has said things like, "It's not possible because the chances that it wasn't picked up by someone else or by the cameras/mics are slim". Which means that it is possible.

I remember in the last Big Brother a lot of vile, racist, misogynist and homophobic sentiments that were displayed by some of the hamsters on the live feeds were edited when shown on television and that is what's causing me not to totally dismiss Omarosa's allegations.

Now, I know that Big Brother and The Apprentice are produced by two different production companies but perhaps the same principle could be at work here?. Big Brother could have been a ratings bonanza if all the horrible things being said were shown on television but the producers chose, for whatever reason, not to show 99% of the stuff being said. Perhaps, in order to protect the franchise, or not to demolish Ereka's life, or some other mix of business and personal reasons, MB chose not to show the footage of Ereka saying that word?.

To support the editing claim, in the first Survivor Joel was voted out for being patronizing/sexist towards the women. I remember being so surprised, as were others on various boards, cause we never saw a hint of that by Mark Burnett. Again, for whatever reason, MB could be following the same template in choosing not to show Ereka's alleged insult like he didn't show Joel's sexism, and I'm willing to bet Joel's sexism would be much less inflammatory than Ereka's insult.

Or Omarosa could just be a self-delusional, lying cow.

The reason she's still lying is that she has given specific stories of when the comment was made that cannot possibly be true, as far as I'm concerned, and she has changed her story of when it was made. To me, it's way beyond she said/she said.

Okay...hold on a minute,......

US Weekly tidbits-

1. Katrina ledt notes for the guys beofre she left that said "Watch out for Amy." Cripes...did she include "Do you like me? Circle one-Y/N/M.

2. Amy is dating someone in Austin, TX...so why is she moving to NYC?

3. Bill alleged;y told a fellow passenger on a flight that he was flying out to see "one of the women from the show." 4. Ereak-as usual - only talks about Omarosa. And I don't know how she thinks she can start any sort of fashion consultation business. Her clothing choices are HORRIBLE.

In US Weekly, they discuss the Amy/Nick/Bill triangle. Yet, and Us makes it a point to include this in the article...."The show's producers would not allow Nick and Bill to comment for this story."

To me that says it all.They're The Final Two.

Donald Trump Beats Chicken in Casino Game

"The real estate mogul showed up at his namesake Trump 29 Casino Tuesday and played the Apprentice Chicken Challenge, a tic-tac-toe game with live poultry in a booth pecking its board selections while a gambler makes picks outside the box."

My money's on Robin.

There was an interesting article in this morning's New Orleans newspaper about the recent Apprentice 2 auditions. Some fabulous snark partway down through the article, especially this quote:

Surprised that no one has detailed the photo in US of the four gals that will be in the May issue of FHM.

It's Kristi, Ereka, Katrina and Amy...they're all wearing sexy black bras and panties (Katrina and Kristi have on thigh high hose also). They're lounging on beige carpet against a paneled wall - looks like a sleezy leftover from the 70's - hee!

Anyway, both Katrina and Kristi have big fake boobs - and Kristi should sue her doc; he placed her boobs so low and so far apart that they're ever more obvious that fake boobs normally are. Katrina's aren't much better but at least they're not miles apart. And of course, Ereka is kneeling in front showing us her abs of steel (yes, Ereka, we've seen your steel tummy enough times to know that you have mondo abs).

On the front page of the article, they have photos and quotes from Amy (wearing jeans so low that they rival Britney's), Ereka (same as Amy), Katrina and Omarosa (wearing a white jacket-type top so low-cut that her bony chest shows through - her breasts - whatever she has - fall to the side so much you can't see any breast).

Guess even Amy thinks posing in lingerie for a men's magazine will help her 'career'. Yeah, whatever.

I'm sure both Amy and Katrina are loving all of this - they're on the cover with the Donald in the middle.

The only question left: What would Carolyn say?

Incredible to think that Tammy, Jessie and Amy are the only women apprentices who've managed to maintain some semblance of a professional image.

ETA: I meant Heidi, not Amy. My bad.

I think it could have been Carolyn's idea just as much as anyone else. She criticized the women contestants for not showing her anything ELSE.

You know what I mean. That looks pretty funny in print!

They did FHM because it's better than Playboy? From the sounds of it HeiDDi and Jenna's layout was more classier.

Well, if you count posing in a bra and panties as a 'professional image', then I guess you could count Amy in, but since she's part of the crew posing for FHM, I don't think she's maintained a professional image. Tammy and Jessie, yes, and even Heidi (when it comes to keeping one's clothes on).

I don't think Amy's clothing choices project a professional image. TV or not, I wouldn't hire someone who dressed like that in an office environment.

Hee, hee! Good laugh. Thanks for that, Tashanir.

Apprentice bits on Access Hollywood today - Crazy Billy Bush was golfing with Carolyn (yay Carolyn!) and they talked about the Omarosa thing on Oprah.

Apparently there will be more golfing and Apprentice talk on AH tomorrow, for those of you who missed today =)

Oh and the BEST thing! BB asked Carolyn if she would ever hire Omarosa for anything...

She said "No...bad management skills" *shot of Assorama in the plane, shouting at Ereka*

What I don't get is what Amy could have possibly been thinking to wear such a short skirt into the boardroom. Maybe her inner dialogue go something like this:

"Hmm. I'm down for the count. I need to pull out all the stops. Mr. Trump (or "Donald", as he has asked me to call him...) is like every other man in my wake, and can be swayed with bedroom hair, spike heels, and a micro-mini. He won't notice that this is an obvious ploy to deflect his attention away from my shortcomings."

The previews of the Oprah showdown (on Access Hollywood) were enough to make my blood boil, I don't know if I can handle an entire hour. Omarosa walks out like the pageant queen she is and the audience is cheering wildly (thereby fueling her already massive ego). Oprah asks Ereka outright if she called her the 'n-word' to which Ereka replies (actually somewhat calmly): She's lying on national television. But the WORST part is that Omarosa then goes on to say "I'm ready to move on. Can we make a pact in front of Oprah and Donald to do that?" Yeah, it's easy enough for you to move on, from something you made up, that tarnishes someone else's reputation! Gah!

Ereka needs to ask her "when did I call you that, who was there, and let's get THEM out here." This whole "it's a cover up" shindig from Omarosa is absolutely too much.

I can't stand eiither of these two women, but all these recent stories from other Apprentices (Heidi, Katrina) leave me wondering. Ereka swears there was no way she could have said it because it would be on tape and they were taped and mic'd around the clock . Trump swears that if it was said and it was caught on tape (he claims there were 27 different cameras on at all times) then they would have aired it because it would mean ratings. But.....


Katrina and Heidi both have stated that Amy and Nick had sex during filming. So....where's THAT tape? If Trump loves ratings, then he should know better than anyone that sex sells. So where's the footage? If there is footage, why hasn't it been aired? And if there is no footage and the Katrina/Heidi are lying....then why isn't anyone calling them on it?

And if these stories from Heidi and Katrina are true (Katrina I can see lying...but I really don't think Heidi has a reason to lie) then there were, in fact, times when the cameras weren't on. So that opens up the possibility that Ereka could have said something to Omarosa.

The way this all looks to me is...if the popular girls didn't like you (Ereka/Katrina) then they all didn't like you. Look how quickly Heidi jumped on the Amy-was-just edited -well train. Where did that come from? She seemed to like her while on the show.

We're never going to know who slept with whom, who said what, who didn't say what.....but I am no longer so quick to believe that Ereka didn't say something innapropriate. These girls have been contradicting each other sooo much that it's ridiculous for them to think that the viewing public is going to give any of them any credibility.

Am I the only one who thinks this sounds really...junior high? Like when the 8th grade football players had parties and only invited other football players and cheerleaders? And they crank called the kids who weren't there, and the teachers who were stupid enough to have listed phone numbers?

I agree. The Heathers have entirely contradicted themselves. They need to get their stories straight. Were they on camera 24/7 or not? From all the hook-up stories the Heathers are spreading across the tabloids, I'm guessing not. Apparently the cameras are not in the bathrooms - the site of the alleged Nick/Amy trysts. It's possible Ereka could have said something to Assy in the girls washroom. It's just something we'll never know.

Neither of these women are credible, and both have proven themselves to be shameless famewhores.

Anyone else just see Trump on Leno tonight? (What is this, like his 4th time on that show in as many weeks? Or does it just seem like he is everywhere these days?)

Actually, if you missed it, you didn't miss much. Certainly nothing new. Although Jay did tease TD about the SNL sketches, especially the chicken dance and even showed some footage of it. TD was very good-natured about it, kept joking about how he was never going to live that down, etc.

Other than that it was the same old, same old--TD likes Troy, was sorry to have to fire him; TD doesn't yet know who the winner will be, it will be decided in the finale; TD doesn't necessarily have a problem with co-workers having affairs (re: Nick and Amy) he has seen office romances which worked well and ones which didn't so he judges on a case-by-case basis; he claims that there have been over 1 million applicants for TA2 so far (but consider the source here); Jay managed to get in a "let's make sure he's not gay" joke, of course; the live finale, which he is not looking forward to (I guess because of the "live" part) is April 15, Tax Day--Jay seemed surprised to find out that April 15 is tax day, spoken like a man who doesn't do his own taxes, I guess.

Anyway, that was about it. Donald was wearing an iridiscent fuscia-colored tie that just wasn't getting it done for me. But otherwise he was very casual and personable.

Two cents/observation on the Omarosa claim:

1. We have seen her try to play the martyr/victim card to the hilt on several occassions.
The plaster is the MOST obvious. But even her crying board room breakdown, which was the worst of ANY of the contestants. This from a woman who harps and harps about how strong and proud she is?? Seems very contradictory and ultimately manipulative.

2. Near the beginning, on the plane coming back from the reward w/the girls:
When Ereka (who in Omarosa's eyes is EreKKKa).. anyways.. when Ereka said "Well, isnt' that the pot calling the kettle black" and Omarosa busted out with "..kettle black ???!!?? Keep your racist comments to yourself" (paraphrasing)

I remember at the time, I busted out laughing at her, thinking you look SOOO ignorant right now! That is a saying that has NOTHING to do with racism AT all. Her defensiveness and attitude on that plane was the first major display of her drama queen side and of her decline. That was when I really started losing respect for her. Especially shocking was because this is from one who claimed to be so superiorly always in control, dealt in the world of politics which requires decorum, etc..??? Also, she was SO QUICK to throw out the racism card at Ereka over that saying when it has NO revelance makes me think she is likely to see/intrepret many things as such.

3. From somone who harps so much on how she grew up in the ghetto and had to overcome SO much to get where she was implies she faced MANY obsticles along the way. Poverty not being the only one. Since she goes on about being a strong BLACK woman, versus being a strong WOMAN, it implies that she has had to overcome racism, etc to get to the whitehouse and all her lofty positions.
That being the case, then WHY would a "suppossed" comment from a co-worker be SO tramatic and devastating? And obviously, this comment was not said in front of a GROUP of people, or even others, so she can not claim her image was destroyed in front of these people. It had to have happened, if at all, in a one-on-one. (Otherwise there would be ALL these witnesses to the event)
Ereka was her competition, and if Ereka was this small minded, Omarosa in her superiority, would have risen above this. It is not the same as Donald saying it to her and had NOTHING to do with her getting the boot from the show. SO WHY BRING IT UP? (unless it is self-serving)

4. She states on Oprah about "just wanting to get beyond this"... yet SHE is the one who made the accusations and she is the one who keeps TALKING about it.


Omarosa has lost so much credibility to her claims of greatness of character on so many other fronts, are we REALLY surprised by this? Again, as I stated in the beginning, she is one to work and milk any angle to her advantage she can. "I bought my clothes at Goodwill"
Ok.. that was a tough break, but HOW is it relavent now except to elicit a reaction/response,/sympathy ??

Guess what Oma? When I was young, I had to get my clothes at the Goodwill too. I am successful now, and funny, it just doesn't seem to ever come up, except as a side note. It did not define me then and it does not define me now.

Don't use excuses in life for ANYTHING. It makes you anything but strong.

Trump and Chickens are a magical combo. We know that already.

Amy may have SOME advantages, but this ain't one of them. And the other two?

Jessie either a.) wasn't offered the chance at FHM or b.) is too old fashioned or c.) was too dumb to understand the offer when made

Tammy was likely too insulted by the attitude of the BFF crew to interact further with them for FHM. And she's (gasp!) over 35!

I think the one who we all assumed would be the least classy going in--Kristi--she of the Red Shoe softcore nudie appearance has proven to have the most restraint post show. Either that or people just weren't paying enough attention when she had her chance to act like a post-show idiot.


Billy needs to crawl back under his rock. Or his cousin George's rock. Or whatever.

Nah, I just think the earlier 'firees' didn't get the media interest up at all...Kristi, Tammy, Jessie or any of the guys - just not that much there. The media firestorm only got going when Omarosa was fired and then the stakes got even higher solely because the numbers were dwindling and the competition got that much tighter.

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This is consistent with Carolyn's own comments about her, although Carolyn didn't name Omarosa specifically. She has referred to an apprentice who was at the center of all the fighting and said that when that apprentice left the women worked well together. It's obvious she's talking about Omarosa from the context of the comments.

Apparently from the Oprah show to air today (after Oprah asks Ereka if she said the n-word):



Perhaps this should be in the Omarosa thread, and if necessary, it can be taken over there. But if she's really writing a book that will discuss the racist comments, how can she say she wants to move on?

Well, I think Heidi and Katrina are certainly contradicting themselves when they talk about miked/not miked. But there are huge differences between the Omarosa situation and the Amy+Nick situation. First of all, if the n-word really was used, it was most likely used at the moment we saw the pot/kettle comment on the plane, when they were OBVIOUSLY miked and there were a bunch of people standing around.

Amy and Nick, on the other hand, really could have snuck away--I do believe this one hundred percent. They could have met each other in a bedroom in the middle of the night when no one was paying attention, or figure out a way to get it past the camera crews. They seem like they are both smart enough to orchestrate something like this. Could Ereka have done something like that in order to call Omarosa a racial slur? It's possible, but unlikely. After all, this is the girl who sent Katrina up to the suite and tried to go up against Nick and Bill! She doesn't seem like the brightest bulb in the shed.



Oh oh oh...next season, who wants to bet that there is a Sell Trump Chicken by the Bucket task? Anyone? Anyone?

Trump and Burnett talk about the final two episodes in the Chicago Sun-Times, including this bit for MB about the final tasks: