The Apprentice women's lines on VH1's Divas Live were obviously scripted. Which is why it surprises me that Amy got to say something so snarky to Assyroma. Cuz you would have thought Assy would have script approval, considering what a control freak she appears to be (after all, she bossed around Oprah's crew!)

O, A and H stride out along an aisle and climb the stage. Note, Amy and Heidi have great legs, Omarosa not so much, but she is quite statuesque. Except - little white tank tee and a pink tutu skirt? Ewwww.

Anyway, she talked first, and she really sounded like an off-camera announcer for a pageant. Ugh. Both times she talked she did something weird, too. She gave a high-pitched little intake of her breath (sort of "hee" but in reverse) that made it sound like she was about 10 years old and really excited.

So Amy talks next, and word, she sounded exactly like she was announcing a WWF match. Sort of a "let's get reaady to ruuuuumble" kind of delivery. And after Omarosa had announced that Jessica Simpson was on the roster, Amy says "Well then we know you weren't in charge of her travel arrangements, Omarosa" (or words to that effect) at which point Omarosa says "Whatever" (in a pageant voice, and I have to say, the two really don't go together) then gives that excited little "hee" in reverse again.

BTW - Jessica Simpson a diva? Not. On the same stage as Patti LaBelle, trying soooooo hard, but she looked like a schoolgirl trying to act all grown-up. Patti LaBelle could have recited the phone book and blown Jessica Simpson off the stage. Cyndi Lauper almost held her own. And Debbie Harry - hot! Fat, over 50, and hot! Come to think of it, so was Patti LaBelle :)

Watchin it now. Bill and Kwame should seriously have their own show. They are great together. You can also tell Carolyn is firmly behind Bill. But this Deborah person, she's really bad at interviewing.

Some have said that perhaps Kwame had other goals by being on the show and going this far...he just said on "Deborah Norville Tonight" that 'he'd like to stay on air, maybe doing some correspondent work" and Deborah said, "Oh really, for who?" and Kwame said, "For your network, MSNBC and for CNBC".

So it might seem that even old Kwame has TV aspirations....

And Deborah? Seriously the most annoying TV host. She kept asking questions that showed somebody didn't do their research. She asked Carolyn and George "what did you look for when you got the audition tapes for this show?" (they had aired a few bits from the tapes)....and George (thinking 'what kind of idiot is this woman?") said, "Well, Carolyn and I didn't see the tapes, we were NOT involved in choosing the people on the show." Oops, Deborah - didn't do your research!

Not surprising, really. I daresay that of all of that bunch he's just about got the most charisma. BFBill hasn't been doing badly in his appearances either. Of the 16, they're the only ones I could tolerate on my TV on a regular basis. Unless Nick manages to get a gig hosting a game show.

E! Online's Chat with Kristin - Apprentice stuff...

Looks like that Clairol ad hasn't gone away yet.

Here's the Access Hollywood segment on Assy. Good, good stuff in here.

Goodness, TWoP is powerful! Clairol backs off. I don't think anyone could get Passions to backoff because Assy can enjoy her villian status on soap operas and be content.

Funny Bill was snarking her out.

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That was posted in the wee hours with pertinent information as to the agency discussed in the article HERE.

And there's yet another reason to NOT watch Passions. Gad.

But this report says that the commercial was canceled. I saw this tonight and just couldn't believe that she would be crazy enough to say that she went to a shoot that is being reported as having been canceled.

Perhaps she did the shoot but they have thought twice about actually airing the ad.

Looks like txsunshine33 beat me to the punch.

*note to self - type faster next time.

ETA:

I can just see her trying to hold her own against those that know "the business" and have experience. Anybody remember the movie "Soapdish" with Sally Field from a few years ago? The true actresses would avoid her like the plague and would all be suggesting story lines where they would get to slap her down.

Oma did indeed shoot a TEST AD for Clairol - it's what everyone does when they're being 'tested' for an ad to see how they do on camera, etc. But it seems that Clairol got the feedback from many of us and have dumped her.

From the E!Online chat with The Apprentice candidates





Okay...so if in Ereka's own words "no one believes her" then why sue to begin with since she'd have to prove damages? Does she really not get it that every word out of her mouth deteriorates any chance she would have at a lawsuit?

And...I found the "I've got to see what's in it for me" almost comically sad. Gee...wonder how her case would stand up once that quote gets brought up in depositions.ETA: I just watched a clip online that Ereka did with Access Extra whatever...

Ereka is being interviewed by the reporter and Omarosa and her entourage walk by. The reporter asks if Omarosa has any comments, Omarosa comes over and hugs the reporter and says hello, then walks away. The reporter calls after Omarosa and says, "Are you two friends? (or something to that affect)" Omarosa smiles and keeps walking.

Suddenly, seeing that Omarosa wasn't going to respond or feed into this baiting stupidy, Ereka jerks the microphone/hand of the reporter so she can speak into it and screeches.."Yeah, didn't you actually tell Sam recently that you like me???!!"
Omarosa ignored her and kept walking.


It was like watching Sarah Michelle Gellar in the final scene of Cruel Intentions when she relaized that she was no longer The Most Popular One In School and screeches from the pulpit of her dead brothers funeral, "What the hell is going on here?" Ahhh...so funny...yet so sad.

Ack! Omastupid is on "Scarborough Country" saying in reference to the "n word" accusation that she's "moving on". She doesn't want to talk about it anymore (dammit!). So stop asking her to rehash it (dammit!).
Before stating she was "moving on", she trashed Ereka for going on Howard Stern's show to take a lie detector test - suggesting he has no credibility because of the "underpinnings of racism and sexism(?)" on his show, and thus the lie detector results were suspect. Hey Oma, get a clue - at least Ereka was willing to take a lie detector, on national t.v., unlike you. Oma, on the other hand, has many friends in reputable law enforcement agencies (FBI) and if she *were* going to take a lie detector, she'd have it administered by one of them.
I don't know why she doesn't take one - surely she knows that sociopaths like herself don't have consciences - she'd pass without a hiccup.

Oh, bwah!


You know, I really don't think there was any kind of conspiracy that put O back onto the final task, or that she was deliberately brought back to create problems. They brought back the last six people to be fired and she happened to be one of those. If Trump had fired her the first time she was in the Boardroom none of the rest would have happened.

Assyroma was on Access Hollywood tonight (I think that's the name of the show, they all blur). As co-host (but we didn't see much of her). 3 point pageant stance, high pitched inappropriate nervous laugh. That laugh is really familiar. Oh yeah, it's a pageant laugh - you know, when they're asked "If you could meet one famous person from history who would it be?" and they're not sure their answer has made sense.

They did a 60 second sit-down interview: "I'll say a name, you say a word" type thing.

A: Ereka
O: Moving On

A: Trump
O: Bad Hair

A: Heidi
O: Bad Mouth

A: Amy
O: Last Woman Standing

A: Katrina
O: Great legs!

A: Kwame
O: Harvard. MBA.

A: Bill Ranci
O: The winner of the Apprentice!

A: Bill Clinton
O: Great guy. {Like they're close personal friends.}

And she only took 23 seconds including the high pitched inappropriate beauty queen laugh after every answer.

BTW, about Amy interviewing her about the Clairol commercial, I noticed that she only said that she left the red carpet Thursday night and flew to California. I didn't tape it but I think she trailed off at that point. So she didn't actually say she taped the commercial (or tryout, whatever it was supposed to be).

I love the condescending response, leaning in to pat Amy's arm and saying "I know you're a new journalist, but ... check your facts."


ETA:

A: Carolyn
O: Turtlenecks

???

The media rounds today didn't help my addiction to this show at all lol.

The View - Loved Kwame's outfit! He and Bill do very well in interviews together. It was an entertaining piece. I used to think Star was an intelligent balanced individual. Why in the blue hell would she take anything Assy said seriously...and then admit to it on national tv. She lost about 10 cool points for that.

Deborah Norville - I'm convinced this woman has the IQ of grits. She had A WHOLE hour with these people and she wasn't able to pull out anything new! Luckily Bill and Kwame continued to entertain. George was looking at Deborah like she was a complete dumbass. And it looked like Carolyn just wanted to go home.

And just a headsup - The Dateline special on the two viceroys, Trump and Burnett will air on CNBC tomorrow at 9:00.

Thanks for posting those SerendipityCA I must have flipped on a commercial and missed it. I have to admit Assorama looked pretty comfortable introducing a segment on Extra. Next stop Access Hollywood, and then who knows maybe Entertainment Tonight.

But those answers, talk about generic:



Really? That was so insightful. I mean I had no clue he was the winner. She needs to be off my tv set immediately. Omarosa. Out!

Did anyone else catch Kwame's favourite Trumpism? He said "Yooooooge" but spelled it Y U G E... close enough.

And the lesson learned from this: In Assoramaland, the word "one" means "any random number."

I think Assy was just playing a little mindfuck with Star. It's very Assy-like to set out to tank Kwame in the final task and then tell Star that he won. She was probably giggling to herself when Star actually fell for her lies and made an ass of herself on her own TV show with that note crap.

Deborah Norville is such an idiot! It's so obvious she's never watched The Apprentice or even bothered to do her research. All that time with Bill, Kwame, George and Carolyn and that was the best she could do? Deborah, you're fired!

Kwame and Bill looked very cute together! I just lurve seeing those two in interviews. They should have their own show. Bill is still the same ole Bill. You can tell that he's kinda embarrassed by all the attention - especially when they ask him about Jen Scheft. His dimples really come out when he gets all shy like that. You could tell on Norville that Carolyn adores Bill.

Kwame is very different, IMO. On the show he was always so quiet, serious and reserved. The typical stoic button-down suit-type. But in his interviews he's extremely funny and very animated. He was good on Norville and The View. I lurved his interview on Conan the best. He joked about him and Troy going to San Francisco to get a marriage license, all the famewhoring and even Omarosa. There was a lot of "outward energy projection" going on. I noticed that too on Dateline when he and his buddies were meeting with Sean John and other sponsors. Curious.... He's a bit of an enigma.

Yuck to Assy on Extra and Amy on Access Hollywood! Both were annoying. Amy has a very nasally voice. Assy was pure pageant. She looked so plastic. It was bizarre.

Wordy-word! It was clear from many of her questions that Deborah did not do her homework and even so, she still asked so many dumb, dumb, dumb questions. I'm sure George and Carolyn were thinking "I gave an evening of my time for THIS?!"

They mentioned on Access Hollywood that they had a survey whether you would watch a talk show that O. hosted - I went over to look, and voted. The present totals out of just under 2000 votes are 96% No, 4% yes. Sounds about right! It's right on the main page, easy to find and easier to vote.

There you have it in a nutshell. The woman cannot see anthing/anyone beyond surface. Carolyn was "threatened" by her, so of course the turlenecks were armor. Yeah, that's the ticket.

I'm Officially Spoiled by TWoP. I totally expected the survey to have the following options:

* Yes
* No
* Hell No!
* WTF kind of crack are you smoking?
* Only if they drop things on her head every 10 seconds. Heavy things.

Please make her go away! I'm still reeling from hearing about her Clairol commercial. She's like a virus. I hate her yet my hatred just feeds my vulgar fascination. You know, I just realized that her thread is 188 pages long. Ereka's is 13 pages. Amy's is the second longest for the women at 40 pages.

I get the feeling that her Extra gig will be a recurring theme. They mentioned another update from Assy on tomorrow's show. Maybe she'll be like the female Charlie Mahr. Another reality show reject turned tabloid TV correspondent. She certainly looked comfortable there.

BWAH!

(gasp!) OMG, Katrina in Maxim?? Please noooooooo!


Sammy doth protest too much....


Get a life, Katty!


Amy and Nick as kin folk? Hee hee... Yeah, I can see how they would get sick of each other. We've been sick of "America's sweethearts" for months now.

WTF? Who from Bayonne, NJ says "kin"? Has Nick started channelling Troy? Or Jed Clampett? I wonder if he invited her to set a spell and take her shoes off?

Ha. I remember Amy saying that only one woman wanted to do MAXIM. I guess she was Katrina.

You know, if Assorama had starred in The Passion it would have made twice as much money. Sadly.

That Norville interview was the best one so far. Kwame is so articulate and such a great interview. I'm sorry but he is totally hot when he speaks. [/fangirly shame] I laughed when he said he could "read the tea leaves and the mojo" of the board room. Hee.

Bill was getting prickly over the Omarossa-sabotaged-Kwame theory. He said "To give Omarossa credit for my victory sells me short." He seems to think it detracts from his win or something, like it was the only reason he won, even though Kwame would be the first to challenge that notion.

Didn't like Carolyn and Bill double teaming on Kwame saying Kwame slacked during the first Taj task. Bad form. Bleh. It's over. Bill won. No need to pile on. I guess it doesn't occur to either of them that citing Kwame's (supposed) weaknesses could hurt his livlihood. Carolyn was asked what the turning point was for her. She could have focused on Bill doing well, but instead focused on Kwame (supposedly) slacking off. Then Bill cluelessly jumps in and starts arguing with Kwame who's trying to defend himself. Bill's insecurity and ego cause him to be a jerk sometimes.


Kwame said there was supposed to be two coin tosses -- one for the task selection and one for the team selection, but they only did one, so Bill got to pick first on both.

I enjoyed George's commentary. He gave substantive thoughtful answers.

You know what's sad though? None of us would admit to watching, but I at least, and I daresay several other TWoPpers, would come back here to see what's going on with her show.

I think Kwame got defensive when he thought it was being implied that it wouldn't occur to him about focusing on the VIPs to maximize their total dollar intake during the casino task . He was responding to Deborah's question re what was his best moment during the show and he said it was leading the casino task to victory as PM. He was very adamant about making the point that of course he knew targeting VIPs was a good move. When Bill asked him if he was trying to take away his idea, Kwame acknowledged that it was Bill's idea, but that he knew going in that would be a good strategy.

Both of them were good natured about the exchange, but Kwame seemed determined to defend himself on the casino task, maybe because it had been pointed out that while he and T-Roy attended the magician act, Bill was meeting with the casino employee responsible for VIP arrangements, and then running off to Kinkos to get the wheel signs printed. Kwame defended his decision to go to the magician act, saying he felt it was important for him to meet the owner of the act, and that he and Troy were supposed to decide what they wanted to use from the act to bring to the casino. I thought he doth protested too much.

When Deborah asked him about upcoming opportunities, one thing he mentioned that was surprising was that he was considering offers for doing commentaries on TV, possibly with NBC/CNBC/MSNBC. So it looks like Kwame also has an interest in a media career.

Except she probably really thought that he won because she was on his team and helped him so much. Because that's what an insane person would think.

Of course she's moving on and doesn't want to talk about it. She's just that mature, you know. Naturally, the fact that Burnett and Trump presented her with a "cease and desist" letter on the subject (as reported by several other sources) has nothing to do with it. Nothing I tell you!

Snippets from People.com article today...



Don't know how "exciting" Bill's job could be made unless he is staffed full of Assy's.



Hmmm... interesting.

In my opinion, Oma was plain awful on Extra. I think it's natural to give her a bit of leeway since we aren't used to her in that type of role. But if we saw a new person on Extra who "presented" clips like she did last night, all pageant stance, silly hand gestures, and that creepy high pitched crow laugh, they'd wonder what the producers had been smoking.

In contrast, I think Amy came across as a natural on Access Hollywood. Strange that the two best business people ( in my opinion) on the show, Amy and Kwame, also come across well in front of the camera.

Oh, please. Bill needs to bleach his hair and go sit with Lex in the Corner of Misguided Fools.

Could anyone be more burstingly full of himself? Well, besides, Nick.

There's an article in today's Boston Globe about the Angry Black Woman. It discusses (among others) Condoleeza Rice, Wanda Sykes and, of course, Assorama.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/ar...ry_black_woman/

Apparently the authors of "The Angry Black Woman's Guide to Life" have made Assorama their first "ABW of the Month". They take her completely on her own terms, and claim she was set up to be the villan ...... oh, it all frustrates me so much.

By writing this book and hosting a website, giving Assorma an award (however obscure) aren't they perpetuating all of this? They're acting like this behavior is something to be proud of!

There's also an article in this morning's Wall Street Journal about Kwame and Goldman Sachs. I'd provide a link, but you have to sign up for the subscription service and it's enough that I get a hard copy at home. The jist of the article is that his Goldman Sachs background was part of what did him in with Trump -- the two corporate cultures are polar opposites, and Bill was just a better fit with the Trump Organization. Kwame is quoted as saying that if he winds up back at Goldman, "than the plan has gone awry".

One thing in the article confused me -- it says that Kwame's salary at Goldman was $125,000. I would have thought it was much higher -- perhaps this was a typo?

edited because using italics is too challenging when one has had only two cups of coffee.

That one gets my vote.

Deborah Norville has always been a dim bulb. I'm surprised she's lasted this long - I remember JanePauleyGate well. After watching Jane Clayson giggle over Survivor II's Colby, I'm convinced that a lack of oxygen is required for these kinds of hosting gigs. So maybe it's the right career track for Oma, actually.

According to this, Bill could possibly lose $800K from Synergy Brands (the company that brought him out last year) if DT isn't flexible about him fulfilling the rest of his contract with Synergy.

Re Kaplan Thaler - the firm that's representing Omarosa - I noticed that Clairol and Procter & Gamble are among their clients. I wonder if they're going to try to foist her onto other clients? 'Cause they also represent Zoloft Celebrex, Ruby Tuesday, and Lane Bryant. Maybe she could be convinced to gain weight for the latter?

Possibly his salary is $125K, but he was eligible for various performance bonuses that regularly kept his actual income quite a bit higher.

Or maybe he was new enough kid on the block that he was $125K straight up.

A salary of 125K would certainly explain Kwame's minuscule studio apartment.

Well, he'd have to get a mohawk, too, and pout like a teenager grounded for a week . . .

I have been loving the Bill and Kwame show. I hope they take ir act to Vegas. They're clearly having a good time together on their media rounds. They were great yesterday on The View, though Bill had to fight to get a word in edgewise, and on Deborah Norville. I hate Deborah Norville with the fire of a thousand nuns, but again Bill and Kwame were great. Kwame has been so animated and personable in his interviews - is this the same stoic guy from the show??

The great thing about this pair is that they can agree to disagree on what led to the ultimate outcome without the head-rolling, eye-rolling, hair pulling that the women would no doubt have sunk to doing.

I wonder if T-Roy is getting jealous of the growing HoYay! between these two. Cuz it's definitely there.

I cringed when dumb-ass Deborah asked Carolyn and George how they narrowed the initial list of applicants to 16. Doesn't she know casting folks handle that stuff??

Assy on Scarborough Country was . . . typical pageant queen. Joe Scarborough (is that his name?) was laughing at her refusal to answer his questions and her efforts to redirect the interview.

mswestern,


The Boston Globe article is too depressing for words. I'm a black woman, and the thing I'm angry about at this moment is that the authors of this book would reward Omarosa as a role model, tongue-in-cheek or not. If anyone thinks Omarosa deserves any award but "Greatest Reality Show Liar", they need as much of a reality check as she does.

My computer had a mini-meltdown when I was in the middle of this article (I wonder why?), but I got the gist of it. Black women have plenty of real things to be angry about, and real challenges to face, not the bullshit delusions that Omarosa keeps trying to convince the public are real.

Grrr! I may have to go cold turkey, and stop reading about this woman until her public reign of terror starts to die down. I'm convinced my head may explode otherwise.

Total compensation on Wall Street = salary + bonus. Salary for a VP, Kwame's level, is typically 100-150.

BONUS, however, is a different game. Those routinely are 2-3-4X your base salary... at the least. This is consistent with reports Kwame was making 400-500K at Goldman.

Someone one Wall Street making 7 figures will typically get a salarly equivalent to Kwame's, and the bulk in bonus. This structure lets Wall Street firms adjust compensation each year to reflect how well the firm did.

The article in the WSJ is a great assessment of Goldman culture and hence Kwame's style... low key, eschews publicity, expectation that everyone there is competent *coughnotOmarosacough*. Also confirms that the firm policy is not to grant leaves for reality tv shows...

CNN.com - 'Apprentice' spinoff may follow Bill

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/20/t...reut/index.html

Same subject as the People.com article upthread...

I'm all for it!! MB and DT, bring it on!

Actually, this doesn't surprise me at all. Part of the reason they both got so far in the show was an inherent likability (especially among their "colleagues"). While Amy's EXTREME! LIKEABILITY! began to grate more than just a little bit after awhile, I do think A & K both come across as essentially nice. Plus, they both seem pretty sharp/able to adjust to the situation.

At the risk of stating the obvious, Assorama?

I agree that Kwame protested too much about this. I also think he got into the 'protesting too much' because Carolyn - sitting next to him - said that this was a 'yooge' mistake on his part, that she was stunned to see him go off with Troy when there was still a lot of work to be done. She said it seemed that he was goofing off. And despite his protests about 'needing to meet the performers/producer', it did seem that there was no need for him to be there except to hang with Troy.

As for Kwame's $125 salary, that's consistent since Wall Street pays a huge amount of one's salary out in bonuses, as others have noted. And given his amazing wardrobe on the show (that collection of ties alone is worth $$), that would explain his tiny studio apartment!

That does rather go along with his confessional at the time .. admitting that he didn't really need to be there and just wanted to see the show.

Honestly. I am getting less impressed with Kwame as things go on. The man is all kinds of hot but I wish he'd shut up and just look purty.

His tiny studio apartment could run 100-200K. Or more. Depends on where it is. A one bedroom can easily run 350K.