Too many Davids! I think what got me was being contemplative and liking Wiley Coyote, but alos put Optimus Prime! Doesn't that count for anything?

I'm David too. Apparently having a postgraduate degree immediately drops you in the David bucket.

That didn't work against my result.

Depending on when the interview was conducted (and I'm sure it was done after Ereka was canned and the episode aired) I'll bet Ereka's criticism of Carolyn was due to NOTHING other than Caroyn's "I didn't think so tough" comment. Because, think about it...she's only been infront of Carolyn in the boardroom twice. She's going to base her criticisms on that? For the most part, she was always on a winning team, so how could Carolyn have been "negative?" Oh yeah, always a good idea to bad mouth your boss or people who you reported to in your exit interview. That's a GREAT way to get a glowing reference.

Then she waxes poetic about how she, Nick and Bill are friends...and then completely sells Bill out by claiming that Bill was "ripping on" Nick the whole time leading up to the boardroom.

That girl's so miserable that she can't see past her own anger to realize how poorly she's making herself look. And any guy who dates her has got to be a complete pussy or in it for her bod. No respectable guy would date a woman with her disposition...tight abs or not. And wonder what he thought of her neck nuzzling with Bill?


And...just checked out the March and April issues of FHM...there isnt An Apprentice gal (scantily clad or not) in either issue. As hard as it is to believe, I think Ereka may have spoken too soon. Add that to the list of mistakes on her website.

Hrm, I have a postgrad degree and chose contemplative, but apparently I'm Troy (yay). Maybe it was the Road Runner. I said my hat is green, but whatever.

Ereka sez in TV Guide: I distinctly remember Carolyn saying "Okay, good job" when she went to pick up the invoices, despite Ereka's meltdown. Granted, it wasn't very sincere, but she didn't seem snotty or negative -- she seemed pretty impartial to me. Carolyn is "different" only in the sense that she's different from the princesses in Suite 4. Thank god.

Carolyn may have put the women on the defensive with the Sex Talk (even though it was Not-A-Hairpiece who started it) and her reaction to their franks-and-beans "ad campaign." Sometimes female underlings make the mistake of thinking that an older female mentor/authority figure is going to gossip about boys and makeup with them, and maybe the women's team assumed that Carolyn was going to be more of a galpal to them. Since she wasn't, that could account for Ereka dissing her instead of George and DT...she wasn't expecting George or DT to go easy on her to begin with.

Ereka's still young, so she can still play the cute n' flirty card. But not for much longer. She'd better learn a new repertoire and fast. It's too bad that she didn't try to take cues from Carolyn instead of dismissing her.

YAY! I'm Boyfriend Bill!

I was terrified of being Omarosa or someone else reprehensible.

I took it again (couldn't stand being a David) and expanded my answers. I got Bill this time.

Whew.

Ereka couldn't buy a clue. I'm glad she's gone.

And I'm a Bill. Could be worse, could be Katrina.

Weird. I'm Troy. I think because I picked Robin Hood as my cartoon character. (I'm so not a sales person.)

I'm Bowie. I guess I'm the only one. But that quiz was fun, although the cartoon character question was a bit sparse in the available answers.

From Ereka's TV Guide Q and A:I guess Carolyn would be conservative because she didn't have a short skirt on, wear a tube top, or use sex to sell. And she's classy to boot. And she never had anything good to say? Is English Ereka's second language? Carolyn had plenty of good stuff to say. Although it may not have been good comments about Ereka.

Whatever. I saw her leaning all over Bill in the last episode.

Somehow I don't think Ereka would have a problem with the water if it had her face plastered on it.

IIRC, per the NY Post the other day, I'm thinking Page Six, they only just did the shoot so it's too soon for any shots to have made it into FHM yet. Of course, my source is the NY Post so it's a *shrug* as to whether or not the information is completely accurate. But if Eshreeeeeka has a specific issue posted on her website then who knows?

April 2004
FHM MAGAZINE: Meet The Apprentice girls in FHM’s April issue.


The above line is from Ereka's website. It doesn't surprise me that it's wrong. Since Trump and The Post are sort of partners in crime, it wouldn't surpise me if this was just a planted story to "generate a buzz." (weeeee...I sound just like Ereka!) The Post was also the paper that refuted the story from the reporter who claimed to have rented the apartment from last week's task.

Yikes! It says that I am Jessie. That is just wrong.

I may be delusional re: my faults, but not that delusional. My faults lie in completely different areas! ;-)

Oh Ereka? Here's another difference between you and Carolyn: Carolyn has a job.

I'm Troy, and I'm okay with that.

I'm Kwame. Considering how much I'm a lurker in this section of the boards, that makes sense.

As for Amy possibly being in the FHM shoot and that saying she's not a finalist, I disagree. Both Charla and Tara of Paradise Hotel did a shoot for Maxim and they both "won." There's another reality show finalist that did a shoot for another magazine before the results were revealed. She (unexpectedly) won. I mention no names, because I fear the Velvet Hammer...

Paradise Hotel may be a lot of things, but it ain't The Apprentice where the winner is to be a respected businessperson.

The Donald was on Houston news radio this morning and mentioned a few things that might be of interest. For instance, he said that tonight's episode is probably the best one of all of them, especially in the boardroom. After the interviewer expressed her distaste for Assorama, The Donald said, "[Assorama] has a very hard time tonight..,that's not to say she necessarily gets fired." Nothing in his voice inflections implied that Assorama did or did not get fired. Most amusingly, The Donald insisted, quite earnestly, "I prefer not being in the spotlight and look forward to the time when i'm not." Heh.

BTW, this is my first post on TWoP in a long time. Miss Alli has got me hooked on this show as an ersatz Amazing Race substitute. Damn her and her enticing prose. Hope she missed me lots and lots.

Is this kind of like when he said Trump Ice was the best-tasting water you could imagine? Or how his golf course was the best one in the whole state?

Donald does love his superlatives. Heh.

I have a postgrad degree, and I'm Troy. And I chose Optimus Prime. And blue hat.

I have a postgraduate degree too, and I'm Troy. I chose Princess Fiona and a green hat.

On the degree question, it may depend on whether you selected "I have one and want more" or "I have an ungraduate and an MBA."

In any case, I swear these fired apprentices are famewhores. I'm in Chicago. In my drive to work this morning, one station had Sam and Bill on promoting a fundraiser Bill is hosting, and another station had Bowie on. All of them were apparently in the studio.

I heard Bowie on Drex this morning too. I liked his dig at Ereka about being too emotional and how security had to excort Sam out of the building when he was fired.

I have one, and I'm boyfriend Bill! Yay!

Ereka recently did 2 online interviews for other reality re-cap sites.

While I know I shouldn't be surprised at what a classless bitch she is, she never ceases to amaze me.

From continuing to bitch about Omarosa, to still Heathering it up with bff Katrina....to continuing to back stab "her friend" Nick. This girl is a grade a BIATCH.

READ THE ARTICLE HERE

None of the degree options really fit me; I have two postgrad degrees (neither is an MBA) and don't really feel the need for more.

In any case, I went back and chose different (still truthful) answers down the line, and... I'm still David! Argh! Why can't I be Kwame or Troy??

I'm Bill. I didn't feel strongly about the cartoon characters, but I chose Wile E. Coyote for his persistence and resilience. Also, I finished college and am applying to grad school, but it's not business school, and I only anticipate getting one postgrad degree. So the options don't fit all that well, but hey, I'm Bill, so cool. Better Bill than - gulp - Omarosa. Thankfully, the only things we have in common are that we're Black and female.

I'm Jessie?!!? Oh, ick. Well, as Miss Alli pointed out, the quiz bases the answers on how the candidates see themselves. So I guess that's okay. But is it wrong that it bothers me that I got Jessie when I'm almost old enough to be her mother? (I said almost!) Miss Alli, do you think Boyfriend Bill would like a "slightly" older woman?

Thanks alot Networkingirl for including the Ereka interview link in your post. In the interview she states that in the lemonade selling episode in which she was her team's PM she and her team mates simply tied up their shirts and using their "intelligence and confidence" managed to get customers to pay "10,20,30 and even 40 dollars" for a cup of lemonade. As I said in my post upthread the DVD's of this show will be available after this series is over and I sure hope they include a lot more footage than they show on TV. I've just gotta see this 40 dollar lemonade transaction that she referred to. I think she's full of crap but who knows? How else do explain the men's team making $250 profit and the women making $1000?

I rejiggered my answers a bit, but was still honest, and I ended up being Tammy. I am so sad, first David, now Tammy, I am hopeless, maybe that is why I spend all of my time on this site instead of working.

Wow, talk about having poor self-awareness.

Ereka's happy that "all of America" knows what Omarosa is about, but on the other hand, her frustration with Nick was "definitely exaggerated" (how? the magicians created some new CGI eyerolling?). Similarly, Bill definitely "decided to turn against" her, "probably because he saw [her] as more of a threat than Nick", and yet she and Katrina didn't gut Bill the week before because "that's not in [her] nature" --- nooooo, that was simply them "defending" themselves, not turning on Bill.

Boy, if there's anything more odious than a reality contestant whining about editing, it's one who whines about her editing, while crowing about a co-contestant's.


I was ready and willing to give up on The West Wing finally, until she nabbed Pretentious Politics detail. Sigh.

Boyfriend Bill's continuing success - outside of Trump Tower that is.

Yeeeeee Hawwwwwww! I'm Troy!! My fave contestant! :) Speaking of..our local tv station here in Boise, Id land says that Troy will be the featured speaker at the BBB meeting on March 16th. I am so gonna go!!!

OH. MY. GOD. I just saw Assaroma on the Today Show and the woman is truly psycho and delusional. And girl needs to lay off the lipgloss - her upper lip looked so big from the shine that it looked like it was gonna eat New York.

Here are just a few of the nuggets she told Lester Holt (filling in for Matt):

1) "The best candidate will not win. I was the best candidate. Operating at just 70% (from her verrry serious injury from falling cement (now it's cement, not plaster), I was better than the rest of them operating at 100%". (She went on to detail her very serious injury from the cement falling, that of course Trump didn't think it was serious, he's used to wearing a hard-hat on site).

2) "I wasn't there to make friends, but to win the competition. Do you go into a competition to make friends? I didn't."

3) This one was a gem: "I watch the show and see a character there...that's not really me, that was creative editing" (and even more on this from her, but it made me so sick I couldn't listen to any more).

4) "The scene of me outside the apartment playing basketball with the kids was actually four days later...that was editing."

5) And one of her favorite lines: "They just didn't know how to handle a strong black woman and the best candidate. Strong black women are loving, kind, smart, great people..." Also, "I went in there as a professional and I don't think the rest of the women are used to being around professional, corporate women." (Funny, but the others have worked in the private business world, O has just done her pageant consulting crap and worked in the biggest bureacracy in the world - the White House).

6) "Every reality show has had a strong, black woman who's cast as the sister with an attitude, the one no-one likes, it's time to be more creative with the casting and show us as the wonderful women we are". (Actually, she's wrong - the Amazing Race last time had the two black NFL wives who were great...no attitudes there; also Vecepia who won Survivor a few times ago wasn't a sister with attitude the way O is, she flew under the radar).

7) Lester asked her how folks on the street approach her since she's the most talked about Apprentice: "Lester, I get nothing but love. I'm sure there are people out there who love to hate me, but I've had nothing but people telling me how much they love me, how great I am, etc."

8) When asked who will win, she said "I think it's one of the guys. None of the women are very good. But the best candidate won't win (meaning that she was the best and now she's gone). I like Bill. I liked Sam - we're very close, he lives near me and we talk often. In fact, I'm very close with several of them."

She had an excuse for EVERYTHING Lester asked her. Never owned up to any of her own crap.

And of course, she wore that smile that was so tight that I'm just waiting to see her crack one of these days - you know, that psycho smile that reeks of raging anger underneath.

Osama on the Today show: Holy shit! She is totally setting up a bodily injury claim against Trump for the "cement" that fell on he head. Can you believe she went to the ER, the doctor and took pain medication. Puhlease.

And how can you claim you are being stereotyped by Mark Burnet when you are a total ice bitch on the Today show? My conclusion? Check her for the mark of Satan 666 (Omen style) because she is pure evil!

Oh and by the way everybody who sees her tells her she's great and they love her. OJ says the same thing.

You forgot the gem of the interview...When asked by Lester if she'd do the Apprentice again, she said that she would but would definitely wear a hard hat this time. How self-delusional is she?

And as a side note, how many times did she call Lester by name? Sounded odd.

Ishouldbetoooldforthiscra, oh yes, how could I forget that?!

Regarding Lester, I think Omarosa was working her flirtation card as hard as she could, as unappealing as it was and part of that was calling him by his name as many times as possible. It's part of the beauty pageant training thing, I think, to try to 'charm' their interviewers.

The tightly plastered-on smile is also a beauty pageant thing, although I think Omarosa's is also partly seething rage boiling underneath. As I said on another post, one day she's gonna blow and it ain't gonna be pretty or neat.

I agree, BibiBella. She was squirming so much in her chair it looked as though she needed a trip to the little girl's room.

I thought Lester Holt was much tougher on her than Matt Lauer would have been. Matt let all Ereka's comments stand last week, but Lester really pushed Assorama on the head injury, her inability to get along with her teammates, etc.

I am sick to death of her "they can't handle strong black women" rant. Will this be the topic of her cross-country college tour? Look, honey, if you hadn't given them the ammo, they couldn't have used it. And if you knew going in that this was such a yooge problem in reality television you should have altered your behavior accordingly.

And what was with her "Trump only likes women as eye candy. He's not going to hire a woman."? I shouted at my t.v., "Hello?!?!? Who is that sitting on his left in the boardroom?!?!?"

Don't diss my Carolyn, you slacker.

mswestern, I agree, Lester did a MUCH better interview than Matt would have. I didn't see Matt interview Ereka, but did see him interview Tammy and he let her slide on everything.

The 'strong black woman' card is so old, it's tatttered beyond recognition. But that's what Omarosa really believes and she's the kind of person who will use it throughout her entire frickin' life rather than even remotely consider that she herself could have real some issues. Delusional doesn't even begin to describe that woman.

And you are so right about her comment about "Trump only likes women as eye candy" -- I wanted Lester to say, "Well, what about Carolyn?" Of course, I'm sure O would have used the 'strong black woman' card again, by pointing out that Carolyn is white, so if he's gonna have a woman working for him, she must be white and in O's eyes, probably submissive (again, not a 'strong' woman).


Edited to add that Omarosa will be on "Live with Regis and Kelly" on Tuesday next week...

Well damn, BibiBella beat me to it on all points...but one of the better parts of the interview was when she stated she was a hard worker, and the Today show cut to the shot of her sprawled on the floor. Heh.

If she sues Trump, she's signed herself up for a permanent blacklist in the corporate world.

She is a scary skull of a woman, with absolutely NO self-awareness or introspective abilities. And the two times the camera was on her for the "coming up on Today" shots were absolutely vomitous..."Turn head slightly to left, raise eyebrow in a local-tv-commercial-model way, split skull with overglossed lips, yay me!"

She better not ever be on TV again. eta Regis and Kelly, huh. I bet she chops Kelly into bits and eats her while calling Regis "Reggis".

Fridays are the only mornings I watch breakfast television NBC Apprentice bootee 7:30-8, CBS Survivor bootee 8:00 hour. Fantastic Omarosa summary above. Unfortunately I do not believe she is trying to spin, she honestly is that clueless about her own behavior & other people's perceptions of her.

I agree to some degree...she was working her defenses really hard...but I do think she's totally delusional about how she comes off and why people can't work with her (and it sure ain't because she's a 'strong black woman' - Omarosa, time to retire that card). This is exactly why she'll never work for other people and as part of a team unless it's some bureacracy (like the gov't where one has a job for life regardless of incomptency; apologies in advance to those gov't folks who work hard and do their jobs well).

Otherwise, she better find something to do on her own where she gets paid for being bossy, condescending and out of touch with reality (hey, beauty pageant consultant! No wonder she's doing that already).

Damn it, IHDO, but many people pointed out at the time that she was wearing totally different clothes.



Well it's true. At least for MB Productions and other non-relevant shows. As a matter of opinion, the two examples you listed are probably the exception to the rule.

ClaytonBigsby, even if the editing bit is true, as O told it, she's still delusional and unwilling to own anything that she might have done wrong or poorly. Everything out of her mouth was someone else's fault or her biggest card, "I'm a strong black woman, very professional and corporate, and they couldn't handle that".

But even if she was playing basketball four days later, that still fits into the timeframe of her feeling the effects of her alleged concussion.

For me, the best part of the interview was when she pronounced it "cee-ment" and then Lester said "cement" and in her next statement, she said she got hit with "whatever". It was like Lester corrected her! Rack up another "Mizrahi" for this dame!

Lester wasn't nearly as tough as he could have been, IMHO. When she was talking about her "injury" he could have questioned why NBC and Trump didn't treat it seriously. Had it been a potentially dangerous situation, there is no way they would have increased their liability by continuing to let her run around the city.

Omarosa scares me. Deeply. I truly believe Miss Alli when she states that she might be the least self-aware reality contestant ever.

I don't doubt that it was four days after she got hit on the head with the 'see-ment' but it was about 10 minutes after she said she couldn't work on the apartment cause her head hurt. (She was lying on the apartment floor, then goes outside to sit on the steps and then plays with the kiddies.)That's what bugged her team.

I would love to see Carolyn's reaction to her 'eyecandy' remark.

Re black women on other reality shows, there was Keshia Knight-Pulliam on Celebrity Mole, who certainly didn't have any bitchy attitude. And maybe not quite the same thing, but there have been a lot of black women on Extreme Makeover who are just pleasant, normal women (well, normal women who need Extreme Makeovers...). Omarosa would like to believe that every African-American woman is shown as a "sistah with attitude," but it's just not true, IMHO.

And if she's claiming that she was playing basketball four days later, fine, but the point was why wasn't she helping her teammates instead? And if four days later she was fine, why was she bitching about how much she needed a sit-down lunch at least a week later, because she was "under doctor's orders" to have "at least one meal a day?" WTH was that, they don't get breakfast and dinner at Trump Tower, her pathetic lunch would have been her only meal?

And I totally agree with whoever commented about her psuedo-modeling school poses when she was shown in the teasers for the Today show appearances. Yick.

Loved the way the Today crew was sort of laughing at her when they finished the interview. Like "ok, whatever you say, dear."

When & where could she have played ball 4 days later? She stopped in the midst of selling water and played ball? The hell? She's a delusional, lying, phony woman. I think TRUMP knows what his buildings are made of and you were hit with a chunk of plaster, not SeemenT.

I'd like her to say to Amy or Carolyn's face that they're not "professional, corporate women." Because answering phones at the White House is not corporate America, especially under the last administration, and buying your suits off the Dress Barn reject rack at Potomac Mills with the DC, 1986 power suit shoulder pads does not make you professional.

She's on the Tonight Show this evening if anyone wants to have nightmares all weekend.

I've never understood the rationale that people love you because that's all anyone says to you on the street. Most people don't (I think) walk up to someone and say, "Hey, you suck. I hate you." Not having anything nice to say, and all that...

For all of Omarosa's talk about the editing being poor, it does not take away from the fact that she at one point or another said and did all of these things. And when I think of TRULY strong black women (Oprah, Condeleeza), makes me wonder if they ever used racism as an excuse for failure, or as a reason to try harder.