I was waiting eagerly for the "Apprentice" to resume on its 7th season, which it did finally last week. Unlike previous seasons, and as its TRP ratings are going down faster than fast (from #7 ranking on 1st season to #75 on 6th season), this time they changed the format. It was with all celebrities..known unknown not to be asked. Also the deal is the winner instead of joining Trump Empire will be donating his or her prize money to their selected charity. Frankly speaking I wont mind even if they join or keep a share of that as to me many of these "celebrities" may need it...I mean...to me they are NOT top notch celebrity..or maybe I am not aware of them.
Few of them I could relate to are Omarosa ( how one can forget her..from first episode of Apprentice, was surprised she got a status of celebrity already), Stephen Baldwin (actor..brother of Alec Baldwin), Nadia (the gymnast who scored perfect 10 for the first time...remember one TV serial based on her life during our school days..a true celebrity I will say)...and then many others from diff walks of fame (mainly music star, boxing champ, entrepreneur, that British judge of America Got Talents and to add little spice a former Playboy Playmate). This time also the team was formed on Gender Basis..another "first" ?
The first episode was to sell HotDogs on a busy working day in New York. The men's team using their "contact" were able to get about 57k USD (few hotdogs were sold at as high as 10k!). Whereas women's team under the lead of Omarosa who DECLINED to use the "celebrity status..or shall we say sex appeal" rather depended on pure business skills could muster only 17k USD. It has already created many online polls/forum discussion "Is using sex appeal a legitimate sales tactic for professional businesswomen".
To me it was very ironic when she later blamed (and Mr Trump agreed) the playmate Tiffany that she could not use her "appeal" to sell hot dogs....well Omarosa did not you only say that you don't want to use it.Poor Tiffany was just going by what her Project Manager said.
Anyways..to me this is one of the rare occasions when Sex did not sell..to pedestrians on 7th and 34th @ NYCity and to Mr. Donald Trump...at least in this "particular" case! I hope NBC was not "secretly" banking on her for their rating to go up.
Well done Ms Omarosa, you did make news...once again!
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Celebrity Apprentice is aired on NBC, every Thursday 8 Central (starting 3rd Jan 2008).
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