For the second week in a row, Donald Trump took out the woman least willing to scream in the boardroom in The Celebrity Apprentice Episode 2 and fired Nadia Comaneci, who didn’t do much of anything last week because Nely Galan wanted her out of the way.
Jennie Finch says she would feel terrible if Nadia went home. Nely Galan breaks down crying before they return.
Jim Kramer is this week’s guest judge. At least I recognize the judge this week.
Gene Simmons as the project manager last week won $20,000 for the Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Now he’s got another offer. Trump says it’s optional but that he recommends it. Yeah, right. Optional? Anyway, he wants Gene to be the project manager again, this time for the women instead. Gene accepts. He says he’s a “benevolent dictator.” Omarosa’s not impressed.
This week’s task is a marketing campaign, which will be judged on originality, brand messaging, and profit. So what if the originality and branding suck but the team makes three times as much?
Following in his footsteps last week where the Pedigree guy felt snubbed, Gene doesn’t feel like he should waste his time visiting Kodak either.
Tito Ortiz has been nominated as project manager for Hydra. His team goes to meet the executives, who stress affordable ink.
Nely and Carol Alt are nominated as the two people to go to Kodak from their team. Nely just keeps going on and on and doesn’t actually hear what the executives have to say. They bring this misinformation back to Gene, but he doesn’t care anyway. He says the Kodak execs don’t understand Kodak.
Piers Morgan comes up with a “knockout” deal campaign, featuring Tito and Lennox Lewis. Stephen Baldwin’s in charge of taking the photos. He gets on top of a table and shoots the guys laying down from above. They get off the table… and it goes flying. They have one laptop (and only one laptop) storing all their artwork. Along with the guys going flying, the cup of coffee next to the laptop does, too, thus ruining their previous artwork. They now have to scramble and hope they can get something done at the last minute. Jim Kramer thinks their efforts look like a dumpster.
Gene’s primarily interested in being the king of the women. What he’s actually doing on the task is unclear. I just hope his arm doesn’t get tired from patting himself on the back.
Alec Baldwin is there but not to beat up his little brother. He grabs two printers for $1,000 each. Piers is happy to have a Baldwin people actually know around.
As expected, the Kodak folks are not impressed by the sloppy presentation by Hydra, but they do like their slogan.
Trump wants to know why Gene didn’t go see the executives again. Gene just couldn’t be bothered like last week.
Hydra easily wins because they got exactly what the execs were looking for, and the reason why they got the idea is because they listened to what Kodak had to say.
As the winning project manager, Tito gets $20,000 for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.
Gene doesn’t believe his team could have done a single thing better. He still believes Kodak is wrong. Omarosa blames Gene refusing to go to the meeting.
Kodak didn’t like that Nely spoke so much and wouldn’t listen. Nely claims she did listen. Carol willingly takes the fall along with her rather than pointing the finger like she should.
Omarosa points out that Gene doesn’t even know the name of the product. She’s right.
Carol very reluctantly answers the question as to who should be fired. Once again, she slams herself, saying it would be either her or Nely. Is this chick giving up or something?
Jennie, Omarosa, and Marilu would fire Gene.
Nely would fire Jennie. Huh?
Gene is given the choice of bringing back two people. He wants to bring back just one. Omarosa. Okay, so Omarosa sucks. But what the hell is up with this? After initially saying bringing back one person is okay, now Trump says he wants a second name. He obviously doesn’t want to fire Gene, but Gene’s not giving him a great deal of choice. Trump indicates very clearly that Nely should be coming back. Trump desperately wants to fire Nely (he had his chance last week). So who does Gene choose? Jennie. This guy’s got some serious problems.
Trump reiterates that he can’t fire either Omarosa or Jennie because they didn’t do anything wrong. And Gene is fired. Well deserved. Putz. I considered him one of the favorites to win the last two weeks, too, but his ego’s just not big enough to fit in the same room with Trump’s.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Celebrity Apprentice Episode 4, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on NBC.
Gene Simmons fired? Wow!! Never seen that coming!
Agreed. It was pretty blatant throughout the episode he was heading downhill, but he’s been a strong contender prior to this.
I think Gene Simmons was a better person then most people who show up on Reality TV shows. He’s not an idiot, he would have known Donald Trump was going to fire Nely if Gene choose her as one of the ones to come back with him.
As Donald Trump said, he’s a softie. Other people are obviously too stupid to pick up on the fact that Gene knew exactly what he was doing by choosing the two people he choose. He knew he was going to walk out that door, and he was willing to.
I have more respect for him after watching tonights episode.
It was pretty obvious to me that Gene sabotoged himself and wanted to go home. He won money for his charity and wanted to go home and make money for himself. Ever watch his reality show? His only reason to get up in the am is to make money and the apprentice distracted him from doing so…
That to me was the question. Did he just do what he knew would ensure his firing because he was bored with the whole thing, or was he just too stubborn to admit he did something wrong?
I truly believe he was bored and had other things to do. He was on late night talk shows promoting his new book. He never defended himself in the board room or on the talk show.
Ps. Nely should be fired cuz not only have i never heard of her, she has one of the most annoying voices i have ever heard!