Raising her hand to be fired, Cheryl Tiegs made Trump’s decision easy in The Celebrity Apprentice 5 Episode 1.
Victoria warns them they all better watch out. And sleep with one eye open they presume. She tells them every last one of them is a bitch.
This week’s task is to create a 15 minute Medieval Times show. Ivanka is not around this week, but James Lipton is. He tells us he’s a knight.
Penn is nominated as the project manager for the men; Lisa will be the PM for the women. Adam is away from the men’s team. He has to host a wedding. As good excuses go, I would not suggest that one.
Lisa quickly warns her team not to interrupt her.
The women decide to be The Unreal Housewives of Camelot, who are vying for the affection of Donald Trump. This doesn’t seem particularly suitable after they just got done talking to the executive, who told them this is a family show. Dayana tries to express that concern, but Lisa doesn’t want to hear it. Oh, and by the way, they want Dayana to wear a nude body suit. Granted, this is exactly what Trump said he wanted to see. Everybody gets a role other than Victoria, who is relegated to sound and lighting.
The men will be using their star power. Aresnio is a host, along with the man with the big voice, Penn. Clay will sing. Paul rides on a motorcycle that looks like it’s from the medieval days, if they had motorcycles then. The macho men Lou and Paul will joust for the hand of the fair maiden, Dee Snyder. Ultimately, they have no real plot. It’s just a bunch of celebrities telling jokes.
While they’re choosing outfits, Lisa goes crazy. She thought she told them not to interrupt her.
The next morning, feeling as if she’s being ignored, Victoria threatens to leave and join the men’s team. Lisa pretends that Victoria is the most important person of the day to make her feel better.
Nobody wants to listen to Dayana, who has decided that all they want her to do is sit on a horse and look good, which Lisa says is all she’s good at.
Clay’s struggle with George is that he’s not following the script. He agrees to read from it.
As Dee rides the horse into the arena, he stumbles off. He thinks he broke a finger. The EMT says he needs to go to the hospital, but the show must go on.
Back from the hospital, Dee’s diagnose is a severe fracture, and he may have to get a pin put in it.
In spite of the tension, Victoria says that she thinks Lisa did a fabulous job.
Paul says that Penn was phenomenal, and Michael agrees.
Penn says that everyone was great, but he’ll play by the rules. If they lose, he will bring back Lou and George, who are less versatile than the rest of the team because they’re actors. Lou is insulted. Nothing Trump likes more than pointless manufactured drama. George, however, still admires Penn.
Arsenio would fire Penn, who created and ran the whole show.
Lisa would definitely bring Victoria back, and she has a lengthy explanation to support it. Her next target is Dayana, who she doesn’t feel can do anything other than shop and be pretty.
Patricia would fire someone who came up with the concept: Lisa or her right hand girl Aubrey.
Debbie points out something, or at least tries to before she gets cut off. Like the rest of the week, 5 people are not saying much while the others are doing all the talking.
The men received 558 votes; the women received 363 votes. Penn receives $40,000 for his charity, Opportunity Village.
Don Jr. thinks the women appealed to the men in the crowd, but lacked the diversity to appeal to the entire audience, which was at least 1/4-1/2 children, a fact they were entirely aware of but chose to ignore in their quest to focus on hot babes and Jersey.
Patricia has a different answer now. She would fire Victoria. Aubrey would fire Dayana. Dayana and Victoria would fire Lisa.
Unsurprisingly, Dayana and Victoria are going back to the boardroom with Lisa.
Don Jr. doesn’t understand why Dayana is being brought back, but he could see either of the other two being fired.
So begins much yelling and crying.
Once the fighting is done, Dayana says that Lisa has tried to be heard more and has more energy. With that in mind and the fact that Victoria thought about quitting the team, Victoria has been fired. Great, now we get to listen to Lisa yell at some more people.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Celebrity Apprentice 5 Episode 3, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.