The extended 3 hour The Celebrity Apprentice 5 Episode 7 did not lack for drama. First, Debbie Gibson was fired, in spite of losing project manager Teresa Giudice’s poor decisions. Following a tribe shuffle (because the women kept losing over and over again by listening to bad ideas from Aubrey and Lisa), Dee Snider, who has never been in danger during this whole process, found himself being fired rather than the one all the fingers were pointing at, Lou Ferrigno.
As if the double task and corresponding double firing weren’t enough, the real fireworks came from the boardroom of the second task, where winning project manager Arsenio Hall went off on new teammate Aubrey O’Day, like so many other people have been dying to do. For all her mean spirited antics, Aubrey could not take the heat when it backfired, and from the looks of it, got out of the kitchen.
Arsenio starts swearing about Aubrey. Lisa is offended. She doesn’t understand how anybody can use that kind of language. Like she has done all season, just got done doing, and starts doing at Arsenio. When her surviving team members return, she proceeds to swear at them, too.
Sadly, Aubrey is back the next day.
Their task is a 60 second commercial for Entertainment.com. They will be judged on creativity, product integration, and overall brand messaging.
Dayana immediately volunteers to be the project manager, without discussing it with anybody else. Teresa is the project manager for her team, which she just did last week.
Arsenio acknowledges the way he handled things was not right. At least he’s man enough to admit that. Sure, everything he said was accurate, but he could have done it with less anger. One good thing that came out of all of this: Aubrey’s shutting up for a change, rather than trying to ram her ideas down everyone’s throats.
Penn will be leaving, again, for a show.
Dayana’s team comes up with a love story facilitated by coupons. Lou isn’t saying much, but the one thing he does want to do is star in the commercial (he wants to be Dayana’s love interest). Oh. Again?
The other team is writing a dirty commercial, but they will be using their star power, complete with Paul wearing a sweater and glasses.
In case we did not get the hint before, Lou reminds us he wants to be in the commercial. Instead, Dayana assigns banners to him, a task he struggles to do. He’s not good with computers either.
Ivanka visits Teresa’s team, where Aubrey jumps in to explain what they are doing. She wonders if anything really got through to Aubrey, seeing as she’s still trying to take control.
Lisa and Dayana are getting along. Strange. Instead, Lisa has set her sights on Lou.
Dayana calls Lou her weakest link. Lisa agrees.
Lou still has a problem with what happened at the top of the show. If Lisa were a man, he would throw her through a window because she called him and Dayana useless. Lisa says this tactic of calling her out didn’t work, and it doesn’t ruffle her feathers. Her feathers seem ruffled.
Teresa declines to name a weakest link. She thinks all 5 of them should go back to the boardroom. Aubrey also refuses to name names.
Paul calls Clay the star of their team.
Breaking ranks, Lou says he liked the other team’s commercial better because they used more star power. I agree with their rationale for not putting anybody in their commercial. Dayana is an ideal leading female, but neither of the guys would have fit with her (nor would the star of their commercial have fit with her), no matter whether Lou thinks he is her appropriate partner or not.
The executives liked that Dayana’s team showed all the ways they could use the product, and that the story was relateable to a broad audience. However, they thought the story was a bit stale, the direction was a bit poor, and they didn’t really show how the app worked.
They thought the other team was creative, and showed how the app worked. But they were concerned it was borderline because how risque it was, and didn’t like the use of the word old fashioned, which may potentially alienate a base of their consumers that does clip traditional coupons (this from a company with .com in its name).
Teresa’s team wins, and she receives $60,000 for her charity, NephCure Foundation.
And so we continue the battle of Lisa against Lou, while the other two sit to the side and keep their mouths shut unless spoken to.
Since Penn was again not there for half the task (which would be a fair reason for him to be fired), Dayana will be bringing back Lou and Lisa.
Lou says whatever happens, it’s been a pleasure. Lisa does not share that same sentiment.
Lou would fire Lisa. No, wait, Dayana. She was the project manager.
Lisa would fire Lou, who brought no ideas to the table, then turned on his team in the boardroom.
We all know Trump’s opinion about disloyalty. Adding that to Lou’s lack of work on a pretty consistent basis leads to one conclusion: Lou is fired.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Celebrity Apprentice 5 Episode 9, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.