Stephen Baldwin was fired in All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 7 because, well, I’m not entirely sure why. In typical Trump logic, he latched on to one word that he said and wouldn’t let it go, despite the fact that it had nothing to do with anything.
Lisa and Penn aren’t happy to see Gary return. They’re outnumbered because everybody was moved to the other sucky team, and now they have to deal with him.
Bret Michaels, who is responsible for picking one of the worst teams ever assembled, is back, this time on the other side of the table along with George.
Their task is an interactive South Africa travel expo. Brande and Penn are the project managers. They will be judged on creativity, feedback from travel professionals, and overall presentation.
They can choose between romance or adventure, and both teams pick adventure. The decision comes down to a coin flip (not one of Penn’s coins), and Brande’s team wins the toss.
They’re happy. They figure they can focus on safari, and after all, who goes to South Africa for romance? What they find, though, is that the task has set limitations preventing them from promoting safaris because they want to promote things that people don’t know about. They realize they might have gotten the harder task, particularly considering that they need to do all this in a small room.
While meeting with the execs and discussing romance, Gary talks about his experience in South Africa. He heard people being murdered. So begins Penn’s and Lisa’s frustration with him. They’d be better off doing this on their own or at least with Stephen.
Penn wants to show he deserves to win this. He manages to get zulu dancers, Paul Simon’s drummer, and a 5 star South African chef.
The other team plans to get a guy in the shark suit and to push people around in a chair to simulate ziplining. Trace fears the juvenile direction they seem to be going.
When George comes, Gary again mentions murder in Johannesburg after discussing how killing a lion is his idea of romance.
Trace thinks Brande did pretty good under the challenging circumstances.
Lisa says Penn rocked it, but she declines to give a useful opinion about Gary. Penn provides a similarly pointless opinion about Gary, but he does later say he didn’t do everything he was asked.
The execs and travel experts felt transported back to South Africa by Penn’s team. But they did not offer specific locations for travel information.
They loved that they included the wine, tea, and spas, and thought the brocure was a really great take away to make people remember the big five experiences. However, they seriously lacked unique experiences, and their exhibit was juvenile.
It was pretty obvious where this was heading. Despite never having been to South Africa and not really knowing much about it, Penn through is connections managed to tap into a South African community in New York, creating an authentic experience that would have been tough to beat. Penn has won for his charity, Opportunity Village, and Gary survives yet again.
Brande can’t say who she thinks should be fired. She will let Lil Jon go free because she feels loyal to him, despite Trump making a big deal about how he wanted adventure (like everybody else on both teams). Trump gives her a second chance to change her mind, but she declines. That was a setup anyway, as one of Trump’s greatest pet peeves is disloyalty.
The thing the executives liked the most was the handout, which was designed based on the logo. Since this was Marilu’s idea, she should be safe.
Brande agrees she’s with two people who probably don’t deserve to be fired, and with that said, Brande is fired. Before she goes, Trace asks for her to be given some money for her charity, Promises to Kids. Trump agrees to give $20,000.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 9, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.