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Despite the fact that Dennis Rodman was too drunk to join his team at the task in The Celebrity Apprentice 2 Episode 3, Tom Green was fired instead.

After the boardroom, the men continue arguing. Clint Black tries to talk some sense into Dennis, but Dennis doesn’t have any interest in sense.

Joan Rivers will be gone for the day (wasn’t she gone day one of the task last week, too?).

ACN’s new video phone will be launched by the teams. 500 sales people from ACN will judge them.

While they’re picking project managers, Dennis is outside the huddle, not contributing. There are three teams: men, women, and Dennis. Brian McKnight will be the project manager for the men. Claudia Jordan will be the project manager for the women.

After that’s done, they will negotiate for a time slot. Once again, Dennis sits out. Annie will negotiate with Clint. Both teams want the second presentation, so they’ll flip a coin. The men call tails and get their choice.

Then we see the real reason why Trump kept Dennis around. Dennis goes ballistic on Clint, further tearing apart the already torn apart team.

When the men begin their task, Brian doesn’t see the need to call Dennis because he doesn’t want him there anyway.

Jesse James thinks that product launches are a spectacle. They need to do something like a concert. Surely somebody would like to see Brian McKnight in concert. Jesse also suggests producing a video connecting with the troops, so they’d have to head to West Point, about 50 miles away. Clint is opposed to making the trip, but Brian’s got Jesse as his second in command.

The women, who don’t have an actual star, want to write a story about a family. Melissa Rivers wants her mom to perform for a few minutes.

T-Boz, who’s apparently been on the show the last few weeks, although I haven’t seen her, is getting frustrated during the brainstorming session. Brande, likewise, is confused as to what’s going on. They’re running into a problem that they’ve given Joan Rivers such a big role, yet she won’t be there until the morning. To make matters worse, she will be arriving later than previously scheduled, and since the women lost the coin toss, it will be too late for them to be able to utilize her at all.

Time for a plan B. The women realize they still don’t have a star, so they’re still stuck with Joan on the brain, even if she’s still not really a star either. Natalie Gulbis has a private plane that can pick her up whenever she wants.

Clint feels he’s excluded and is still not happy. Brian doesn’t feel like sharing because he’s already got his show ready. Clint will be making the phone calls to line everything up, including the pizza order for lunch.

Melissa tries to take control of the women’s task because Claudia doesn’t seem to have any ideas. Claudia basically tells Melissa to shut up, which Melissa finds insulting. Without Joan Rivers, there would be no Melissa Rivers, although to be fair, I’d never hear of Melissa Rivers before this show.

Eventually, Dennis Rodman strolls in, deciding he hasn’t actually quit the show. Brian would prefer he stay downstairs or elsewhere. Ivanka comes and asks Dennis to come join the group. She feels like Brian should humble himself and ask Dennis to join them. At least they can’t blame Dennis if they lose.

Brian gets hit by a bill of $4800, mostly for the monitor system. Dennis pipes up. He can get the monitors for them for free. Brian refuses that offer. Okay, now Brian’s taking this attitude of his too far.

The women are attempting to film, and all they’re getting is footage of a screeching baby. They get nowhere.

With the traffic, it takes them about 2 hours to get to West Point. Well worth it, though, because this is something that will hit home with everybody.

Dennis tells Clint he just had a bad day and that it’s behind them now, even if it’s not behind Brian.

While Claudia doesn’t appreciate the work Melissa’s trying to do, there are team members who realize she’s got experience producing shows.

Clint’s enjoying his great lack of responsibilities. If the men lose, they really can’t blame him either. Granted, it seems highly unlikely the women have any prayer anyway.

The women take 45 minutes out of their 1 hour of rehearsal time they have to get through it just once. Khloe Kardashian finds their whole thing confusing because they have too many moving parts. Brande doesn’t have much hope either. However, Melissa is attempting to make a last ditch effort at a recovery with just a few minutes left until showtime. Claudia reluctantly gives Melissa a backhanded compliment.

The women have managed to turn what little baby footage they managed to get into a decent video. Joan Rivers is happy to see that people can finally see her face that she’s spent so much money on. They’ve also got a film that ends with Brande going right in the audience to get proposed to. Finally something good seems to have come out of the women’s presentation.

Clint Black opens up the show for the men. He introduces the video of the soldier utilizing the phone in a real world environment, then he introduces the Brian McKnight performance. The audience enjoys the performance, but there is valid criticism what this has to do with the phone. They’d have done better to spend some more time on the soldiers.

Brian says that most of his team worked together as a team. Clint feels he’s patched things up with Dennis. Dennis agrees that he’ll get along well with him. However, Brian didn’t want to use him. At all.

Dennis says that, if the team lost, they can’t blame him. Clint says that Brian took command and would need to be blamed. Brian agrees that, if they lost, he should be fired.

Claudia says that Joan was the star of the team, despite only being there for about an hour. Melissa doesn’t think she was fully utilized. Annie thought it was total chaos and would have to blame the project manager for that chaos. Claudia continues blasting Melissa for no apparent reason. Melissa asks her mom to jump in to defend her, which Joan does to say that Claudia is the weakest link.

Dennis has been waiting for the women to implode.

The audience voted almost 85% in favor of the men (386-61). Brian has won $20,000 for his charity, Youthville USA.

All of the comments reinforced the idea that the vignettes were boring.

Annie points to the chaos in the room as evidence that Claudia could not control her team. Although she thought there was obnoxiousness on both sides, she gives Melissa credit for just putting her head down and doing a great job with what she was allowed to do.

Claudia tells Melissa that she knows she doesn’t like her. She’d better not like her anyway. Additionally, Melissa is very loud and obnoxious.

The men want to know why Melissa didn’t step up to be project manager if she’s got so much experience. A valid question.

Claudia acknowledges that she doesn’t like Melissa, but as much of a personal issue as she’s making it, she has to realize that attacking someone who everybody else says did a great job isn’t going to work. When pushed, she says that Khloe was the least effective person in the group. Ivanka doesn’t think Khloe’s done anything that necessarily determines a win or a loss.

Khloe would fire Claudia because of the lack of control. Joan would fire Claudia, due to her performance since day one (aka because she attacked Melissa). Brande didn’t really see all the fights because she was just doing her thing. Natalie would fire Claudia because she was the project manager.

Melissa and Khloe will be returning back with Claudia.

Although Claudia’s been blasting Melissa for the better part of the past hour, she has finally realized that Melissa won’t be fired, so she would fire Khloe.

Unsurprisingly, Claudia has been fired. She didn’t leave him any choice.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Celebrity Apprentice 2 episode 5, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.

Scott Hamilton named his team’s character EEE to represent Zappos, and despite the fact that they were going on and on for an hour about the theory that there may be another alternative, the obvious happened when Scott was fired in The Celebrity Apprentice 2 Episode 2.

This task is all about weddings. Not good news for the men, who have already lost the first two tasks. George is back and will be following a team. As planned, Tom Green is stepping up to be project manager for the men, which he’s happy to do since he has no faith in any of his team. Brande Roderick will be the manager for the women.

Tom challenges Clint Black to raise $100,000 by contacting his contacts. He agrees to it.

On the other side, Annie Duke’s already lined up a $10,000 buyer.

Both teams are located right next door to each other.

Melissa Rivers has brought Preston Bailey, a wedding planner, to help them out.

So that he understands the product, Tom Green decides to put on a wedding dress. He wants Brian McKnight to help him with his zipper.

Dennis Rodman is concerned about the lack of publicity, so he wants to go somewhere to try to generate interest in their sale. Oh, and he wants to have some drinks as well.

Ivanka believes the men are working together harmoniously. At least those who are actually there anyway. She’s not sure where Dennis and Herschel went.

Khloe Kardashian calls Joe Francis from Girls Gone Wild to get him to buy a $5,000 dress.

Dennis has loosened up a bit and is finally working. It only took some vodka and cranberry juice to get him to do that. He calls up someone to get a model, and they send him a Russian model. He loves Russian bitc… girls.

The next morning, Tom and Dennis aren’t there, and the rest of the team doesn’t know why. They went down to the bar the night before with the Russian girl.

An hour later, Tom comes strolling down. The rest of the team didn’t wait. No need to waste time.

The men plan to go with a minimalistic look focusing just on the dresses. The women are just lucky this is about income rather than profit because they’re going all out.

Tom arrives at the store a couple hours before the sales begin. He’s still a bit drunk. Dennis? It’s not clear where he is. Eventually, Dennis’ guy calls and says he’s having trouble with his eyes and will not be coming in.

George visits Kotu and doesn’t think their store is very inviting, whereas the women have more of an entertainment extravaganza, rather than it just being about dresses.

In the middle of the day, the girls’ store is empty, while the men have managed to pack theirs. Joan Rivers is concerned and goes over to the men’s store and begins stealing customers. Khloe will stand guard outside to make sure nobody goes in.

Clint has managed to raise some money as he was assigned to do. The checks have arrived, and he gets $35,000.

Joan, meanwhile, has gotten $25,000 from QVC.

Herschel is still waiting for his checks with 7 minutes left in the task. At the 2 minute mark, his guy arrives with the checks.

Brande says that nobody did a poor job on her team. Melissa and Annie were her stars.

Tom was also pleased with his team, especially Clint and Herschel. As for Dennis, he had an… allergic reaction. From cats. Or dogs. Some animal anyway.

Herschel wouldn’t put Tom on his A team.

The men sold 21 dresses for $63,453. The women sold 22 dresses for $103,000. Brande has won $167,000 for California Police Youth Charities.

Trump doesn’t think Tom is a great team leader.

Herschel thinks Dennis was hungover. Tom claims he was knocking on Dennis’ door for about half an hour, which is why he was late.

If Phil Jackson were knocking on the door, Dennis would have ignored him, too. Same for Michael Jordan.

Clint would have made Dennis produce at least three doctors to tell him that he was indeed having an allergic reaction.

Jesse James would get rid of both Dennis and Tom.

After Trump asks him half a dozen times, Dennis says that he should fire Tom.

George thinks that Tom seemed unconcerned that Dennis was not there.

For some reason, Tom continues to defend Dennis, while not defending himself very well, if at all.

Clint would be okay with firing both of them.

Brian would fire Tom. He’s not ready to be a leader.

Tom has been fired on the heels of another poor performance. Dennis has to ask whether he’s safe, and apparently he is, despite not showing up for the task.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Celebrity Apprentice 2 episode 4, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.

Andrew Dice Clay pretty much did nothing in The Celebrity Apprentice 2 Episode 1 and was eventually eliminated because he wanted to quit (or at least that’s what Trump said).

Clint Black wants to see the team be able to be subordinate, although in order to do so they actually need a project manager telling them what to do.

The teams will be working with Zappos to create a comic character communicating their focus on customer service. The women pick clothing company owner Khloe Kardashian. She doesn’t get the connection between herself and shoe seller Zappos. The men pick Scott Hamilton. CNBC news anchor Erin Burnett (no apparent relation to show creator Mark Burnett) will be following one of the teams.

They first meet with Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. He wants to convey their brand and culture. They can decide what to do with it from there, and he offers little insight beyond the customer service team. The girls can’t even figure out whether he likes blondes or brunettes.

Khloe very quickly loses control of her very talkative group. Claudia Jordan wishes for one superpower: to shut up the rest of her team.

The women have wasted their morning talking and have nothing to show for it.

Annie Duke suggests a design group and a script group. She suggests being in the script group, and she wants Claudia to be with her. Joan doesn’t like this because she says she’s written some things.

Dennis Rodman and Tom Green are talking about having a transvestite comic book character who turns into a woman. Sadly, that’s about the best idea they have.

Khloe is slowly becoming more able to speak her mind.

Clint Black wants to talk a lot, and he doesn’t want anyone else talking when he’s talking. Dennis isn’t having any of this, so he yells back.

The girls have settled on having a female character because that will appeal to both men and women. Joan comes up with the name Mizz Z. Claudia’s idea is an average Jane, cute but not beautiful, which goes against their original concept of appealing to men with a hot chick. At least it sounded like her idea, until little Donnie walks into the room, when Melissa Rivers says it’s her idea.

The focus group, typical comic book readers, finds it odd to be discussing comic books with a Playmate.

Because Scott has no control over things, Tom Green goes on a tangent that turns into a performance. They pitch some ideas… except they’re not really ideas at all.

Tom wants Senor Zappos. Clint wants every woman at her best. Jesse James mostly just wants to be able to get out of there and get a costume done. They all need Scott to make a decision. Doesn’t look like he wants to.

Joan asks Natalie Gulbis to be Mizz Z. Those two and Tionne will be going off to work on the costume. Joan’s still bitter that Annie offered to be the writer.

After another 3 hours of arguing, the men opt for a normal every day woman who’s got a smile on her face after being sucked into the computer and shopping.

Clint, Herschel, Scott, and Tom will be working on the character, while the rest of the team does the design.

Erin believes the men are disorganized, but that they at least took some time to figure out what they are doing.

Scott is tired of hearing Tom’s voice because Tom is actually coming up with ideas. Ignoring starting their character name with a Z, Scott instead opts for the name EEE (everywhere, everything, every time), believing there’s no way they can come up with another name. Tom hates the name. Clint is not crazy about it but is willing to support his project manager.

The costume team for the women apparently get Natalie to dress up like a dominatrix.

The costume design team for the men doesn’t have measurements or really much to go on. They get a call from Scott, who tells them the name is EEE. They’re confused.

Claudia claims she’s sick. She asks to go home.

Tom wants to be of some use. Scott, Clint, and Herschel don’t want his assistance on anything. So he just keeps talking just to keep himself entertained.

While Scott’s bashing Tom in his confessional, Tom interrupts, like he’s been doing all along.

Dennis wants someone animated making the presentation, rather than Clint, who he considers boring. Jesse considers Clint to have too big an ego.

Brande Roderick is wearing inappropriate footwear, so she runs barefoot through 5th Avenue.

Somehow, it comes up that Tom should do the presentation, and so Scott gives in and asks if he wants to do it. He agrees, but he doesn’t like that he’s not involved in the writing of the presentation, like he wasn’t involved in anything the day before. Herschel calls him a liar and says he was involved.

The teams will be making the pitch to the Zappos CEO and Donald Trump.

Claudia gives the presentation for the women. A regular woman like Claudia and Tony… oh wait, he’s not a woman… is frustrated with the customer service she’s been getting. When she’s pulled into her computer, she’s transformed into Mizz Z. She has inspired the customer service employees she’s come into contact with. Claudia is fumbling over her words and gives herself a C. Donald asks Natalie if she would wear the outfit at the US Open. She responds that she wouldn’t wear it in the hallways, although she would wear it on this show with 10 million viewers.

Tom Green does the pitch for the men. Their concept is every woman at her best, who is transformed into EEE by Zappos.

Tony liked the men’s presentation in that they focused on the customer. However, he did not like that they focused on the letter E. He wants to focus on the letter Z, like Tom suggested.

As for the women, they focused on the obvious letter Z and captured the core values of the company, although Claudia stumbled and did not know the name of the company she was pitching, saying Zappo instead of Zappos.

Trump tells Khloe he’s a little surprised. He heard she did a very good job.

Tom feels they got behind schedule, and he blames Scott. When he says that they didn’t allow any of his ideas through, Scott starts laughing.

Brian believes they have too many chiefs.

Joan thinks that Khloe grew into the project manager role, but would have grown into it faster if the beginning weren’t so chaotic. They have too many chiefs as well. Yeah, she’s still bitter at Annie about the writing thing. When Annie tries to defend herself, Trump cuts her off.

Cut to Melissa, who again takes credit for the idea. Khloe, however, says that Claudia came up with the idea.

Natalie realizes that her comment about the outfit may have swayed their decision. Why wasn’t Brande in the outfit instead? In her defense, but not so much that of her team, their idea was about normal people, who probably wouldn’t flash that much skin.

Trump passes around the comics. They realize that they both did similar concepts. Natalie can’t make any sense out of this EEE character, though.

Tom doesn’t think they won. EEE was not a good name.

Trump points out that Claudia stumbled during her presentation, which she knew he would. She was “sent home” (aka asked to leave) and blames being sick. Brande’s version of the story is that Claudia didn’t want to go home.

The women have won. With that name, the men really had no chance. Since the women have won, their project manager Khloe Kardashian will be able to give $20,000 to her charity, The Brent Shapiro Foundation.

Tom fought the name, but Scott pretty much just chose it to go against what he was saying.

Herschel would fire Tom.

Brian would fire whoever came up with that name. If you notice on the costume, there’s a Z.

Dennis would fire Scott for being too soft.

Jesse would fire Clint. That’s different. Clint just wants to argue with everybody other than Scott. Joan thinks Clint’s a snake, and Claudia thought there was something mean about him when she met him.

Clint would fire Tom because he was undermining Scott on purpose. Scott agrees.

Scott asks: do I have to pick two? The people who have not picked as many people as Trump wanted them to pick got fired because it angered Trump. Scott only wants to pick Tom, but he will also bring back Herschel because he will support him.

Outside in the waiting room, Tom’s still talking, and he’s still being ignored.

Erin can’t imagine continuing with both Tom and Scott. Don Jr. doesn’t get why Herschel is coming back rather than Clint.

Scott suggests that maybe Tom’s ideas weren’t good. Yet EEE was.

Trump tells Herschel to get lost because he shouldn’t have been brought back. That was kind of pointless. He thinks Scott may be fired.

Tom wants Scott fired because he was unable to control the team, and he wants to be the next project manager.

Scott didn’t bring back Clint because he did as he was told. He wants Tom fired because he derailed everything.

At this point, we’re pretty much just going in the same circles we’ve been going in for the past hour. It’s pretty obvious what’s going to happen here, so make a decision already.

Regardless of whatever else happened on the task, the name was just too big an error. Scott has been fired.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Celebrity Apprentice 2 episode 3, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.

Last year, The Apprentice, which had been flailing about for a couple seasons due largely to stupid decisions by Trump and the producers, got the shot in the arm it needed with a celebrity edition. Piers Morgan dominated the season, and despite some whining from Stephen Baldwin and has been (or never was) Omarosa, Piers was The Celebrity Apprentice winner.

Now, a new cast of 16 celebrities is ready to fight to help boost Trump’s ego.

Men’s team: Andrew Dice Clay, Brian McKnight, Clint Black, Dennis Rodman, Herschel Walker, Jesse James, Scott Hamilton, Tom Green
Women’s team: Annie Duke, Brande Roderick, Claudia Jordan, Joan Rivers, Khloe Kardashian, Melissa Rivers, Natalie Gulbis, Tionne Watkins

Joan Rivers agrees to be the first project manager for the women. Annie suggests the name Phoenix, since the women last year crashed and burned. Then she suggests the name Athena. They like this one better and go for it. Trump really likes the name.

Dice is complaining about the lack of bagels Trump has provided. The men are getting nowhere with their team name, so Herschel Walker steps up to say they need a leader. Scott Hamilton says that maybe it’s Herschel. He gets a second to this idea, so it passes, even though Dennis Rodman doesn’t understand why. Herschel says he’s a businessman, too, not just a football player. He agrees with the previously suggested Kotu (kings of the universe). Most of the men don’t like this name.

The teams will create, bake, and sell cupcakes in a mobile sales center.

At the first boardroom meeting when they’re getting their assignment, Dice complains to Trump. He wants some bagels.

The men start off first with location. They want to be wherever Dice’s biggest fan group is. According to him, he’s the biggest stand up comic in history (a century ago he was big anyway). Their plan is to go to Times Square.

Joan insists that they go to Penn Station, but Annie Duke remembers that this location did not work last year. The rest of the women just want her to shut up. Brande Roderick steps in with a better idea that makes this a moot point. The whole Playboy building will all go down to see them if they go to 57th & 5th. Annie makes a call to secure some money, but the rest of the women on the team don’t like this (winning) strategy.

Jesse James plans to amp up the men’s truck so that it stands out.

Tom Green calls Donny Deutsch to get him to send someone down with some cash.

Jesse does a lot with Photoshop for his business, so he’ll be doing the photos for the marketing. He will be working with Brian McKnight on that part of it, though Brian intends to just do as he’s told and stay out of the mix.

Both teams will be doing simple cupcakes with two varieties, vanilla and chocolate.

The women split into two groups. Brande, Joan, Claudia, and Melissa work on the truck and marketing, while Annie, Khloe, Natalie, and Tionne stay behind to work on the cupcakes.

Joan wants to create a circus and believes in overkill.

With her mother in charge, Melissa’s taking the opportunity to take charge of the task as well.

Dice doesn’t believe he’s a baker and doesn’t want to be a baker. Instead, he will go to Sirius Radio to do a couple shows. He’s not doing anything anyway, so he can go ahead and leave. He’s going to be taking Dennis with him. On the ride to the radio station, Dice admits he has no interest in making cupcakes.

Annie is the lead baker on the vanilla side. The cupcakes look pretty. The chocolate cupcakes, however, don’t rise like the others. Natalie, who was in charge of those, doesn’t know why. The chef who’s overseeing them doesn’t know why either. Could be baking powder instead of baking soda, or perhaps the wrong flour. To recover from this, Annie will make another batch of vanilla. They call the other half of the team to beg for help.

Clint tastes his team’s cupcakes. They’re terrible. They forgot to put the sugar in. This falls on Herschel, who was responsible for the mixing. Their overseer says they don’t have time to make another batch, but should try to put syrup on them and hope they absorb it to become sweeter.

The women’s chocolate cupcakes may not look good, but they taste fine, so if they cover them up, maybe nobody will notice.

Claudia is getting tired of listening to Annie talk. Natalie’s not happy with it either. Joan appreciates Annie’s input, but doesn’t like that she’s a fascist dictator.

The women see the guy’s truck and are impressed and afraid. The sad thing is that it only took two guys to do this, too.

The men set a price of $20 for their cupcakes. The women are willing to give them away for as little as $1.

Tom Green has gotten Tony Hawk to come down and draw in some traffic.

The partially clothed cowboy has also come down to sing a song.

The girls get a girl in a bunny costume, along with about 100 people from the Playboy building. Joan Rivers calls Brande a very smart woman lost in a gorgeous face and body.

Rodman is sitting in the driver’s seat of the truck for most of the day. He says it’s because he didn’t want to be a distraction. People can see him after they buy a cupcake.

Eric Benet comes down to visit Claudia. Kathy Lee Gifford comes down for Khloe.

Annie gets a visit from some fellow poker players, who are handing over thousands.

Trump phones Herschel and Joan to ask for a member of their team to take their best cupcake to Crumbs Bakeshop on 8th St. Whichever the owner likes best will receive an additional $15,000.

Melissa chooses one of the bombs, one of the inverted cupcakes that tasted good and then were filled with ganache because they didn’t look very good. Since he’s probably still not doing anything, Dice goes for the men.

When she gets back, Melissa is asked if she gave them the vanilla with the chocolate chips that the chef said that people were most likely to like. She was unaware of that discussion, and she also didn’t bother to get feedback from her team on their pick.

Brande has two big spenders come down. It’s around this time that Annie wants to ration the cupcakes so they have some left for when they get additional big spenders. They certainly don’t want to sell them the whole truck, but Brande does want to give them a whole tray, without finding out how much money they plan to give. They end up getting $9,000 for 24 cupcakes.

With 15 minutes left, they’ve sold out.

At the end of the day, the men are getting some more big hitters.

With 7 minutes left, they lower the price to 2 cupcakes for $20, and Tom Green calls Donny to find out where his girl is. Just under 2 minutes left, they get $10,000 for 1 cupcake.

Joan says that Brande was the star of the team.

Claudia says that Annie is the weakest member of their team. She’s mostly just upset because Annie told her how to frost a cupcake (something the chef showed her). Let it go.

Herschel declines to answer who the weak link was, but Dice admits he was. As for Dennis, he needed a spanking.

The women easily won the taste test, which is $15,000 from Crumbs. They were disgusted by the men’s cupcakes.

The men brought in $49,499; the women brought in $61,267. It all comes down to the taste test. Joan’s charity Gods Love We Deliver will be getting the money.

Tom Green brought in $16,000 from three donors, a large chunk of what the men brought in. He doesn’t like that the rest of the guys didn’t make an effort to do the same like he suggested. Herschel says he brought in the most money, but Tom doesn’t like that he didn’t encourage the others to do so as well.

Jesse acknowledges their cupcakes sucked. Scott refuses to pass the blame and just says it was whoever was in the kitchen should share equal blame. Since Andrew didn’t do anything, that leaves him out.

Herschel says that Dennis was effective when he wanted to be effective, but Dennis responds that if he wasn’t doing something right, the team leader should have told him what to do.

Clint would fire Dice due to his lack of contribution.

Andrew says he would agree to leave because the others don’t appreciate what he did anyway, and the others all did a good job. Trump’s response is that he doesn’t want to quit because the three before him who quit are considered losers. This coming from the guy who 2 years ago, when it looked like The Apprentice was going to be cancelled, told NBC they didn’t have to fire him because he quit.

Dice would fire Scott because, well, it’s not entirely clear why. Scott would fire Dennis and Andrew. Brian would fire Andrew. Jesse would fire Dennis. Tom would fire Herschel because he’s the project manager.

Herschel makes the two obvious picks: Dice and Dennis.

Trump’s secretary isn’t interested in going out with Dice after he gets fired tonight.

Dennis would fire Herschel due to lack of a gameplan. He should have been better utilized, or utilized at all for that matter. Dice agrees with his buddy Dennis.

Herschel claims he made an effort to utilize them, but it didn’t seem like it. Granted, it’s entirely possible they just simply can’t be controlled.

Herschel says Dice is washed up. Dice calls the kettle black.

Because Trump thinks that Dice wanted to quit, he’s the first one fired.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Celebrity Apprentice 2 episode 2, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.

The Celebrity Apprentice 2 premieres this Sunday March 1 at 9/8c on NBC (this season, the episodes will be 2 hours long). A new cast of celebrities (or people who think they’re celebrities) will hopefully be able to return with something on par with last season, which salvaged the show by reducing the emphasis on Trump. Here are some preview clips of the premiere from NBC.

Season Preview

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The Celebrity Apprentice 2 premieres on NBC Sunday March 1 at 9/8c. The cast of 16 celebrity contestants consists of:

Andrew Dice Clay (comedian, or at least he used to be, sorta)
Annie Duke (poker player)
Brande Roderick (Playmate of the Year in 2001)
Brian McKnight (R&B singer)
Claudia Jordan (#1 suitcase holder on Deal or No Deal… for real)
Clint Black (country singer)
Dennis Rodman (former pro basketball player, winner of Celebrity Mole and Celebrity Championship Wrestling tournament)
Herschel Walker (former pro football player)
Jesse James (motorcycle builder)
Joan Rivers (comedian, plastic surgery fanatic)
Khloe Kardashian (reality TV star)
Melissa Rivers (Joan Rivers’ daughter)
Natalie Gulbis (pro golfer)
Scott Hamilton (former ice skater)
Tionne Watkins (singer, T-Boz from TLC)
Tom Green (actor)

“Last season’s ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ became one of the hottest shows on television — and this season will be even better,” said Donald Trump. “We have an amazing cast of celebrities and we are looking forward to some fantastic entertainment.”

This season the competition is more cut throat than ever with a group of celebrities that will fight, tooth and nail, to win. Such intensity will result in flare-ups that, Piers Morgan says, “make his legendary fights with Omarosa look like a tea party.”

The Apprentice was almost cancelled (Donald Trump went so far as to tell the network they couldn’t fire him because he was a quitter) as its ratings continued to slump after the network made one dumb decision after another (and this latest decision may well fall into that category), but TVWeek reports that following the success of The Celebrity Apprentice, The Celebrity Apprentice 2 will be supersized (hopefully without Trump’s ego being supersized as well).

The second season of the celebrity version of The Apprentice will now air for two hours on Sunday nights, with a February start date likely. No specific time frame has been given for the show, which struggled the last time it was on Sunday nights.

Reportedly, this was not originally planned when the show was filmed, so now the producers will need to find ways to fill the two hours, hopefully without doing things like The Biggest Loser producers do (i.e. taking an hour to weigh in four people).

“It’s great,” Mark Burnett said during a brief telephone conversation from New York. “It wasn’t a sudden call at all. During production, the people at NBC were saying the show was so great and should really be two hours.”

“Donald has always felt the boardrooms were too short, and I think he’s right,” Mr. Burnett said. “Right now, there’s really only about nine minutes of footage that we use and the boardroom (scenes) go on for hours sometimes. The problem has been trying to squeeze it all in. Every season we go through the struggle of cutting the show down.”