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Following one disastrous week after another, Omarosa was finally fired in All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 5.

Brande hopes to prove that her team didn’t really suck and that they could have won if not for the bad seed.

The Trump family parade continues, this time with Melania, who is promoting her skin care product. Teams will create a two page advertorial and product display. Dennis and Penn are the project managers.

When he meets with the execs, Dennis says he wants to go into Melania’s bathroom and see what she really uses. On the other team, Gary does his usual rambling, but at least he’s not in charge.

Lil Jon wants to buy everything gold from the prop shop. Dennis goes with him, but he’s pretty much just hanging out. The other team is focusing on caviar, the product brand.

When Eric Trump comes to visit, Penn makes all his people go back to work and stop talking to him so that he can get rid of him as quickly as possible.

Trace makes his presentation all about simplicity. He realizes that either they are going to love it or think he was lazy. Of course, that does not take into account one critical flaw. There were only two words in the slogan, and one of them (Melania’s name) is spelled wrong. The sad fact about this is that they have it written correctly elsewhere, and it is also on the product shots they are featuring, yet somehow they botched it in the slogan. Based on Melania’s reaction, I’d say this is game over right here because she ain’t happy. How dare someone spell her unusual name incorrectly?

Trace thinks Dennis was scattered as a project manager, and he’s not sure he actually delegated anybody to do anything. Brande says that he thinks outside the box, but he never thinks inside the box.

Penn says that Marilu and Lisa as a team are phenomenal. Gary thinks Penn is excellent. Stephen agrees.

The executives thought Penn did a fantastic job, and they loved the slogan “Let your skin taste luxury.” Melania, however, gave the same unhappy looks toward being called a spokesperson by Penn as she did when she spotted the other team’s spelling error. I’m not seeing the problem here. She may not “just” be the spokesperson, but nonetheless it is still an accurate descriptive term.

Melania appreciated that Dennis’ team understood that she spent years developing this formula, and she loved the display itself. But it doesn’t matter because of the spelling error, so they lose no matter what else happened, thereby making the entire first 45 minutes of the episode a complete pointless waste. Good thing this wasn’t a 2 hour episode. That really would have sucked.

Penn receives $40,000 for his charity, Opportunity Village.

Brande thinks Dennis should be fired as the project manager.

Dennis will be bringing Trace back with him because he was the one responsible for the ad layout. Trump asks him if he would just like to bring Trace back, an exception he has fired people over in the past, but apparently it’s okay if he suggests it.

Trace suggests Dennis should be fired because he doesn’t filter out what he’s saying, such as when he asked to look in Melania’s bathroom. Seeing as he’s been brought back to the boardroom about 10 times in a row across two seasons, Dennis Rodman has been fired.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 7, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.

For the third time in four weeks, Omarosa was saved in All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 4 because everybody knows Trump isn’t going to get rid of her right away in spite of (or perhaps because of) how incompetent she is. Following her lame choices of who to bring back in the boardroom, Claudia was fired.

I hope everyone is enjoying the complete overkill of singing shows. Seeing as American Idol is getting record low ratings (down more than 50% from its January premiere), I was hoping NBC (the network that brought us Deal or No Deal every single night until it died) would learn a lesson about oversaturation of the genre, but instead of a two hour of The Apprentice, we get a The Voice rerun followed by a one hour Apprentice. I admit the Omarosa show is growing tiresome, but I’d rather watch this than yet another singing show (so instead, I watched the 40 minute delayed Amazing Race). Meanwhile, The Biggest Loser, the only bright spot on this fourth (or is it fifth by now?) place network over the first three months of the year, has been relegated to half a season a year.

With Omarosa’s team having lost 3 of 4 tasks, they will be getting some added firepower, Trace Adkins. Just in time for a fundraising task.

Their task for this week is to make money by creating works of 3D art, loosely speaking.

Lil Jon and Lisa Rinna are the project managers. Piers Morgan is back for another showdown with Omraosa, and he’ll be joined in the boardroom by Eric Trump.

Lisa suspects that Stephen will be useless in their efforts to make money, but Gary is afraid he will be, too. On the other team, Omarosa thinks she will get something, but she will be toward the back of the pack like when she was keeping fake numbers during the first task. This time, Brande is the accountant.

Lil Jon is already telling Trace that he doesn’t have anything to worry about if they lose.

Penn has secured $50,000 from Teller and $15,000 (in 150 pounds of Jello) from Blue Man Group. Not to be outdone, project manager Lisa scores $80,000 from Chaz Dean, who buys 4 pieces, including one of Stephen’s that he claims he was expecting someone else to buy.

When she finds out that she is tied with Dennis, Omarosa gives $2,000 to one of her donors so that she can come out ahead of him in their battle for last.

Lisa says that Penn was her star. When asked how much Stephen brought in, her response of $5,000 receives laughs from the other team. He blames this on other team members selling his art. If they lose, she would be bringing back Gary as well, who did not raise anything, though he argues like Stephen that Marilu sold his piece for $25,000.

Trump pushes Trace into more or less saying he likes his old team better.

Lil Jon would be returning with Dennis and Omarosa for the same logic as Lisa used: they raised the least. In his favor, Dennis actually created something of value, including a signed Derek Jeter baseball bat as the centerpiece for his art.

Lil Jon’s team sold a total of $179,500. Lisa’s team sold a total of $225,000, as Penn and Lisa just about won this task single handedly. Lisa will receive over $400,000 for her charity, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Omarosa quickly responds that Lil Jon should be fired as the project manager because he didn’t raise enough money to win.

Piers argues that Dennis was let down by the others when it came to fundraising because he contributed a brilliant piece that was worth a lot more than the $5,000 that they sold it for.

Brande would prefer to move forward with Dennis and get rid of Omarosa.

As planned, Lil Jon will be returning to the boardroom with Omarosa and Dennis. Finally, there’s a project manager not afraid to bring Omarosa back into the boardroom. The only question is whether Trump’s ready to let her go. Not only does she go back with a project manager who just can’t be justifiably fired after raising $82,500, but she’s going back with Dennis Rodman, who is not afraid of a fight either.

Lil Jon respects that Dennis has turned himself around, and he would rather move forward with him than Omarosa. Dennis argues that this is about business, not who Trump has known for 10 years.

Trump loves Dennis’ story of redemption and his spirited battle with Omarosa. With that said, Omarosa has finally been fired.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 6, which airs Sunday at 10/9c on NBC.

La Toya Jackson fell on the sword in All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 3, allowing the Omarosa train wreck to continue, with nobody being more surprised than Omarosa.

We start again with Gary complaining about being labeled the weakest link.

Omarosa was shocked that La Toya did not pick her, but that aside, she learned that she can’t trust Claudia.

Their task is an interactive marketing campaign using a glass truck to promote Farouk Systems’ two biggest brands, Chi and Biosilk. They will be judged on three criteria: creativity, brand messaging, and overall experience.

Arsenio Hall and Don, Jr. are the advisors for this week.

Both teams are completely confused about who Farouk is and what a glass truck is. Omarosa names Claudia as her team’s project manager, and Marilu steps forward into a project that she hopes to figure out what it is eventually.

Trump will give $20,000 to the winning project manager, and Farouk will add $30,000 to that, plus $1 per like on Facebook up to an additional $50,000.

Lil Jon won a Farouk task in his season. Because of that, he wants to stress America in their campaign.

Dennis suggests they give makeovers to homeless women and drag queens. I’m pretty sure this idea will not be chosen, not even a little.

Marilu was a judge for Miss USA, and she wants to invite some of the contestants come down to the event. While she’s on the phone, Stephen wants her to have two conversations at once rather than focusing on the person on the other line.

Claudia’s team is going to rap as a brainstorming activity. Except for Dennis. During this process, they come up with their slogan. Brande says Chi wants you, and Lil Jon decides to wear an Uncle Sam costume.

Marilu’s concept is to put two hairstylists inside the truck so they can do quick makeovers. Stephen tries to create the slogan, live life luscious, but Trace doesn’t like it. His proposal, which the team likes, is experience silk.

Like Marilu, Claudia is hoping to score someone from Miss USA. As a former Miss Rhode Island, she wants to get the recent Miss Rhode Island winner. Unlike the other team, they plan to use the truck as a place to take photos. Omarosa is unimpressed, but she will be saving her input for the boardroom.

Omarosa and Dennis have been sent shopping for props. Mostly, they use it as a time to have fun. They return after 4 hours carrying everything they have bought in their hands, a total of 1 item per hour. Most of the things on their list are missing. Meanwhile, Marilu sends Trace and Lisa to babysit Gary while he goes shopping.

For all his interrupting earlier while Marilu was on the phone, Stephen actually was making an important point. She needs to speak to his publicist, Matt Rich, who also has ties to Miss USA. When they connect, she asks to make sure that she gets the Miss USA people, not the other team. By the time Claudia is able to speak to someone, it’s too late.

Their fall back plan is celebrity look alikes with terrible hair. They want to get Donald Trump, but the only Trump impersonator in New York died yesterday, so they will be settling for Joan Rivers instead.

Marilu’s team is using their celebrity well. Gary is a walking sitcom, Trace climbs on top of the truck with his guitar, and Penn juggles fire.

Claudia’s team has created scannable posters that link to the product’s Facebook page, a smart way to tap into Farouk’s proposed Facebook tie in.

When the event begins, Omarosa immediately begins looking for reasons why her project manager should be fired. As usual.

Claudia tells Don, Jr. that Brande is her most valuable player, while Dennis and Omarosa have been largely useless… actually worse than useless. In 4 hours of shopping, they were unable to get half the items on the list, whereas Claudia, Brande, and Lil Jon finished the shopping that Dennis and Omarosa should have done just before the event began, and it only took them 40 minutes.

Claudia’s team is very supportive of her performance as project manager.

Claudia reiterates that Brande is the strongest player. She reluctantly says that Dennis was her weakest player, declining to mention Omarosa’s name in the boardroom. Her defense is that she’s been thinking about it a lot since she last saw Don, Jr. Yeah, a lot must have changed since this afternoon.

Marilu again names Gary as her weakest player. He supports her leadership, though Stephen thinks she sometimes gets distracted. She declines to mention who she’s bringing back to the boardroom, not without Trump giving her a reason why they may have lost, a fair statement.

Farouk loved the entertainment value in Marilu’s team and that there was a line waiting to get their hair done, the glass truck featured the product, and they had a lot of beauty pageant contestants, including Miss USA. The slogan was a little generic, which would fall on Trace.

Now Trump’s going to force her to give an answer. She would choose Gary and Trace.

For Claudia’s team, the executives loved Lil Jon, the slogan, and the American theme and branding. They didn’t like the use of the glass truck (their makeovers were done outside the truck).

As the executives were discussing it, the results became obvious. They said Marilu’s team won on creativity, while Claudia’s team won on branding, leaving it down to the guest experience and who brought more people and more excitement. Clearly, that would be the team that created a big spectacle, which would be Marilu’s team. She will receive at least $50,000 for her charity, Alzheimer’s Association.

Arsenio points out another reason for the loss, which we have seen once before this season. Farouk wants his product to be the star, which may be a problem when celebrities are featured so prominently in the marketing materials.

Omarosa did point out that she wanted to move everything into the truck. Of course, she waited until 5 minutes before they started before doing that.

Claudia is asked to bring two people back with her. Dennis offers up his own name, and Lil Jon will the second pick. Really? This show is getting stupid. No wonder they’re shrinking it to an hour next week. Let’s stop protecting Omarosa already. Trump tells her bringing Lil Jon back is stupid and ridiculous.

No matter how ridiculous her picks, Claudia’s strategy here is clear. She can deny it all she wants, but she’s afraid of Omarosa. She would rather join together with Lil Jon and tag team against Dennis as opposed to fighting two people on her own.

In defending her choice to Trump, she says that Lil Jon is the marketing genius, so he needs to be blamed since they lost. Of course, they won on brand messaging, so this is immediately dismissed.

There’s no chance of Lil Jon going home. The only choice is between the other two. If not for her boardroom choices, I’d say Claudia is safe, but she deserves to be fired now. Trump acknowledges, though, that it doesn’t matter whether Omarosa came back or not because he was not going to fire her anyway. Claudia has been fired.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 5, which airs Sunday at 10/9c on NBC.