After Aubrey and Lisa’s bad ideas once again sent their team to the boardroom, Trump needed a convenient scapegoat in The Celebrity Apprentice 5 Episode 6, and he got one in the form of Patricia Valasquez.
So apparently with no The Amazing Race this week, this is a three hour episode.
We pick up after 1 hour. The women, led by Teresa, find themselves back in the boardroom after a fundraising task. If Patricia were still around, perhaps they would have won this task, rather than losing by $14.
Aubrey raised the least money. Teresa says she had to babysit Debbie and Dayana.
Debbie would fire Teresa due to her lack of fundraising and disorganization. However, Dayana is the weakest link.
Dayana tries to explain herself, and asks Lisa to be professional for once and let her speak. Good luck with that. Her point remains the same as it has: they keep following Lisa and Aubrey at the expense of everybody else’s ideas, and they keep losing. Her bottom line is she would fire the person who brought in the least money, Aubrey.
Dayana and Debbie will be returning with Teresa to the boardroom, as Aubrey gets a pass yet again.
What’s up with this receptionist who can barely get through her script of two sentences?
Dayana says what she has to say about how she raised funds for both Teresa and Patricia. Then she sits back and lets Debbie and Teresa go at each other.
Debbie says that, if this is about fundraising, Dayana should not be in the boardroom with them. Instead, Aubrey should be. Trump agrees.
Rather than firing Teresa for playing bad politics or for not raising much money in spite of it being her charity that was on the line, Trump fires Debbie for raising the least amount of money of the three people sitting at the table.
Upon returning to the suite, Aubrey picks a fight with the men, getting wind of the fact that they believe that Teresa should have been fired because she didn’t bring her back. They can’t just bicker within their own team. Now they have to try to spread their bad attitudes.
As the winning project manager, Dee Snider brings a check for $325,000 to March of Dimes.
The women have lost 5 out of 7 tasks. Because of that, the teams will be switched. Lisa and Aubrey’s clique is being broken up, so for a change one of them will actually win. Teresa and Aubrey head to the opposite team, while Lou, Penn, and Dee also switch.
Arsenio’s stuck with Aubrey. He ain’t happy. Dayana, however, is happy with her new team, even though she knows Lisa is miserable.
Their task is to create a live, interactive health segment to promote the benefits of walking, plus a new design for the Walk with Walgreens membership kit. They will be judged on brand messaging, kit design, and overall presentation.
Lou is the project manager for Forte. Arsenio is the project manager for Unanimous.
When the executives arrive, Aubrey tells them what they want. Sure, she poses it in the form of a question, but Arsenio would like her to listen.
Penn comes up with the idea of talking about all the things you can do while walking. Perhaps if they can incorporate all these different things, it would make walking more fun.
Dayana has an idea. Typically it would be glossed over, which seems to be a risk here, but Dee interjects to make sure she is heard. He has decided to be a protective father figure of her, and both he and Penn say they are impressed by her.
As project manager, Lou will be the host, over Penn’s objections. What he does have at least is a great story about how he had to get both knees and both hips replaced, which gave him a new appreciation for walking.
On the other team, they will be doing a game show. Arsenio is the host, Clay is the announcer, and the others are contestants.
Aubrey has a suggestion for Arsenio: he could be the person who took a walk away from the industry for a while. He’s going to slap her before the day’s over. Insults aside, she does come with a concept to put all their faces on the box. Some of them are actually recognizeable.
Penn’s done a great job at getting the ball rolling, but now he has to take a flight so he can go do a gig in Canada.
Dee takes a very conservative approach with the kit. His concept is to not screw with what they already have too much.
During their meeting with Eric, the observation that everybody else has made finally dawns on Aubrey: she’s trying to take over Arsenio’s task.
While Aubrey takes control of her team, Lisa has her own team to try to take control over. Once she’s done running the rehearsal, she wants to get Dayana out of there. First, she wants to make sure she is not wearing a bikini (Trump will not be happy), and second, she wants to talk bad about her to Dee, who refuses to join her in her belief that Dayana is an idiot.
Penn’s back the next morning, ready to give a presentation on an hour’s sleep. Have to give him credit. There are many who simply would have bowed out for the task. He’s doing great, aside from calling it walk with Walmart. Oops.
Like Lou, Paul really believes in the benefits of walking. He’s lost 65 pounds in the last 4 years, and he considers walking to be an important factor in that.
Lisa thought Lou was just alright.
Clay thinks Arsenio is great. He says Aubrey is an idea person, but Teresa is a better team player.
When they look at the other team’s boxes, Clay and Aubrey call Forte boring. Lisa, however, is quite impressed with what her opponents have done. Aubrey asks if she’s proud that she wrote the quotes. Arsenio’s been trying to bite his tongue, but here we go. He wants her to acknowledge she did not write his quote, and to stop thinking about the I in team.
The executives felt Unanimous’ presentation was full of energy, loved the theme (face reality), but they thought the game show was just too informational, rather than encouraging people to get out there and sign up. Before we can find out what they thought of the other team, Arsenio continues his anti-Aubrey rant, and Clay agrees, albeit less forcefully.
Arsenio would fire Aubrey. Paul agrees. So does Clay.
Back to Forte. They loved Lou’s story. However, Penn mentioned a competitor, and they didn’t like the use of negative words in their walking kit. Dee thought it would be funny to put random words on the box, which Lisa agreed with, but Dayana’s opposition to it was disregarded.
Arsenio’s team won, and he will receive $50,000 for his charity, Magic Johnson Foundation. In addition, his charity has teamed up with Walgreens to create a bracelet, with $2 from the sale of each going to them.
In spite of the win, good luck to this team going forward. As the rest of the team goes back to the suite, Aubrey goes off in her own direction as they are used to her doing. Her direction is down, in the elevator.
Penn thinks the project manager should be fired. Dee agrees. So does Dayana.
Lou thinks Dee should be fired. Broken record Lisa would bring back Dayana, plus Lou, both of whom she considers limited.
Dee and Dayana will be going back to the boardroom.
Back in the suite, Arsenio’s positive emotions for what just happened to his charity have now faded back to an outburst about Aubrey, whose fate is unknown to them.
Dee comes to Dayana’s defense, saying that perhaps she didn’t do anything specific, but she helped out in every area. He then asks why Lou let everybody take something over, without seemingly leaving anything for himself.
Taking into account Lou’s presentation and Dee’s box design, Dee has been fired. Fair decision, though I’m not sure how Lou’s still around.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Celebrity Apprentice 5 Episode 8, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.