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Having not contributed much throughout the season was not what led to Lou Ferrigno’s end in The Celebrity Apprenice 5 Episode 8. Instead, Trump jumped on a comment he made about how the other team should win, and he was fired for disloyalty.

Clay questions: is Lisa’s attitude because of so many losses, or are the losses because of her attitude?

Their task is to build two original miscreant characters for an adult puppet show. They will be judged on puppet design, quality of puppeteering and improv, and total live performance.

Trump asks who should join the team that has smaller numbers. Dayana says she would like Clay. Lisa would like Aubrey. Regardless, Trump has already made a decision. They get Clay, yet another person that Lisa doesn’t like.

Lisa volunteers to be project manager for her team. Paul gets volunteered for his team.

Aubrey’s biting her tongue in an attempt to get to the finals. As a result, Arsenio is starting to get along with her. Paul knows he can’t do improve, so he defers those roles to his teammates.

Penn is too tall to be a puppeteer, so he will be the host. Lisa and Clay will be the puppeteers. Dayana’s just waiting for her task, which never comes.

Aubrey doesn’t like the directon her team is going with their puppets, but she declines to say anything about it. That’s a change.

Paul, who wasn’t particularly comfortable with this task to begin with (and as such, it was strange for him to be the project manager), is just sitting back and letting the others do their own thing.

Dayana has finally been given a task. She is designing Lisa’s puppet. The Henson people say she’s so good they would hire her. This doesn’t last long. When it’s time to rehearse, Dayana becomes a spectator again.

Clay suggests letting Dayana be part of the performance. Lisa is not having this. So as usual, she flips out and goes crazy. Dayana walks out in tears, then Lisa starts crying as well, berating Penn and Clay for not taking her side.

Dayana says Lisa was okay as a project manager. Lisa did not think much of Dayana, to whom she did not want to give anything to do.

Lisa has not decided whether she will be bringing anybody back. She may just fall on the sword, no longer wanting to be the villain. A little late for that after 9 weeks of spewing hatred.

Paul would bring back Teresa, who takes a long time to make up her mind, such as how long it took to come up with her puppet’s name.

Ivanka comes to Paul’s defense, saying he was limited by his hurt back. Arsenio was inspired by him.

The Henson folks thought Penn was a great host, Lisa and Clay did an incredible job, and they would use the puppets in their own show. However, Penn missed a couple cues, and one of the acts was too sexual.

For the other team, they thought Arsenio was excellent, and Aubrey had great instincts as a host. But they thought the show was a little safe, the puppets were too complex, and Teresa had trouble with the rules of improv.

Lisa’s team won $20,000 for her charity, Gay Men’s Health Crisis.

Arsenio and Teresa take the heat for their puppets.

Teresa thinks Paul should be fired because he didn’t do anything. Her philosophy is simple: if someone throws her under the bus, she will do it back.

Paul will allow Arsenio to escape the firing line, which may give the girls a chance to gang up on him.

Aubrey’s not sure why she is back there, and in this case, she should be safe. Trump asks about how they didn’t love what Arsenio did. Apparently, calling him excellent is not a compliment. Not like it matters. Neither Arsenio nor Aubrey are getting fired on this task.

Aubrey would fire Paul because Teresa tried so hard at being great at something she can’t do well.

Because he did not bring Arsenio back and does not agree with Trump that he should have, Paul is fired.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Celebrity Apprentice 5 Episode 10, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.

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.