The Celebrity Apprentice USA

The bitch Omarosa is firing back at LaToya Jackson, and she’s planning to sue her for the “false, vicious and defamatory” comments she made about Omarosa being involved in her fiancé’s death.

On the Monday nights episode of All-Star Celebrity Apprentice, LaToya Jackson was fired by Donald Trump and made the nasty comment about Michael Clarke Duncan’s tragic heart attack and death.

“She’s a conniving, scheming, cut-throat, probably pulled the cord on Michael Duncan Clarke … and I thought Mr. Trump was falling for that fake cry. Such a lie!” LaToya said after she was fired in the boardroom. Continue reading »

Team Unanimous decides that Teresa will manage the next task since she’ll be the only person Aubrey will work with. When Lisa and Penn walk in, Lisa tells Teresa to watch herself, that the “bitches” on her team can’t handle people who are smarter than them. Arsenio starts getting riled up about Aubrey again, calling her “bitch” and “whore,” and this sends Lisa over the edge, telling Arsenio he better hope they don’t end up on the same team together or he’ll have problems. After they argue for a bit, Arsenio, interviewed, says that Lisa Lampanelli is the last person to tell him what language to use, since it’s “the pot calling the kettle black.” Lisa warns him it will mess up his image. When Dayana and Lou return from the Boardroom without Dee, Lisa flips out and calls them both “brain dead” and “useless.” Continue reading »

WARNING – This was a three hour episode!

The teams gather in the lobby of Trump Tower. Trump tells them that they are assigned with creating a celebrity guidebook to New York. The teams will photograph, write and design the guide using a Toshiba tablet. After creating the guidebook, whoever makes the most money from the sale of the guidebook wins. Teresa says she’ll be team leader for the women, talking about how she wants to win for her charity and how the team morale is down and needs strong leadership to turn it around. For the men, Dee says that he’ll be the project manager. Trump says that the team that creates the best book will get a bonus prize from Toshiba, to be added to their fundraising total before deciding the fundraising winner. The judge of the guide will be a surprise celebrity.
   
The women start planning. Debbie thinks Teresa is stating the obvious when she says that, since this is a fundraising task, they need to start calling friends and supporters. She considers Teresa, as project manager, primarily responsible for bringing in the most money in any case. Dayana, determined to not get accused once again of not being “creative” enough, immediately starts throwing in idea after idea for favorite New York destinations for their guidebook. Then the women head out to take photographs around NYC with an eye to gathering again at 3:00 that afternoon to compile the final book. Meanwhile, they’re making calls for potential buyers of the final guide. Lisa and Debbie work well together, but Aubrey gets frustrated working with Teresa and Dayana.

Dee says he’s more concerned about the fundraising than making the best guidebook, since the fundraising aspect will be what wins the task itself. Penn suggests going to the roof of Trump Tower and shooting each of them looking out over a specific neighborhood of Manhattan, with a list of things that the celebrity sees from there. Clay isn’t sold on the idea and, regardless of Dee’s dismissal of the guidebook itself, thinks that the quality of the book will help determine how well it sells. The team heads to the roof to take the pictures. While taking the pictures, Lou – still nursing his grudge against Penn – chuckles at how easy it would be, with Penn posing on the roof’s edge, to push him right over.

Lisa and Debbie get back and start working with the graphic designer. Debbie calls the other three women and tells them to get back quickly, or there won’t be a book. Lisa is so pissed at the other three women when they get back to the war room an hour and a half late she won’t even say anything. Debbie is upset that no one – especially Teresa – has even thought about the kiosk they’re going to need to set up to sell the guide. When Teresa tries to reassert control, Debbie dismissively tells Teresa that she’ll handle it. Interviewed, she says that she considers Teresa little more than “an obstacle.” When Debbie and Aubrey head out to shop for the stuff for the kiosk, Teresa gets upset, thinking Debbie’s trying to set her up.

Since Paul doesn’t know (or like) New York City, Penn ghostwrites Paul’s neighborhood description, a bleep-filled diatribe laying out in detail how much Paul detests the East Side. Everybody, including Paul (who doesn’t actually have any feelings about the East Side one way or the other), loves it. Penn says that Teller and the Blue Man Group are both interested in “buying a vastly overpriced guidebook to New York.” While calling for support, Arsenio comments on the difference between how many “friends” you have when you have a talk show, versus when you do not (i.e. a lot fewer). But when he gets Jay Leno on the phone, Jay generously says he’ll FedEx Arsenio a blank check and the team can just fill in the amount.

Lisa complains about the others focusing on making the book pretty instead of focusing on just getting it done and having a product to sell for charity. She gets particularly upset with Dayana for suggesting things like adding subway directions in the book, considering these unimportant details, and starts yelling at Dayana to shut up. Dayana, for her part, thinks Lisa gets far too emotional about the wrong things.

The men start selling their books on the street. Clay wants to up the price for the general public, but Dee is more concerned about the big dollar amounts they’ve called in. Michael Andretti stops by with $20 grand. Arsenio’s check from Leno had been delivered to his office too early and is now stuck on a truck somewhere in the city. Teller stops by with $20,000 and the Blue Man Group, who explode enormous blue balloons filled with $8,000 cash. This creates a mob scene, sending dozens of New Yorkers onto the ground scrabbling for cash. Clay, kicked and hit, is genuinely outraged, and considers the idea ridiculous. Later, five minutes after their kiosk has officially closed, Jay Leno’s check finally shows up – too late. Arsenio realizes that if they lose, he’ll be the one to pay the price.

As they start to sell, Teresa is determined to forget the tensions of the day before and focus on making lots of money. And the money does start rolling in. Lisa starts getting donations from fellow comics, and Dayana gets a big one as well, which she’s very happy about as she wants people to appreciate what a hard worker she is. Teresa gets nervous because her big money isn’t showing up, but then her husband shows up with over $20,000 from himself and their friends. In his office, Trump meets with Regis Philbin, who’s judging the guidebook but is having a tough time deciding. He thinks the women have a more colorful cover, and he likes Lisa’s personal treatment with the places she really likes to go. But he also likes the men’s rooftop commentary and the fact that it reaches whole neighborhoods. The winner is…

In the Boardroom, the women waste no time laying into each other. Trump asks Aubrey how Dayana did. She admits that Dayana brought in a lot of money, which was important since it was a money task, but that she was a huge distraction and nearly derailed Lisa. Lisa explains what she considers Dayana’s big distraction about adding subway directions, and says that it almost meant they didn’t have a book to sell. When Dayana starts to respond, Lisa steamrolls her and says that she and Aubrey are responsible for 90% of every task. Then Debbie and Teresa start to have a back and forth about what Debbie perceived as Teresa’s lack of organization and control. While Debbie and Teresa bicker, Aubrey asks if she can go on the other team. Trump says, “I don’t think they want any of you,” and Dee responds with a decisive “No.”   

Trump tries to bring it back by explaining that Regis was their celebrity judge, and that the book he liked better was the women’s book. Trump explains that the $35,000 from Toshiba for this part will get added to the women’s total. If the women win the fundraising task with this bonus, they’ll win the whole thing. If they lose, their winnings plus the Toshiba bonus will go to the men. Trump turns to the men. Penn explains what happened with the Blue Man Group, and how, since the BMG won’t deal with money directly, they had exploded balloons filled with $8,000. He admits that because it was blowing around not all of it got back to the men. Clay, still miffed, thinks it was a disaster and says the Blue Man Group should have delivered the money another way. Dee and Penn disagree, but Trump sides with Clay.

The women stay behind to assign blame for their loss. Ivanka says that Lisa both wrote the book and brought in the most money. Teresa claims that she had to babysit Debbie and Dayana on the task, but Debbie has a big problem with this idea. Trump asks why Aubrey – who raised the least amount of money – should not be fired, but Lisa protests. He then asks Debbie whom he should fire, and she, at first, says Teresa as project manager, but then concedes that Dayana is the weakest link. Dayana tries to explain that no one will listen to her ideas, but Lisa – heatedly – and Debbie – calmly – explain that the ideas don’t often make sense for the task at hand. Teresa chooses Dayana and Debbie to come back.

The men, watching on closed circuit, are surprised Teresa didn’t choose Aubrey. While the three women wait outside the Boardroom, Debbie and Dayana press Teresa about this as well. Back in the Boardroom, Trump asks Teresa why he should fire Debbie or Dayana instead of her. Dayana insists that she brings in a lot of money for the team and backs it up with numbers. When Teresa says that Debbie was trying to set her up with the printing, Ivanka asks about this. Debbie says the problem was Teresa did not delegate tasks clearly, but Teresa responds by heatedly asking her if she’s some kind of child needing her hand held. This sets Debbie off. As they go back and forth, Trump observes that Dayana is enjoying just sitting back and watching the show, and Ivanka adds that Dayana is wisely not saying anything.

Trump asks Teresa why he shouldn’t fire her. Teresa says she delivers every week. He asks her if it isn’t impressive that Dayana brought in as much as she did, but Teresa insists, “Anyone could if they put their mind to it.” Trump points out that Debbie didn’t and for that matter neither did Aubrey. So why, he asks, didn’t Teresa bring Aubrey back into the Boardroom? Debbie even insists that Dayana doesn’t belong there for this task, that it should be her and Aubrey with Teresa. Don asks if this is smart to put herself in the line of fire, but she says she’d rather be fair than throw someone under the bus.

Trump tells Teresa that since this was a fundraising task, she should have brought Aubrey back for bringing in the least amount on the task. He also thinks Dayana is being smart sitting back and saying little, though Dayana insists she’s quiet just because she doesn’t know why she’s there. Trump agrees; it should have been Aubrey in her seat. But since, of the three of them, Debbie brought in the least amount, “Debbie, you’re fired.” Debbie groans, but says she understands. As she leaves, she hugs Dayana and wishes her luck, but when Teresa asks for a hug, Debbie just waves her off with a bitter “goodbye” and leaves. Debbie says the worst part is sitting next to someone and knowing that they will blatantly lie to save their own skin.

Back in the suite, Aubrey gets offended when Dee says he thinks Teresa will get fired for not picking her, Aubrey, to go back in the Boardroom. She starts accusing Dee of talking about her behind her back, but he responds that he has no problem talking **** to her face. Arsenio considers Aubrey a great game player and wants her far away from him. Lisa asks Dee what just happened with Aubrey, and Dee says that he considers her evil; now that she’s messed up the women’s team, she’s trying to do it to the men as well, since she’s “running out of victims.” Lisa is upset when she sees Teresa and Dayana return from the Boardroom without Debbie. She can’t see how the women are going to get anything done with who’s left.

Dee visits a set of parents in the hospital who are visiting their premature baby in the NICU. He explains that two out of his four kids were born prematurely, so he has supported the March of Dimes, whose research helps premature babies survive and thrive, for 12 years. He is pleased to present the representative from March of Dimes with the check for $325,000. Sometimes, he says, you get caught up in the craziness of the show, but you have to remember why you’re there.

The teams gather again for the next task. Trump says that, since the women have lost five of the seven tasks, he is switching up the teams. The new teams will be Teresa, Aubrey, Arsenio, Clay and Paul on Unanimous, and Lou, Penn, Dayana, Lisa and Dee on Forte. Arsenio – dismayed at being put on a team with Aubrey – drops to the ground, and everyone laughs. Trump introduces Joe and Mark from Walgreens. They describe the new task, which is to develop a live, interactive health segment to promote “Walk with Walgreens,” a program that allows people to track their walking progress online and get rewards. Eric explains that the teams will be judged on brand messaging, their “Walk with Walgreens” kit design and their overall presentation. Mark, Joe and Alison Sweeney, host of The Biggest Loser, will judge.

Lou decides to be the project manager for Forte. Arsenio chooses to be the project manager for Unanimous. The winning team will get $20,000 from Trump, and in addition, Walgreens will pitch in $30,000. Lisa – now on a team with both Dayana and Lou – considers herself in hell. As Forte sits down to plan, Penn says that he will have to fly out that afternoon for a show but will be back the next morning. Joe and Mark from Walgreens visit and show them the basic kit, a 4′ by 4′ box of materials. Lisa says she’s the kind of person Walgreens is trying to reach, since she would rather be wheeled around in a wheel chair. The execs like Lou’s story about discovering the benefits of walking after his hip replacement.

Unanimous starts settling into planning. Clay is worried, having Aubrey on their team, but says that at least he still has Arsenio. Aubrey starts rattling off her idea for the kit, but after hearing her out, Arsenio suggests that he would prefer to wait to hear what the execs have to say before locking anything in. Mark and Joe stop by and explain that the kit design will represent the brand. Arsenio tries to ask a question, but Aubrey rolls right over him, asking a nonstop stream of questions. Arsenio wants to keep the peace but considers Aubrey a “narcissistic piece of work.”

Forte starts running with the idea that walking is an activity that you can do while doing other things. Lisa agrees she’s more apt to exercise doing something that allows her to multitask. She considers Penn the most brilliant person on her new team and thinks the two of them are kicking ass. On the other hand, she doesn’t think Lou is contributing anything. Lou suggests that he’ll be the main presenter, but Penn pushes back since they have three professional speakers on their team. But Lou insists. He’s PM; he’ll be the host. Penn rattles off a script idea, so that he knows what’s in place before he heads to Toronto. Lisa feels like she’s being left behind to (redneck voice) “watch the young’uns.”

Unanimous settles on a “game show” idea. Arsenio will be the host; Clay will be the announcer, and the other three will be the contestants. In the process of talking about different kinds of walks they each take, Aubrey tells Arsenio, “You can say you took a walk away from the industry.” He can’t believe his ears, but he knows she’s intentionally trying to get under his skin. He’s not sure how much more of her he can take. Aubrey decides all of their faces should be on the kit, one face per side, so they take a walk down to the Walgreens store to take their pictures there. Aubrey calls her packaging idea “Face Reality,” with their five “reality TV” star faces on each side and a quote about why they walk.

Dee starts designing the kit for Unanimous. Knowing Walgreens will want their logo, he makes sure it’s loud and proud with not much else on the box. Dayana thinks this is too safe and wanted to go elsewhere, but holds back. Don visits the team and quickly determines that Lisa is still doing her best to maintain control, this time control over Lou. He says as long as it gets the team a win, it’s not a bad idea. Don asks Dee about Dayana. When Dee starts to talk about how genuinely impressed he is with Dayana, Lisa, interviewed, says the pro-Dayana speech makes her want to puke, and she considers Dee delusional.

Looking at Aubrey’s layout for the box, Arsenio asks that a different picture of him be used, but Aubrey refuses to listen. Clay thinks Aubrey is out of hand. When Eric Trump visits, Arsenio, as team leader, tries to describe what they’re doing, but Aubrey starts talking over him. Since Arsenio allows this, Eric assumes Arsenio is humoring her. But when Aubrey apologizes, asking if she’s out of line, Arsenio pointedly says, “Yes.” Later, Aubrey doesn’t like Arsenio’s quote for the outside of the box, “The couple that walks together stays together” and tries to replace it with her own creation, but Arsenio insists on using his. His anger escalates when he sees that Aubrey’s used the picture he didn’t want her to use. He considers her out of control.   

Team Forte goes to practice in their presentation space. Lisa worries about Lou going off track though she thinks he can be “wrangled.” Lisa, as usual, considers herself to be carrying the weaker people on her team, now that Penn is not there. Back in the war room, Lisa tells Lou and Dee that she thinks the plan about having Dayana in a bikini is a big mistake and that they need to stay classy. Dayana admits that she only has thongs so they will have to buy a one piece for her. She’s happy when Dayana and Lou head out to buy it. Lisa uses the opportunity to complain to Dee about Lou and Dayana. Dee thinks Lisa’s take on Dayana is unfair. Also, he explains, he’s spent the last few years trying to be less vicious.

Penn joins them after a red-eye flight back, and they pull the presentation together. Alison Sweeney joins the Walgreen execs to judge the show. Lou gives a testimonial about recouping from his hip replacement with walking, and Lisa is forced to admit that Lou did a great job with it. The different members join Lou on stage in their various guises: Penn the juggler, Dayana as Miss Universe in a one-piece swimsuit. Then Penn screws up, referring to Walgreens as “Walmart.” There’s a collective gasp. He corrects himself; but before things get too grim, Dayana saves the day by joking that Penn deserves her crown, and everyone laughs. Dee is impressed. Then Lisa finishes with some comedy. Lou overall is pleased with the results.

Alison and the execs discuss the presentation. They like the packaging but are turned off – as Dayana warned Dee they would be – by some of the words included in the lists of things people can do while walking like “itching,” “scratching” and “yelling.” They thought Lou did an excellent job with his inspirational speech and rallying the team. Penn’s Walgreens/Walmart faux pas was unfortunate, but they seem willing to overlook that for the great energy of the piece and the contribution that everyone brought. Then they get ready for the second presentation.

Team Forte gets ready to give their presentation. Aubrey approaches the Walgreens execs to explain the Face Reality concept and shows them the box, which they like. Clay announces Arsenio, and the presentation, a “game show,” begins. Paul’s “answer” to one of Arsenio’s questions is a heartfelt testimonial to walking. Aubrey talks about how walking is good for her clarity and her love life, and Teresa talks about walking her kids to school. Ultimately, Arsenio thinks it went well. Afterwards, Alison Sweeney asks the execs about the Face Reality theme, and they like it a lot. They thought the format was confusing at first. Alison thinks they have a tough decision to make, and they leave to confer with Donald Trump.

It’s time for the first Boardroom with the new teams. When Trump asks Lisa how Lou did, she is very dismissive, saying that he relied on her and Penn to run the show. Lou explains that his style is to assign people their tasks and let them work. Penn admits that he can’t comment, since he wasn’t there for the bulk of the task, since he had to leave for a show. When Trump says that perhaps Penn should get fired for missing the task, Lisa insists that Penn did more in two hours than she’s seen others do in eight. Dee defends Penn as well, saying he came in and did the performance on one hour of sleep.

Trump turns to Arsenio and asks how he liked having Aubrey and Teresa on his team. Arsenio says unconvincingly that he “was fine with it,” and Clay said it was a nice new dynamic. He adds that Arsenio was great as team leader. Between the two women, Clay says that Aubrey brought a lot of ideas to the table, but that Teresa was by far the better team player. Eric asks if Aubrey was overbearing, and Arsenio diplomatically explains having to customize his style to manage her, saying you don’t want to shut her down since she’s going a mile a minute, while others like Paul sit and listen and then come out with a nugget of gold.

Trump asks Clay if he’s saying Aubrey’s not a team player. Clay says he isn’t exactly saying that, he just thinks that she’s so full of ideas – with a dig at Aubrey, Arsenio interrupts him and asks to clarify that the word after “full of” was “ideas” – that she forges ahead without necessarily getting approval. Clay thinks that this can be harmful, and Trump agrees. Trump has Don and Eric show each team the other team’s box. Forte thinks Unanimous’ box is boring, and Lisa – on Unanimous – is very complimentary about Forte’s box. But when Aubrey takes credit for writing the quotes, Arsenio gets upset, saying he wrote his quote, and that this is just another example of Aubrey putting herself before the team.

Trump asks Eric what the execs thought about Forte. Eric says they liked the energy, especially when Arsenio got up and chanted “Walgreens, Walgreens, Walgreens.” The loved the “Face Reality” theme. On the down side, they thought the game show idea was too packed with information without necessarily being motivational. Trump asks Aubrey who came up with the game show idea. When she says “one of the guys,” Arsenio, still mad, says that if she doesn’t come up with an idea herself, she won’t remember. Trump asks Clay if he agrees with Aubrey or with Arsenio. Clay says he definitely agrees with Arsenio and that he was impressed with how Arsenio “massaged” Aubrey’s personality into the group.

When Aubrey asks Teresa to back her up by asking if it isn’t true that she taught her everything she knows, Trump himself jumps on this, asking if it isn’t very presumptuous of Aubrey to ask a grown woman such a question. In the end, after Aubrey and Arsenio share another back and forth, Trump asks Arsenio whom he would fire, and he says Aubrey. Paul and Clay both agree with Arsenio. Trump says that it’s clear Aubrey’s a good player, just not a good team player. He warns Aubrey, saying he knows people like that and that some do well, while others “burn and crash and go down like dogs.”

Don says that in terms of what the executives thought about Unanimous, they really liked Lou’s testimonial. But they were not happy with Penn calling Walgreens “Walmart” during the presentation – he explains that he was exhausted and didn’t even remember doing it – and the execs also didn’t like the negative words like “itching” and “yelling” in the list of things one could do while walking. Dee fesses up to being responsible for adding those words to the list. Still, Trump says the execs liked both presentations, but they loved what Forte did. Arsenio chokes up as he describes what his charity, The Magic Johnson Foundation, does. As Team Forte heads back to the suite, Aubrey gets on the elevator and leaves, and they let her go. Interviewed, she says she can’t handle the negativity.

In the suite, Arsenio is in tears as he tells why he was so anxious to win for Magic’s foundation: a cousin of his had just recently died of AIDS and he was doing it for her. Back in the Boardroom, Lou explains to Trump that his team all gave “120%.” Eric and Don wonder if this is a realistic claim, when their team lost. Don asks who didn’t give “120%, if that amount is even mathematically possible.” Lou calls out Dee. Trump asks why. Lou says that when he would try getting Dee’s attention, Dee would be “wooing” Dayana. Dee says this is untrue. Trump points out that Dee was responsible for the box that the execs disliked, but again, Dee says this falls on Lou, since Lou approved everything he did. Don says this may be true, but still the execs loved Lou. Lou finally decides Dayana and Dee will be coming back in with him.

Back in the suite, Team Forte wonders where Aubrey has gone missing. Arsenio admits that he lost control, but he is still unable to dial it back, and starts making the rest of the team really uncomfortable as he continues to rant about Aubrey. Waiting outside the Boardroom, Lou talks to Trump’s assistant Amanda, saying she must have seen a lot of emotion in that room, and she says that, yes, she has seen a lot in the lobby. Dee tells Lou that he’s upset at the suggestion that he didn’t give his all. Then they get called back in. In the Boardroom, Trump asks Dayana why she keeps being brought back into the Boardroom, and she says she doesn’t know. She adds that personally she would fire Lou, who was not a good organizer.

Dee also says Lou should be fired. He explains that he personally gave his all and was responsible for the branding and the box. Don points out that this fact is not in his favor, since the branding and box were to blame for the loss. Dee explains that he always had Lou’s consent. Trump says that he didn’t like the box and neither did the execs, so Trump wonders if Lou himself likes it. Lou admits it left him cold, but Dee presses the point that Lou nevertheless approved it. He adds that Lou is lost without a writer and fully depends on the team for creative. Lou disputes this. In any case, Trump thinks Dayana shouldn’t be there, Penn should be because of his faux pas. Dee agrees, continuing to press on Lou, describing him as a “one-note horn.”
                                                                          
Trump says this may be true, but that the executives on this task really loved Lou’s testimonial and his energy. Trump asks Dee if he really thinks Lou has a chip on his shoulder. Dee says yes, but he understands that Lou has fought against a disability his entire life. Trump agrees and says that this is a huge achievement. Trump adds that he realizes people think he likes firing people, but insists it isn’t true, and that it’s especially hard when it comes to firing good people, and even worse when he really likes them, as he likes the three of them. But the loss came down to presentation and the box design, which the execs really didn’t like. Since Dee was responsible for the design, “Dee, you’re fired.” The three leave the Boardroom and say their farewells, and Dee takes the elevator down.

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The men waiting in the suite are shocked that Tia has fallen on the sword for the team. They think that she could have fought harder and wouldn’t have been fired. The women return from the Boardroom, feeling stunned. Aubrey, interviewed, says that the Boardroom completely divided their team, and that it can’t be good for any task going forward. Lisa huddles with Teresa, saying how upset she is at Patricia, who she thinks is just protecting her “sister” Dayana, and Teresa is ticked that Patricia had called her “slow.” Lisa says she’s sick of Patricia and Dayana, whom she refers to as the “brain deads,” and wants to see them gone.

Lou meets with a girl named Abby, who travels the country representing the Muscular Dystrophy Association, to present her with the checks totaling $50,000 from Trump and O-Cedar. Abby explains that there are over 43 kinds of MD and that she personally has it in her legs where it affects her balance. Lou tells her that he’s extremely proud to be able to help MDA and gets choked up as he remembers what it was like for himself as a child dealing with his own handicap of deafness. Abby thanks him and gives him a big hug.

The team gathers on a skyscraper rooftop overlooking Manhattan. Trump introduces Doug and Melanie from Crystal Light, who explain the new task: the teams will need to hold a fabulous party to help launch two new flavors in Crystal Light’s “mocktail” line. The teams will be judged on three things: creativity, brand messaging and the overall party atmosphere. Don and Ivanka will be Trump’s advisors. Clay, though he doesn’t consider himself a party person, volunteers to lead the men. Aubrey says she’ll lead the women, feeling confident because, unlike Clay, she loves parties and knows how to put them together. Clay agrees she’s got the advantage, saying the moment Aubrey was born, she “grabbed on to the stripper pole.” The winning team will get $20,000 from Trump and an additional $30,000 from Crystal Light.

The men start planning in the van. Clay explains that despite what people might think about the men on the team – for example Paul as a biker and Dee as a rocker – they’re not actually partiers, any of them, and the thought of planning a party was daunting. The Crystal Light execs meet with the men back at Unanimous’ war room. Melanie describes the Crystal Light mocktails as “guilt-free fun” and a “party in a pack.” Doug wants to see a real party, a cool affair that would get people talking. Clay realizes they need to focus on the “fun” and steer away from a stuffy cocktail atmosphere. Clay suggests a beach theme with the slogan “Life’s a Peach” to go with their chosen flavor, Peach Bellini. Penn admits that he’s still smarting from the previous week, and worried he’ll sound “condescending,” he is essentially laying low.

The women choose the Pomtini, the pomegranate-flavored mocktail. They come up with a tagline for the mocktail: the “Unforbidden Fruit”; since it has no calories, people are free to indulge. Doug and Melanie join the women to help them with their planning. Melanie explains that Crystal Light’s brand persona is “sassy,” “vibrant” and “fun.” Aubrey worries that these words don’t necessarily mesh with the party she had been planning, but considers this a creative challenge. Teresa gets into helping Aubrey with the planning, as she loves to entertain, is told she has great taste and throws great parties. Aubrey assigns Debbie to write an original party song, in part so she doesn’t “have to listen to any of (Debbie’s) hits anymore.”

Patricia is assigned to handle signage. Lisa asks her if she wants help proofing. When Patricia doesn’t respond to Lisa – in actuality trying to ignore her – Lisa gets upset, thinking Patricia is being self-absorbed. Lisa takes Aubrey aside to warn her that Patricia might be sending out signage without passing it by them for approval. Patricia, interviewed, confesses that she is just tired of the way Aubrey and Lisa micro-manage and considers their behavior the most damaging thing she’s witnessed in her entire life.

Arsenio points out how Penn is overcompensating to work well with Clay, making it feel like the day after a domestic fight when everything is forcibly at peace. Arsenio and Penn head out to get costumes and surfboards, and Clay is relieved to be free of Penn. Lou is assigned to work with Paul building a tiki bar and other settings, while Dee works with the designer to create signage. When Ivanka stops by to check on their progress, Clay describes their beach theme then confesses that none of them are partiers, only two of them drink, and even their rocker, Dee, has never done drugs in his life. Ivanka is surprised but trusts that, as great entertainers, the men will be fine. She asks how things are going with Penn. Dee says he gets worn out by Penn’s constant correction, but he and Clay both agree that Penn’s toning it down.

Don visits the women. Aubrey says that he makes her nervous because his opinion means a lot, plus she has a “really big crush” on him. She explains to Don their “Garden of Eden” theme with “stir your healthy desire.” Don asks about the “fun” component to their party and isn’t exactly satisfied with Aubrey’s answer. If people don’t have a good time, he says, it will be hard to win. When Don asks Teresa what she thinks, she rattles Aubrey when she admits she’s not sure about the “stir your inner desire” idea. She’s worried that they always go with Lisa and Aubrey’s ideas, but in truth, these ideas haven’t been winning very much. Interviewed, Lisa says Teresa is just doing this to cover her butt for later in the Boardroom if they lose and considers it Teresa’s responsibility to come up with a better idea.

Dayana and Debbie go out taking photos of potential plants for the party and then head to the recording studio to record the theme song. Aubrey knows Debbie’s happy to do this, since as far as she can tell, Debbie’s staging “her comeback tour.” Aubrey says working with Patricia is tough because Patricia doesn’t like to relinquish control. Patricia for her part considers Aubrey and Lisa’s cliquish, backstabbing micro-management the reason Forte keeps losing and hopes this is obvious to the others. Elsewhere, Debbie records the party theme. Dayana says she loves it, saying that the song “In the Garden of Crystal Delight,” will stick in her head for a whole month.

When the signage arrives the morning of the party, Aubrey realizes that there’s a notable absence of Crystal Light messaging and blames this on Patricia not passing the signage by her for approval. She’s also stressed that the carpet – which is Teresa’s responsibility – hasn’t arrived, since the floors look “disgusting.” Teresa calls her carpet guy and starts putting on the heat to get him to deliver it. The carpet finally arrives, but when the popsicles that Teresa had made are delivered, they’re really messy and Aubrey’s afraid it will detract from the event’s “chicness.” But in the end, she’s really happy with how they did, and the doors for the party open.

Clay’s worried the night before the party, but the next morning, he starts to feel like the pieces are falling into place. Dee’s signage isn’t all he’d hoped for, but he thinks it at least hits the messaging. He’s confident that they’ll have a fun, vibrant atmosphere that will be much different than the women’s. But when they open their doors, no one shows up. Arsenio and Penn go outside to lure people in. In no time, the party is on. Men and women come prepared for the beach wearing bikinis and swimsuits. Arsenio starts a “soul train” line, determined to keep the party going. Dee says there’s no denying that it’s a “dude’s” party, with no drink tables, coat racks or really any of the amenities – but they didn’t “fall short on the party, baby!”

As the women’s party goes on, Lisa takes the “healthiest desires” that people had written down on their way into the party and reads them in front of the crowd for everyone’s amusement. Dayana does her part for the party by getting Miss USA and Miss Teen USA to show up. Doug and Melanie from Crystal Light arrive and Aubrey has Debbie perform her theme song for them. Interviewed, Aubrey gets snarky about Debbie being able to write a hook that will drill into people’s heads and have themselves annoyed with themselves that they’re singing it, but ultimately Aubrey admits that’s a good thing for a commercial jingle. She’s happy with how the party went off and can’t see how the guys will top it. At the same time, if they lose, one of the other members is going down.

Clay is excited when Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb show up to the party. He’s also pleased that people are genuinely having fun and taking part. With a half an hour left to go, Doug and Melanie show up. Clay explains his rationale behind the theme, namely that when he thinks peaches, he thinks summer, and what’s more summer than the beach. Melanie asks how the guests have been responding to the product, and Clay says they’ve all been very enthusiastic and have been going back for refills. Then Arsenio beatboxes while Clay sings “Under the Boardwalk,” getting everyone to sing along as well. Clay is really pleased with how it all came together.

Trump meets with Doug and Melanie. Doug says they were impressed by both teams and by the completely different interpretations of the task. They thought the men had a very fun, approachable party, while the women did an incredible job at getting a sophisticated gathering together. They were very impressed by Debbie Gibson’s custom song and how she gave it to everyone as a parting gift. They were also impressed with Aubrey as a host and as a marketer. They would have liked to see more signage with the men, and with the women they were worried that it hadn’t been made clear enough that the Pomtini was a Crystal Light product.

The teams gather in the Boardroom. Aubrey and her team present a strong face of solidarity in insisting that they all really came together and feel very strong about their win. Even Lisa is “99%” certain that they won. Trump brings up Debbie’s song and asks her to sing it. Aubrey talks up Debbie’s song and mentions how a party guest was able to recite the chorus after one hearing. Trump is impressed and is also impressed by Aubrey’s “mouthpiece,” i.e. her ability to sell. Trump asks Teresa whom she would fire if the team loses. She says she hates to say it, but Dayana. Trump asks all the women if Dayana is their least favorite member, and the women insist this isn’t the case. Dayana for her part says, in case of a loss, she would fire Aubrey as project manager.

When Trump asks Lisa whom she would fire, she says she’s tongue tied because for once she thinks everyone stepped up. If anything, for not providing as much creative, she’d say Dayana, but even Dayana did her part. Trump admits that this is when the competition gets tough because everyone that’s left is really good. He tells the women that the execs thought they did a great job. They also liked the men’s job, and Trump tells Clay that the execs really loved him. Dee thinks the team was never stronger than this week, and he’s been very surprised to find out what a tough player, great leader and good businessman Clay has turned out to be. Penn also thinks Clay did well and was a great singer.

Clay points out that they all entertained: Clay and Dee sang; Penn juggled; Arsenio did a soul train line. Trump asks Clay if he was insulted by Dee’s saying that he was surprised Clay did so well. Clay says he prefers to look at the positive side of the compliment and adds that he himself is impressed with Dee’s performance. When Trump asks him whom he would fire, Clay says that the stress of knowing you could be fired is far less than the stress of having to call out two people you like. He starts to rationalize, but Trump insists he name names. So Clay, though he hates it, says Dee and either Lou or Paul. Aubrey also insists that everyone did an incredible job, but if forced to choose, she would pick Dayana and Patricia. Trump asks her if she doesn’t like Venezuela, and everyone laughs.

Don says that the execs really liked the “Garden of Eden” theme and thought the look really meshed. They liked the “What’s your healthy desire?” idea and liked the way Lisa involved people with her stage delivery. On the negative side, the execs thought with the signage there was too much focus on the Pomtini and not enough on the fact that it was a Crystal Light product. Patricia takes responsibility for the signage, but she insists that everything was approved by the PM. Ivanka says the team also loved the men’s party and liked the presentation, the singing, the limbo. The execs thought the men were really engaged. They also liked the two bars and the bartenders. On the downside, they thought the signage got drowned out by all of the people at the party. Dee says he was in charge of sign placement, with Clay’s supervision.

Trump clarifies that the execs really loved what both teams did with their parties. He asks Aubrey if she really thinks she won. She says yes and that he’ll break her heart if he tells her otherwise. He explains that in that case her heart is going to be broken because she lost and the men won. Clay will be able to deliver $50,000 to his cause, the National Inclusion Project. Ivanka says, “Not bad for men who say they don’t party, right?” Trump tells the men to leave for the suite and tells the women to stay, and that someone will be fired.

The men celebrate and gather to watch the women in the Boardroom. They’re amused to see Aubrey tearing up, and Clay insists it’ll wash her eyelashes off. Trump asks Aubrey why she’s crying. She responds that she’s sad for her charity and thinks the wrong choice was made. Trump insists that in all fairness, she can’t make that call, since she didn’t see the men’s party. Ivanka reminds the women that the execs really liked what they did; they just ultimately didn’t think the concept gelled. Trump asks Aubrey if she’s usually this emotional and she says she’s just competitive and she wanted to win for her charity, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. Trump tells her he’ll donate $10,000 to her charity. This in turn gets Lisa crying.

Aubrey says if forced to fire someone, it would be Dayana. Teresa agrees. Trump asks Aubrey if she considers everyone on the team a lifetime friend, and she says yes. Would she then be willing to take the bullet by accepting being fired? No, she answers, because she believes she’s an invaluable member of the team and has brought something to every single task. Ivanka asks whom she would hold responsible for the signage, since this was really the one thing that the execs pointed to as lacking on the task. Debbie says that Patricia was responsible for the signage, and Trump explains to Patricia that this is “dangerous” for her. Patricia insists that she had everything approved by Aubrey, but Aubrey denies this.

When Trump asks Debbie whom she would fire, she insists it can’t be Aubrey because Aubrey has been such a creative force behind all of their tasks. But Dee and Clay, watching on the closed circuit, are shocked that none of the women will point out that Aubrey’s ideas have led to losses in four out of their six tasks. Arsenio says the women will have to figure that out for themselves. Right on cue Dayana points out that, yes, Aubrey is a “fantastic creator with a great loud voice,” but they’ve won only two of their tasks. The men are relieved to see someone on the women’s team finally point this out. Trump asks Aubrey whom she’s going to bring back, and she says Patricia and Dayana.

Back in the Boardroom, Trump asks Aubrey why she’s getting so emotional, and asks her whether she shouldn’t get fired. She insists no, that she’s very charitable, and she’s been invaluable on every task, with an incredible work ethic. She thinks that her work on this task was fantastic. She would fire Dayana because they have a team of strong people, and eventually everyone is going to be in this position. Trump asks about Patricia’s printing mistake. When Aubrey says that she thinks Patricia contributed a lot, and that she’ll contribute more going forward, Don points out that they have to focus on this loss, and they lost at least in part because of Patricia’s part of the task.

Ivanka asks Dayana if it isn’t hard to stomach hearing that she’s the weakest link on pretty much every task. Dayana says that they’ve been losing because of their themes, and these themes have been the creation of Aubrey and Lisa. Aubrey points out that the tasks that both Dayana and Debbie won were her ideas. Furthermore, she insists, if Dayana would have been writing their concepts they would have lost those two as well. She insists that she’s not disrespecting Dayana and that in other situations she might be great, but not in this situation.

Patricia insists that she has been the person who has brought the most resources to each task. But Don asks her if it isn’t true that her signage was the problem with this particular task. Dayana thinks the fault lay with there being too many messages that were being conveyed, and there was no way signage could have clarified the mix of different messages. Aubrey defends herself, pointing out that her messaging and themes were all highly complimented by the Crystal Light execs. Trump really presses Patricia on the problems with the signage. She insists it wasn’t her fault, but Aubrey says it was.

When Dayana insists again that they lost because of too many messages, Aubrey tells Dayana that she needs to start suggesting concepts and messaging for the team. Don says this is a good point and asks Dayana if she thinks she’s a stronger player than the others. Dayana explains her reluctance to toss ideas around as a language problem, but Don doesn’t buy that. In any case, Trump says that Dayana was not the reason they lost this task, and Aubrey says that if it was because of the logos, then it was Patricia’s fault. Trump says that the execs liked the party; the women only failed on the details. As the details in the signage were Patricia’s responsibility, “Patricia, you’re fired.” The women leave arm in arm. Patricia gives Aubrey a hug and leaves.

Source – NBC

The contestants must introduce the new Buick Verano at a consumer launch presentation.

Dayana goes to the offices for the Latino Commission on AIDS to bring them her winnings from the past week’s task. She explains the good the commission does to provide a support network and confidential services for the Latino community. To her, this is what The Celebrity Apprentice is all about, being able to bring in money for organizations such as this. She presents them with the $20,000 check and the tearful group thanks her profusely.

The celebrities gather in Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn to find out their new task. Craig Bierly from Buick and Steve Chavez from Leo Burnett explain the task: preparing a ten-minute presentation and a ten-minute Q&A session introducing the new Buick Verano to both a live audience and online viewers. It needs to be both informative and entertaining, and must highlight four key features of the Verano. Don tells them they will be judged on informational content, brand messaging and overall creativity. Adam says that he lost his virginity in a Regal. Don shoots back, “Last week, right?” Adam says, “Two weeks ago, hot shot.” Adam gets chosen as team leader, and Debbie Gibson steps up for the women. The winner will get $20,000 from the show and $20,000 from Buick for their respective charities.

The women gather in the war room. Aubrey immediately starts launching into ideas. Debbie thinks Aubrey, as an idea person, is great but can get overbearing. Debbie considers it her job to find Aubrey’s good idea and run with it. Meanwhile, Aubrey thinks none of the other women have a creative bone in their bodies. They are joined by Craig and Steve. Craig explains that the four features they need to focus on are the car’s quiet environment, safety, space and especially, the Intellilink. Aubrey thinks these are very feminine words, and that they can capitalize on this.

Adam considers himself made for the Q&A part of the task, and thinks Michael will be perfect for the knowledge of the inside of the car. Craig and Steve pay a visit. Craig emphasizes the “thoughtful” nature of the Verano. Adam, interviewed, says that “thoughtful” is a fat guy at work who remembers your birthday, and that it has nothing to do with a car. When he asks Craig and Steve for other words, Adam suggests “fun” or “funny.” Craig says there’s a wit and a charm to the brand communication, and Steve clarifies that there’s a sense of humor but that it’s not “beer advertising.” Arsenio is worried that Adam, a comedian, might be the wrong leader for this task, as the two men are very serious and don’t’ respond to his humor, especially when he brings up their former spokesperson Tiger Woods.

Lou suggests coming out during the presentation as the Hulk, but everyone agrees this doesn’t make sense. Dee tells Lou that he keeps saying he can do more, so he should prove it. Michael thinks Lou is to focused on Lou, Lou keeps pushing his Incredible Hulk idea but no one is buying. Adam heads out to test drive the Verano. Back with the women, the women haggle over different ideas, including bringing in Teresa’s family for the presentation, which she’s fine with. Aubrey thinks that only she and Lisa are coming up with decent ideas, while Debbie complains that some people come up with such far out ideas it’s actually a detriment. The men are feeling a similar absence of ideas.

Debbie, Aubrey, Lisa and Patrizia go in the van for the test drive. Aubrey says it’s obvious that Debbie has put the efficient members of the team in “cool van,” and that she’s always in the cool van. They come up with a slogan: Love Your Reflection. Tia – in the “uncool van” – says that it’s frustrating knowing that the others are coming up with a concept that they all will have to follow without having any input. Tia calls them in order to help hash out the idea, but Lisa says they’ll call back when they have the idea together.

Michael Andretti puts his racecar driving skills to use testing the new Verano, and gives Adam and the Buick rep for a wild ride while Paul watches. For the women, Debbie does the driving, which is not quite the event Michael made it. Back at Trump Tower, Adam runs the team through his idea, which involves a heckler saying “You suck.” Everyone pushes back, saying this goes directly against their directive from Craig and Steve. Clay says that the main problem with Adam is that once he has an idea in his head, he won’t let go of it. Forte also realizes that they have a looming deadline and no real idea yet. Tia gets upset at the dismissal of her ideas.

Don visits the women, worrying that Debbie isn’t cracking down and making sure that they have a locked down idea in time to adequately execute it. Meanwhile, Ivanka visits the men. Adam discusses the humor angle they’re taking, but Ivanka focuses more on asking Michael why he, with his racing connections, didn’t step up to be the project manager. He explains that it was more of a marketing task than a car task, but she’s not quite buying that, thinking he could have made use of his connections. In rehearsal, the men work out their schtick, Adam introducing Michael, and then both of them being heckled by Arsenio, Penn, and others whose criticisms point out the cars strengths. Penn is surprised that Adam will be taking up the vast majority of the presentation himself.

The women start rehearsing. The plan is that Debbie, Aubrey, Teresa and Lisa will do the acting, while Tia will be the presentation’s host. Each of the actors will discuss their favorite features of the show. Dayana suspects that the women still don’t’ know what they’re doing, and personally feels ignored and underutilized. Aubrey is worried that the presentation is becoming too much comedy and too little presentation of the car. Debbie admits that she doesn’t feel as though they’re ready, and when they stop for the night, she hopes they get “fairy dust” sprinkled on them, in order to pull it out of the hat.

Team Forte, without a dress rehearsal, give their presentation. Debbie starts by demonstrating, through song, the car’s Intellilink feature. Lisa espouses the car’s quiet in typical humorous fashion, and in her own words, kills it. Aubrey changes the mood considerably when she brings up finding out about her mom being in a car accident, and how her mom would have been safe in the Verano. Interviewed, she admits it was just barefaced lie and manipulation. She then mispronounces Verano as “Verona” – twice. Debbie cringes, but Teresa brings it back when all of her daughters run in with their rolling luggage, followed by her husband Joe and their dog rolling in on a skateboard. During the Q&A, they fail on a highway safety question, but otherwise it goes off without a hitch.

The men give their presentation. Adam, much to his astonishment, gets flustered and nervous introducing the car. Michael comes out and the two talk about the look and the performance of the car. Dee says even though Michael isn’t a performer, the endorsement of an Andretti is probably good enough. Then, as Adam starts going into the presentation, Arsenio and Penn do their jobs heckling him, pushing the features of the car. Everyone cheers Penn getting in the trunk of the car. Penn says it’s surprising to be there “since Gotti is off the show.” Paul Teutul telling Adam that he sucks, repeatedly, causes a bad, dead silence with no payoff, so Adam quickly gets Michael Andretti back for Q&A. Adam feels good after the presentation, and they feel very confident.

Time for the Boardroom. Debbie tells Trump that she feels they did a great job. Lisa says that she liked Debbie with creative, but got a little frazzled with organization. Trump asks if anyone is not comfortable in this environment. Adam insists no one is comfortable. His idea of comfort is drinking rum out of a coconut. Trump and Ivanka again voice their surprise that Michael didn’t take the task, but Adam explains that he, Adam, is like the nerd playing fantasy football who knows more than the jock – Michael – about the overall game. Michael agrees. Trump and Don voice their concern about Lou getting marginalized on the tasks. Adam explains that he worried about Lou not being understood as a presenter, but Trump thinks Lou should have been used to present.

Penn and Dee both explain that, though they had concerns about Adam’s choice of going ahead with a comic approach to the presentation, they backed their leader 100%. Adam insists he’s absolutely happy with his team. When Trump asks who he’ll bring back into the Boardroom if they lose, he says, “no one.” Trump asks if this means he’ll be the one fired, and Adam says, “yes, but we didn’t lose.” Trump tells both teams that the executives liked both Debbie and Adam and that this wasn’t an easy choice for either of them. Trump asks Teresa about Debbie as a leader. Debbie says she was good, but not as good about communicating objectives to the whole team. Debbie explains that they were playing beat the clock, and, feeling that Lisa and Aubrey were her best idea people, she kept them close but still communicated objectives to the team when necessary.

Aubrey gives a frank assessment, saying that Debbie was good, not great, at leading the team. Trump asks Tia if she’s going under the radar a bit. As she starts to explain that she’s learning the rules and trying to be caring with others, Trump cuts her off with, “okay, forget it, don’t worry about it.” He asks Debbie who she would bring back. She says, based on history not just on this task, she would bring back Tia and Teresa. Lisa and Trump agree that Teresa hasn’t exhibited her full capacity yet. Ivanka asks Teresa if she’s holding back a bit. Teresa says that Debbie played favorites, and though she tried to step up, Debbie overrode her. Debbie insists her goal is winning the task, she doesn’t take who gets credit. Trump approves, considering this a “Derek Jeter statement.”

Don says the executives liked the way the women integrated the four features the execs talked about. They liked the “Thoughtful” banner. They liked Lisa’s humor and Aubrey’s passion. The negatives were that they didn’t get a good sense of the brand, they weren’t sure about Tia’s role, and they pointed out that Aubrey said “Verona” instead of “Verano” twice. Aubrey says it was after tearing up about her mom, but Trump says it was still pretty bad, even a firing offense. Don says, one more thing: they didn’t really understand the reflection theme. Debbie and Teresa debate about the role of “reflection” in the theme, and Don says that’s indicative if the team members aren’t even sure what it means.

Ivanka says the executives thought the men did a great job. They thought Adam had a real mastery over the elements of the car, from the technical elements on. They liked the Q&A and they loved Penn getting into the trunk. Negatives were that they thought Michael didn’t have enough of a presence, considering his profession. They thought his word carried a lot of weight, so they expected him to sell a bit more. They thought the brand messaging was strong but that the comic tone was inconsistent with the brand messaging. They thought there was too much Adam, and not enough presence or a sense of community with the rest of the team.

Trump asks anyone if they have anything to add. Penn says that he thinks Adam did a great job, and Arsenio says he wouldn’t be surprised if we see Adam presenting the Buick in a couple of months. Trump says that won’t happen because the executives felt that the women did a far better job. The women – somewhat shocked – celebrate. Trump tells Debbie that she will be getting $20,000 from him and $30,000 from Buick for her charity, Children International. Debbie talks about being in Manila a year before watching mother’s digging through trash, and tears up thinking about how much this will help. Trump congratulates her and sends the women to the suite to watch.

Out in the suite, Debbie apologizes to Teresa, saying that she didn’t mean to be short in her responses and explaining how much respect she has for Teresa. Interviewed, Teresa says that the apology felt fake. She can tell calculating people when she meets them, and this is what she thinks about Debbie. Then the women gather to watch the men. Penn tells Trump that he’s honestly surprised, thinking Adam couldn’t have done a better job. Then Lou starts laying into Adam for not making more use of the team members. Adam says he’s surprised, thinking that he would think the audience is more concerned about presentation than how many team members are used.

Paul says that while he loves Lou, but he considers him the weakest player. Lou on the other hand considers Michael the weakest character. He thinks considering Michael’s background he should have stepped up much more for this task and didn’t. Trump agrees. Adam disagrees, saying that Michael isn’t a performer. Trump says it doesn’t matter, he was shocked that Michael didn’t step in to be project manager. Michael defends himself, but Trump says that the execs just didn’t think he showed a lot of energy. Arsenio says that Lou feels like a brother to him, but they’ve had problems with Lou. Adam makes a pointed statement, saying to Lou, and everyone, that however people judge your performance, it’s what you’ve earned and you have to own it. Everyone, including the women watching, consider this a very strong statement.

Dee agrees that Lou has not shown his potential. But in this task, he thinks Adam was the star, and that since they lost, Adam should be fired. Michael points to Lou to get fired, saying that Lou complains in the Boardroom, but is never as assertive during the task. Arsenio agrees. Trump tells Adam it’s time, that he needs to pick two people to come back. Adam refuses, saying the loss was his. Trump shocks everyone, saying that in that case he’s sending all of the men out, and when they all come back, he’s going to fire two people, insisting they didn’t give him any choice

Outside the Boardroom, Lou starts to justify himself. But Arsenio cuts in and tells him that he’s a different person in the Boardroom. Penn agrees and says that while yes it’s true that Lou attempts to assert himself in tasks, his suggestion is always dressing up in a hulk suit and flexing his muscles. All the men agree. Inside the Boardroom, Ivanka talks about how the weak links are starting to emerge. The men go back in. Trump asks why Adam wouldn’t choose two people, forcing him to fire two. Adam says that he was responsible, and feels that it’s necessary to fall on his sword. Trump has great respect for that but insists that part of his job was choosing two others. He says, “Adam, you’re fired,” then sends him out of the room.

Trump immediately confronts Michael, saying that he should have put himself forward as leader. Michael insists that he didn’t know his only value was as a brand representative for cars, and says that he felt Adam was best for the job. Trump isn’t really accepting this. Dee still thinks Lou should be the one fired. Don thinks the difference is that Lou wants the ball and Michael does not. The men say that is completely not true. Trump says ultimately it doesn’t matter. With this task, the executives themselves wanted more from Michael, and this means that his perceived lack of sufficient contribution was responsible for the loss. “Michael, ” he concludes, “you’re fired.”

Penn brings his winnings from the Medieval Times task to his charity, Opportunity Village, an organization that helps intellectually challenged individuals get back into the workplace. He presents the check for $20,000 from the show, and then the additional $20,000 from Medieval Times to an artist painting at the organization. When he tells the artist that this is where Elvis’s scarves were made, the artist says, “Are you sure you’re not just making that up for the cameras?” and they all laugh.

The teams gather at Trump Tower in front of the Ivanka Trump Collection fine jewelry display to find out their next task. Trump explains that each team will be working on creating two “living window displays” at Lord & Taylor for Ivanka’s personal clothing and accessories line. Ivanka explains that the displays will be judged on three things: creativity, brand messaging and overall display. Teresa and Dayana both ask to be PM for the women, while George takes on leading the task for the men. Adam jokes that there were three reasons for giving George the task: 1) he’s gay, 2) he’s gay, and 3) gay. Teresa gets upset when Debbie essentially assigns Dayana to have the task. Dayana describes her organization, the Latino Commission on AIDS, and George discusses his charity, the Japanese American National Museum.

The women gather to start planning their display. Aubrey says she came up with an idea for a clock, showing that a woman can use any moment of the day to become the woman she wants to become, with four vignettes per window. Debbie thinks Aubrey is great with a lot of ideas, but “it was the Aubrey show.” Meanwhile, the men make their plans. When George says they have to plan their four windows, Clay corrects him and tells him there are only two. Clay worries that George doesn’t process information quickly enough to be an effective leader. Penn suggests they use twins in each display, for the visual effect of having the same person in different clothes. The team tries to get George to commit to an idea with little success. When he won’t, they worry that they’re starting the task without an actual plan.

Ivanka visits the men and asks jokingly if working on her clothing line isn’t the best task yet. She introduces Scott, the manager of window displays for Lord & Taylor. The men admit to being a bit out of their league with this female-skewed task. Scott tells the men to think of the windows as a “3D billboard.” Ivanka describes her target consumer as a “sophisticated, working, aspirational woman,” 25-35 years old, with a flexible wardrobe that moves from the office to nightlife to the weekend. Aubrey thinks this transitional theme is exactly what they’re doing with their display. Coral is the collection’s main color, and Ivanka clarifies that anything particularly creative and risky should still make sense with the brand.

The men work out their “twins” theme. One will represent the day and the other the night. Arsenio, who says he’s great at dressing women, gets assigned to pick the clothes. George thinks Arsenio has elegance and style and panache, and is “amazing.” Paul points out that, through his chopper shop, he’s got very sophisticated equipment for painting elaborate designs. Dee Snider has to leave to go to his doctor appointment because of his broken finger. His “paranoid side” is worried that this absence will be used against him. And sure enough, Arsenio for one thinks Dee shouldn’t continue on the show. The men split up, half to buy the clothes and the other to build their display boxes. Lou grouses that Adam, an ex-carpenter, takes over the set building to the point that he is acting like the project manager.

Debbie says she’d be fine working as a model in the display, but Dayana says she’s worried about Ivanka’s specified age demo. Debbie laughs and says she “plays younger on TV.” Still, everyone else agrees that Aubrey and Dayana should be the main models. Lisa says this didn’t make Debbie happy, but “too bad, that’s the way it is.” Dayana assigns Patricia, Teresa and Debbie to go shopping with her and sends Aubrey, Lisa and Tia to Brooklyn to make the sets. Lisa points out that the display boxes were smaller than they thought, and they have to scale back their vision. Dayana and Lisa argue over the phone, each half of the team – at the construction site and in the van – growing increasingly frustrated.

Arsenio is impressed by the system for setting up the window. The whole window gets set up in the basement of Lord & Taylor and then gets raised hydraulically to the sidewalk level. When the men get to the Ivanka showroom, they recognize Amanda, Trump’s assistant, who also works for Ivanka’s clothing line. Arsenio takes over getting the clothes together, something he knows no one else on his team knows how to do, including apparently the gay men on the team, George and Clay. Eric Trump visits the men, who explain their concept: “Ivanka by day, Ivanka by night.” Clay dodges Eric’s question about George, but Eric can tell Clay is being evasive about his real doubts over George’s leadership.

Dayana, Teresa, Patricia and Debbie work at getting their look together, shooting models in different outfits. Don Jr. visits, and Dayana puts on her best face, saying – if not feeling – that everything is working out fine. Don gets the impression that they don’t have a coherent theme yet, and that Dayana does not necessarily have control of the team. Don reminds them that if the women lose a third task in a row, Team Forte has got a problem. Debbie groans. Dayana gets frustrated that the model shoot is taking too long, and Patricia is worried because Dayana feels protective of her as a fellow Venezuelan, like a little sister. Teresa thinks that Dayana doesn’t have a clear vision and that they’re “all over the place.”

Dee goes to the doctor and finds out he has to have surgery immediately in order to avoid having the bone permanently set incorrectly. So under the knife he goes, pointing at the camera and joking, “Trump, this is your fault.” Back at the construction set, George calls Adam and tells him the colors they want for the respective day and night sets. Adam thinks that since the men with the costumes are going back to the hotel after finishing early, it leaves the construction in his hands. Lou thinks Midnight Blue is too dark for a background color, but realizes they have to go with whatever the project manager says.

The next morning, the women gather to put together the windows. Debbie and Lisa are going to pick up the photographs that will go in the displays, while the rest of the women set up the displays themselves. Dayana is worried because they don’t have the photos or sketches yet that will hang in the displays. Aubrey uses paper towels as stand-ins for the photos. Debbie calls Dayana and says that they are stuck in horrible traffic and will be delayed in getting the photos and sketches. When Debbie and Dayana finally show up, with 25 minutes until the presentation, they find out that the printer only printed the sketches, none of the photos, which are the entire backdrop for one of the displays. The women start freaking out.

The men gather to put their displays together. Adam immediately sees that Paul’s guys from the chopper shop have built the sign posts to be visible in the display, when Adam had planned on them being off to the side and invisible. Adam and Paul put on their troubleshooting hats and set out to fix the situation. Lou tries to intervene, thinking that there’s tension between Paul and Adam. Adam says Lou was trying to be their chaperone, but Adam “only wanted to get up Paul’s sweater, he wasn’t going all the way with him.” Michael also points out that Lou was trying to help, but it was a case of “too many cooks in the kitchen.”

Lisa’s impressed by Aubrey, who comes up with a plan B: putting models in the outfits themselves modeling the sketches from the first display. The women race to finish off the final touches with this new idea, and they’re off. The men get the twins ready with makeup and costume. Clay points out that George didn’t really do anything, having given away so much authority that he didn’t have a purpose anymore. Dee Snider, his arm in a cast, stops by to wish the men well, explaining that he had to have four pins put in the one finger. Then the men, in places for the final display, get lifted up to the sidewalk level for the actual presentation.

Both teams unveil their windows at the same time. Scott and Ivanka go the men’s team first for their presentation. George immediately stumbles over his introduction, messing up his words and mistaking Clay, who’s in the daytime workaday window, for Arsenio, who is “interviewing” on the red carpet in the other window. Eventually, he manages to clearly explain the windows. Adam realizes that the daytime reflections on the window washed out the dark paint of night. George gives Arsenio credit for the outfits and Paul credit for getting the logo made, but in the process insults Lou as someone “not involved,” which, not surprisingly, Lou takes very personally, asserting that he had given “110%.” Ivanka says, “Very impressive,” thanks them and leaves to see the women’s display.

Tia, Debbie and Lisa give Ivanka and Scott a very polished, well-prepared presentation around their theme “Ivanka’s Timeless Fashions,” which goes much more smoothly than George’s faltering introduction. In the window, Dayana acts as the line’s designer, mimicking drawing designs with sketches behind her. The second window features Aubrey as the designer again, surrounded by the accessories in her line and models wearing the final product. Ivanka is impressed with the selections, and likes that all of the women, both in and out of the window displays, are modeling the clothes. Aubrey, in the window, keeps smiling. But Ivanka’s “poker face” worries her, and she continues to mumble through her smile possible things that Ivanka could find to criticize. Dayana, however, feels good, thinking Ivanka reacted very positively.

Ivanka and Scott discuss the two presentations. They both really like how professional Paul’s signage looked; they liked the detailing of the displays and thought the men pulled off a lot in a short amount of time. Ivanka loves the use of twins. Her one caveat is that the clothes chosen for the night were not really night fashions, acknowledging that proper styling would be a challenge for a team of men. The women, on the other hand, did a fantastic job with the styling. Her two critiques with the women were that in Dayana’s window there was a fan – used to create a windblown effect – that could be seen from the street and didn’t look so hot, and the coral border around each window hid the models’ shoes.

In the Boardroom, the women present a much more unified force than previously, and Tia actually points this out to Trump. Dayana absolutely resists pointing out two people that she would bring back into the Boardroom should they lose, and neither Trump nor Don can get any of the women to budge in suggesting someone to fire either. The most they get out of anyone is that Aubrey insists that she would want to have both Lisa and Patricia on her team. Trump asks Lisa if she recovered from her stint as project manager, and she insists she didn’t need to recover, that she had a blast. He points out that he was surprised to see her cry, and she says that she didn’t cry; she just got choked up.

Trump turns to Dee, giving him credit for his bravery. Dee explains the surgery, that he has four pins in his finger, and that it will be 10 weeks in the sling and three weeks at least with stitches. He jokes that when the doctor told him he wouldn’t be able to make the classic rock ‘n roll horns with his right hand if he didn’t have the surgery, Dee knew it had to be done. Trump gives him credit for sticking with the show afterwards. Trump asks George how the team did. George insists that they all feel very happy with the results, giving credit for the “twins” idea to Penn and the signage to Paul. Don points out that Ivanka liked the signs so much she actually wants to use them herself.

Trump asks Clay how George did as project manager, and Clay says he did fine. But Trump and Eric both point out that Clay had laughed when Eric asked him the same question during the task, which made it apparent Clay didn’t feel that great about George’s leadership. Clay points out that his main concern was the problem of communication between the divided halves of the team during the task. Arsenio says he liked the fact that George was not a micromanager. Don asks Arsenio if maybe George wasn’t too lax, to the point of a lack of supervision. Penn liked George’s management style as well.

Don breaks down the pros and cons of the women’s presentation. Scott and Ivanka liked the attention to detail and the use of the logo throughout and not just on signage. They liked the living aspect of the window and the clear understanding of the demographic. They didn’t like the fan that could be seen from the street, and the fact that the shoes were hidden by the coral border. Eric says that for the men, the pros were that Ivanka and Scott really liked Paul’s signage as well as Penn’s idea with the use of twins. They thought Arsenio and Clay both did well in the displays. The branding and messaging was well done. The negatives were that the second window was hard to see, that the night clothes didn’t match Ivanka’s style and that overall the presentation lacked risk or creativity.

Trump shows pictures of the other team’s displays to each of the teams. Don asks for their comments about their opponents’ displays. Patricia doesn’t like a man giving orders in the first display and that it should show a women – like Ivanka – in control. Penn says this misrepresents, and that Clay was in the subservient role. Lisa considers the styling errors a “rookie mistake” for men. For their part, the men think the women’s displays are “very busy” and “confusing.” Adam finds them colorful with a “lot going on”; he just can’t figure out what’s going on. Trump lets both teams know that Scott and Ivanka both felt very strongly that the women’s team did a better job. Trump congratulates Dayana on her win for the Latino Commission on AIDS. The women celebrate as they head out to the suite.

In the suite, the women celebrate their first win and the fact that they get to sit back and watch the men sweat for once. In the Boardroom, Trump points out how, in the night display, the branding disappeared in the darkness. Lou points out that he had mentioned to Adam that midnight blue was too dark of a color and that they should call George to reassess. Adam thinks it was the luck of the draw, and that they couldn’t calculate for the effect of glare on glass in the live display. Trump points out that the women faced the same possible constraints and didn’t have the same problem. Trump then calls out Arsenio’s choice of clothing, saying the selections were not particularly fitting for the red carpet. When Lou agrees with Trump, Trump asks Lou if he would then fire Arsenio, and Lou says “yes.”

Paul says he would fire George, because he felt that the communication between the different parts of the team was not very effective. George defends himself, saying he had intentionally made Adam the point man at the construction site for that reason. Clay says that, although he hates saying so because George has always been someone he’s looked up to as an advocate for the gay rights movement, he felt that George was not always particularly present and that he left it up to the players to find their strengths. Penn says he can’t really say, as he was “self-marginalized” because of his lack of a visual sense. Arsenio admits that if the clothes were to blame, it was his fault, but that he felt he couldn’t go wrong with Ivanka’s clothes. Lisa, watching, says, “You still have to style.”

The women are very happy to not be in the Boardroom and agree that Arsenio kind of threw himself under the bus. Adam thinks that since he thinks everyone did their best on the task, then, de facto, they have to fire their leader, George. Adam says that everyone loves George, but it’s just the nature of the situation. George himself picks Lou and Arsenio to come back into the Boardroom.

As they wait outside, Arsenio reassures George that there are no hard feelings and that if Ivanka didn’t think he did a good job, he will “take the brick.” Back in the Boardroom, Lou tells Trump that he doesn’t deserve to be in the Boardroom and that he gave 110%. George says that he had been asked by other teammates to have Lou pull back somewhat. Trump asks if that doesn’t mean Lou is enthusiastic, and Lou agrees. Lou accuses George of not being more aggressive as a leader. Trump asks Arsenio about some of his clothing choices, and Don asks him why he and George didn’t use Ivanka more as a consultant. When George says he didn’t know that was an option, Don points out that as leader he should have at the very least asked to find out if consulting with Ivanka was a possibility.

When Trump presses Arsenio about why he didn’t call Ivanka, Arsenio insists he did what he was told by George. George acknowledges that this is true. Trump asks George whom he would fire. George says that he feels that as leader he needs to take responsibility for the loss. He wants to preface what he assumes will be his own firing by saying how much he has enjoyed the experience and making the friends that he has. Trump says that he doesn’t consider this quitting, and George insists he isn’t. Lou says he has a lot of respect for George, and Arsenio says that he is a “wonderful, bright, dignified man.” Trump says that he too has the greatest respect for George, but “George, you’re fired.” George thanks him for the opportunity. As George leaves the building, the men vow to stay in touch.

While the men and women wait in the suite, they discuss who probably got fired. Everyone assumes Cheryl will be the first to be fired, but Lisa and Debbie insist that, regardless, Victoria will have to step up her game. When Victoria walks out, she heatedly tells everyone that she knows who they are now and that “it’s on.” Lisa jokes that she hopes Victoria won’t kill her in her sleep. Tia tries to apologize, but Victoria says to forget it, that the women are just “acting like bitches.”

Mr Trump meets the celebrities with James Lipton to describe the celebrities’ new task for Medieval Times. Then Don Jr. introduces the task. The teams will put on a 12 to 15 minute show for Medieval Times. They will be judged on creativity, entertainment value and overall presentation by an audience vote. The men pick Penn as the project manager. The women choose Lisa. The winning team will be given $20,000 plus an additional $20,000 from Medieval Times.

Talking to Unanimous, Penn articulates his vision for their show: two knights played by Paul and Lou fighting for the same woman, played by Dee Snider in drag. When the winner sees the “fair maiden” drop her veil and reveal her true face (i.e. Dee Snider’s mug), he decides to kill himself. The women’s concept is the “Unreal Housewives of Camelot” fighting over a knight named Sir Donald of Mr Trump, played by Lisa. Dayana worries it’s too adult oriented. Lee Cordner explains that the key to a successful Medieval Times show is action and excitement. Dayana, because of her concerns, asks whether parents bring kids, and Cordner says yes, there will definitely be kids in the audience. Lisa says she’s psyched about this, wanting to prove to the world that she – a “dirty comic” – can succeed with a show that doesn’t have a dirty word in it. Aubrey, as Lisa’s second in command, says Dayana will ride out as Lady Godiva in a nude body suit. Dayana, bemused, shrugs and says that if the leader says this is a good idea… long pause… she’ll do it. Victoria, on the other hand, is enormously resentful of her job as director.

The men get dressed up for dress rehearsal. George jokes that even though Dee is used to dressing up in drag for Twisted Sister, as Lady Dee Dee, “he actually looked rather lovely.” He does worry about Dee riding sidesaddle. Clay gets upset when George repeatedly goes off script as the announcer, since Clay had written the script with specific cues for the lights. Even worse, as “Lady Dee Dee” rides into the arena sidesaddle, Dee is thrown off the horse, catching his finger in the saddle and fracturing it. The EMT tells Dee he has to go to the hospital. Dee doesn’t want to go because it would screw up their show. He can tell his finger is messed up, and he’s in excruciating pain; but the show must go on. Determined to go through with the show, Dee ices his finger and says he’ll go to the hospital after it’s over. Penn and Arsenio start the show. Interviewed, Penn says that he has kids and knows how short kids’ attention spans are. Everything they’ve planned is “big and loud and gross and fast.” George introduces Sir Lou of Hulk and his adversary Sir Paul the Orange County Senior, who rides in on his big loud medieval-themed chopper. Finally, Lady Dee Dee of Twisted Godiva rides in with her trusty troubadour Sir Clay of Aiken, who breaks into song. Sir Lou defeats Sir Paul, but when Lady Dee Dee drops her veil, Sir Lou kills himself rather than kiss “her.” Clay thinks they took a risk doing comedy, but he is pleased by the very positive audience reaction. Still, he says, if they lose, it will be bad for Penn since the concept was his.

It’s the women’s turn. Dayana rides out as Lady Godiva. Lisa introduces herself as Sir Donald of Mr Trump and then introduces the Unreal Housewives of Camelot, who will compete for the greatest gift of all, Sir Donald’s love. Debbie as Archduchess Auto-Tune breaks into song and is then attacked by Patricia. As they fight with swords, Debbie falls and has a bit of a wardrobe malfunction when her dress flies open. Then Tia and Teresa go at it. Finally Teresa “wins,” but when she comes to claim Sir Donald’s hand, Lisa as Sir Donald says “You’re fired.” Teresa has a mock fit and recreates the infamous moment from Real Housewives of New Jersey when she flipped the table. Finally, Aubrey rides in as a drunk Snooki, falling off her horse and claiming Sir Donald’s hand. Ultimately, Lisa is pleased with how everything went.

The teams gather in the Boardroom. Mr Trump asks Lisa how they did. Having learned from the previous week, Lisa says they’re “confident but not cocky.” Mr Trump asks Victoria what she thought of Lisa as team leader. Victoria says she is (pause) strict, and everyone laughs. Don asks about the tension early on between Lisa and Victoria. Lisa explains that in choosing her actors, Victoria felt pushed aside. Victoria admits she felt hurt. Mr Trump asks Teresa what it was like to act, and Teresa admits it was a challenge, especially recreating moments from Real Housewives when her reactions had been real, and not feigned. James Lipton tells everyone how surprised and impressed he was to find the seriousness with which all of the celebrities handle their tasks and pays both teams his respect for a job well done. Mr Trump asks Dee about his finger. When Dee says that it was fractured at the base, Mr Trump tells him how impressed he is that Dee went ahead and did the show anyway. Paul tells Mr Trump that as team leader, Penn was “phenomenal.” Michael and Lou agree, and George describes Penn as a renaissance man. When Penn says the team was amazing, Mr Trump tells him it will get worse as they get to know each other. Penn responds that he can’t see the future, but so far it’s been great. When asked who he’d bring back into the Boardroom, Penn reluctantly says Lou and George, explaining that the others have talents he thinks will help the team in the future. George stays silent, but Lou is upset, insisting that he came from nothing and has talents Penn knows nothing about. Penn acknowledges this and apologizes, but Lou is not appeased.

Mr Trump asks Lisa who she would bring back into the Boardroom. Lisa says definitely she would bring back Victoria, who let her emotions get in the way. She mentions that Victoria threatened to quit the team. When Mr Trump asks if there were witnesses, Aubrey nods. Mr Trump tells Aubrey she looks very good and asks if that’s sexist. Penn says, yes, it is by definition, but it’s not necessarily wrong. Mr Trump smiles, shrugs and says, “The hell with it.” Lisa tells Victoria that she likes her, but that she can’t expect her to be her babysitter or her mother. The other person Lisa would pick was Dayana, saying she didn’t display any talents. Dayana responds that she tried to assist in many ways, but was dismissed and told to just be pretty on a horse.

Mr Trump asks James Lipton to gives his notes to the men. Lipton thought the men’s show had tremendous energy, starting with Penn and Arsenio. He thought all the men played to their strengths, and in the end, Penn did something that really impressed him, identifying all of the players by name. Then he gives a summary of the audience’s notes, pointing out that the audience thought the casting was great, that the team had great energy and there was great audience engagement. The men got 558 votes. Don says that for the women, the audience really liked the integration of the Real Housewives theme and loved watching Teresa flip the table. They thought the women looked hot. For this, the women got 363 votes. The men win. Penn’s charity, Opportunity Village, will receive $40,000. Mr Trump sends the men’s team out.

Mr Trump asks Patricia whom she would fire. She surprises Mr Trump by saying she would fire Victoria, explaining that while Victoria did step up the second day, but she should have stepped up right away. When Mr Trump asks Aubrey who to fire, she chooses Dayana, “the least utilized” team member. Watching this, Clay says that Aubrey is insecure and doesn’t like not being the prettiest one in the cast. Arsenio asks if he’s saying that Dayana’s prettier than Aubrey, and Clay cattily responds that Victoria is prettier than Aubrey. Asked by Mr Trump, Dayana tells Lisa she likes her but that she should be fired, since the show was her concept. Ultimately, Lisa chooses Victoria and Dayana to come back into the Boardroom. Mr Trump tries to get James Lipton’s opinion. Lipton is evasive, saying that Lisa has the most important thing in abundance, passion. Mr Trump asks what this means, finally asking him bluntly, “Whose fault was the loss?” Lipton fails to give a straightforward answer. Mr Trump asks Dayana who, between Lisa and Victoria, has more talent and energy. Dayana clearly hates being forced to make a choice, but admits that Lisa has more of both. In the end, Mr Trump says that Victoria’s mistakes with the cues probably did negatively affect the performance and he also hates it that Victoria even thought about quitting. Adding it all up, he says, “Victoria, you’re fired.” As the women leave, Dayana asks Victoria for a hug. In the Boardroom, Mr Trump says it was a tough choice, and Lipton tells Mr Trump he doesn’t envy him at all.

Mr Trump is back with the biggest season of Celebrity Apprentice USA… 18 celebrities. We are introduced to those celebrities straight away. Mr Trump divides the teams into Men VS Women. He tells them to choose a name for their team and who will be the project manager. After deciding this they meet Mr Trump in the boardroom. The men have decided that there team name is “Unanimous” and that Paul Teutul is project manager. The women decide their name is “Forte” and that Patricia Velasquez is the project manager. Mr Trump explains to the men that they are missing a team member, Marco Andretti. His good friend Dan Wheldon had been killed in a horrible racing accident and Marco was not up for joining the show. His father Michael will be joining them in Marco’s place. Mr Trump then explains the first task – making and selling celebrity sandwiches. The winning team will be the one that earns the most money. The winning project manager will win a lot of money for their charity; the losing team will lose a member. Back at Trump Tower the men decide on a carnival barker angle. The women decide to have a red carpet theme.

The men start working on their sandwiches at Cafe Metro. George Takei agrees to write down the ingredients Paul calls out. Paul likes George, but thinks he’s too quiet, saying that he prefers to work with loud, aggressive personalities that energize everyone. George for his part doesn’t consider a “Hell’s Angel” type like Paul Teutul to be a person who inspires you to get out there and do your best. When Ivanka visits, Paul is somewhat abrasive. Arsenio isn’t sure if Paul talks to a grown woman in that fashion, that he’s ready to lead. Regardless, Ivanka is encouraged by Paul’s confidence that they can raise $500,000 though she’s dubious that someone as “rough around the edges” as Paul can actually raise that much.

Patricia starts making calls to everyone she can in order to pull in money and asks her team to do the same. While everyone starts making calls, Cheryl admits that she’s saving her “big, big donors” for herself. Lisa Lampanelli overhears Victoria Gotti making what sounds like personal business calls. Then it’s time to head to Cafe Metro to start working on actually prepping the sandwiches. Back at Cafe Metro, where the men are already making sandwiches, Michael Andretti shows up.

Its sales day and Victoria doesn’t show. Aubrey is not surprised by this. At Cafe Metro, Patricia talks about turning it into a “celebrity club,” in keeping with the red carpet theme. Victoria shows up an hour later and apologizes, explaining that she had an accident and that she possibly tore her retina. But she tells Patricia not to worry, that she had a dream that the team won.

Business is open. On the sidewalk, Penn juggles torches and does his carnival barking best to attract attention, while Paul’s chopper brethren roar up to the door. Penn says that he’s basically “carny trash” which is why he’s got the raspy voice he has. He enlists a troupe of dancing girls to stand on the sidewalk, at the same time insisting that the girls themselves pay $1,000 a piece for sandwiches for the “privilege.” One of the girls tells passersby, “buy a sandwich and I’ll keep bouncing!” Inside the store, Penn is impressed with Clay Aiken’s ability and willingness to upsell while customers are at the register.

At the women’s opening, supermodel and former Celebrity Apprentice contestant Carol Alt shows up to help. Teresa is out front bringing people in. Aubrey, who confesses that she has a tendency to be “heavily charming,” does her part to get people in the restaurant. Wyclef Jean comes to donate $15,000, telling Patricia that they could have been the kids that her charity helps, and that in reality, despite their success, they actually still are. Patricia agrees. Debbie performs with Wyclef in front of the store. Aubrey O’Day makes a crack about Debbie loving her voice but can’t wait for a chance to grab the mike from Debbie and sing along herself. Due to Patricia’s connections, the women start racking up major sales. Besides Wyclef Jean, there are Andy Cohen, Katie Ford, Russell Simmons and more, some of them paying upwards of $10,000 a piece for a sandwich. Don Jr. shows up and asks about the selections they’re offering, thinking grilled cheese is not the best choice because of the time it takes to make them, but otherwise he’s impressed with their operations.

Mr Trump calls Patricia and Paul with a test. They need to send their best sandwich to the Rachael Ray Show. Rachael will determine whose sandwich is best, and whoever’s sandwich is picked will get a very large bonus. The women send Lisa Lampanelli and Victoria Gotti to deliver their sandwich, and the men send Arsenio Hall and Adam Carolla. The women’s sandwich is the “Celebrity Club Internationale.” The men’s is called “The Chopper”; Rachael is impressed by the men’s packaging, a box with Paul’s flexed arm on it. Rachael tastes the men’s first and considers it a well-balanced sandwich, with a good ratio of cheese to meat to bread. For the women’s club, she likes the chew and thinks the texture is lovely. Rachael tells them she’ll get back to Mr Trump with the results, and they head back to sell more sandwiches.

Back at the men’s store, Clay continues to worry about their low sales and small donations. Meanwhile, Patricia celebrates a Venezuelan friend of Dayana’s $20,000 donation. After this, they are officially closed. Patricia feels confident they’ve won and thanks all of the women from the bottom of her heart.

At the first Boardroom Patricia says there is no doubt in her mind that her team have won and that Dayana was the biggest star. Mr Trump asks Patricia who she would bring back and she says Cheryl and Victoria. Cheryl because she didnt make much money and Victoia because she didn’t respond to calls and texts when she had her eye problem. Paul tells Mr Trump that Penn was the biggest star on his team because of his juggling and spitting fire. He says the weakest members were George & Aresenio. Mr Trump informs them that whoever’s sandwich was Rachael Ray’s choice will get a $35,000 donation from Cafe Metro. Ultimately, she picked “the Chopper.” She liked the Chopper’s packaging and the look of the sandwich, and she preferred the flavor.

The time has come for the final tally, to find out how the teams did. Don points out that Forte, the women’s team, broke the record on the show for a first task, raising $162,962. But Unanimous, the men’s team, broke even that new record, raising $332,120. With the additional $35,000 that’s a grand total of $367,120. The men celebrate. Paul says that $305,000 of that came from one person. All of this money will now be going to Paul’s charity, the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Mr Trump sends the men out of the Board Room and asks the women to stay, as one of them will get fired.

The girls all think that Cheryl and Victoria were the weakest players so those are the people that Patricia picked to go into the boardroom with her. Outside the Board Room, Patricia, on the verge of tears, apologizes to Cheryl, saying she hates to do this to her because she was her childhood icon. Victoria tells Patricia to not get emotional, that she’s better than that. Patricia agrees, saying that they are all survivors.

Mr Trump presses Victoria to say whom she would fire. When she will only say that she wouldn’t fire Patricia, Trump asks if this means she would fire Cheryl, and she says yes. Mr Trump asks Cheryl if she would fire Patricia, and Cheryl says no. Mr Trump says that Victoria has a strong energy and asks Cheryl if she has what it takes to go on and kick ass. Cheryl admits that the show may not be right for her and that she’s more of a quiet person and always has been. Mr Trump respects her for admitting that. He says that she’s an amazing success story, an amazing woman, and that she had always been an idol of Ivanka’s. But the fit is clearly not right, and that for the purposes of the show he says, “Cheryl, you’re fired.” As the women leave, he reminds Victoria she has to focus, and she agrees.

The Celebrity Apprentice (USA) will air on FOX8 from Wednesday February 15th, two days after it airs in the States. The celebrity winner will earn $250,000 for the charity of their choice. Here are the contestants;

Team Unanimous
Clay Aiken – Former American Idol, The National Inclusion Project   
Michael Andretti – Race car drive, Racing for Cancer   
Adam Carolla – Talk show host, Catholic Big Brothers Big Sisters   
Lou Ferrigno – Actor/bodybuilder, Muscular Dystrophy Association
Arsenio Hall – Actor/TV personality, Magic Johnson Foundation
Penn Jillette – Magician/TV personality, Opportunity Village
Dee Snider – Former Twisted Sister singer, March of Dimes/Bikers for Babies
George Takei – Star Trek’s Sulu, Japanese American National Museum
Paul Teutul Sr. – American Chopper, Make-A-Wish Foundation

Team Forte
Tia Carrere – Actress, After-School All-Stars        
Deborah “Debbie” Gibson – Singer, Children International    
Teresa Giudice – Real Housewives of New Jersey, The NephCure Foundation   
Victoria Gotti – Growing Up Gotti, Association to Benefit Children
Lisa Lampanelli – Comedian, Gay Men’s Health Crisis   
Dayana Mendoza – Miss Universe 2008, Latino Commission on AIDS
Aubrey O’Day – Singer/actress/model, Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
Cheryl Tiegs – Model/actress, The Farrah Fawcett Foundation
Patricia Velasquez – Model/actress, Wayuu Taya Foundation

Michael Andretti was a last-minute replacement for his son Marco, who withdrew after the death of his maternal grandfather and also because of the investigation caused by the IZOD IndyCar World Championships tragedy that killed his scheduled 2012 teammate at Andretti Autosport. Taping took place during the investigation held by Indy Racing League, LLC.