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Donald Trump has to be lovin' this season of his Celebrity Apprentice. His last few seasons of The Apprentice were downright boring and did horrible in the ratings. Of course, that never kept me from missing a single episode. There's just something about him I like. I'm not talking about his looks and I'm not necessarily referring to his money. It's his power in real life that always hooked me. You also have to give the man some credit for being smart.

Smart is exactly what he was when he put together this celebrity cast. The ratings have been wonderful (it's been renewed for a second season) and that's due, in no small part, to the inclusion of Piers Morgan and Omarosa Manigault Stallworth in the cast. There have been fireworks between the British tabloid editor and political consultant since the first day. It began as relatively minor verbal sparring but has now turned into an all out war between the two egomaniacs.

On this week's episode, Donald realigned the teams because the ladies had been doing so horribly in the previous weeks. And guess which two ended up on the same team. You guessed it -- Omarosa and Piers. He was the Project Manager for their team and both of them agreed to a truce for the task. The truce lasted just one night. The morning of their task began with Omarosa misspelling Piers' name on a sheet of paper, him basically calling her stupid, her then calling him an ass and telling him he wasn't a good father, and then him calling her a tramp. It was all quite funny.

Their teammates, Lennox and Carol, didn't find it so funny. They tried to distance themselves from the pair for the rest of the day. The fighting never stopped and escalated instead. Piers "fired" Omarosa from his team but she wouldn't be taking orders from him. Instead, she began doing the exact opposite of what Piers had asked his team to do and continued hawking their carriage ride tickets to passerbys on the street. I was laughing so hard at that!

Amazingly, their team wound up winning and neither would be fired in the board room. Trump did take them off of the same team though by having Omarosa and Marilu switch places for the next task. Do I think that will keep them from fighting in the future? Absolutely not!

I can't decide on who is the primary instigator in all of this. Piers, who hasn't gotten along with many of the others too well on his team, or Omarosa, whose personality is entirely too abrasive and over-bearing. Perhaps I'll be able to make a decision next week!

We witnessed holy mattressmony right before our very eyes this week. No, it wasn't Omarosa and Stephen doing the horizontal hoochie. They had to work, while vertical, with no hoochie involved and it was forced upon them -- compliments of Donald Trump. But to be honest it was really all Piers fault. He's such a haughty Brit that the oh so Christian Baldwin brother couldn't stand to be in his presence. Donald probably flipped his wig when Stephen told him he wanted to quit. No quitting for you Stephen! Go play with the ladies after you finish up in church.

I, Serta, take thee, Wang, to be my cash cow. To cradle and comfort, from this day forward, for skinny people and smelly people, for ritzy shops and outlet malls, in lumpiness or in fluffiness, to love and to cherish 'till kids sans diapers do us part. And hereto I pledge you my tag.

Vera Wang and the Serta mattress company have teamed up to make the next world's best mattress. Wang and some dude named Bob (OK, he's the president of Serta) want the teams to create a living display of their joint venture. Now get your mind out of the gutter. This would be one of those window design tasks.

Both Hydra's and Empresario's designs were absolutely lovely. Vera certainly thought so. I thought she was going to piddle all over the sidewalk when she viewed Empresario's rather traditional display of newlyweds greeting their bed for the first time. I was mistaken. She could barely hold back her glee when viewing the men's presentation. Cleopatra and Mark Anthony in her bed viewing a plasma television and talking on the cell phone? Why, it's enough to send anybody into shock.

With the teams assembled in the board room along with the Donald, Junior, and his old right-hand man George (I love you George!), it was time to get down to it. Stephen professed his love for the ladies' team yet neglected to leave out the part where he said he'd be willing to be their lapdog if they would just accept him. Omarosa and Piers believed they had done the best for their teams as Project Managers but it came down to Serta making the final decision. Surprise, surprise, the guys won yet again.

Omarosa was stunned that they lost. I'm sure she'll be wearing no more of Vera's lingerie in the future. (That doesn't sound quite right but you know what I mean.) George was spot on in his critique of the ladies; there was not enough creativity and no entertainment value in their window presentation. Seriously, what groom carries his new bride over the threshold and and throws her into the baby-making contraption? How 1950s!

I thought Omarosa was making a mistake the moment she told Donald she wanted to bring Stephen back into the board room and I was right yet again. She finally chose to bring Marilu and Nely back thanks to some prodding by Donald. We all knew what was coming then....

Nely, you're fired!

Next week, we'll be treated to angry and angrier in honor of Valentine's Day. It will be Omarosa and Piers in a battle of Mean vs. Evil. I can't believe I'm going to say this but I hope Omarosa doesn't leave. Piers is an ass and the women's team will fall apart if they don't have Omarosa. I can't wait!

This week's episode of Celebrity Apprentice was difficult to sit through. First of all, the damned thing was two freaking hours long! (Yes I understand it was "trying" to compete with Lost. Hahahaha!) Secondly, the playground antics from such successful grown men were annoyingingly ridiculous. Thirdly, well I just want to rant further about it being two hours. Like I'm going to miss Lost? I don't think so! So I had to stay up and.... Never mind. I'll stop my ranting now and get on with it.

The teams gathered on a rainy New York City morning in Macy's for their next directive from the Donald. Along with Don Jr and Ivanka, he was also joined by executives from the Crocs shoe company. They working on an awareness campaign called "Soles United" that involves people giving away their old Crocs so that the poor people around the could partake in the exciting plastic shoe experience as well. Teams Empresario and Hydra were to design a campaign for this worthy cause and the Crocs execs would judge their campaigns and determine the winner.

Both teams then went to two conference rooms (right next to each other) so that they could begin their brainstorming. Carol from Empresario (the Project Manager) suggests that the recycling bin be a huge Croc shoe and Omarosa agreed. Trace from Hydra came up with their slogan of "Wear Them, Share Them" and Piers suggested Lennox once again be the face of their campaign. Then the guys started getting paranoid believing the girls were listening in on what they were coming up with. So Piers (his team's Project Manager) asked Vinny to go spy on the ladies himself.

Vinny whole-heartedly took up the task and, after a pretend fight with Piers where Piers threw him off the team, left the room. The ladies heard the ruckus and went to go check on Vinny. They completely fell for the double spy scam (even Omarosa!) and Carol welcomed him to their team. So Vinny and the girls came up with their slogan of "Share the Love" and began getting more into the design of the bin. Meanwhile, Stephen and Piers were slapping each other on the back for this fine double spy plan they had going on.

Unfortunately for them, Vinny began to really help the ladies. He said that he thought Piers made a mistake in asking him to be the rat. I guess out in that hall he found a spine or something. That didn't stop him from throwing Stephen a piece of paper that detailed the ladies' design concepts on it though. And then Stephen developed his own backbone (in part due to his being born again) and decided not to look at the paper and threw it down. Lennox went and picked it up and brought it to his leader though where Piers ran with it. Then Piers and Stephen got into a tiff over whether or not what they were doing was wrong. Whatever!

Vinny later told Marilu what was happening when they were at the bin designer's. She wasn't sure exactly what to believe but said nothing to the other women about it. While Trace and Lennox were off at their designer's, Ivanka dropped in on the other guys to check out how they were doing. They told Ivanka they had Vinny working as a spy for them and Ivanka was shocked that the ladies actually fell for it. She was OK with their little plan of sabotage as it happens all the time in the business world. Donald Jr dropped in on Marilu and Vinny while they were at the designers and Vinny spilled all to him. When Jr asked him if he was indeed sabotaging the ladies, Vinny told him that he's actually pulling a reverse and helping the ladies.

At the photo shoot for Empresario's campaign, Stephen and Piers decided to drop in and knock things out of whack for Carol. Silly men! Don't they know she was used to having people around at photo shoots? They failed to unnerve her so opted then to tell Nely what they were having Vinny do. Nelly was understandably upset at the news and immediately phoned Marilu to tell her. It was priceless when Marilu told them that she's known what was going on. It was even more priceless when Oma said there's nothing worse than a snitch and proceeded to fire him from their team. Hmm, I thought Carol was the Project Manager.

So Nely thinks that Piers and Vinny should be fired by Donald for corporate espionage (yeah right!) and Vinny was fighting desperately to get Marilu to believe him in that he really was on their side. It didn't work and Vinny scampered back to his team's headquarters where him and Piers began arguing. Poor Vinny didn't like being ratted out. The fight continued the next day and ultimately Piers kicked Vinny off of their team. Now Vinny was without a team and tried to get a word in with Donald before the teams' presentations about what had happened but Donald told him to save it for the board room.

Both of the teams' presentations went well but the Croc executives seemed to really like Empresario's giant mock Croc shoe bin (me too!). In the board room, Vinny entered after the other two teams and stood alone. Donald then entered and so began the mud-slinging. Piers admitted to the sabotage idea. Vinny didn't like being ratted out. Piers called Vinnie a very fat Italian. Nely said Stephen wouldn't have been part of this plan if he was a Christian. Stephen and Trace wanted Vinny to stay if their team lost while Lennox wanted Piers to stay. Vinny said he'd rather go home than deal with with all of this. Stephen suggested the ladies forgive Vinny. Trump didn't think that was appropriate. Vinny felt Piers was kicking the girls when they were down.

Enough already! Who won the damned task? Team Empresario did! Crocs has agreed to give 10,000 pairs of their plastic shoes to impoverished people in Africa in Carol's name plus $20,000 to her brother's charity.

The ladies went back to watch the ensuing carnage among the men in the board room while drinking their champagne. I would have choked on one of those strawberries though when I heard Vinny ask to resign from the show. He was disappointed that he wanted to quit and when asked if he'd stay if Piers went, he said he would. Stephen wants Piers to be fired. Piers pointed the finger right back at Stephen calling him a hypocrite. Vinny said he wasn't quitting and wanted to resign. Donald wouldn't fire him but did accept his resignation. Piers then lovingly hugged him and told him it wasn't personal. Whatever fella.

As the music of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" began to play, Vinnie walked out of the board room and was whisked away in the big black car. Then boom! Blackout.

Next week, Stephen wants to meet with Donald. The fallout from the Vinny fiasco continues and Donald tells Piers not to go home a loser. While the men's team is in disarray, the ladies are "pouring it on for victory". Did Omarosa just dump champagne on Piers' head? She most certainly did!

What did you think about this long and drawn out episode? Did you think two hours was really necessary? Do you think the impoverished people in Africa will like their plastic shoes? And what did you think about Vinny's resignation and the show's ending?

By the way, I would like to thank the sweet baby Jesus in advance for next week's CA being just an hour long.

This week's Celebrity Apprentice began with a little trickery. Returning from the board room, Jennie entered the suite sans Omarosa. The others wondered where she was (they knew Gene had been fired) and Jennie told them that Donald had fired both of them. As their shocked faces look back and forth at each other, in strolled Omarosa. You can't get rid of her that easily! Nely appreciated Gene for taking the bullet for her and getting himself fired while Piers was glad Gene was gone because he considered him a major threat.

Before finding out what this week's task was going to be, we saw Tito (who had been in the gym working out) give his $20,000 check to a little eight-year-old girl representing his charity. Her name is Elizabeth and she's suffering from brittle bone disease and the charity she's accepting the donation on behalf of is St. Jude Children's Hospital. After accepting the check, she gave him a picture she painted and they hugged. It was cute!

The next day, the teams assembled at Trump Tower to receive their next assignment. Vince McMahon would be Donald and Ivanka's little helper this week. Teams would have to sell tickets to eight very successful Broadway plays. After negotiating with each other on which four plays they would be hawking tickets for, teams would then have two hours to sell those tickets on the streets of New York City. A portion of the money made on the sale of the tickets would go to Broadway's favorite charity, the Fund For Public Schools, while the rest of the money would go towards the winning Project Manager's charity. Hydra chose Vinnie to be their PM and Empresario chose Marilu as theirs.

Empresario went off to their war room and Marilu asked Omarosa to help her in the negotiating process with the other team. Omarosa agreed and then told Marilu to try to find out which four of the eight shows are currently making the most money. Marilu called one of her friends named Pete to help her with that and eventually Empresario came to the conclusion that they wanted to go for Chicago, Spring Awakening, Hairspray, and Curtains.

Meanwhile, Hydra was trying to figure out what they were going to do. Vinnie began going on and on about wanting a copy of the rules while Stephen and Piers began getting into it concerning who was going to be doing the negotiating. It was all a bit ridiculous and Trace decided he'd just sit back and watch them go at it rather than get involved. Eventually, Piers won out and would be negotiating along with Vinnie against Marilu and Omarosa.

At the negotiation, Vinnie told the ladies to pick the two plays that they absolutely wanted and they chose Spring Awakening and Hairspray. Vinnie decided he didn't like their choices and told them they couldn't have them. When Omarosa and Marilu began whispering about what to do next, Vinnie began getting frustrated because he wanted to move things along. Omarosa later said this whole process was like playing Monopoly with three-year-olds (I agree!). So the girls got to keep the two that they wanted and were able to pick first among the four remaining. Vinnie and Piers did a horrible job at negotiating and the girls were able to leave with three of the four that they'd originally wanted. The only one Empresario didn't get that they wanted was Chicago -- they got Avenue Q instead.

Nely began calling people in her black book to see what she could get for the tickets while over at Hydra, Piers told Stephen to begin hitting the phones and to sell the tickets for the highest possible amounts. Stephen said they shouldn't focus just on amount because they also have to worry about just plain selling the tickets to begin with. Piers then told Stephen if he didn't want to call his high rollers on this task then he's just a shallow little man. So here we go. They start going at it again with Piers walking off and telling Stephen to "eff" himself.

Vinnie, Trace, and Lennox left the suite to go begin setting their tent up while the other guys stick around and keep on making their calls. Piers called Richard Branson who promised to have two stewardesses down there with $10,000 for tickets. Then Stephen and Piers begin to make up like a couple that have been married for forty years and all is right with the world again.

The ladies are now getting their tent settled and making phone calls to their contacts. Marilu did a good job here with getting merchandise from the producers of the Broadway shows and even volunteers to help them out. After one of Nely's contacts from Cushman & Wakefield showed up to buy tickets at $2,500 a pop, David Hyde Pierce showed up to help Marilu out in the celebrity department.

Back over at Hydra, Vinnie had Stephen get the megaphone out to start broadcasting their tickets for sale. Then Vinnie had Piers get into a King Arthur outfit (from Spamalot) and walk around stirring up interest for their team. Then they had Bob Saget stop by, then Ivanka (to check them out), and then a lady from EMI that Trace had called came with $5,000 for two tickets.

At Empresario and with just one hour left, a lady wanted to know how many tickets she could buy with $2,000. Jennie told her that she should tell them how many tickets to buy (hello lady this is for charity!) right before Omarosa interrupted and condescendingly asked Jennie if she needed any help. When Vince McMahon showed up at their tent, he talked to David Hyde Pierce about what he's doing there to help. Obviously not much because Vince then uttered that he hadn't seen him move once from his spot.

With minutes to spare and after much aggravation, the ladies from Virgin showed up and gave Hydra their $10,000. Over at Hydra, Nely was still waiting on her friend with the cashiers checks to come through for them. One minute and forty-four seconds remained for them to accept the money when suddenly we're bolted into the teams walking into the board room.

When Donald asked Marilu if she thought her team finally won, she said very confidently that she thought they had. Vince told the teams that Empresario sold $31,000 worth of tickets while Hydra sold $33,000 worth. The ladies were shocked. Foiled again by Hydra! It seemed Nely's cashiers checks showed up two minutes after time ran out. So close yet so far. Donald told Vinnie that he would get $50,000 for his charity and the rest would go to the Fund For Public Schools. When asked what his charity was, he explained that his daughter's stepfather died a year ago from pancreatic cancer so in memory of him the money would be going to the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research.

After the guys left, Donald asked Marilu who she was going to be bringing back into the board room. Marilu decided to bring back Jennie and Carol (the guys were shocked!). This after Nely even told Donald that she thought Marilu should be fired. But then, Marilu knows she needs Nely to win so that's why she didn't bring her back. With the three back in the board room, Donald told that them it was said that their team lost again. He told Marilu that she should have brought Omarosa back in but Marilu told him that Omarosa, Nely, and herself worked really well together. Donald then told Jennie that it seemed she doesn't have any energy for this. Jennie said that it was hard because of the personalities she's up against and that she's not used to being in such a harsh and nasty environment. Donald told her that she shouldn't get used to it and that she should stay the way she is.

Jennie, you're fired!

He told Jennie that this just wasn't her world and that he likes her world better. Donald then told her that he wants to see her win another Olympic gold and that Vince wants to see it more than he does. Jennie thanks everybody and the ladies left the board room. Vince and Ivanka both think that Donald made the right call and Donald found it interesting that Jennie thought she couldn't compete against these people because he considered her more competitive in her own right than the others.

In the car being driven away, Jennie said that losing was hard to swallow. Her team was so close and she's sad to be leaving her girls and going home. She said she still didn't think she had a chance to show off her leadership skills but thought it was interesting to see the differences between the Apprentice world and the softball field. She looks forward to getting back to playing on the field and training and preparing for the Olympics as well as being a mom and a wife.

Next week, it sounds like things are going to go crazy. We heard Omarosa say, "Everybody says business isn't personal but business is always personal." We then see Piers and Vinnie arguing about disloyalty. Vincent calls himself a rat and said he's on their side (the ladies') now.

What did you think about this week's episode? What was up with that fighting going on between Piers and Stephen? And then Piers is fighting again next week with Vinnie? Does the guy really have that huge of an ego or is he just an inconsiderate ass? What did you think about Marilu choosing Carol and Jennie for the board room instead of Omarosa? Personally, even though I can't really stand Omarosa I love her because I can't stand her!

This week's Celebrity Apprentice began with a little good-natured ribbing by Piers towards Jennie concerning her push for Nadia's elimination. How could she do that to her hero? Meanwhile, Nely had been reduced to a blubbering mess and was crying on Carol's shoulder on the way back from last week's board room. Cheerleader Omarosa tried to hype her team up but Team Empresario still looked incredibly depressed when they joined Team Hydra in front of Donald for their next task.

Alongside Donald stood Jim Kramer, his daughter Ivanka, and a couple of executives from Kodak. Before the task was announced, Donald gave Gene his $20,000 check for his charity (as a result of his win as Project Manager last week) and then gave him the option to switch to Team Empresario and become their Project Manager. After Gene accepted the challenge and switched sides, the teams were told that this task would be all about creating a mobile printing experience. Each team would receive Kodak cameras, a Kodak EasyShare printer, and access to an Airstream bus that they would have to transform into a mobile printing kiosk. The teams would demonstrate this mobile printing experience on the sidewalks of New York City. The Project Manager of the winning team would receive a check for their charity while the losing team would have someone fired.

Empresario started off on a rocky foot with Gene proclaiming himself the womens' benevolent dictator (which Omarosa didn't like too much). Gene quickly came up with a tag line for the demonstration of, "It's a Kodak world." He then sent Nely and Carol off to go meet with the Kodak executives to learn more about what they wanted to "push". Kodak wants the focus on the ink that's used in the printer (longer-lasting and more affordable). When Nely (who blabbed on and on in the meeting) and Carol returned and told Gene what the Kodak folks wanted, Gene said he thought the Kodak people were wrong and didn't know what they wanted or needed.

Over at Hydra, Tito was chosen to be the Project Manager and their entire team went to meet with the Kodak executives (not just two of them). They quickly understood that Kodak wanted them to push the ink and the printer (but especially the ink) and left to work on their assignment. Piers thought they should focus on a theme of "knocking out the competition" in their project and Stephen proposed using Tito and Lennox in photos with the printer. So Tito and Lennox took off their shirts, laid down on the conference room table, and posed next to the printer after having been "knocked out". After Stephen (who had been standing on the table) finished taking the pictures, he went to step down at the same time Tito and Lennox were getting off causing the table to tilt over. The casualty of the accident was a laptop that was being used to design the graphics. A cup of coffee spilled on it and half of their files were lost. Not good!

After both teams had finished setting their buses up, it was time to make their pitch to the public. Gene (who was still trying to remember the name of the product he was selling) did a good job explaining their concept to Jim Kramer when he came by to check on them. Jim also said the bus looked good with their graphics (Gene spent a lot of time on that). When Jim went to visit Hydra, he thought their bus looked like a big dumpster because everything looked so sloppy and there was hardly anything even on the bus to show that it was part of a Kodak presentation. The Kodak executives arrived at Empresario's bus and Piers did a good job talking up the "Kodak world" but they seemed to be more impressed by Hydra's bus and especially their presentation. They actually focused on the longevity and affordability of the ink which was the true task to begin with.

In the board room, Gene came under fire by Donald for not meeting with the Kodak executives himself since he was the Project Manager. Gene told him that he didn't feel his strength was in that area and had wanted to focus on the campaign itself. Then it was Hydra's turn to be criticized. Jim told them that he thought the guys did a better job pushing what Kodak wanted even though their presentation was sloppy. Kodak thought the guys did a better job and Team Hydra won for the third time in a row. Yet again, somebody from Team Empresario would be fired.

After the guys left, Gene told Donald that he doesn't think his team could have done anything better and that he feels Kodak is wrong. Omarosa thought the reason they failed was a combination of not getting a complete vision of the project from Gene and their lack of a plan. Ivanka told them that they never understood Kodak's wanting the message to be about the ink. Again, Gene said he thought Kodak was wrong and believed their team succeeded even if Kodak couldn't recognize it. After Donald told Gene he was a loser in this task, Omarosa told Donald that Gene couldn't be a winner because he didn't even know the name of the product (the printer) they were selling. So Donald asked Gene what the printer's name was. Bzzzt! He couldn't get it right!

When Donald began asking all of the ladies who should be fired, all of them said that Gene should get the axe except for Carol. Carol actually said she'd fire either Nely or herself (Donald was shocked!). It was then time for Gene to choose who he wanted to bring back into the board room and he wanted to bring in only one person -- Omarosa. Donald told him that he's making the wrong choice and told Gene to now pick a second person anyway. Gene chose Jennie then. Donald was shocked again but let him stay with those choices. Team Hydra, who had been watching the goings on, thought Gene was committing show suicide because it was obvious (very!) that Donald wanted to fire Nely. Ivanka didn't understand Gene's choices and neither did Jim Kramer. Jim actually even thought Gene was being insolent towards Donald.

After escorting Omarosa and Jennie back into the board room and arm in arm, it was time for the real fireworks. Omarosa said she thought it was inappropriate that Gene chose herself and Jennie to come back into the board room. Jennie agreed and even stated that Gene doesn't notice a woman unless she's pleasuring him (ouch!). When Gene remarked that Jennie didn't step up as a leader, she told him that it wasn't her job to be the leader in this task. Touche!

Donald then point blank asked Gene what the hell he should do because Gene brought in two people that don't deserve to be fired. Gene didn't give him an answer and instead said that Nely is a leader (Donald so can't wait to get rid of her). Donald told Gene that he understands he's an independent thinker but can't understand why Gene chose the way he did. He said he can't fire Jennie or Omarosa.

Gene, you're fired!

While Gene was stepping into the shiny black car, Omarosa was telling Jennie on the way back to the suite that she could tell that Donald really wants to fire Nely. In the car, Gene said he trusted his gut more than the Kodak executives he met. He said he's more qualified to make those decisions because he's in the people business and stands by his convictions and decisions. He also noted that the women don't have a "popcorn fart chance of even shining the guys' shoes." I agree with him on that!

Next week, the Brit (Piers) vs. the Baldwin. Will their fighting give the ladies a chance to break their losing streak? And in two weeks, the biggest showdown in Apprentice history. It seems Vincent is covertly helping the ladies and Piers and Vinnie get into it. Did Piers just call Vincent a fat Italian? I can't wait!

So what did you think about this week's episode? What did you think about Gene role as Project Manager in Team Empresario? I especially would love to know what you think about Gene's behavior in the board room. Do you think he really felt that way or was he just trying to save face?

This week's Celebrity Apprentice began quite amusingly. After Omarosa and Carol returned from last week's boardroom, the cockroach-like Omarosa (per Gene Simmons) got into it with Piers. And I don't mean they were pillow fighting. Well, unless you have pillow fights with somebody that acts like a bitch and calls you an alcoholic.

After Stephen gave his mother the good news about the donation to her breast cancer foundation, it was time for Hydra and Empresario to learn about their new task. Donald, Ivanka, and Terry Lundgren told the teams that February is Pet Adoption Month. And then, after the awkward questioning by The Donald asking if Lennox liked pit bulls, the teams learned that they would be responsible for creating a 30-second TV ad for the Pedigree Adoption Drive.

Trump then asked both teams to choose their Project Managers immediately. Empresario (the ladies) chose Nely and Hydra (the guys) chose Gene. The PM of the winning team would receive $20,000 for their favorite charity. The teams headed off to their respective war rooms where whacko Nely proceeded to lead her team in meditation (Omarosa did not participate) before meeting with the Pedigree executive. Gene chose to not meet with the Pedigree executive and get straight to shooting their video.

Stephen, the video's director, came up with the plan of using Lennox in the video holding a cute little doggy with Trace doing the voiceover. When Ivanka entered the room to check on their status, Gene asked her if she'd be taking their plans to the other side (because they're women). She ignored the comment and asked what their concept was. Piers began to tell her about it but then Gene interrupted him and told Ivanka that they have work to do. Ivanka didn't take kindly to being brushed off and accused of favoring one team over another and thought Gene was behaving rather rudely. I agree with you Ivanka!

Both teams were able to get their videos done without too many major issues. The biggest problems Hydra had were trying to clear a sidewalk in downtown NYC and an ambush on Gene and Stephen from the other guys on the team later on when they were trying to finish editing the video. Tito especially didn't like being left out of the loop on this. Empresario's problems were Nadia's lack of being able to finish tasks and a slobbering dog.

When it came time to present their videos to Pedigree and Donald, it went off without a snag. Pedigree loved both videos (even though Hydra had never even met with them concerning a concept). Even the doubting Tito loved his team's ad.

In the boardroom, Hydra was told by the guy from Pedigree that he felt slighted that they didn't go talk to him and that he thought Gene was abrasive (you don't say?). Ivanka agreed with the "abrasive" part and brought up what happened earlier between Gene and herself. Yes, this was the part where Donald asked Gene if he insulted his daughter. Then roachy Omarosa butted in and told Gene that it was offensive of him to question Ivanka's integrity. Ivanka agreed with Omarosa and Gene realized he was on the losing end of this battle and promptly apologized.

After everybody in the boardroom watched both ads, Don asked the ladies why they didn't use any of their star power. Nely said they used Marilu's voice (yeah, come on Trump!). The Pedigree guy told Hydra that they should have used a caption in the ad that told the audience who Lennox was because not everybody would recognize him on sight alone. And the winner is (drum roll please) Team Hydra! Donald thought their use of Trace's voice in the ad was was especially incredible (as did I). Their $20,000 would be going to the charity of Gene's choice -- the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

Empresario will be losing yet another star tonight. After the ladies came back to quibble back and forth over who did what and answer the board's questions, Nely decided to bring Nadia and Carol back with her into the boardroom. Donald told her that Carol shouldn't be in there and that Marilu is the one that should have been grought back. He then told Carol she'd be safe (LOL!) so it was down to Nadia and Nely. In the end, Donald thought that Nely just had a bad day. Nadia, while a good leader of herself, would not have the ability to lead a team.

Nadia, you're fired!

While Nely wiped away her tears on the way back to the suite, Nadia politely told us in her black car interview that she believed she could have been a good asset for the team but was still happy that everything won on the show would be going to good charities.

Next week? The ladies are 0-2 and need a nurturing soul to guide them (meet Gene Simmons). When the guys need support they call on Stephen's big brother Alec. All of this leads up to one of the most surprising boardrooms in Apprentice history. We could hear Donald say to somebody, "You're fantastic, you're a champion, but you're fired." And did you catch that quick glimpse of the Mad Money guy, Jim Cramer?

What did you think about this week's episode? Which team's video did you like the best? Do you think Nadia was the one that should have gone home? And who do you think will be fired next week? In case you missed last week's or this week's episode you can watch both of them Saturday evening back-to-back. It will even include the deleted scene from this week's episode that started the whole "thing" between Gene & Ivanka!

The seventh season of The Apprentice began this week and instead of "normal" businessmen and women competing for an apprenticeship with Donald Trump, we're treated with celebrities. Fourteen different celebrities and fourteen huge egos striving to outshine each other to raise money for the charity of their choice. This could be a fun season!

The premiere began with introductions of the celebrities that included a quick (and I do mean quick!) blurb about why they're famous. The participants in Celebrity Apprentice are: Lennox Lewis, Tiffany Fallon, Tito Ortiz, Marilu Henner, Trace Adkins, Piers Morgan, Gene Simmons, Jennie Finch, Stephen Baldwin, Nely Galan, Carol Alt, Vincent Pastore, Nadia Comaneci, and Omarosa. If you were like me and don't recognize all of the names, head on over to the show's website for their bios.

Assembled at the New York Mercantile Stock Exchange, the celebs met up with Donald for the first time where they were told that the teams this season are going to be males and females. Their first task would be to head back to Trump Tower and choose their team name and choose their first project manager. Omarosa, never one to miss a chance at butt-kissing, immediately offered herself up for the PM role. Donald was quick to shoot her down though by telling her that it wasn't his decision -- it was her team's decision.

Back at their digs in the Tower, Omarosa wanted to get down to business with her team but had to wait for Nely to hand out what she called props (and what we would call hats) to the rest of the girls. When discussing their team name, it was hilarious when Omarosa suggested they use her name. Team Omarosa? Seriously, how big is her head? Nely later suggested "Empresario" and everybody loved it. Folks, meet Team Empresario.

The guys, meanwhile, were trying to come up with their own name. Gene suggested "Hydra" because it was the name of a bad ass creature from Greek mythology. And there we have it, Team Hydra. Now that they have their names, it's time to decide who will be the PM. Omarosa offered herself up again and the girls said it would be a good idea so Omarosa did indeed manage to get her way.

Meeting up in the boardroom with Donald, Ivanka, and mini-Donald (Donald's son), they told them who their Project Managers were: Omarosa and Stephen. They also received their first task. The teams would be selling hot dogs from a stand on the streets of New York City. The team that makes the most money wins while the losing team will have a celebrity fired.

Carol, the only New Yorker in Empresario, picks a location by Penn Station and a subway to sell. Hydra decides on Rockefeller Center. (I'm not even from NYC and I could tell you that Rockefeller Center is a better location than Penn Station!) Omarosa doesn't think they should use their celebrity status in the task and should instead focus on skill. Team Hydra though begins using their celebrity right out of the gate. Gene Simmons gets on his phone and begins calling up friends asking them to show up and buy a hot dog for $5,000 the next day.

Now at their locations and ready to sell, the girls are dressed in a sort of uniform consisting of ripped white t-shirts, blue jeans, and a red ball cap with their name embroidered on it. They get to work selling dogs for $5 before smartening up and try selling them for hundreds of dollars more. On the men's team, Piers is turning down "customers" who are only offering up the small bucks. I thought it was the smart thing to do but he had quite the attitude when turning them down. Some would even call it rude!

With time running out for both teams, Omarosa tried to get Tiffany to really do something. Seriously, Tiffany completed sucked at selling. Standing meekly on the sidewalk and just saying (not yelling) that hot dogs are for sale does not a good seller make. It caused Omarosa to even say, "For somebody that's selling ass in magazines she sure couldn't sell a hot dog to save her life." Marilu finally listened to her gut and called some people she knew who showed up and bought two waters for $5,000 each and a hot dog for $1,000. Jennie called one of her friends David Wright, third baseman for the New York Mets, who showed up and bought the cart out. It's about damned time!

Over at Team Hydra, Jenna Jameson showed up to support her boyfriend (Tito Ortiz) and paid $200 for a dog. (Damn girl, only $200?) Finally, Gene's friends began rolling in and buying hot dogs for $5,000 and $10,000 a pop. Hmph, I wonder who did better.

In the boardroom, and after a pre-nup joke from Donald to Tito (with Gene laughing), it was time to find out how much money the teams made. Team Empresario sold $17,038.79. Team Hydra sold $52,286. The girls looked shocked that the guys made so much and Omarosa mockingly conceded defeat. Haha! The Donald thought the men had a better location and used their celebrity better than the women did. After the little skirmish between Piers and Omarosa on the correct pronunciation of her name and whether or not she is a "true" celebrity, Donald announced that the total money raised ($69,324) would all go to the winning Project Manager's charity. Stephen's charity is one that his mother started: the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund.

It was then time for the men to leave the boardroom and the women to fight it out between themselves. Luckily for the men, they could watch the cat action back in their pad on a giant LCD TV. They watched Omarosa give kudos to Marilu (for using her contacts) and Nely (for keeping them on task). They watched Oma throw Tiffany to the Trump trio for being able to sell herself in Playboy but not on the street. (Sorry Tiffany, but it's true.)

After we listened to Gene comparing Omarosa to a cockroach, Donald asked Tiffany why she didn't call Hugh Hefner, her biggest contact, and use him as a huge sale. Tiffany said they'd decided as a team that they would use him on a later task. Somebody didn't tell Omarosa that though because she told Tiffany there may not be anymore tasks in her future. The Trumps nodded in agreement. After some banter about the horrible uniforms and bad location (Carol's fault), Donald asked Omarosa to pick two people (along with herself) to return to the boardroom for the possibility of firing. She chose Carol and Tiffany. Unfortunately for the guys, their video feed was purposely cut after that point so they wouldn't find out who was fired until the two women standing returned.

Donald asked each of the three women why they should stay. Omarosa said that she stepped up in the task and takes accountability for what went wrong. Carol said that she thought she stepped up also but that ultimately Omarosa was the leader. When it came to be Tiffany's turn, Donald told her she looked scared. Tiffany said she wasn't (yes she was) and that everybody worked hard. She also maintained that it was a group decision for her to not call Hugh Hefner. Donald asked Omarosa who she would fire and she told him Carol. Mr. Trump said he was disappointed in Omarosa as a captain, in Carol for being a New Yorker and not providing her team with a good location, and in Tiffany for not calling his friend Hugh.

Tiffany, you're fired!

The Donald remarked that she's the nicest person but that often in business, the nicest person usually goes home first. On the way back to the others, Omarosa suggested to Carol that they make a pact to leave the feelings in the boardroom and Carol agreed. I can't wait to find out how long that really lasts. Bwahaha! In Tiffany's going away interview in the shiny black car, she said that she was disappointed in being the first one fired but she was glad to be going home and enjoyed her time on the show.

In the previews for next week, it seems Gene somehow insults Ivanka and gets her ticked off. Donald even told him in the boardroom that, "Nobody insults my daughter." Rut roh Gene!

Did you watch this premiere episode and if so, what did you think about it? Is it just me or does Omarosa seem like an even bigger bitch this time around? I also happen to adore Gene Simmons' arrogance but then I'm a huge fan of his Family Jewels show. What do you think about this batch of celebrities after seeing them in action? Will you watch again next week?