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by Jason Hughes, posted May 9th 2011 2:19AM
It was a long night of 'Celebrity Apprentice' (Sun., 8PM ET on NBC). It looks like they basically smashed two episodes together into three hours, complete with two challenges for the teams and two Boardroom eliminations.But, before they even got into any of it, Trump mixed up the teams to separate NeNe Leakes and Star Jones. Team Backbone, which had just picked up LaToya Jackson last week, got Leakes, while Team A.S.A.P. picked up Meat Loaf.
!!SPOILER ALERT!!
Unfortunately, the new team roster on A.S.A.P. did little to stop the constant bickering. Only now, instead of NeNe and Star going at each other, it was Meat Loaf and Star.
By the time we got through the first Boardroom, two people were gone. NeNe never even showed up to help her team on their first task, and LaToya Jackson was fired -- again! -- as Team Manager for the losing Backbone.
But they turned it around at the end of the night and pulled off a victory. This time, however, Donald Trump focused on branding. In the task, Jones was responsible for it, and the client "thought the branding absolutely missed the mark," according to Trump.
"You were in charge of branding," he said to Jones. "Star, you're fired." In one night, the show lost a woman for every hour the show was on. Marlee Matlin can thank God it was only three hours, as she's now the last woman standing.
Before that, though, a lot of attention was paid to Meat Loaf using terms of endearment like "sweetie" and "honey" when talking to Jones. She found it demeaning and derogatory, but Meat Loaf insisted he meant nothing by it, and Trump agreed with him.
"If you're gonna come to me and you're going to suggest that I can't argue with you as your equal, and then you try to diminish me as a woman by calling me 'honey' or 'sweetie' or 'baby,' I'm gonna call you on it," Jones retorted. Certainly, one can't discredit the way she feels in this particular instance.
Trump seemed to see it as further indication that Jones is simply difficult to get along with. "You couldn't get along with NeNe," he said. "We have Meat Loaf, who I think everyone gets along with and you can't get along with him. What's wrong with you?"
Do you think Trump was fair to Jones, or was he missing the point?
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