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Celebs Hit Streets for Trump's New Apprentice
Jenna Jameson by Denise Truscello/WireImage.com
Celebrities are now vying for the position of Donald Trump's "top dog" by taking their business to the streets. Literally.
Seven of 14 celebs on The Apprentice's first celebrity edition were behind two Sabrett hot-dog carts in midtown Manhattan Friday afternoon to tape a challenge for the NBC show. Led by America’s Got Talent judge Piers Morgan on the megaphone, the celebrities stopped curious passersby for a donation to charity and an authentic New York street hot dog. At another location, some of the female contestants (including Omarosa, Marilu Henner and Playmate Tiffany Fallon) were manning their own cart.
While Morgan was the moneyman for his team, country-music star Trace Adkins, actor Stephen Baldwin and UFC fighter Tito Ortiz served up the franks. Heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis, Sopranos star Vinnie Pastore and Kiss frontman Gene Simmons handled the crowd, gladly posing for pictures as long as a donation was made and a hot dog was sold.
A few celebrity friends stopped by for a quick bite, including fellow Sopranos actor Bobby Funaro and actress Jenna Jameson. The Donald himself even showed up, along with New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, to check on the progress of the task.
The largest donations of the day came when $5,000 and $10,000 checks were presented to the gracious celebrities by passing businessmen.
"Donald is going to be very proud of us," said Morgan, as he kissed a $5,000 check. — Reporting by Rob Moynihan
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Oct 19, 2007 2:38 PM
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The level of these "celebrities" makes this sounds like a slightly bigger-budget version of The Surreal Life.
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Oct 19, 2007 3:42 PM
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I saw the gang on the street and they were hustlin' in the money for sure. The hot dogs were not worth touching though.
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Oct 19, 2007 4:13 PM
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Sounds like the Apprentice has reached an all new low - not that it was that high up there to begin with.
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Oct 19, 2007 4:34 PM
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Omarosa?
I thought this ego maniac's 15 minutes of fame had been put to rest. If memory serves, she's already been a Donald cast off. What the hell is she doing here? Surely, there are Afro-American female celebrities who would love to compete here and not be an obnoxious, self important person as Omarosa has proven to be every time she steps before a camera.
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Oct 19, 2007 5:10 PM
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I agree with Chappy-sounds like we will still have to wait for
The Apprentice's first celebrity edition
But when it finally arrives, I'm sure it will be Hhhhuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuggggge!
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Oct 19, 2007 6:31 PM
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Thank god Charisma Carpenter didn't get involved with this garbage. Has NBC allowed Trump to lose his freaking mind with this cast. The only vaguely recognizable person is the former heavy weight champ (I'm betting he must owe Trump money).
No one with any real talent is on this show. That is pretty funny that absolutely no interesting female candidate is running so he had to dig up a former contestant, of his show, to add to the cast. Or is she famous because she was on, "The Surreal Life"?
Pure garbage.
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Oct 20, 2007 9:03 AM
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Ho Hum. Sounds boring.
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Oct 20, 2007 1:20 PM
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I am so in agreement about The Surreal Life...that's exactly what I was thinking when I saw the cast. Gene Simmons is an ugly, old, perverted, has-been; and I'm embarrassed for Marilu Henner to have to resort to this eye-garbage. Trump's need to exercise power over others gets more pathetic all the time.
I wonder if there'll be a board room or if he'll be as rude to celebrities as he was to former contestants. Man I hope I don't watch this.
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Oct 20, 2007 11:41 PM
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The Apprentice started off as a compelling concept that actually provided the opportunity to revisit some assumptions and concepts in business -- something I can appreciate.
Now we are left with this? While I'll give them credit for getting better than D-listers, this thing is falling as hard as The Mole: Celebrity Edition. How many of you even remember that? I'm talking to you, Anderson Cooper.
Guess I'll have to just stick with The Apprentice UK. Oh well.
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Oct 22, 2007 5:38 AM
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Anderson Cooper wasn't the host of Celebrity Mole. He probably saw the handwriting on the wall. This dreck is even worse. It's almost as if Trump wants to offend us so we'll quit watching and it will be cancelled.
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Oct 22, 2007 8:29 AM
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how is this garbage still on television?
why the hell are there so freakin' many reality shows?
where did all the good t.v. shows with real actors go?
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Oct 22, 2007 9:29 AM
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GarrickS - You are right. I forgot Cooper was smart enough to get out of The Mole's swan song.
I'm SO Trumped out. I mean sure he makes some pocket cash at this crap, but how can any sane person think this mess (and his low-brow, crass and goofball commentary on others) is possibly good in the long run.
In the end, there is only a slightly positive result of all this: Ivanka, I'm talking to you 
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Oct 22, 2007 10:53 PM
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With a lineup like that, I think Kathy Griffin has just been bumped up to Life on the C-List.
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Oct 23, 2007 12:47 PM
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