For those of you who haven't kept up with Trump's show, The Celebrity Apprentice, Bret Michaels has made it through several very difficult boardroom show-downs, won an additional $40,000.00 for the ADA's camp programs, and has made it to the "Final Five" -- the last 5 contestants standing. Last week, he was moved to Team Tenacity to work with Holly Robinson Peete and Cyndi Lauper and the task was to redecorate an upscale apartment. While everyone loved Bret's photos and Cyndi's "celebrity room", the apartment as a whole lost the task. At one point, it appeared that Bret would be fired for failing to aggressively "defend" himself (he wasn't being blamed for the loss, so I fail to see how or why he needed to defend himself), but was saved when he came out saying that Cyndi ought to be fired for her poor time management skills.
The teaser for the next episode reveals that at this point, Trump is going to do some serious firing. The contestants will be called to the boardroom, where someone will be fired immediately. The remaining four will interview with Joan Rivers and Bill Rancic, the winner of the first The Apprentice. NBC does give a couple of hints as to who will be in that final four: At one point, Bill tells the applicant in front of him, "You've got the worst record of anyone". This would definitely indicate Holly, who has a record as project manager of 1-2 (lost on the Right Guard commercial task and this past task; won on the 24 Hour Fitness challenge by raising the most money). Joan tells her applicant, "Time is, like, something you just didn't get". That would seem to suggest Bret, since he has freely admitted he has time management issues and neither Trump or anyone else seem to have let go of the fact that he was late getting to NYC for the first show (which, according to the blog he was writing, was not his fault, but due to being kept for several hours in a Mexican airport!). However, while giving their final reports to Trump, Bill refers to one of the male applicants as "A One-Trick Pony". Is Bill calling Bret a "One-Trick Pony" or is he referrig to Curtis Stone, the celebrity chef? I had heard that Bret was going to be in the final four, but that it was going to be him and three women. I have a hard time believing Bill would refer to Bret in that way, because from what I've seen, he's no one trick pony!
Waiting patiently for Sunday!