The absurdity on "The Celebrity Apprentice" usually don't start until an hour or so into the show (and generally in the last 10 minutes or so), but Sunday night's (April 18) episode kicked off with an awesomely ridiculous sequence that saw the remaining contestants meeting Donald Trump at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex in New York City. Hopefully the Hall of Fame didn't invest too much in this tourism plug, because that particular branch of the world's most irrelevant museum closed back in January due to total apathy. In a pretty priceless moment, Trump suggested that Bret Michaels and Cyndi Lauper would both get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex some day, provided that they did well on "The Celebrity Apprentice." If there was ever a metaphor for the ridiculousness of this show — that winners could possibly get into a subset of a hall of fame that doesn't even exist any more — it was this one.
But the Annex was merely a backdrop for one of the lamest challenges in the history of reality shows. Each team had to prepare a country music star for an interview with People magazine. That's it. That was the whole shebang. Knowing that was the case, it's almost better that Sharon Osbourne's health mostly prevented her from participating in the task, as she has been making sure husband Ozzy is coherent enough for interviews for the better part of her life.
So Lauper took control of the female team, started a feud with former ally Maria Kanellis and airbrushed the heck out of their wannabe country star. On the men's side, Michaels kept worrying about his daughter's diabetes and Goldberg yelled at some guy that he needed to smile more. Honestly, it was all very confusing, and the fact that Trump kept ranting about how much he wanted to wear a bandana (if he were "in that business") didn't help matters.
In the end, Goldberg was fired for reasons that are not interesting but also irrelevant. That leaves only two connections to professional wrestling left. The bizarre two hours ended with special guest Trace Adkins second-guessing Trump's decision, which has to be a first. More celebrities keep disappearing, though apparently the way to win this show (as Osbourne is clearly doing) is to just not show up most of the time. Another great business lesson from the mind of Donald Trump.
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