She's Baaack! Omarosa Teams With Trump Yet Again
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Television's greatest villains never really go away, do they?
Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth is getting her own reality show…and with Donald Trump, no less.
Omarosa's Ultimate Merger won't be yet another stab at working for the big cheese—this time it's all about the current seminary student finding a mate. She'll be choosing from a dozen potential suitors.
"Omarosa was a great personality on The Apprentice that was watched by over 40 million people as it became the No. 1 show on TV," says Trump, who's producing the series for the TV One network. "Omarosa is smart, witty and difficult, but all of those qualities will make for some very interesting entertainment."
In case you've forgotten, this isn't Omarosa's first, second or even third time at the reality-television dog and pony show. In addition to The Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice, she tangled with Janice Dickinson on The Surreal Life, got competitive on the Battle of the Network Reality Stars and made brief appearances on Fear Factor, Celebrity Poker Showdown and I Love New York.
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Omarosa is pretty tough, but do you think her new show will qualify for our Dangerous Reality-TV Gallery?
This Just In: Flu Knocks Derek Hough Out of Dancing Practice, Maksim Steps In
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• Dancing With the Stars: Following Derek Hough's tweet-nouncement that he has a 104-degree fever (could it be swine flu?!), ABC confirms that Maksim Chmerkovskiy will return to partner with Joanna Krupa with her three routines for Monday's episode of Dancing With the Stars. In other DWTS news, Louis van Amstel tweeted that there might not be a tour this year.
• All My Children: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, who played lovebirds Hayley Vaughan and Mateo Santos for years on All My Children, are set to return to the series for the show's 40th-anniversary special, airing Jan. 4 and 5, 2010. The appearance will be the talk-show power couple's first return engagement since they left the soap in 2002.
• Celebrity Apprentice: Oy. Bret Michaels just can't not be on reality TV! Look for the Rock of Love guy to appear with Cyndi Lauper and other stars on the next installment of NBC's Celebrity Apprentice.
• Friday Night Lights: DirecTV just released three intriguing new promo shots from season four of Friday Night Lights. Taylor Kitsch is included, so you better click into our spoiler stills gallery right now...
Clint Black Comes Clean on Tonight's Shock and Ewww: TV's Most Cringeworthy Moments
Let's take a second to relive perhaps the best detergent-cum-masturbation insinuation gag ever on Celebrity Apprentice, created by no less a self-starter than Clint Black.
Spoiler alert: It involves mentions of doing a small load by hand.
Oh that Clint.
Omarosa's Religious Experience: Seminary School
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When you think Omarosa, think messenger of God. (Not, you know, original Apprentice villain and reality-show vet who paved the way for whore pit vipers everywhere.)
Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth has seemingly changed her evilly "edited" ways and enrolled in the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio, where she will begin pursuing her doctor of ministry.
The director of communications at the seminary, JoAnn Wagner, confirmed to E! News that Manigault-Stallworth, who was a political consultant prior to making the D-list reality rounds, will begin her two-year program on Monday.
Good lord.
Somehow, "You're evangelized!" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
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The last season of Celebrity Apprentice was Omarosa-free, but it wasn't drama-free. Catch the video highlights lowlights.
And You Thought Joan Rivers Was Rough on Annie Duke…
Joan Rivers' all-out war with Annie Duke claimed an innocent bystander: Sally Field.
The final hour of Sunday's Celebrity Apprentice finale, featuring Rivers and Duke's last shots, dominated the season closer of Fields' Brothers & Sisters, 10.2 million viewers to 8.8 million, per preliminary Nielsen estimates.
Brothers & Sisters also got outdrawn at 10 p.m. by the season finale of The Unit (9.7 million). The ABC series fell about 1 million viewers shy of its season average.
Celebrity Apprentice, meanwhile, packed in about 3.5 million from its start to its Rivers-crowning finish. Its three-hour average was, well, average: 8.2 million viewers.
Elsewhere in the weekend ratings:
• On one hand, Cold Case (11.8 million) made a case for coming back in the fall, with its season finale putting a serious scare into Desperate Housewives (12.1 million).
• On the other hand, Cold Case ran fourth among adults 18-49 in the 9 p.m., Sunday hour, and didn't seriously challenge Housewives for the demographically desirable.
• Justin Timberlake's latest collaboration with Andy Samberg wasn't just a viral hit. Per NBC, Saturday's Timberlake-hosted Saturday Night Live scored the show's biggest overnight ratings since the Jonas Brothers-graced SNL back in February.
• The season finale of The Amazing Race (10.4 million) was on par with the show's season average.
Celebrity Apprentice: Bunny Drops the S Word
Playboy Playmate Brande Roderick is certainly far from a dumb blonde, but that doesn't stop her from at least skirting that description. Here the flaxen-haired Bunny takes on the non-Donald challenge of not only spelling but substituting a not-so-bad word for a truly naughty one. Gosh, so cute and funny. And still she got fired.
For more top notch Soup video, click here.
Melissa Rivers' Celebrity Apprentice Meltdown: Blame the "Whore Pit Vipers!"
Still rivers may run deep, but "maligned" Melissa Rivers runs with a bottomless current of vituperation for the "cabal" of Annie Duke and Brande Roderick, the "whore pit vipers" behind her Apprentice ouster last night.
But it gets better. Mama Joan weighs in with WWF-level ferocity, ranting about everything from Nazis to poker-playing trash as tough-guy teammates Jesse James and Clint Black sit back, cowed. "Forty-three-year career! I don't work with scum!" she bellows, putting the elasticity of her plastic surgery to the test.
Just in case you thought the whole show was a charity-based competition, Joan keeps it very real indeed: "I don't want to hear this charity nonsense!" And in case you're wondering, Melissa—hobbling toward the elevator with her garment bag and shredded dignity—didn't give an exit interview. She didn't have to...
Dennis Rodman Trainwreck Draws Crowd
You might not ever want to stay at a hotel run by Dennis Rodman, but you apparently don't mind watching one being run down him.
The retired hoopster's last, vodka-fueled stand on last night's The Celebrity Apprentice scored 8.5 million gawkers, per preliminary Nielsen estimates. That's the show's biggest audience since its premiere.
Elsewhere:
• Saturday's Kids' Choice Awards scored with pint-sized power-brokers, scoring a record 7.7 milion overall viewers.
• Compared to last week, Family Guy (8.2 million) and The Simpsons (6.6 million) were up.
• Friday Night Lights (4 million) keeps generating renewal buzz, and its Friday-night counterparts Dollhouse (3.9 million) and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (3.8 million) have to wonder what makes FNL's low ratings so special.
• Aided by college basketball, 60 Minutes scored a weekend-best 14 million.
• Desperate Housewives basically had the weekend off (ABC aired a rerun); Brothers and Sisters and Ghost Whisperer totally had the weekend off.
Sneak Peek: Celebrity Apprentice Preps for Boardroom
Now that NBC has announced the new lineup for the second installment of The Celebrity Apprentice, the network is starting to roll out promos in hopes of getting viewers to watch Brande Roderick, Claudia Jordan, Annie Duke, Natalie Gulbis and others attempt to impress Donald Trump in an effort to raise money for their respective charities.
Wait, what's that? You don't know who these so-called celebrities are? That's OK, because clearly neither do the show's producers, as evidenced in the clip, which only features the more recognizable faces such as Dennis Rodman, Khloé Kardashian, Joan Rivers and Andrew Dice Clay.
So will you be holding all your calls to attend the boardroom meetings come March 1, or will you be telling the Donald and company "you're fired" by a simple click of the remote? Comment away!
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