Donald Trump is teaming up with The Apprentice bad girl Omarosa, for a dating competition called Omarosa’s Ultimate Merger in which the TV villain attempts to find love out of 12 business-minded bachelors. Read more »
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Donald Trump and Omarosa to Reunite for Dating Show
November 10th, 2009 / Author: Luisa MetcalfeSpotted!
February 23rd, 2009
Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore at the VF Hollywood Domino Game Night Benefiting The Art of Elysium at the new Andaz Hotel in West Hollywood.
Jessica Alba sipping Glowelle beauty drink smoothie while being fitted for a pair of Koolaburra Australian sheepskin boots with Swarovski crystal birds design, backstage at the Film Independent Spirit Awards where Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson scooped up the hot new Palm Pre phone from Sprint, a clutch from Carlos Falchi and Blue Notch denim jeans from Japan.
Mickey Rourke carrying a WWE Championship Belt around the Independent Spirit Awards.
Lindsay Lohan at the Patrick Melville Salon/Café Bustelo espresso bar in the Peninsula Hotel in LA.
Ungaro-clad Sienna Miller at the Montblanc/UNICEF Signature for Charity Gala at Paramount Studios in LA.
Leonardo DiCaprio arrving at the Global Green party at Avalon Hollywood in an eco-conscious Audi Q7 TDI.
Paula Abdul filming a PSA for the Creative Coalition at Haven in LA.
Jessica Beil at the “Party with a Purpose” at Mr. Chow’s post-Oscars.
Kate Bosworth applying gloss in the W Backstage Lounge in NYC’s Bryant Park before the Diesel.
Chace Crawford and John chatting at the Grey Goose sponsored Armani 5th Avenue Flagship Store Opening in NYC.
Kate Winslet having lunch at BLVD 16 in Westwood’s Hotel Palomar today.
Mark Wahlberg overheard talking wedding plans at the Northern Trust Open Pro-Am,
Queen Latifah at Tara Jane and Taryn Manning’s Born Uniqorn runshow at Haven in LA where Aaron Carter checked out the WWE action figures.
Luke Wilson with a female companion at tapas restaurant Robata Bar in Santa Monica.
Holly Montag and Stephanie Pratt having a blast without their siblings Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt at the Tag the World Charity gala.
Rosario Dawson trying out the Power Plate workout machine at Haven in LA.
Stars from Omarosa to Sally Kirkland, Walter Landau and Jenna Jameson at The 19th annual Night of 100 Stars Gala held at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Katrina Bowden playing on a blinged DS at the Nintendo DS Spa at the Bryant Park Hotel
Hugh Laurie giving the command to start engines prior to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Auto Club 500 at Auto Club Speedway February 22 in Fontana, California.
Ryan Cabrera and Friday the 13th’s Jonathan Sadowsky at Element Electronics Oscar Viewing Party at Asia de Cuba in the Mondrian Hotel in LA.
Lindsay Lohan hanging out with Samantha Ronson while Samantha deejayed the Mercedes Benz Post-Oscar party at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Jessica Biel hitting Leeza Gibbon’s "Night to Make a Difference" Oscar event at Mr. Chow’s in Beverly Hills.
Omarosa & Wendy: Still Fighting!
July 22nd, 2008
The catfight’s not over!
A day after unleashing a tirade of insults at each other on The Wendy Williams Show, Omarosa and Wendy Williams are still going at it.
"I think Omarosa came here with an agenda. She was looking to get her moment. So she got it," Wendy tells Extra following the on-air fight. "Unfortunately for her, she got attention from me."
The controversial hostess and the former Apprentice contestant came to blows when Wendy labeled Omarosa as "the stereotypical black woman," prompting the reality TV star to lash out at Wendy’s appearance.
The whole attack even caught Wendy off-gaurd.
"I was more stunned," she says. "This is a grown woman who calls herself a business woman. I don’t have time for her reindeer games."
Wendy adds, "Omarosa, not nice. One day you’ll learn that you’ll get more with smiles than you do with grimace."
Giving her take on the situation, Omarosa, who was on to promote her new book, The Bitch Switch, says she turned on the switch on Wendy to retaliate at the media queen’s years’ worth of insults.
"She’s been talking smack about me for years. I don’t ever forget," Omarosa says. "So yesterday was my opportunity to call her on all this stuff. I gave her a dose of her own medicine. And she couldn’t handle it."
But the reality contestant everyone loves to hate does see the silver lining in the fight. "My sales are through the roof. And people will learn how to deal with people like [Wendy]."
Omarosa Vs. Wendy Williams
July 21st, 2008
Frankly, it’s not surprising to hear that reality TV villainess Omarosa is getting press for her crazy backstabbing antics, but this morning it was an all-out cat fight on the set of the Wendy Williams Show, which airs on FOX owned stations.
Omarosa was on to promote her book, The Bitch Switch, when the insults started flying between the Celebrity Apprentice/Surreal Life castmember and the radio/talk show queen.
The slings and arrows started when Williams warned Omarosa "This is not the time to try and look for your moment." She then continued to call Omarosa "The stereotypical angry black woman" which prompted the reality TV star to begin attacking William’s appearance, asking her if she’d had a nose job and that maybe she should consider wearing a better looking wig, all the while delivering the insults through cackles and toothy grins.
Ousted Celebrity Apprentice: Omarosa!
March 13th, 2008 / Author: cwillett
The Celebrity Apprentice competitor Omarosa only has two words to say about the heated on-air feud between her and Piers Morgan. Okay, maybe three. “That Simon wannabe,” she laughs. Omarosa, who got the heave-ho from Donald Trump after losing the art sale fundraising challenge last week, filled me in on what really started the war of the roses between her and her not-so-gentlemanly English competitor.
What really went down between you and Piers?
Piers told me he studied my DVDs from the first show, and the one character he related to the most and wanted to be like was me. So when he started coming at me from day one, I knew what was happening. For the most part, till episode six, I was pretty good about it, but his energy just turned really nasty, and I had to check him. I had to give a taste of Lady O, full-blown.
Is that the episode where you brought up his family?
I didn’t bring up his family. I brought up the fact that he was a terrible father. I don’t know the kids, but I know him, so that was just deductive reason. People have short memories. They forget when Piers was destroying Vinny Pastore to the point he was about to have a heart attack, and when Stephen Baldwin was pleading to leave the show because of him. Before me, he had his eyes set on torturing other cast members. When he brings his evil on you, you either crumble under the pressure, or you get tough. And I got tough.
Is the Omarosa we see on screen just a character you play?
When I wake up in the morning, I’m cool and mellow. If someone wants to push my bitch switch, that’s what they get. When I get into the boardroom, I’m extremely competitive. There’s no one in the boardroom better than me because I’m the baddest chic in there. Every one is multi-faceted, but America only gets to see my competitive side on TV. They don’t get to see me with my family or my clumsy, goofy side when I’m tripping over myself.
What charity were you playing for?
I was playing for a charity in Compton, Calif., called Positive Vibrations at the Tomorrow’s Aeronautical Museum. It’s a safe haven for kids, to get out of gangs or stay out of them. It’s a tough environment in South Central, so I serve as a mentor there. They are the greatest kids, and I’m the luckiest one because when I was on the show, they wrote me letters and called and sent me pretty pictures in support.
Will you get a chance to raise money for them in the future?
The great thing about losing on TV is that people feel so bad, they have reached out. The money is pouring in, and I’m just really glad they’ve had the exposure, which is half the battle. We’re doing a huge fundraiser on Saturday. People can get more information at my Web site, Omarosa.com, or Tamuseum.org.
Would you ever consider doing another reality show, Dancing With the Stars?
Please! Do you know somebody, can you book me? I actually went to one of their tapings and got to meet all the people. I would love to do that!
Well, we already know Omarosa knows how to rhumba!
The Celebrity Apprentice airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. on NBC.
Ousted Celebrity Apprentice Speaks!
February 28th, 2008 / Author: cwillett
Ousted Celebrity Apprentice contestant Marilu Henner may have been sacrificed by a teammate last week, and surprisingly enough, it wasn’t Omarosa!
As project manager of selling a product on QVC, Marilu’s team lost because they didn’t tap into the network’s EasyPay payment plan, a little gem of information her team member, Carol Alt, failed to mention. “Carol and I had worked together before and she was very supportive that day,” Marilu tells me. “But now, after seeing the show and seeing her face, I realized she must have known, and she was just trying to take me out.”
Ouch! Even though Carol may have sold Marilu down the river, she admits the crown of cruel still belongs to Ms. O. “Omarosa’s a great girl, but you don’t get to see it, because you’re watching the character she’s chosen to play,” Marilu explains. “I watched the first episode and thought, ‘Damn, she’s got the best part. She’s the villain!’”
The QVC task was even more of a challenge since Marilu, who was her team’s on-air talent, suffered a technical glitch on live TV. “I was hearing another show in my ear piece,” she reveals. “I could sort of hear Piers [Morgan], but it was all garbled. They fixed it for the next guys.”
Double ouch! It just doesn’t seem fair that Marilu, who was one of the show’s nicer players, would walk away from this charity fundraising opportunity empty-handed. “Just keep watching the show, that’s all I’m saying,” Marilu teases.
Back in the real world, Marilu is getting ready to release her next book. “It’s called Wear Your Life Well: How to Use What You Have to Get What You Want,” she says. “The chapters are based on the best of classes I teach on my Web site, Marilu.com, which is everything from learning to love the foods that love you to using acting techniques to help create the life you’ve always wanted to have.”
Carol and Omarosa may want to sign up, soon.
The Celebrity Apprentice airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. on NBC.
Fired Celebrity Apprentice Speaks!
February 12th, 2008
Anyone who thought the gals had it in the bag last week on The Celebrity Apprentice were in for a shocker (myself included!) when the ladies of Empresario and their new teammate Stephen Baldwin lost the Vera Wang/Serta mattress challenge to Hydra. That was bad news for Nely Galan, who Donald Trump sent packing.
“I think that he was just so upset that he lost Gene [Simmons] over me. I think that he really couldn’t get past it,” says Nely, referring to the first time Donald wanted to fire her. For those who thinks teammate Omarosa fed Nely to the wolves, she swears it’s not the case. “She did not want me in the boardroom,” Nely declares. “Donald really kept hounding her the same way he did with Gene.”
Ouch! Seems Donald really had out for The Swan creator and entrepreneur. But Nely wouldn’t trade the experience she had on the show. “It was like going to a grown-up boot camp with all these people you admire: an Olympic gold medalist, a rock star, a country singer and an actor. All these people are brilliant in different ways.”
As for money she could have won had she been named the Celebrity Apprentice that would have gone to her charity Count Me In, a group that offers grants and mentors to budding female entrepreneurs, Nely’s got that covered. “I didn’t come on the show to leave my charity in the lurch. The Celebrity Apprentice winner gets $250,000 for his or her charity. I’m happy to say, in record time, I raised $220,000 for mine,” she says. “You know who gave me the most money? Women entrepreneurs of America whose companies make more than $1 million.”
Women. We rock.
The Celebrity Apprentice airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. on NBC.
Fired Celebrity Apprentice Gene Simmons
January 23rd, 2008
I knew it was a bad sign when Fired Celebrity Apprentice Gene Simmons, who left undefeated men’s team Hydra to become team leader of all-female Empresario, didn’t get the key piece of marketing needed to win the Kodak Challenge last week. It left the door open for Hydra to take it, even with a trailer that looked like it had been thrown together by five-year-olds (no offense to today’s smartest kindergarteners!). While his decision led to his ousting, Gene stands behind his concept.
“They are not qualified to know anything. I have guitar picks older than they are,” says Gene of the Kodak executives who picked Hydra’s campaign touting Kodak’s affordable ink over Gene’s “It’s A Kodak World, Welcome” slogan. “Their position for selling ink – letting people know that it’s cheap – is the worst thing you can do for a company whose stock prices are dying. You have to prop up the brand name Kodak and its quality. You have to give it a Rolls-Royce finish, not talk about being how cheap it is.”
The legendary rocker was prepared to take full consequence for his team’s loss. “I wasn’t going to blame any of the ladies because I was team leader and I told them what I wanted to do,” he explains. “I engaged them in a think tank discussion, and then I decided what the campaign was going to be … that’s it. No discussion. Democracy is highly over-rated. A benevolent dictatorship actually works. And because of my leadership qualities and my ethical and moral responsibilities, I couldn’t blame anyone else for the Kodak executives not understanding what I wanted to do.”
So that’s why he took seemingly sacrificial lambs Omarosa and Jennie Finch into the boardroom, despite Donald Trump’s insistence he pick Nely Galan? “Every one of those ladies could have been fired,” Gene declares. “Not because each of them isn’t good, they don’t know how to work as a team. It may be biological; by the way…Whether it is sports or gangs, men, even though they have a pecking order, they have to work as teams. Women don’t. There is no teamwork, there is no sisterhood.”
Gene isn’t totally a goner from the Thursday night lineup. He guest stars tomorrow night on Ugly Betty, airing Jan. 24 at 8 p.m. on ABC. “I’m think I’m Amanda’s father, but I’ve been asking every girl I’ve met, probably everyone I’ve ever met, ‘Who’s your daddy,’” he says. “Finally Amanda answered.”
The entrepreneur is now busying himself with Vol. 3 of the multi-platinum "KISSology: The Ultimate Kiss Collection," an upcoming season of Gene Simmons Family Jewels on A&E and countless business opportunities that happen beyond the camera’s lens. Says a confident Gene, “I could have beaten both teams on my own. Every day I’m given the chance, and I prove it every day, because companies pay me tens of millions of dollars to do what I did on the show for free."
I was lucky enough to get Gene’s plan for succeeding in life at absolutely no charge. “Get up every day and treat it as the only day you’ll ever have to live,” he declares. “Get off your butt and go do something. Make every hour count. There are a lot of people out there who want to give you money and emotions and fulfillment, and you got to go find them.”
True dat! Gene also revealed who’s going to take Celebrity Apprentice. “Donald Trump, he’s the only survivor,” he laughs.
The Celebrity Apprentice airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. on NBC.
