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She may be nine months pregnant, but 5’11” Ivanka Trump looks stunning and well put together as she runs errands in New York. At 29. Ivanka is the girl who has everything: a sterling education, a modeling career, a job as Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions at The Trump Organization, plus a TV show, Celebrity Apprentice. (And don’t forget the wealthy husband and baby on the way.) Donald did something right.
EXCLUSIVE: It’s ironic that Star Jones, who lost half her body weight after gastric bypass surgery, would fall in love with a CHEF, but that’s the case. Since 2008, Star has been dating Herb Wilson, the chef at Soho Grand and Tribeca Grand hotels in New York. She’s not ready to make a public announcement yet, but she has been sharing the news that she’s engaged with her close friends. Apparently Herb didn’t get cold feet after seeing Star’s manipulations on Celebrity Apprentice, so the show will go on!
The success of “Dancing With the Stars” and “Celebrity Apprentice” and “Celebrity Rehab” has all the networks scrambling for reality shows involving celebrities in some kind of peril or unfamiliar situation. Last year, CBS announced it was working on a “fish out of water” pilot called “The Name Game” where a celebrity switched lives with an everyday person with the same name. (For example, actor Gary Busey might switch lives with a car mechanic with the same name.) They soon learned it was impossible to find willing participants with the same names. According to Deadline/Hollywood, ABC has ordered episodes of a celebrity edition of their hit Wife Swap (or is it LIFE SWAP?) in which celebrities switch lifestyles for a week. Come to think of it, we wouldn’t mind seeing NeNe Leakes and Star Jones swapping lives for a week.
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This season’s Celebrity Apprentice turns out to have more drama and backstabbing than any of the “Housewives” shows and we can’t take our eyes off it. This particular reality show seems to push participants into revealing more about their personalities than we ever imagined. Sure, we expected Star Jones to clash with another BIG personality NeNe Leakes, but who knew she would drag Lisa Rinna over the coals? And Lisa (above, with daughter) revealed her feelings in a number of tweets and emails that insulted Star so much that Star naturally turned to the NBC legal department for help. As juicy as this was, it’s hard to top Dionne Warwick’s arrogance and sense of entitlement. We knew she had some dubious financial dealings (TV psychic business and charity fund raising) but we never knew she could be so MEAN! Bring it on, Donald!
Does anybody else see a similarity in looks and style between Donald Trump Jr and Scott Disick? A lot of guys would love to be in Trump Jr’s alligator shoes, he’s got a great job and married a pin-up girl, besides appearing on “Celebrity Apprentice.” Kourtney Kardashian’s baby-daddy, Scott Disick, seems to steal Trump’s style and kick it up a notch. But he’s still not a Trump.
Call us racist, but we can hardly wait to watch the melodrama between Atlanta Housewife NeNe Leakes and Star Jones on Celebrity Apprentice. Apparently the sniping and backstabbing between these two is a large part of the series. Star has said “I don’t like the vitriol and ghetto histrionics that she (Leakes) has been putting out there! It demeans black women and stereotypes them as unprofesional, loud, and uneducated.” NeNe told Wendy Williams that she “wouldn’t spit on Star Jones if she were on fire” and insists that she is a down-to-earth person. This will be a fun feud.
We didn’t take Omarosa seriously when the reality star announced two years ago that she was enrolling in seminary school and becoming a minister. Her first reality TV appearance was on Donald Trump’s ”The Apprentice” and she gained so much notoriety that a few years later she appeared on “Celebrity Apprentice.” At that time she was voted “most hated reality star,” and as a result, she went on to appear on over 20 reality shows! In 2009 the 37 year old did indeed enroll in seminary school and earned her preacher’s license. She is now an assistant pastor at the Weller Street Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. (As far as we know, she is still dating actor Michael Clarke Duncan.) Surely, she has to be one of the few pastors with implants.
A “dramatic” situation is percolating on Celebrity Apprentice this season: Deaf actress Marlee Matlin met Gary Busey for the first time, and she immediately observed that he spoke too loud and had trouble understanding conversations. She realized he was partially deaf and pulled him aside and suggested he see her hearing doctor. The doc told Busey he had only 40% of his hearing and fit him with a hearing aid. (Since it was filmed for the show, he probably got it free.) He communicates better now, but what he says is still pretty outrageous.
Gary Busey seems to be making a decent living thanks to reality shows. He made around $100,000 as the loose cannon on Dr Drew’s Celebrity Rehab and now he’s set to appear on Celebrity Apprentice with Donald Trump. The other day he was pulled over by police for suspected drunk driving but he passed sobriety tests and was released. Here he’s relaxing in the park (in his pajama bottoms?) with his girlfriend Steffanie Sampson and their one year old baby Luke.
Bret Michaels looks perfectly happy and healthy in New York with his kids Raine, 10, (the one that turned out NOT to have diabetes) and Jorja, 5, along with their mother Kristi Lynn Gibson. Brett and Kristi have been off an on for years – right now they’re definitely ON, but have no plans to wed. We wonder how Kristi felt while Bret was romancing those skanky groupies on “Rock of Love.” We still think Bret stole the Celebrity Apprentice title from more deserving Holly Robinson just by drumming up sympathy for his “illnesses.”