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'Celebrity Apprentice' Recap: Episode 8.3 Recap
Kim Wetter
Kim Wetter
Senior Writer, BuddyTV
Last week on The Celebrity Apprentice, KOTU fell apart again. Scott Hamilton and Tom Green went head to head in the boardroom and Tom Green volunteered to be the next project manager for the men. Scott was fired.

Khloe Kardashian, the project manager of the previous challenge, delivers her $20,000 check to Robert Shapiro for the Brent Shapiro Foundation. She admits to having difficulties with drugs and alcohol in the past and wants to help teach children about the dangers.

Donald Trump meets them at St Bartholomew's Chapel to tell the contestants they will be selling wedding dresses. Each team has 125 dresses and whoever makes the greatest profit wins. The men elect Tom Green as project manager and the women chose Brande Roderick.
Tom Green tries to assign tasks to the men's team. He asks Clint Black to try to raise $100,000. The women are without Joan Rivers for the first part of the task. Annie Duke sells a $10,000 dress while Dennis Rodman sells a $3,000 dress. Once again, it seems like the winning team will be the team with the most generous friends.

Melissa Rivers invites Preston Bailey, a famous wedding planner, to come by the shop and help the women out, which is productive. Tom Green dressing up in one of the wedding dresses is not productive. The men's team is not impressed with his antics. Dennis Rodman and Hershel Walker hit the streets to create some “buzz” for the sale. Buzz means Dennis drinks vodka cranberries and hits on women. It could work, you never know.

Ivanka comes by to check up on the team and notices that Dennis and Hershel are missing. Khloe Kardashian pulls out the big guns and calls Joe Francis. Classy. Speaking of classy, Dennis calls up his club owner friend and gets a Russian “model” to come by the store. Jesse James astutely notes that Dennis works more when there's vodka and cranberry involved just as Dennis and Tom leave with the “model” to hit the bars.

At 7:35 in the morning, Tom and Dennis are MIA. The men's team leaves without them. An hour later, Tom emerges, coffee in hand and heads to the store. Joan Rivers returns and reveals that she did a lecture on survival the previous day, which is why she was gone. Who goes to a lecture on survival by Joan Rivers? What?

Clint Black tries to call Tom Green out for partying the night before but Tom denies it. Dennis calls to tell the team he won't be coming in to the store because he's having trouble with his eyes. That's a hangover excuse I've never heard before. When George comes by to check on them he notices two things: Dennis isn't present and their store looks pathetic, especially compared to the women's store.

At some point, people stop coming into the women's store and start going to the men's. It might be because if you go to the men's store, Brian McKnight will flirt with you. With 90 minutes left, the women start to poach the men's customers. Joan Rivers literally grabs a woman and takes her next door. It might not be a problem because Clint Black brought in $35,000 although QVC brings $25,000 to the women and Annie Duke brings her promised $10,000. It'll be a close race. With two minutes left, Hershel brings in a check for $16,000.

In the boardroom, Donald Trump asks the teams how they did. Brande announces that Annie Duke and Melissa Rivers were the stars of her team. Tom Green announces that Clint Black and Hershel Walker were the stars of the team. Immediately, George tells Donald Trump that Dennis wasn't there and that the store looked horrible. The men sold 21 dresses for $63,000 dollars. The women sold 22 dresses for $103,000. The women have won again for the third week in a row.

Brian McKnight announces that Tom Green overslept. Hershel Walker admits he thinks Dennis Rodman was hung over. Then, Dennis Rodman admits he ignored Tom Green when he came to wake him up. Donald Trump asks Dennis if he fires him or Tom. Dennis answers that he wants to stay so he should fire Tom. After pointing out that Tom Green was lousy last week and lousy this week, Donald Trump fires Tom and tells Dennis to try harder.

Next week: The Dennis Rodman Meltdown! Stay tuned.



-Kim Wetter, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
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