Bret Michaels took home the top prize on this season of Celebrity Apprentice, although the show’s sponsor Snapple agreed to a matching $250,000 donation to the show’s second place finisher Holly Van Peete, who was playing for her own foundation for autism research. It was a great cap to a crazy couple of months for the former hair metal demi-god who’s been hospitalized repeatedly for various ailments, most recently this week for a “warning […]
The Donald Trump could hardly have wished for a better Celebrity Apprentice contestant than former Poison frontman Bret Michaels. Not only has the guy proven an able contestant, landing himself in the final two by a combination of unharnessed creativity, fierce motivation, and an endlessly endearing lack of pretension, he’s also demonstrated an admirable sense of personal accountability and a willingness to accept feedback and learn from it. Fellow contestant Rod Blagojevich could’ve […]
Fans of 80s music and reality TV had much reason to celebrate over the last two days. First, the new season of Celebrity Apprentice opened with a fundraising showdown between Cyndi “I Want My MTV!” Lauper and Brett “F*ck Me, I’m Diabetic” Michaels. Both were chosen as their teams’ respective project managers for a challenge that involved opening a Burger Heaven on a busy New York intersection for three hours and raising as much money […]