Celebrity Apprentice - Episode 6

The men, minus Vince, who resigned at the end of last week’s episode just when it looked like it was Piers who was going to get the axe, enter the après firing room.

Omarosa: Shoes on the other foot. Piers, we know how much you like to drink. Help yourself to the liquor. You know, Lennox, it’s nice to know you’re just as dirty as the rest of your teammates. [To Piers] He aligned himself with the likes of you. That really takes him down.

Piers: You’re a celebrity wanna be.

Omarosa: You’re a never been.

Piers: You don’t know anything about me.

Think she knows he’s the editor of the largest tabloid in the U.K.? Piers won’t back down and Oma pours a glass of wine on his head. How much of her is an act? She really is an abusive person, isn’t she?

Piers excuses himself only to find Steve out in the hallway, waiting for him. Baldwin can’t work with him anymore because the spying game in the previous episode compromised his Christian principles. Piers turns on his heel and returns to the après room. “Just to let you know, guys,” he tells the room, “I think that Mr. Baldwin is retiring as well.”

Steve tells the camera he was, “Really impacted by what happened in the boardroom.” Sounds like he needs a dentist or a laxative. He heads back downstairs and requests a meeting with the Donald. Trump convinces him to switch to Empressario rather than quit. Baldwin returns to the après room to announce the news. The women aren’t impressed. He tells him if they just want him to get coffee and shut-up that’s fine with him.

Lennox is deeply offended. “That’s mental,” he says, getting to his feet. He tells the camera, “He wants to join a girl’s team and make coffee? I got no respect for that.” Piers feels the same way

And to top it all off, Steven tells the women he won’t be available for the next task as he has a previous engagement. Now he’s got everybody pissed off.

At the task meeting next morning Oma, on behalf of Empressario, tells Trump that the women “respectfully decline to your offer to send Steven over to our team.” Trump lets her know who’s boss. Steve will be returning as a member of Empressario.

Wedding gown designer Vera Wang and the CEO of Serta Mattress are introduced. Wang has designed a mattress line for Serta and the task is to create a “living window” promotion.

Trace says the men are screwed. Not if they use Lennox, I say.

Oma is Project Manager and decides to incorporate brides into their display. Lennox is PM for Hydra and decides to channel Thomas Jefferson by way of Sister Hilda – they have to vote on everything and they have to get permission to speak up.

After the meeting with Wang/Serta, Trace comes up with a fully formed idea with a Cleopatra theme. As for the women – Oma has put MariLu in charge of creative and she has come up with a whole freaking script for the living window, with a groom carrying his bride into the room and the bride shedding her wedding dress to get into the bed. Oma wisely nixes the burlesque. She also goes behind MariLu’s back had asks Nely for help in “honing in” (she mean “reigning in”) the creative director.

In a nice bit of editing, we cut to the guys working out their differences with their PM. Piers, Trace and Vito have had enough of Lennox’s failure to lead. Do they plot behind his back? No, they openly ridicule him – which might seem brave when the ridiculee is a former world heavyweight champ. But it’s brilliant – you can’t hurt Lennox by hitting him, but making fun of him stings. They all wind up laughing.

Steve returns from his preaching engagement. His input is not appreciated.

Hydra and Empressario go to work on game day. Baldwin is the groom, Carol the bride. Wang and Serta are impressed. The guy Cleopatra is in bed with is in a slave costume, but Piers keeps referring to him as Marc Anthony. Duh.

In the boardroom Piers gets in the best shot: “It is tough in a challenge like this to go up against all these glamorous women and Omarosa.”

Hydra wisely asked Serta and Wang where they were looking to go moving forward and was told they wanted to get away from the bridal motif and go more toward a male-inclusive romance direction. On this basis, they are chosen as the winners. Oma looks gut shot.

After Hydra leaves the room, Baldwin identifies MariLu as a weak link. Oma is asked who will come back. She says Steve and the board shoots her down. Donald Jr. says, “He had nothing to do with the decisions you made.” Oma asks if they can all stay and is again shot down. She picks MariLu and Nely.

The Donald has a bug in his thinning bonnet for Nely. She defends herself well, but clearly the Donald wants to keep Omarosa for the drama she brings.

Nely, you’re fired.

And now for the best part of the entire episode – the scenes from next weeks episode. Trump puts Oma and Piers on the same team. Oh, yeah!