Celebrity Apprentice - Episode 11

Last week Omarosa was fired after leading Empressario to the worst defeat in The Apprentice history at the hands of Hydra, project-managed by her nemesis, Piers. Hooray. When they gather for their task assignments Trump asks Piers how he feels after slaughtering Oma. “Sad,” Piers says dryly. “It’s a sad day for the show, a sad day for television and a sad day for the American people."

This week’s challenge is pretty straightforward. The teams have 2 hours to design an open faced toasted sandwich for Quiznos and do whatever prep they need to do, then 2 hours to sell as many as they can. All sandwiches are $2, so this will not be a battle of the rolodexes.

On the car ride to their appointed Quiznos, Steve and Trace joke about what Piers, Carol and Lennox are up to. “I can see it," Trace says. "Piers will make Lennox stand out front and they’ll sell the Knockout sandwich.”

Close. Cut to Hydra in transit. Lennox is the PM. We only know this because Piers tells him he is, while running through a list of other task assignments. “I thought Lennox was PM,” Carol complains. Lennox assures her he is, but he’s willing to listen to good ideas. Like pretending to be PM while counting on Piers to get you another win, Lennie? Sounds like a great idea. And here’s another one, this one from Piers: “We call it the Champ sandwich.” It's not the Knockout but, like I said, it's close. Piers tells Lennox to stand out front and he will herd the pedestrians over for autographs.

Empressario goes with Trace's Cowboy Club, a prime rib, cheese and bacon concoction that looked a whole lot better than The Champ - a dry looking processed turkey and cheddar sandwich that would lose a taste test with your basic Thanksgiving turkey leftovers with mayo on white. We get lots of shots of Trace and Lennox signing autographs and getting their pics taken and with almost no drama we are in the boardroom. Trump grills the teams about how their PM did, yadda-yadda and it’s a freakin’ love-in. Everybody thinks everybody else is great, brilliant, solid. Trump, desperate to stir something up, goes to Ivanka and this week’s other watcher, a Broadway producer named Daryl Roth. They thought the teams worked well together. Isn’t that sweet? I find myself missing Oma. Good God – next thing you know, I’ll start feeling sorry for Hillary.

Final tally: 315 to 253 – the Lennox Lewis product endorsement machine rolls to yet another win

In the boardroom, Trace is the stoic cowboy to the end. He was PM, so he’ll take the bullet. It is obvious Trump is looking for a reason to keep him. He sends both Trace and Stephen out so he can discuss the situation with Ivanka in private.

Back in the boardroom Trump still has no decision. We get 8 minutes of the Donald being the anti-Donald – as wishy-washy as they get. He finally gives a long song and dance about Stephen not raising much money over the past 2 weeks to justify doing what he wanted to do all along – keep Trace. At least he tells Stephen he’s proud of him. Did you hear that, Mom? The Donald is proud of me, Ma.

So now we get “the telephone call that changes everything,” that the promos have been promising all week.Trump calls the final four back to the boardroom. He congratulates them on their achievements and then announces, “Before the night is over, two of you will be fired.”Cut to the previews for next week. It will start with a double elimination. Telling you right now – the Donald wants Trace and Piers as the final two. Tell you something else - on a per worker basis, Empressario won, 126.5 to 105.