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"This week&amp;#039;s Celebrity Apprentice had it all - drama, soap opera legends and a shock decision so great that Ivanka dropped her pen. (I mean, that&amp;#039;s way better than it sounds.) But before we get to all that, there&amp;#039;s a lot of grumbling about how Omarosa is faking her tears for her late fianc\u00E9 Michael Clarke Duncan, while Gary&amp;#039;s upset that Marilu picked him as their team&amp;#039;s weakest player.   Not too upset, mind - he has time to talk about how he&amp;#039;s been injected with love from angels. &amp;quot;Right, I&amp;#039;m sure,&amp;quot; Marilu reassures him. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m an angel in an earth suit!&amp;quot; Gary declares, vowing that it&amp;#039;s water under the bridge between him and Marilu even though she won&amp;#039;t ride horses backwards in Texas with him (I don&amp;#039;t even want to know.) Anyway, enough of that - let&amp;#039;s get on with this week&amp;#039;s task. Donald tells the teams that they&amp;#039;ll have to create a five-minute soap opera to promote Crystal Light Liquid customisable drinks. Plus, one team will get to work with Susan Lucci and the other Jack Wagner! The execs are there to reveal that they&amp;#039;ll be judged on the audience reaction, creativity, execution and brand messaging. Team Power quickly chooses La Toya as their project manager, while Stephen becomes the leader for Plan B. There&amp;#039;s a lot at stake - $25,000 to the winning project manager&amp;#039;s charity, plus an extra $30,000 from Crystal Light. Let&amp;#039;s get this going!  Plan B It quickly becomes clear that Stephen is a, well, interesting project manager. He takes his role very seriously, let&amp;#039;s put it like that (apparently he wants to be a &amp;quot;Gordon Gekko ruthless psychopath&amp;quot;. After speaking with executives Adam and Tiffany, Penn comes up with the idea that since the drink is customisable (you add however much you want to water, or something), they should equate it to romance and have increasingly romantic scenes. Trace seems to be on board with this idea as long as he ends up making out with Susan Lucci, while Stephen likes it because he can blame it all on Penn if it goes wrong. Sure enough, when Susan arrives during their rehearsals, Trace can barely contain his excitement. &amp;quot;I can appreciate beauty in any form - good horse flesh, beautiful mountain landscapes, and beautiful women,&amp;quot; he tells us. When Trace asks Susan if he can pick her up at the end of their performance, she describes him as a &amp;quot;big beautiful hunk of a cowboy&amp;quot;. Trace may never recover. When Donald&amp;#039;s boardroom-advisor-of-the-week Arsenio shows up, he seems impressed too - he doesn&amp;#039;t have many suggestions. But the real fun comes when Plan B decide to rehearse. Stephen announces that as director, he just wants to &amp;quot;let it flow&amp;quot; - before yelling: &amp;quot;Stop&amp;quot; after every two seconds to give his actors &amp;#039;helpful notes&amp;#039;. It&amp;#039;s hilarious watching everyone get increasingly frustrated as Trace bangs his head against the wall and Marilu gets shot down when she suggests - in her role as stage manager - some stage management. (She nails it when she says Stephen is playing the role of the director, by the way.) Anyway, it&amp;#039;s finally time for the performance and it goes pretty much as well as expected (though Lisa&amp;#039;s nervous to see Ivanka&amp;#039;s completely stoic face - why isn&amp;#039;t she laughing?) Trace is hilarious, though, getting more ridiculous with each scene. Stephen&amp;#039;s happy with the performance, anyway, giving everyone 20 gold stars and vowing that if it fails he&amp;#039;ll just blame it all on Penn. Hooray!  Power Oh boy, things are much less harmonious over with Power. Right from the off, Omarosa is answering back to La Toya and complaining and forcing her way into a role in the soap. She also has an idea - to make it Housewives themed. But she&amp;#039;s interrupting so much that La Toya is getting really annoyed. While the team eventually comes up with a fun, ridiculously OTT concept - in which they&amp;#039;ll get the audience to drink along to the classic soap opera dum dum dum sound - it&amp;#039;s no surprise when La Toya eventually gets fed up with Omarosa&amp;#039;s constant niggles (she wants to go shop for props, not help with the script, etc) and tells her to be quiet.  Well, that&amp;#039;s just way too disrespectful for Omarosa who bites back (even though a literal second ago she&amp;#039;d sniped: &amp;quot;I like the little bass in your voice, La Toya - beat it!&amp;quot;) As Dennis basically runs away (smart), the women begin going at it - Omarosa complains La Toya has been disrespecting her and is not being a good leader by doing so (shall we skate over Omarosa&amp;#039;s turn as project manager last week?)  I would like to see Lil Jon commentating on everything, though, as he&amp;#039;s good fun: &amp;quot;La Toya stood up, put her hand on her hip and cocked her neck. When a black woman does that, you know you&amp;#039;ve got problems.&amp;quot; Finally, La Toya lets Omarosa have her way and sends her off to get props, just to get her out of the room. &amp;quot;Omarosa&amp;#039;s fianc\u00E9 passed away not long ago from a heart attack,&amp;quot; La Toya says. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m sure she gave it to him.&amp;quot; Things are getting nasty.  Anyway, thank goodness Omarosa goes to get the costumes with Claudia - except she doesn&amp;#039;t give La Toya much of break, as she calls her every five seconds to check on the &amp;quot;direction&amp;quot; she wants (as Claudia notes, this is so she can later blame La Toya if it all goes wrong.) Even Brande thinks that Omarosa&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;a bit toxic&amp;quot;. Yikes! And when Arsenio comes to visit, La Toya wastes no time in telling him that Omarosa is a &amp;quot;conniving witch&amp;quot;. Yeah, she ain&amp;#039;t holding back any more!  But she doesn&amp;#039;t have to for much longer - during rehearsals with Jack, Omarosa gets a call that the 911 call from Michael&amp;#039;s death has been obtained by a tabloid, so she leaves to deal with the situation. Props to the editors, who - after Claudia asks what they&amp;#039;re going to do with no villain - play the soap opera music. It turns out to be much less dramatic than that, though - Claudia takes on the villain role and completely bosses it, while Omarosa returns just minutes before the performance (La Toya is not surprised.) Everyone seems to enjoy the performance though - there are lots of laughs, and it&amp;#039;s definitely good fun. But Omarosa isn&amp;#039;t going to let La Toya&amp;#039;s stumble over the brand name slide... (to be fair, that is a pretty big mistake to make.) With both presentations done, it&amp;#039;s up to the execs to tell Arsenio and Ivanka what they thought. For Power, they agree that Brande was great, there was a lot of energy and it was very creative - but then the focus wasn&amp;#039;t really on the brand, it was a bit rushed, and the audience interaction was a good idea not executed too well. As for Plan B, they were disappointed only one flavour of the drink was featured, but the drink was the centre of the story and Trace was great. So who won? We&amp;#039;ll have to wait...  The Boardroom I&amp;#039;ll be straight with you - almost immediately this Boardroom is focused on Omarosa (La Toya names Brande and Claudia stars - &amp;quot;Omarosa wasn&amp;#039;t one of our stars.&amp;quot;) Omarosa explains that she had to leave because of the 911 call leak, though she insists she helped on day one (La Toya? Not convinced.) La Toya soon explains that she doesn&amp;#039;t get on with Omarosa well because she&amp;#039;s so controlling, but we all know Omarosa isn&amp;#039;t going to take something like that lying down - soon there&amp;#039;s a bit of a battle going on.  It&amp;#039;s all very loud and aggressive, and soon other team members are pitching in as well - Dennis says that Omarosa tries to play games and isn&amp;#039;t a team player, while Brande praises La Toya&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;strength&amp;quot; and says that once Omarosa left, everyone found things a lot easier. When Omarosa starts talking again, Donald apparently decides it&amp;#039;s time for a break and turns to speak to Stephen instead. Stephen praises everyone on his team, but after questioning from Trump, he reluctantly names Gary as the weakest link. He&amp;#039;s very pleased with the performance of Plan B - and Penn&amp;#039;s idea - though Ivanka and Donald point out that the execs weren&amp;#039;t happy only one flavour was featured in their soap opera. But soon Trump&amp;#039;s back to the weakest player and pretty much everyone agrees it was Gary. Awkward. Gary actually gets a bit upset and tries to defend himself - he says he did everything he was asked. Anyway, time to move on to the results - Arsenio and Ivanka basically repeat what the execs said earlier, but before Donald reveals the winner, Arsenio wants to know more about Omarosa&amp;#039;s decision to leave. Boy, does this open a can of worms! Omarosa begins sobbing that she will always put Michael above the show, as the others don&amp;#039;t exactly know how to react. Claudia and Brande actually get into a little whispered conversation about whether they should say anything or suggest that it&amp;#039;s too soon for her to be on the show. This all goes on for so long that it starts getting a little uncomfortable, actually. Dennis sweetly hands Omarosa a tissue, though.  Finally, Donald reveals the results - Stephen&amp;#039;s team has won. But not all of them are happy - Gary&amp;#039;s actually really upset about everyone turning on him in the Boardroom and seems to have a little bit of a cry to himself. Obviously everyone rallies round him to try to make him feel better, but enough of that - who&amp;#039;s going to get fired? We&amp;#039;ll have to wait a little longer to find out because for some reason Donald wants to talk about Dennis&amp;#039;s tattoos and Lil Jon&amp;#039;s grill first... Who&amp;#039;s Going Home? In the Boardroom, La Toya admits that she thought her team had won the challenge and starts to try to lay the blame on Omarosa. But Omarosa gets in there quick sharp to point out that they lost on product integration and branding - something La Toya should have been responsible for. She even complains repeatedly about La Toya getting the name of the product wrong, though Ivanka points out that the execs actually weren&amp;#039;t too bothered about that. Moving on, Jon suggests that Dennis could perhaps have been the weakest player, though he did come with a different perspective (and Donald apparently shoots down the idea of firing him by going on about what a terrific guy he is.) But it soon returns to an Omarosa vs La Toya battle, causing Claudia to grimace. When she admits that she doesn&amp;#039;t like arguments, Omarosa turns on her, saying she&amp;#039;s maybe too weak for this competition if that&amp;#039;s the case. It&amp;#039;s all getting very uncomfortable, especially given the fact that Claudia and Omarosa are friends outside of the show. Even Brande eventually gets involved, complaining that Omarosa only contributed one idea.  La Toya actually gets so worked up that she asks for the authority to fire someone herself, but Donald obviously isn&amp;#039;t having any of that. She repeats her suggestion that Omarosa is a witch, but that just gives Omarosa the high ground: &amp;quot;Oh my, resorting to name calling.&amp;quot; (Say what you want about her - she is smart.) Everyone begins to discuss whether you have to be cutthroat to win, but eventually after some more back and forth Donald asks La Toya to name two people she&amp;#039;s bringing back. And you will never guess who she picks (and no, I&amp;#039;m not being sarcastic.) Brande and Dennis. Yep, that&amp;#039;s right. Brande and Dennis. Omarosa? The one she&amp;#039;s been complaining about this whole time? Nope. Brande and Dennis. And if someone can put together a gif of the amazing moment when Ivanka drops her pen in shock, that would be great. Everyone is completely thrown by La Toya&amp;#039;s decision, though Omarosa&amp;#039;s obviously quite pleased about the whole thing. La Toya admits that Omarosa was her first choice to come back, but she kind of suggests that Omarosa&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;lies&amp;quot; have been evident and her team mates haven&amp;#039;t been backing her up. Anyway, Donald sends them out so he can talk to his advisors, though he&amp;#039;s completely confused by the whole thing. Arsenio seems to think that La Toya has a plan, though. Outside, La Toya tells Brande and Dennis that she didn&amp;#039;t think Donald would get rid of Omarosa - though they disagree.  Back in the Boardroom, everything&amp;#039;s basically entirely focused on La Toya&amp;#039;s bizarre decision. She eventually explains that she thought Donald was buying Omarosa&amp;#039;s fake tears (her suggestion, not mine), though Donald insists that he saw through it (&amp;quot;were there tears?&amp;quot;) It&amp;#039;s pretty clear where this is going, no matter how many times they go over La Toya&amp;#039;s choice not to bring back Omarosa. La Toya does seem to have regrets once she thinks Donald wasn&amp;#039;t taken in by Omarosa - and she even says she wanted him to ask her again so she could change her mind. But it&amp;#039;s too late for all that - they think La Toya was scared of Omarosa. She can deny this all she wants, but La Toya? You&amp;#039;re fired. So that&amp;#039;s that - all La Toya can do now is urge Brande and Dennis to get rid of Omarosa and then rant about her in the car - apparently she&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;no good, conniving, scheming, cut throat&amp;quot; and then I&amp;#039;m going to stop quoting for what can delicately be described as &amp;quot;legal reasons&amp;quot;. Yikes! What kind of reaction is Omarosa going to produce next week? The Celebrity Apprentice airs Sundays on NBC. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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