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"For Selita Ebanks, last night&amp;#039;s Celebrity Apprentice marked a stark contrast to last week&amp;#039;s instalment. The Victoria&amp;#039;s Secret model had previously led Team Tenacity to their third straight win as project manager, before becoming the fifth star to be fired after the women lost this week&amp;#039;s Right Guard commercial challenge. She exited the competition after a boardroom showdown with this week&amp;#039;s PM Holly Robinson Peete and Maria Kanellis, with Donald Trump suggesting that she didn&amp;#039;t have the same fire as her teammates. We caught up with Selita to hear her thoughts on her exit.  How did you get involved with the show? &amp;quot;They called my agency and wanted some advice about whether there was a girl they thought would be a good contestant. My agency said, of course, Selita! I went in and decided to do the show.&amp;quot; Why do you think you were fired? &amp;quot;It was pretty much down to Summer, myself, Holly and Maria because Donald Trump took out Cyndi and Sharon. I&amp;#039;m an island girl, I&amp;#039;m laid-back, words don&amp;#039;t phase me. I think Donald was trying to get something out of me that just wasn&amp;#039;t going to be there. He gave me the opportunity to defend myself and fight for being there, but unfortunately I was so tired and so upset that Maria had thrown me under the bus, and there was so much negativity in there, so I didn&amp;#039;t really fight for myself. I was like the scapegoat, &amp;#039;Let&amp;#039;s just fire Selita&amp;#039;.&amp;quot;  Did Donald give you any advice that you will take with you? &amp;quot;No, not really. He didn&amp;#039;t give me any advice per say, but his words definitely did stick with me. Last night when he fired me, he said Maria and Holly were strong business women and he didn&amp;#039;t see the same quality in me. I&amp;#039;ve been modeling for ten years and the longevity of a model&amp;#039;s career is not even close to ten years so I think I have to disagree with him, although he doesn&amp;#039;t know my career and that&amp;#039;s fine. I do tend to defend a stranger before myself, and so perhaps my skin has gotten too thick because words don&amp;#039;t phase me anymore. I&amp;#039;ll take his advice and learn to become more assertive when it comes to defending myself.&amp;quot; Who do you think is the strongest out of the remaining men? &amp;quot;Well, physically, of course, it&amp;#039;s Goldberg! I was surprised by Curtis&amp;#039;s win last night, I think he needs to seriously thank Bret Michaels for that because Bret is so original and creative and he&amp;#039;s a little bit out there at times, but he&amp;#039;s a real smart businessman and I think Curtis only speaks chef language. I don&amp;#039;t know, I think we need to watch out for Mr Bret Michaels!&amp;quot; What about the women? &amp;quot;The whole objective of the show is to communicate when you&amp;#039;re the project manager and know how to delegate, and I think Holly at this moment is probably the strongest, but also Sharon. She is a really strong contender, a really amazing businesswoman, and she makes things happen. Maria is so creative and knows how to think outside the box and execute her visions. It&amp;#039;s really hard to say, I don&amp;#039;t know, I think as a team we were really strong but going forward you just never know.&amp;quot; What was your proudest moment on the show? &amp;quot;[Handing over the charity check] and the first task when Joan Rivers chose my food over Curtis Stone. Of course it was a technicality because his food was cold, but as a chef I think you&amp;#039;re supposed to be aware of that at all times. That was a pretty proud moment for me because I really enjoy cooking and it&amp;#039;s one of my favourite things to do in my pastime.&amp;quot;  How did it feel handing over the check to your charity Shine On Sierra Leone? &amp;quot;Oh man it felt so good because $20,000 can go so far. Last year with $40,000 I built another portion to our school which holds 250 students in a building that will sustain and hopefully stay around for decades ahead. I was really proud at that moment.&amp;quot;  The Celebrity Apprentice returns to NBC next Sunday at 9pm ET "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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