The new executives running NBC said they'd bring Donald Trump's reality show The Apprentice back from near extinction for at least one more run — this time with celebrities playing for charity.
And in yet another twist to efforts to revive the low-rated Apprentice franchise — and NBC's own sagging fortunes — they said Trump was inviting his archfoe, actress-comic Rosie O'Donnell, to join the cast of the show's latest edition.
Trump's impending return, and his invitation to O'Donnell, drew the most attention at the opening of NBC's annual summer presentation to TV critics. Trump and O'Donnell made headlines last year with a nasty war of words that began when O'Donnell, then co-host of the daytime talk show The View, mocked Trump on the air for his rebuke of disgraced beauty queen Tara Conner, Miss USA 2006. Trump fired back with a series of public insults, calling O'Donnell, among other things, "a fat slob," "a loser" and "despicable." The feud continued off and on for months.
Silverman said a Trump-O'Donnell union would be "great for television," and he insisted the offer was genuine, though he conceded, "I don't know if she'd do it."
The proposal was almost instantly shot down by O'Donnell's publicist, Cindi Berger, whose terse reply when told of the idea was, "Not in this lifetime, or beyond."
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Friday, July 20, 2007
Douche Bag Of The Week: Donald Trump
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Agreed. Complete and utter douchebag. Douchebag with a combover and a really large and active mouth. Wish he would melt away into the floorboards just like his green sister with the broom.
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