Donald Trump this year ruled out standing as a Republican candidate for the US Presidency, however rumours are again going into overdrive that The Apprentice host may run.

The Daily Telegraph reports he has changed his political status from Republican to Independent, which means he could run for President with no party affiliation. Ross Perot was the last person to do this got a respectable 20 per cent of the vote, but it is highly unlikely that he will win.

However he won’t be able to start campaigning until May as he is filming the show up unti then.

The primaries for the Republican presidential candidate is shaping up to be a battle of the reality TV stars, Donald Trump and Sarah Palin.

Donald who has starred in numerous series of The Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice according to the SMH has said he will definitely be putting his hat in the ring.

The other high profile Republican potential candidate is Sarah Palin who had her reality show set in her home state of Alaska cancelled. Sarah Palin’s profile was continuing to rise with the Tea Party, however the shootings in Arizona this week will hopefully tarnish her, as she was behind a website which has guns marked on certain states on a website. I mean seriously what sane person does that?

Maybe Donald a more liberal New Yorker is trying to wrestle the Republican’s back from the far right . If you think that a reality star cannot become President, remember Ronald Reagan a B-grade actor made it.

Ok if you really wanted the video to go viral, why didn’t the boys just throw a bag of popcorn on Ivanka Trump as she walked out of Trump Tower.

Dave the unemployed sales rep is going to find it hard to get a job after The Apprentice as he comes across as a complete tool. And to be the alpha tool on a show which really is all about ego is a pretty big accomplishment.

But I fear his time on the show is limited due to him alienating  most of his team meates.

On the latest since David got sidelined to the dentist (a bagel split his tooth), the drama was happening on the ladies team.

Now as the series of The Apprentice have been going on the strategy has been to cover your ass before going into the boardroom. So if you are project manager you ensure there is someone you can scapegoat, by either giving them a task they are not suited to or sidelining them.

Or if you are a team member you start opposing everything the team leader in what they are doing or be passive aggressive so you can say in the board room that at the time you raised your concerns with the way the challenge was heading.

Tyana was was being passive on the challenge when she realised she was being lined up to be the scapegoat. And I do tend to agree if you are going to say “this is not guerilla marketing” over and over try and suggest an alternative.

But the project manager was a shocker she took total control and the was trying to lay blame on the three girls who had done the shopping. I would like to know what the other women who were on the task did.

Anyway Tyana was eliminated a tad unfairly, but then why should the project manager be fired whenever the the team loses?

Your thoughts? Who do you think Trump should have fired?

Here is an interview with Tyana where she says she did have an idea, and Mahas the project manager was kept because Tyana was not loud or crazy like she was.

I know it is unfashionable but I love Donald Trump he is just ballsy with a wicked sense of humour. In the latest edition of TV Week he proclaims he is good in bed, but then says maybe his wife wouldn’t think so, and he was certainly in a chipper mood in the board room this episode.

There are no standout candidates yet, it is just the usual selection of aggressive personalities and varying degrees of intelligence.

The challenge tonight was to be the team to sell the most icecream. Poppy was the girls project manager, and and Dave headed up the guy’s team.

I know Dave was a bit strange last week, but I thought he was OK in this task. He was amusing, and did some good strategic thinking. However I think he thinks he is more of an alpha male then he is.

I love the way Donald Jr tries to get the same facial expressions as his father, but I disagreed with him that the girls were losing sales opportunities by not harassing people going in and out of the subway station. People normally don’t want to be stopped when they are going somewhere.

I am sure both teams were told they had to be in a certain location in New York, and wear something to stand out. Maybe it helps create drama if the teams are in similar locations.

Stephanie was full on, I would have hated to work for her, as she is so aggressive, however Poppy threw Lisa under the bus as her weakest player.

Dave named Alex and James as his weakest players. Dave said James over thinks every item given to him. James was getting heat because he has no sale experience, but he did take them to Father Demo square on the first day where they made good sales.

The girls won making $1800 of profit, the guys only  made $1500.

Dave kept James and Alex into the boardroom with him. James was throwing Alex under the bus, whereas Dave was throwing both James and Alex to the wall.

In the end Alex was fired.

As only The Donald can do, he has put together a cracker cast for his new season, yet to be filmed show Celebrity Apprentice.

Nothing is official yet but check out the rumoured “celebs” who will be on the show. It is gold.

• Detective La Toya Jackson
• Mark McGrath
• Dionne Warwick
• Jose Canseco
• Lil Jon
• Star Jones
• Gary Busey
• Marlee Matlin
• David Cassidy
• Niki Taylor
• Meat Loaf
• Nene Leakes
• Lisa Rinna
• Richard Hatch: First winner of Survivor, tax cheater and the winner of Mr. Sweet Prison Nalgas ’08.
• Hope Dworaczyk: Some trick.
• John Rich: One half of the country duo Big & Rich.

Now go to Dlisted who will explain who these people are.

I am going to love watching Richard Hatch and see if he can rehabilitate himself on this show. And speaking of rehabilitation Gary Busey was last seen on Celebrity Rehab and he had more then a touch of the crazies about him.

The real people’s version of The Apprentice starts 20 October on Fox 8 at 8.30pm. The contestant’s on this season have all been affected by the recession in the USA.

I can barely speak with excitement with news that Donald Trump is considering a tilt for President of the USA in 2012.

He says he doesn’t like the way the country is currently being run by Barack Obama. He said he would stand as a Republican.

Hopefully a camera crew will following his campaign if he decides to run.

Imagine the entertainment value in a pre-selection fight with other Republican hopeful Sarah Palin.  If The Donald did manage to get into the White House, would he appoint Ivanka and Donald Jr to his Cabinet? Would Bill Rasic be his Chief of Staff?  These are questions that need to be answered.

I wonder who will write his policy, or if he will have any. This could be sensational if he does decide to take a tilt, or this could all be about promoting the new series of The Apprentice which has “low” ratings of 3.87 million.

Source: News.com.au

The Donald is back on our screens in October with a new series of The Apprentice starting on Fox 8.  This version of The Apprentice will be a non-celebrity one, which I prefer.

It starts on the 20 October at 8.30pm on Fox 8.

The new season of America’s Next Top Model will commence on Tuesday 19 October at 7.30pm. They have mixed it up a bit this season with Miss J Alexander having a more mentoring role, and with Andre Leon Tally taking over his position on the judging panel.

Interesting that New Zealand Next Top Model host Sara Tetro will have guest judging role, which is great exposure for her, and also she deserves it as she is a great host.

Also the US version of Dating In The Dark will debut Wednesday, October 20 at 7.30pm.

 This reality dating series will follow single men and women as they go through all the usual motions of dating but without actually ever seeing one another before deciding whether or not to pursue a romantic relationship. Yes my eyebrows are raised in sceptism about THIS concept. Hopefully it is  not a dog of a show as it will turn people off the Australian version which begins production in two weeks and will premiere late 2010. Actually this could be perfect summer viewing.

The UK Apprentice continues to be one of the best TV shows currently on Australian TV. The last three episodes have been crackers, a trip to Marrakesh, a bridal show, and a TV commercial shoot.

Firstly the Marrakesh episode could be the most entertaining one of the whole series. The challenge was to buy the exact list of products provided for the least amount of monies.

The highlight was Michael and Jennifer buying chicken which was meant to be kosher. Jennifer thought it just meant the chicken had to be blessed. Michael who is allegedly jewish appeared to  not know what kosher meant. In fact it looked like Michael had put that he was part jewish on his application to the show to try and ingratiate himself with Sir Alan.

Anyway the two Jennifers ended up getting eliminated in that episode.

Then there was the bridal convention episode which saw Lucinda’s team win with an upmarket  bridal designer, mixed with some down market g-strings. Again Michael managed to survive even though on the losing team he was trying to flog expensive wedding cakes like you would second-hand cars, and Shari was fired.

Just when I thought Michael could no longer dodge any bullets Rafe was fired ahead of him because of their advertisement they made promoting tissues. Ok Michael and Rafe got carried away with the creative side of things, but the advert I thought was pretty classy. Clare who is starting to look like a contender pointed out they needed to show the brand a bit more, but they ignored her.

Interestingly enough their I heart my tissues box was not as well liked as the garish Aitishoo pack of the other team. And their corny ad won because they mentioned the product plus that it was anti-bacterial.

And then for some reason Rafe was fired, and I still cannot work out why. Was it because he had taken the lead with the commercial? Any way very disappointed as I thought he stayed composed when everyone else was losing it, or taking swipes a the other contenders.

Alan hinted that he thought there was not much behind the facade, but I thought Rafe was a team player and led when he had to. Michael who is more bluster then substance, lives on for another week in Apprentice land.

I thought it was an oxymoron that a team thought their eco cards were were a good idea, and just proved they were morons. Who would buy a card with a how to make your life more green. In fact I am sure you can something like that on those free postcards that you see in cafes.

The challenge for each team was to produce a greeting card where there was a gap in the market, and sell it to  three of the big chains.

I liked the idea of single day, and I do think it would be a successful particularly if it was around Valentines Day.

Kevin was the project manager for the eco card team, and as we have seen in the previous few weeks he is a complete tool. He definitely thinks his abilities are higher then they actually are, but then he is not the only contestant who thinks that.

The other depressing thing about him was he saw success in life being about the cars and property he owned. He was desperate to do the pitch even though he was not the most experienced to do it. He probably lost business due to his arrogance, also not helped by Jen telling the buyers that she did not buy as many cards now due to being more environmentally aware. I think the company was speechless at that one.

The only positive thing about their project was the guy having his kilt blowing up, with the message use wind power.

All the guys still left on the show are arrogant, but maybe that is the type of personality this show. The project manager of the other team (who I did not get his name apologies) had as his mantra that he would step over anyone to get the job with Alan Sugar.

I actually thought Rafe was the one did the most on this challenge – he came up with the singles day concept and did the pitch.

It was again interesting to see the dynamics between Lucinda and the other girls, they clearly don’t like her.

The singles day theme won the day with an order for 19000 from Tesco’s, whereas Kevin’s team only sold to one of the chains and only 6000 cards.

Kevin decided to bring in the indian girl, and Claire back into the board room. He brought back Claire because she did not step in and ensure she did the pitch, even when he was backing out at last minute. However I have noticed her not stepping up to the plate or taking responsibility in the other challenges when she has not  been the project manager.And the other girl was brought back in because she did not contribute much to the challenge.

No surprise the Alan told Kevin he was fired.

What surprised me was the arguing that went on back at the house when it was revealed Kevin was gone. They were down right rude to the indian lady (Shela?) saying well that is a tactic to use to just not do anything, therefore not making yourself a target.

I have to confess I still have no idea who is going to win, as none are that likeable. My favourite at the moment would have to be Rafe, but I get the feeling he is on the show for another reason, rather then wanting a job with Sir Alan.

Last episode I blogged about how none of the contestant’s on The UK Apprentice were likeable, this week I am not sure any of them are actually employable.

In fact from the behaviour of the majority of them in the this challenge where they had to sell photographs of people I would have fired them all.

Highlights of the episode:

• Simon saying he had an IQ of 170, but when he was eliminated said he would be back to putting up satellite dishes;
• The project manager of the other team putting Lucinda in charge of of the IT stuff when she cannot work her mobile phone. I would have thought one of the roles of a manager is to put people in jobs that best fit their skills. However not sure what skills Lucinda actually have that fit the business world.
• Alex is just a tool and was undermining Simon the whole way, and I loved how Alan Sugar’s female colleague called him on his bullshit.
• In fact the whole team did not give Simon a chance, with that girl (sorry forgotten her name) just talking over him all the time.
• On the the other team the girl’s continue to think that if you are project manager you must belittle and yell at the other team members you don’t like. Props to Rafe for keeping out of it.

Anyway Simon’s team made a loss and therefore lost the challenge, and in the end he was fired.