*“Celebrity Apprentice” is only four shows in, and already Arsenio Hall has found himself called back to the boardroom more than once.
The former talk show host says he doesn’t mind the stress of having to argue for his survival against Donald Trump, because it’s all for a worthy cause. He’s playing for the charity started by one of his best friends, Earvin “Magic” Johnson.
“You know what made me say, ‘I gotta do it?’ I realized that it was the 20th year anniversary of the Magic Johnson Foundation, and I was on the ground floor with Earvin when it all started,” Arsenio tells EURweb exclusively. “ And I was like, ‘You know what? I can’t go do this for the money or for the exposure, but for Earvin I’m there.’ That was the deciding factor for me, because this ain’t the kind of s**t you do unless you’re really committed to something or someone.”
Below, Hall and fellow contestant Tia Carrere say they know how to avoid looking crazy on the show. The secret: don’t do anything that can be manipulated by the editors.
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BTW, is anyone watching Celebrity Apprentice? I know a lot of folks promised not to watch if because of Donald’s recent racist behavior. I’ve been a fan and had every intention of watching it, but after the first episode, I’m like, where the black people at? One black person on the whole damn show?! I tried to work with it, but I just didn’t have it in me.
I guess Donald Trump must have figured that he was going to get a lot of backlash from his black viewers for gong after Obama, so no point in being inclusive.
Well, that’s what happens when you judge black people. Your ratings suffer unnecessarily.
Maybe I’ll muster the effort to watch a few before they fire Arsenio. But what I learned about Celebrity Apprentice, is that it’s less to do with you performance and more if Trump wants you to stay. So I guess he’ll be around a little longer, boardroom visits notwithstanding.
Me too. Once faithful. Now, not so much. I watch only snippets to see how Arsenio is doing. Once he is fired…no more snippets.
Totally agree. I stopped watching Celebrity Apprentice when the first Black winner was asked to share his victory with the white runner-up. He never asked that of any of the white winners. Since then, Trump has only solidified his bigotry against the Black race by using people like Amorosa, Starr Jones, and NeNe Leaks to further the already negative sterotype of the ‘angry Black women’ thing. I would hope that any self-respecting person of any color would ban this show And to be honest, I’m a little bothered that Arsenio decided to stoop so low as be a contestant. I can understand he may have wanted to raise money for his friend’s cause, but I wish he could have found another avenue. I hope that he was not so desperate to regain his celebrity status that he would willingly play the fiddle for this bigot.
Don’t be a race traitor. Do not watch Donald Tramps show. Have no commerce with that devil. He has shown himself to be a kluxer in a suit. It’s time to exact revenge on thesse tubobs and bring down our wrath upon them and their kin and kind.
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America is a white country, so stop being shocked when there is only one person of color on a show. Since every network was created by a white man, including BET and Magic and Diddy’s new networks, there could be zero people of color on tv. Stop thinking that are so few racist white people in America that you can count them on your hands. If you knew how many of the white people you deal with everyday, watch on tv, own businesses, elected officials, teachers, etc don’t like people of color, you would be real scared. You don’t have to be in the Klan to hate people of color.
It’s not a secret that America, and therefore TV shows, are governed by two competing forces. Racism and economics. The question is which one will have the upper hand. Well, if you watch TV you would have noticed that racism, more often than not, cedes to economics. The whites you refer to behind these networks fully recognize the power of the black dollar. They know that blacks watch TV at a disproportionately higher rate than other races, and that’s why blacks are almost always represented on these reality shows around our proportion of the population. I don’t watch a lot of reality shows, but that’s the case with the few that have watched. I’ve been watching Survivor for the longest and that’s what I have noticed, at least one black male and one black female. I even noticed that on this show on the History channel, Top Shot. Now considering a show on guns and marksmanship, I would think first of gung ho military white boys or those hillbillies going hunting, but they have two black guys this season.
Celebrity Apprentice has always been like that. Matter of fact, blacks have been overly represented in the past. Like five or six blacks on previous shows. And this is not a Donald Trump production. He’s just the host of an NBC show. Yeah, NBC, not Fox. So yes, I was shocked to see only one black person, considering the potential loss in revenue from the decline in ratings.
White people may not like us, but they have always respected our spending power and use every opportunity to take advantage of it.