Celebrity Apprentice

Celebrity Apprentice star and beauty queen Dayana Mendoza is firing back at co-star Lisa Lampanelli for a racial insult she allegedly used during a radio interview.

It all went down last month when Lampanelli appeared on Sirius XM, saying:

"I actually would love to see [Dayana] giving birth. She’s a sp*c! She’s going to do it f**king soon, anyway. She’ll be knocked up before the end of the week.”

Lampanelli is no stranger to using that slur in particular. Here's a portion of a routine she did a few years back in which she says that and much worse:

Lisa Lampanelli Makes Racist Comments

Dayana tells the Huffington Post, "I understand that it's Lisa's job to make fun of people for a living. If poking fun at me can help her sell tickets, no problem."

"I am happy to help her put food on her table. However, when she uses racial slurs, she is not only targeting myself but degrading an entire Hispanic culture."

Donald Trump may need to add "therapist" to his resume underneath "blowhard," "fake presidential candidate" and "real estate mogul" after this Celebrity Apprentice.

Aubrey O'Day had just gone MIA after clashing with Arsenio Hall, Lisa Lampanelli had a massive meltdown (again) and a whole lot of additional drama played out.

In the end, Lou Ferrigno got the chop. Why?

Arsenio and Lisa yelled about Aubrey and her ego. Then when Lou Ferrigno and Dayana Mendoza walked in the victory room, Lisa insulted them to their faces.

Things didn't improve much during the task, which required the teams to write, produce and direct a 60-second commercial for Entertainment (dot) com.

Dayana Mendoza instantly jumped to claim the role of project manager for Team Unanimous, while Teresa Guidice boldly took the #1 spot for Team Forte.

Team Forte went for a more risque storyline, while Team Unanimous played it safe, and got beat, leaving Lou Ferrigno to play Penn's usual role of scapegoat.

Miss Universe brought Lou and Lisa with her to the chopping block, where the Donald opined that Lou didn't give his all AND threw his team under the bus.

Strike two and three right there. Adios, Lou!

Proving just how little NBC has worth watching these days, Donald Trump and Celebrity Apprentice were given a three-hour episode last night. Three.

Sad as that is, with over $1 million at stake for charity, the stakes were raised, things in the boardroom got quite heated and two people got the axe.

Debbie Gibson was the first of two casualties, taking the fall after the episode's initial task - to create and sell a "My New York" celebrity guidebook.

In the boardroom, the losing women brought out their manicured claws, and while Aubrey O'Day seemed like the obvious choice to get the boot, she was safe.

Thus, Debbie Gibson was fired.

Just when it seemed that things were about to simmer down, Trump pulled a fast one teamed up Teresa, Aubrey, Arsenio, Clay Aiken and Paul Teutul, Sr.

Up against them? Lou Ferrigno, Lisa, Dayana, Dee, and Penn Jillette. Arsenio and Lou took charge as project managers for the night's second challenge.

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On this week's Celebrity Apprentice, tensions ran high on the women's team after the dramatic firing of Tia Carrere for her failings on the previous task.

So could the reeling ladies pick up their game, pull things together to get back to their winning ways? And who did Donald Trump end up firing at the end?

No, and Patricia Velasquez.

Sunday's task was throwing a party for Crystal Light's new mock-tinis, and although the men's team members admittedly don't like to party, they got the job done here.

The teams were judged on creativity, brand messaging and the overall party atmosphere, and Clay Aiken, the farthest thing from a clubber, led them to the win.

On the losing side, Aubrey O'Day opted to bring Patricia Velasquez and Dayana Mendoza back into the boardroom with her. Then Aubrey broke out the tears.

Clearly it worked, as Donald Trump decided to donate $10,000 to her charity AND save her from elimination. Patricia got fired due to the errors on the signage. Ouch.

Was it the right decision? Are you sorry to see Velasquez go?

Following a task that didn't go as planned, Tia Carrere ended up being the latest casualty of Donald Trump's unforgiving boardroom cuts on Celebrity Apprentice.

On Sunday's episode, both teams were challenged to create a viral video for an O-Cedar mop. Obviously. The men, led by Lou Ferrigno, took a comical route.

The women, however, went with a double entendre "What's your number?" campaign.

While not overtly sexual, each woman, under the direction of Lisa Lampanelli and guidance of project manager Carrere, revealed how many mops they'd owned in their lives.

The men's idea mopped the floor with them and raised $50,000 for charity, leaving the ladies - Carrere, Lampanelli and Aubrey O'Day - fighting for survival.

When push came to shove, Carrere stepped up ... and fell on her own sword.

"Unfortunately I know as project manager, my head is on the chopping block," she told Trump, believing that someone else would go down with her.

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George Takei has been beamed out of Celebrity Apprentice.

After Donald Trump served up arguably the competition's most difficult challenge for the celebrity teams yet, the fan-favorite contestant became the casualty.

With a fashion-related challenge, the 0-for-2 women's team (which has two models as members) finally won their first challenge to get the zero off the board.

In the boardroom, Takei ended up paying the price.

Sunday's assignment was to create two living window displays at Lord & Taylor to promote Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump's clothing line ... convenient.

The teams were judged in three areas: creativity, brand message and overall presentation. The women's team project manager? Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza.

The men's manager? Takei. The deck was stacked on this one.

The men spent a lot of time complaining about Takei's leadership (Clay Aiken even called his leader "slower") while the women's team benefited from Aubrey O'Day.

In addition to Mendoza leading the way, O'Day came up with the concept and took over a lot of the planning, helping key a demonstrative win for the females.

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After last week's premiere saw Cheryl Tiegs fired and Victoria Gotti narrowly escape, in the opening moments of last night's episode of Celebrity Apprentice, she said:

"It's on."

Gotti added, "Women will turn on you quicker than a jackrabbit. No problem. In fact, bring it on." That they did, and she ended up getting the chop Sunday night.

Most of the women ended up turning on Gotti during a Medieval Times challenge.

After copious amounts of screaming, fighting and a broken finger (Dee Snider's), the men's decision to go with star power over plot worked in their favor as they won the challenge and received thunderous applause from the audience.

The women ended up showing more skin than they originally intended and despite Aubrey O'Day's best Snooki impression, it was back to the boardroom.

Lisa Lampanelli was spared as Gotti's stage-directing mishaps, inability to pull it together and threat to quit that had Donald Trump sending her home.

The Celebrity Apprentice's fifth-season premiere began with real estate mogul / blowhard / occasional political figure Donald Trump meeting with the season's celebrity cast and revealing he would be breaking them up into teams based on gender.

After the women lost, Patricia Velasquez then opted to take Cheryl Tiegs and Victoria Gotti back into the boardroom with her after Trump and his children (Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr.) debated the women's failure and pinned it on both women.

Ultimately, Cheryl Tiegs became the first candidate fired this season.

Trump fired the supermodel and former True Beauty judge for her role in the first task, in which sandwiches were sold to charitable donors and customers for NYC delis.

Patricia was clearly off the hook because her entire team agreed she did an excellent job despite the team losing the task, and the team was still successful overall.

She went on to tell Trump she would ultimately fire Cheryl over Victoria because Victoria brought positive energy and passion that would help her team. Trump agreed.

"I don't think you feel comfortable in this environment ... do you?" Trump asked Cheryl. "I don't know if I fit into this group," Cheryl replied.

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The latest cast of Celebrity Apprentice has been officially announced, with Teresa Giudice, Clay Aiken, Dee Snider and Cheryl Tiegs leading the pack of random stars!

“This season of Celebrity Apprentice will be the most exciting yet," Donald Trump said in a statement, stopping short of calling it the greatest TV event of all time.

Here's The Donald with Giudice, The Real Housewives of New Jersey star:

"We are thrilled to bring 18 new and talented celebrities who will help me make Celebrity Apprentice one of the hottest shows on television this spring."

Joining the Donald in the board room, where he'll surely be plugging his non-Presidential campaign, as advisors are children Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric Trump.

You can check out the full list of Celebrity Apprentice cast members - some of whom you have probably even heard of before - after the jump ...

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It's hard to believe that years ago, The Apprentice was a top-rated, serious show (as serious as a reality show starring Donald Trump can be anyway).

The quality may have fallen off faster than Trump's non-campaign for President after Obama's birth certificate was released, but hey, it's still on!

The teams were spotted in N.Y. City this week for their first challenge, selling sandwiches, appearing to be divided by gender as was the case last season.

Who will be the next Bret Michaels?!

The list of C-list stars set to compete next spring includes American Idol star Clay Aiken, Real Housewife of N.J. Teresa Giudice and Aubrey O'Day.

Beyond that, if you know who all these people are, we're impressed.

Can anybody match NeNe Leakes' fights with LaToya Jackson and Star Jones in terms of drama? And less importantly, who will win the grand prize?

Check out the full Celebrity Apprentice cast after the jump and see:

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