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Celebrity Apprentice recap: No one likes Star, LaToya Mulligan and No Hope

By April MacIntyre May 2, 2011, 15:32 GMT

04/03/2011 - Hope Dworaczyk - 3rd Annual Star Magazine\'s "All Hollywood" Event - Trousdale - Hollywood, CA, USA © Emiley Schweich / PR Photos

Passivity and laying low will only get you so far on "Celebrity Apprentice," especially when there are 800-pound gorillas in the room like Star Jones, Donald Trump and his offspring and NeNe Leakes.

The episode last night was cut into briefly with the happy "USA killed Usama" news, and considering the back and forth between POTUS Obama and The Donald, it seemed Karmic.

The show last night was a hodge podge of male prostate pee issues (Meat Loaf living in the can) Lil Jon's too chill attitude working the ice queen nerve of Ivanka Trump (still needs a new makeup artist) and John Rich's flashpoint of brilliance in recalling the lovely Niki Taylor, who worked for Team Backbone as a model in the challenge of the night, for Farouk haircare.

Both teams were tasked with putting on a hair show, and during the sales pitch in the beginning, NeNe lost her mind with Star Jones, as NeNe had chewed on the LaToya moment and had a cud full of Jones' lawyer elitist "I'm an educated black woman" put down.

Now, Trump mirrors Star in his preference for the Ivy League-educated types and puts more stock in someone's sheepskin than their ability.  He's an elitist too, and has never shied away from that fact.

Jones is city mouse, an "educated" lawyer, but life has a funny way of evening the playing field, even when the odds aren't so fair. Street smart country mouse NeNe is coarse, not book smart, but she's no dummy. The two women have huge chips on their shoulders, but NeNe has the height advantage.

And everyone knows in the business dog-eat-dog world, it's better to be taller than shorter.

Hope Dworaczyk ultimately is done in, as Trump and his offspring keep coming back to her as an ineffectual cog in Team ASAP's wheel.

NeNe and Star's blow up aside, Jones did her job and bit her tongue, but her eyes glittered like coal diamonds in a hate glare that said 1000 ghetto fabulous words to NeNe, who's as subtle as a naked lap dance.

"Where's Barbara Walters now?" Leakes (ASAP's project manager) smacked Jones in the opening scene.

Team Backbone goes with a reluctant Lil Jon.

Team ASAP comes up with the pitch line: "Shake Your Beauty."

The men go American and came up with a patriotic-themed event (given the news of the night, it was great timing). John Rich calls up Niki Taylor, who had been fired weeks before. She's in!

The big twist of the night was the La Toya Jackson Mulligan, who asked for a reconsideration and a chance to be back on the show. She is now ensconced on Team Backbone.

Trump, in one of his more creepy asides, compliments LaToya's pants as she exits the room.

Dworaczyk whines about NeNe and then says she would rather be shopping, and is tired of being the go-to model. After last night's catwalk where her hair looked exactly like that "in-teresting monster with in-teresting hair" Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes character, Hope will never be asked to model anything ever again unless her moneymaker and boobs are in clear view.

The women lost what should have been theirs, and the men will probably lose Meat Loaf next, as his health looks precarious to me still. Left in the boardroom were Leakes, Jones and Hope Dworaczyk.  Hope took an in-teresting walk to the town car.

So, why are we watching this still? Who is next in your opinion? Do you like NeNe or are you Team Star?

Bonus Scene: NeNe Attacks Star NeNe calls Star on trying to play the victim

Bonus Scene:

Niki's Back Niki Taylor comes back to work on the men's team

Hope You're Fired Trump makes an executive decision about the youngest member of A.S.A.P.'s team.