Celebrity Apprentice-Final Two

The final four, Trace, Baldwin, Carol and Lennox are told by the Donald, that he will fire two more after they are subjected to a grueling round of interviews. Yuck, I hate interviews! Piers thinks he has this one in the bag. Carol looks sublimely at ease with being interviewed by Erin Burnnet and Jim Cramer. Lennox is a boxer not a talker, so he stumbles his way through this process as Jim Cramer has question marks around his head. Trace manages to warm Erin's heart and is her favorite, she's a women afterall. Back in the boardroom, Trump tells the group that Trace and Carol were the favorites while Piers was everyone's least favorite being too rough and brash. You could see Trump's wheels spinning as to who he should fire, because it appeared to be a three way tie, between Carol, Piers and Trace. There was no question about firing Lennox, stick to knocking out your opponent not out talking your opponent. Trump knew he needed to keep Piers for all his foul mouth and abrasive manner, he really did produce the most cash out of anyone. In the end, I think a lightbulb went off in that Trump's head and he decided to keep Trace to go up against Piers, good vs evil, USA vs England. Gee, I never thought of it that way, maybe that explains why he has billions and I....well, you get my drift. Carol was very congenial about leaving and walked out in true class act style. When I grow up I want to be Carol Alt!

Of course we knew previously fired contestants would return, Marilu, Carol, Lennox and Baldwin. Trace choses Lennox (he takes the crutch away from Piers) and Marilu. Piers gets Baldwin and Carol. No Stephen, God wasn't listening to you, he's got better things to do.

The final challenge is a charity auction with food and entertainment. Trace gets the entertainment/decor end and Piers gets the auction/food end. I think I would like the food part of it, you know sampling and tasting, oh yeah! Trace plans to bring bus loads of country music celebrities to this function as he knows Piers will out do him in total donations so he has to wow Trump with the celebrities and entertainment. Little does he know that he also has to put up with the selfish, it's all about me needs of the Backstreet Boys and their high demands to be met. They apparently don't know who Trace Adkins is as they treat him like some kind of man servant. Fetch me some wheat grass, fetch me this, fetch me that, fetch me a pain in the ass! I couldn't believe their primadonna attitude and for a band that is considered defunct and passe, they sure are demanding. I didn't even think they were a band anymore and as Trace said, they were the Backstreet Boys a long time ago, what are they now, the Backstreet Greys? Should be more like the Backstreet Pains!

Piers fairs better as he calls on his friend, Princess Fergie. I love her! She offered to help him out by auctioning a tea with the Princess. Gee, I'm wondering how much that will go for?

So it's a race to the finish and it's anyone's title, but I'm thinking maybe Piers, because in the end, it's about fundraising and that is what Piers, for all his brash tactics, is good at.-Single D

Survivor-Fans vs Favorites-Goodbye Kathy

Boy, this season's survivors are dropping off like flies. Kathy is falling apart before our eyes. Let's face it. Survivor is for the young. It's for those that don't have a family, have no commitments, have no responsibilities, so I'm guessing that eliminates anyone over the age of 30. In theory, Survivor sounds fun for all of about 10 minutes until you find out that you have no bed, no food, no purified water, gads this is a generation that doesn't even drink out of the tap! After a certain age, we (women) need our comforts. We need our children, we need the comfort of our nest. So I can totally sympathize with Kathy when she emerges from the cave saying that how can she sleep in a cave shared with bats, rats and funky smells. I would just die! Not to mention not having anything to wash my clothes and shampoo my hair. I would however, like to renounce makeup and then maybe I would emerge with an I don't care how my face looks attitude in the real world. So Kathy must have picked up the jungle telephone, is that a string of coconuts on a palm frond and called Jeff Probst to the rescue. He looked quite dashing as he came ashore to assess the situation. Oh honey, can Jeff rescue me! Kathy tells him that she is trying to hold on, but that she can't feel her family inside. Jeff tells her all is going to be OK. Gee when he said that you really did believe it. It was another heart wrenching moment on Survivor, but I kept thinking that if she could have held out until the immunity challenge and then be voted off it would have been an immunity freebie for her tribe. But she was like a hysterical woman sobbing, the girls should have slapped her to her senses! So off on the rescue boat she went, waving in the sunset as she leaves the others to act like cavemen, eat raw clams and suffer the 6 hours of torrential rains.

Meanwhile, Ozzy is doing his jungle king thing, notice how he's changed from jungle boy to jungle king? He's teaching star struck Erik the ways of the jungle and to follow into his Lion King's footsteps. Cirie makes funny commentaries on this whole Ozzy thing as she says that they should right there just kiss and get married. But Oz better watch out and be more aware that he is ruffling the feathers of the nest.

The reward challenge is to do once again a puzzle by first retrieving the puzzles blindfolded and guided by one team mate. Cirie directs the group through the maze with ease. They put the puzzle together and win the reward. Their reward, a spa day. Now this is something Kathy could have used, she might have changed her mind. Ozzy puts Tracy on the spot when he suggest that she should go to Exile island with Jason from the other tribe. She was not happy and can you blame her? The reward looked awesome from the waterfall to all the spa stuff.

The immunity challenge involved retrieving more puzzle pieces from a platform at sea, Ozzy does his wonder boy stuff but unfortunately his tribe can't put the pieces together and the other tribe wins immunity. The girls in Ozzy's tribe are creating alot of drama by wanting to vote off Ozzy. Ami comes up with a very convoluted plan to get Ozzy vote off, while all this time, Ozzy is off drinking coconut milk. Hey Ozzy wake up, the girls are plotting against you! At tribal council, again I was holding my breath thinking if Ozzy doesn't use the immunity idol this time, he's going to be eliminated, but fortunately, everyone came to their senses and voted Tracy off. Bye Tracy, don't you have a family to go home to?-Single D

I loved how the show opened with the torrential rain at the Airai camp, everyone shivering and looking positively miserable. Then they switch to the Malakal camp with steel drums playing and the sun shining looking like a tropical paradise. What editing! Those guys should should win an Emmy!

Erik is so entralled with Ozzy. It's like Cirie said, Erik would probably marry Ozzy if he asked. Speaking of Cirie, she doesn't want to do anything. Ozzy takes his puppy, Erik fishing and they ask her to help row the boat. The way she acted, you would have thought they asked her to build the boat.

On to the reward challenge. Blindfolded tribe members getting led by one. Cirie does a great job leading her tribe through the course and Malakal wins. They send Tracy to Exile Island. The reward was to "get clean" with soap, shampoo and a jungle shower. Ozzy, back in his original survivor, would have let the girls do this and he would have taken one for the team and went to Exile Island. This time around he has Amanda to get clean with. He was rewarded when Amanda takes off her top, Ami followed suit and Ozzy was front row center for the show. Cirie was nearby saying, "I looked up and all I saw was bare boobies!" She was also happy for them that they could feel so free.

Back at Airai, Kathy is falling apart. She is saying the survivor experience is like being a caveman when the camera pans over to a shot of Eliza squating holding a bowl in her hands looking pretty much like a cavewoman. Yeah, those editors deserve an Emmy. For some reason, I wasn't surprised when Kathy cracked. Again I have to ask, what do these people think when they audition for this show?! Club-Med it's not! Kathy was saying, on TV they only show it raining for 5 minutes. Do people really think that it only rains for 5 minutes? Wonders never cease.

Malakal loses immunity and faced with tribal, the girls start making deals on who will go, Ozzy or Erik. Ami come up with a plan to blindside Ozzy while Amanda and Cirie want Erik out. Apparently the editors leave out a crucial bit of information because in the end, only Tracy voted Ozzy and everyone else voted for Tracy. So much for that Emmy editors! Double D

Big Brother-Jame's Revenge part 2

Wow is Matt growing a heart-telling the camera that if it was down to him and Natalie, he would want her to win because of what she did for him really was something, right! I think the scenes of Adam, Matt, and Ryan, the Bible buddies, reading Natalie's bible are really funny as they try to interpret what the stories of the bible means as Sheila in the other room tells the camera that she needs a miracle this week.

Now that Sheila is on the block she is trying to make amends with everyone. She tells Adam she's sorry for treating him so badly and that the past weeks she's come to see another side to him. Gee go figure that she's trying to win friends in the house now that she's up for eviction and will somebody tell her she looks like a giant red cucumber in that red suit! She is appalled that Natalie will not tell her that she has her back and comes to the conclusion that you are all alone in the house, sob! She cries that this is the most stressful thing she has ever done. Then why did you sign up for it? In the hamster tank, there are blocks that have the letters P O V. Natalie tells Sheila that she should study the tank for the clues. Sheila's exhausted and goes to bed, when the house decides to play a trick on her and wake her up for a stage POV challenge. She fumbles out of bed, mumbles and stumbles out into the back yard where the jokes on her. That was pretty funny. She's like what the ? Didn't everyone look like they had bad breath?

The veto challenge has the contestants transferring wooden blocks two at a time across a balance beam to the other side filling up a tube. The one that does this the fastest without falling off or dropping a block wins. Sheila's strategy is slow and steady as she doesn't want to fall off, but instead drops one of the blocks. Darn! James has determination to win the POV and does. Sheila is campaigning hard to save herself even by throwing Adam under the bus to James, gee the love fest didn't last long. James starts to think that it was Adam that didn't vote to get him back in the house so he almost decides to put him up. I'm thinking poor dumb Adam. When James ask Sharon what she thought, Sharon, that smart cookie tells him, that it wasn't Adam but Matt that didn't vote for him. Sharon's pretty perceptive and so saved Adam from nomination. Adam say thank you to Sharon for saving your butt. James decides to veto Sheila's nomination and puts up Matt on the block. Natalie was horrified. Come on Natalie, lest we forget who cast the vote to bring James back? And James, I guess your words is just a weak as everyone else's. You said Matt and Natalie were safe, yet you go against your word just because you found out that Matt voted against you. Isn't that what you condemn other people for? People who live in glass houses and all that...What is Natalie going to do if Matt get evicted? I hope she goes after James in a big way.

Matt is doing alot of crying on national TV and tries to play the sympathy card with the girls of the house. I promised my ma some money if I won. The only one biting is Sheila after he makes the convincing argument that he's never done anything to anyone in the house. In fact Sheila should be pissed at Ryan for taking her 10 grand. Gee people in the house have such short memories! Sheila the plays the voice of reason to James and shows him the argument for Matt to stay. Ultimately, she says, she doesn't want to vote anyone out, so let James do it if it comes to a 3-3 tie.

James totally played all the roles as HOH, POV and now getting the deciding vote as he votes to evict Matt in person on live TV. Matt is ejected from the house as Natalie weeps. Matt leaves the house with a bitter taste in his mouth and I guess he'll have to tell his ma that he didn't win the money after all. Ma I have to keep my day job!

Julie tries to ease his eviction by telling Matt that at least he will be one of the jurors to which he shrugs off as so what. Waaa!

The En Gard HOH challenge is a quiz pitting two house guest against each other to answer correctly questions about previously evicted houseguest. The last man standing was Adam. It looked like he just totally guessed his way to HOH. Good for him, but I bet he will be pulled in 7 different directions, so we'll just have to see who succeeds. At least I hope Natalie goes after James for breaking his word, be strong Natalie, show them what you're made of, you stayed on that disco ball for 5 hours, getting James out should be alot easier.-Single D

American Idol-Beatles Night

I think the viewing audience probably had enough of the Beatles music last week, but as we head into this week's elimination, it's Beatles once again. The producers probably paid a pretty penny for the collection so they want to get their monies worth. I thought "Back in the USSR" was a perfect song choice for raspy hog biker Amanda. At least I could understand the words this time, or maybe it was because I knew the song already. Simon scored points finally when he told her she's becoming predictable and boring, (finally someone saying her singing all sounds the same!). She countered back that she wants to give her audience what it would be like if they paid tickets to see her in concert, which Simon countered with, isn't that jumping ahead. She apparently thinks she's really good. Well good if you like to hear the same broken record over and over. I was so happy that little David Archuleta was able to get it together this week and sang a beautiful "Long and Winding Road". His voice when he's on is so pure and simple. Someone who is definitely getting better looking as the weeks go by is Michael Johns, I thought he did justice to "A Day in the Life". Brooke White totally reminds me of Joni Mitchell but in a more buttery bland way. She looked like a fairy elf sprinkling sunshine everywhere.

Speaking of one trick pony, that is what David Cook is becoming. He's the Daughtry of this season and I'm sure he'll pick up some record label. I totally thought the voice box was Corny, say it with me Corny!

I absolutely hate "Blackbird" but Carly does have an amazing voice so she elevated that song to new levels. Another thing Carly, who does your outfitting? The rosebud top does not match the tattoos on your arms. And she got two more tats on her fingers, the number seven. What happens when later on down the line she moves up in the numbers, will she tattoo another number on her fingers?

Dreadlock Jason looked totally goofy singing "My Michelle". He looked awkward and out of place. Ramiele lose the hat and hair, hated Chikeze country version of "I Just Saw her Face" and Syesha's "Yesterday" was a beautiful ballad. I'm thinking Christy Lee Cook has outstayed her welcome and needs to go back home and ride some more ponies.-Single D

The Bachelor-London Calling

Oh yeah baby! A London bachelor to come calling on America's women. Aren't there women in London? Hey Stephanie Mills-McCartney is single again! I hope the producers put some sensible girls in the mix so that at least we can save our reputation that we're all not bimbos here. Seems like American women are viewed as big fake boobs, not educated, gold diggers, drunks, immature sleazy women with loose morals and no values. Well, enough about me, just kidding!

It's a perfect evening to meet the man of your dreams. It's rainy and cold as the limos pull up. When the girls step out of the limos, I almost expect to hear an announcer say, Miss Oklahoma, Miss Georgia, Miss California. Most of them pause, some twirl, but almost all make an embarrassing entrance. They always look funny to me and then somehow, I guess through the magic of TV, they become better looking as the episodes evolve. Oh by the way, how many times can Chris Hansen say 25 American women, 25 American women. Ok we know how many and we know they're American!

As the party begins, most of the girls start eyeing the first impression rose. To make an impression some of them brought their musical instruments, Michelle and her clarinet, Ashlee brought her guitar and sang a song (keep your day job honey), someone bit through a beer can, another a rock, paper, scissor champ (she lost on the first round!) and an arm wrestling champ (Matt pretended to lose). I didn't know this was a talent show! More like amateur hour.

The skank of the evening passed out thankfully and was passed over in the rose ceremony. He gave the first impression rose to Amanda, good choice. One girl that was passed over, unfortunately, was the Bush aide as she started talking politics. Nothing like sucking the fun out of the evening than to bring up politics. She should have tried to shine with just her personality and not rest on her previous laurels.

Anyway, should be an interesting series and Tom Bergeron (spoiler here!!) gave the secret away that he, Matt not Tom, found love and romance at the end of the game-Single D

Gone Cruisin'

In case you missed me last week, I thought I would regail you with tales from my vacation, if you can call it that. My husband and I took a Mexican Riviera cruise on Holland America's Oosterdam. The trip was for my husband's retirement, birthday and our anniversary. Considering the fact that I was violently ill on our last cruise (15 years ago), you would think I wouldn't step foot on any water craft other than my floating lounge chair. So with Dramamine in hand, I headed for the ship. One of the Holland America's ships had come down with the dreaded noro virus the week before so our ship had hand sanitizer dispensers about every 5 feet. That made me feel better.

Once in the cabin and the lifeboat drill was over, we grabbed adult beverages and headed for the back of the ship and watched as we casted off. It was very windy and cold back there but I guess that's the place to be as you leave port.

With a new case of wind burn, I got ready for dinner while trying to talk myself out of being sea sick. One Dramamine later, we chose the buffet for dinner and quickly realized that the same people were still there from lunch. I hope they made it to the lifeboat drill. The food was pretty bland which was a good thing for me since I was mostly interested in soup and crackers. Another Dramamine and it was off to bed and thoughts of what we will do tomorrow.

Cabo San Lucas was our first stop. We didn't see any shore excursions that floated our boats, (get it? A little attempt at sea humor, ok, not so good) so we decided to hoof it and see our own sights. After a little shopping and picture taking, we ended up at Cabo Wabo. For those of you not familiar with Cabo Wabo, it's a restaurant/bar/concert hall owned by Sammy Haggar from Van Halen. We had a few margaritas and some wonderful lobster ceviche but no Sammy. I'm sure if I had had another 1 or 2 margaritas, everyone would have looked like Sammy Haggar. Sorry I missed you Sammy, your place is terrific!

After running the gauntlet of time share salesman and Chicklet hawkers, it was back to the ship and a pedicure I had set up that morning. While my tootsies were being pampered, I could see whale spouts in the distance. I did see some whale tales and a few were actually on the whales.

Day 3 and my Dramamine supply is dangerously low. Luckily I had figured out that 1 Dramamine, 2 Tylenol and a margarita did the trick and saved on the Dramamine until I could restock.

Next stop, Mazatlan where we had set up a canopy zip line tour. Did I mention I'm afraid of heights? After a 45 minute bus ride to an agave farm, we were kitted out with harnesses and helmets and driven up the last part of a mountain to begin the tour. The tour directors were all happy people, I was hoping they hadn't indulged in the by product of the agave plant before coming to work, but they were also all about safety which made me feel that much better. While waiting our turn on the zip line, I was third from last, my husband made me go in front of him so I couldn't chicken out, I watched everyone else thinking that doesn't look so bad. By the time it was my turn I was thinking, this looks like fun, then one of the tour directors said, step up here. Shaking so bad that my teeth were chattering, I was off with a half hearted WOO HOO! What seemed like hours later, but was actually about 40 seconds, I arrived at the second platform. Somewhere along that line, the bones had fallen out of my legs. Did I mention that we were about 120 feet above the canyon floor? I was still shaking so badly that the crew didn't think I would make it to the end, but make it I did! At the end was the promise of tequila tasting, after all, this was an agave farm. The first shot of tequila calmed my shaking legs and the second made me want to go again, not really.

Another bus ride back to town and a quick trip to the pharmacy for more Dramamine and a stop at a local watering hole our tour quide, Luis, told us about. He said this place had the best marlin tacos and he wasn't kidding. Freshly caught and smoked marlin tacos, grilled shrimp tacos and of course margaritas. With fun music playing and plenty of people watching, I could have spent our whole vacation there! But alas, it was back to the ship and my dramamine.

Fortunately, we had a late dinner that night and I still had visions of marlin tacos dancing in my head. Just as we were being served our wine at dinner, the ship's fire alarm went off. Didn't we already do this? Turned out the ship really was on fire! The captain's voice came on the speaker urging everyone to remain calm, can you say Titanic?! Fire, iceburg, who cares! A sinking ship is a sinking ship! The captain's second announcement, still urging everyone to stay calm and that the crew was battling the blaze. Did he say blaze?! At this point the wine steward came around to have everyone sign for their wine and we hadn't even had appitizers. I guess if we were going down, he wasn't giving any freebies. I was trying to remember the safety drill and how to put on that life jacket and where did I put that Dramamine? By the time dinner was over, the fire was out and the desert, crapes flambe' (I'm not kidding) was cancelled. I guess the captain was a little skittish about any kind of flame at this point.

The last two days cruising back to San Diego and we hit rough seas. I went into a Dramamine coma only coming out to get some soup and crackers. I did find that a glass of wine and playing poker in the casino did wonders for sea sickness. Our in room TV did have one of my favorite TV shows playing, No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain. Tony, you have no idea how much you saved me from peering into the toilet! I should have bought stock in Dramamine.

Back on terra firma and reflecting back on the cruise, I don't think I'll do it again. At least my pedicure still looks good! Double D

Big Brother-Jame's Revenge

Can you say dumb! What was Natalie thinking when she voted to bring James back. Didn't she think that James would come after her and Matt? Her vote was the deciding vote that brought James back into the house. She whined that she didn't want Allison to come back, yeah, but does Allison have a vendetta against you?

So we left off, where the house guest were swinging by the disco ball. I knew the guys would be the first to go in this challenge. First Adam struggling after only 30 minutes, then Matt and then Joshuah. Sheila was next to fall, so it was up to Natalie to hold on against Sharon, Cheslia and James. That was a tough struggle and all through it Natalie managed to keep her spirits up. She's like a dumb blond with a heart of gold. Kinda reminds me of Rosie Perez as Nicholas Cage's dissatisfied wife in "It Could Happen To You", Muriel Lang, the woman with a heart of gold.

Next to drop was Sharon and then Chelsia. The battle was on between Natalie and James. It looked like James was struggling there but then regained his composure. After almost 5 hours and many promises from Matt that he would give Natalie her long deserving massage, Natalie was feeling ill from hanging on so long and she had to let go, but not after she struck a deal with James that she and Matt would be safe from eviction. She cried and puked and if Matt didn't give her a massage after all she tried to do for him, then he Number One Jerk! (said in Asian accent). Later we see Matt make good on his promise and gives Natalie her much deserved massage, although he says, "I'm not touching any boobies!" Matt you better be nice to that girl, Natalie totally went to bat for him and probably would throw herself in front of a runaway train to save him. Jeez Nat, think of yourself first girl. He's not worth it. Do ya think he'd strain himself to the point of sickness for you? Not!

No it's all about Matt and to throw the scent off of himself Matt tells James that he voted to keep him in the house and that it had to be Adam that voted the other way.

Hey I'm wondering why Sheila is still wearing that red jumpsuit? Joshuah finally gets his letter from home and sheds copious crocodile tears, but not before he runs around with his feather duster in a weak attempt to clean house. Parle french maid?

James finally decides to put as we already knew Ryan for eviction and Sheila, because she outright lied to him about keeping him safe. At least James showed some character by not going back on his word and nominating Matt and Nat. Sheila says she understands, but in the diary room tells us-it's on-ok Sheila, you'll have to win the veto and that remains to be seen-Single D