The Celebrity Apprentice Finale

Part of: TV Nights

Today we're talking about The Celebrity Apprentice. I can't imagine that if you're at all interested in the show you don't already know who won, but we are going to discuss it below, so if you don't want to know, don't read this. If you continue reading and don't want to know you'll have only yourself to blame. Seriously, you're going to feel awfully foolish if you don't want to know who won but keep reading. It's a mistake, and I beg you to stop.

You know why else you might feel foolish? You might feel foolish if you actually thought Trace Adkins was going to win. The poor guy didn't stand a chance. He may be a better human being than Piers Morgan (who did win), but he wasn't better at the competition. I know, you wanted him to be better at it. He seems like such a nice guy that you were sure he'd be better at it. Yet that wasn't the case.

In fact, the only serious argument for voting for Trace was to vote against Piers. He rubbed people the wrong way. I'm sure he'd be the first to admit as much, too. But, as he wisely pointed out — who cares? He raised the most money and he consistently won at tasks (whether they were Rolodex-based ones or not). Sure, he didn't make friends, but that wasn't the point of the contest. I'm sure that if the whole thing had been called the Make a Friend Celebrity Apprentice he would have done things differently.

Plus, how did anyone out there think that Trump, who at the very least poses as a ruthless businessman, was going to fire Piers for getting the job done in a gruff manner? There was no way that could happen. Trump is all about the money and not about the friends. To have selected Trace, who was all about the friends with money coming in second, would have been to disavow not just the contest, but his entire life. You didn't really think he was going to do that, did you?

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Josh Lasser, formerly known as "TV and Film Guy," and complete with a Masters Degree in Critical Studies in said areas, gives his opinions on TV, Film, and Entertainment in general. All of which he does in a shameless attempt to try to get paid to do the exact same thing. …

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  • 1 - Brent

    Mar 29, 2008 at 2:20 pm

    I'm one of those people who wonders how Piers would have done against the obvious best of the rest, Gene Simmons. I think he probably would have won but it would have been much closer. Against Trace, Piers could have run the whole of his part of the event by himself and still won.

  • 2 - No name

    Mar 19, 2010 at 5:11 pm

    Really sux that mr simon wanna be(face it he does want 2 be like simon

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