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Donald Trump returned to “The Celebrity Apprentice” with a new all-star celebrity lineup of candidates.  This is the third installment of “The Celebrity Apprentice,” and the ninth season of the series.

On last season’s “The Celebrity Apprentice,” world-famous comedienne Joan Rivers beat out world champion poker player Annie Duke in an intense live boardroom finale to win $532,000 for her charity “God’s Love We Deliver.”

On tonight’s episode of Apprentice we met the 14 new celebrity contestants.  The men include: Darryl Strawberry, Bret Michaels, Bill Goldberg, Michael Johnson, Rod Blagojevich, Sinbad and Curtis Stone.  The women include: Cyndi Lauper, Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete, Selita Ebanks, Maria Kanellis, Carol Leifer and Summer Sanders. For a closer look at each contestant and their charity click here.

Donald Trump met the new cast in Grand Central Terminal in NYC, for introductions and their first assignment.  The teams, divided by gender, had to come up with a name and also choose the first project manager for the other team.

The women will be called Tenacity and chose Bret Michaels to head up the men’s team for the first challenge.  The men came up with the name Rock Solid and picked Cyndi Lauper for the PM of the women’s team.

The Task:  Each team will run a diner in NYC for three hours.  They were required to cook the food, serve, bus the table, create a menu and any other aspects of running a restaurant.  The Rock Solid team had a very distinct advantage with Celebrity Chef Curtis Stone on their team.

Both teams did an amazing  job running a diner.  Each team hit their rolodex and pulled in some heavy tippers.  The Donald called in last year’s big winner Joan Rivers to visit each diner and report back to him.  At the men’s diner the service was a bit slow so Joan’s burger was cold by the time she received it.  The women’s diner had a much lower price point on their menu, which brought in a huge crowd.  Unfortunately, the task was only for three hours so they had to leave a lot of money on the sidewalk. 

The Boardroom:  Joan felt the women did  a better job and as a reward they were given an addition $10,000 on top of the amount the made.  So with the additional $10,000 Tenacity made over $39,000.  But, the men’s higher prices brought their total to over $56,000 and they won the task.

The men were sent out and the women had to determine who they thought should be fired.  Everyone did a great job but Carol Leifer was singled out as someone who might have done better.  So, she heard the dreaded words ‘You’re Fired’.  Before leaving, Donald made a $10,000 donation to her charity, The North Shore Animal League.  Bret Michaels received $100,000 for his charity, Juvenile Diabetes.   

 What do you think of the teams??  Are you surprised the women lost the first task??

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