‘The Celebrity Apprentice’ review: Brandi Glanville, Ian Ziering, and Johnny Damon clash over jingle

The further and further we get into this season of “The Celebrity Apprentice,” and the more obvious it is starting to be that Leeza Gibbons really should be the winner of the competition. She has dominated almost every task, and when you look at pure wins and losses, it is not even close.

With that being said, is she the best TV? Probably not, but at a certain point it really doesn’t matter. Tonight, her team, after joining with Geraldo Rivera and Vivica A. Fox, destroyed the one led by Brandi Glanville. They had to come up with a jingle for the latest Bud Light property, and she struggled from the get-go. Regardless of whether she went with the idea of Ian Ziering or Johnny Damon, both were not very good. Johnny’s was slightly better, since Ian’s felt more like a cheesy take on “La Cucaracha.”

This was the hilarious part of the entire episode: Ian spent all of his time hyping up something that was a rip off on another song! Somehow, nobody pointed this out to him until Donald Trump completely owned him in the boardroom and fired him. We like Ian a lot and he was a strong player, but we do somewhat agree with him here. He didn’t really do anything to try to help the task, and made an obvious mistake.

Ultimately, though, what was truly appalling was the result of the entire competition: Trump firing the entire team! We didn’t need this, and it felt almost like a move designed mostly to ensure that production could move along quickly. We didn’t think that they were anywhere near this terrible, and it was almost rather sweet how Brandi and Johnny supported each other heading out the door. Episode Grade: C (bad triple firing).

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