Boardroom Blurring: The Apprentice Contestant Who Forgot Which Show She was On
Boardroom Blurring: The Apprentice Contestant Who Forgot Which Show She was On by Roxanne McDonald
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Did Michelle, in denial, quit? Or was she justified in her reasons for leaving “The Apprentice”? |
We have to put Michelle’s leaving “The Apprentice” into context. Given the boardroom trickery of “My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss”, then considering how Omarosa [hissssss] shows up in a mock boardroom challenge on “I Love New York,” then taking into account the consistent trend of separating groups into A- and B-lists (ala “Surreal Life Fame Games”), and finally, adding how “The
Apprentice” changed format this season, it might be understandable that a competitor would turn a nose up at [unexpected] humiliating experiences. (Though I did note how those tents have electricity and blankets and water, so I question how “rough” the “losers” really have it.)
So Michelle has had to live in Tent City with her fellow losing Arrow teammates. This, because they have lost every challenge thus far to Kinetic, whose members live in luxury, are warm and dry at night, have gourmet foods, and who even have had the opportunities to indulge in the most empowering of all—the saunas, drinks, and massages…which contribute, as you know, to spiritual and hence physical health.
This, she announces, is not what she signed up for.
At the same time, she likely did sign up for whatever the Trumpire [yep, you read the newest coined term here first] would subject contestants to (read that contract again, Michelle). She was an intrusive, disruptive team player, according to other contestants. And she did make for a weak PM.
So by the time her team—she, Nicole, and Tim, one half of Arrow pitted against the other half (as Kinetic was exempt from competition in the third week)—gets called to the boardroom, Michelle has all kinds of excuses: the microphone went whacky, the feedback unbearable; the others wouldn’t obey; and the Tent City switch-up altogether threw this oh-so-indignant player.
Donald of course calls Michelle on her sour grapes/denial. When she is close to hearing “You’re fired,” she announces she is so disgusted with the alternate format, one she did not bargain for when she began this game, that she is stepping out. There. That’ll teach him. But Trump
considers the act one of (if not downright treason to the protocol and entertainment value of the show) cowardice. Michelle is a quitter.
Others might side with Michelle on this one. Others who have walked off of sets wherein the absurdity has gotten out of hand. Others who have had it up to there with not being able to put makeup on in front of an aesthetically serving mirror or who feel the treatment is more like that on “Survivor” than “The Apprentice.” Others who have seen through the circus that is reality TV.
But as one Paradise Hotel or Enchanted Island or Get on TV by Tempting Yourself with Money and Sex—I don’t recall which show—player has been heard to explain, “It’s reality TV…What do you expect?”
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