Hot-dogging Celebrity Apprentices
Hot-dogging Celebrity Apprentices by Roxanne McDonald
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A hot dog is just a hot dog…, unless you buy it from a star. $5,000 a dog; mustard is extra. |
Remember how in one particular street-hawking challenge one season, a more tendentious (and cocky) contestant tried to sell, oh, I don’t know, ice cream, for a thousand bucks?
Nothing came of it, but nothing against the rules there, evidently, either.
But how about when the task is to sell wieners and you who are committed to the challenge are a super-celebrity? Is it fair to call on wealthy fellows and try to get a celebrity price for a skin tube of ground-up guts and ear flaps?
According to Celebrity Spider, the celebrities’ first team task of vending hot dogs on the New York streets will yield efforts to take advantage of rich contacts and to solicit for 5 or 10k per dog. Somebody evokes the attention of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Somebody else tries for eliciting support from David Wright of the New York Mets.
What the hell. The celebrities get more exposure (as if Gene Simmons needs any more). The newly recruited high-profile folk get more recognition. The show sponsors, Kodak,
Dial, Vera Wang by Serta, Quiznos, QVC, Crocs, Nederlander and Pedigree, [according to AdWeek] be making out like bandits…, should this season of “The Apprentice” do as well as Trump suggests it should (given how the show has, he is quoted saying, the largest demographic). And too, the individual star does not profit or benefit him- or herself: the charity of choice does.
Then again, the continuing benefit of continued TV time to the winning team or individual ego is, to poach from a major credit card line, priceless.
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