by Todd Betzold

 

How much is that celebrity in the window? Ruff, ruff? The celebrities take on working for Ivanka Trump tonight on The Celebrity Apprentice and the task will for sure have the celebrities fighting like cats and dogs.

 

Dayana comes back from boardroom and says she is now ready for her voice to be heard...watch out Miss Universe is bringing out the big guns. Does that mean she will be project manager? Now time for Penn to present his winning check to Opportunity Village.

 

Time for the task this week: each team must design two living window displays at a Lord & Taylor's store showcasing the Ivanka Trump Collection. Ivanka will be judging the teams, along with Scott Devine from Lord & Taylor, based on three criteria: creativity, brand messaging and overall presentation. The project managers for this task: George Takei for the men and Dayana Mendoza (she fought for it with Teresa) for the women.

 

The women discuss their windows. Aubrey comes up with the concept for the windows and takes control of the whole team...where are you at Dayana? They will go with splitting each window in half and doing a morning to night theme. The men discuss their windows. George thinks they have to do four windows and Clay thinks that George takes a little too long to process things...Adam Carolla (I'm excited he is back) agrees with Clay and the team is a big mess right now.

 

Ivanka and Scott meet with both the teams to discuss what they are looking for in these displays. They seem to give more information to the women, but maybe they asked better questions? The men's team goes with a day/night window concept as well and will have a woman in the office by day and a woman on the red carpet at night (they will use twins to make it look like the same woman in day and in night). In each window, Clay and Arsenio will be one each. The men seem to be struggling with this task because of the woman theme.

 

The women choose to put Aubrey and Dayana in each of the windows. Tia, Lisa and Aubrey get sent over to start building the set and the rest went to dress the models. For the men, Michael Andretti, Lou Ferrigno and Adam go over to build the set.

 

Lisa, Aubrey and Tia get to the set and realize the window displays are a lot smaller than they were thinking and want to scrap the idea because it would be too squished in there. They call the others and Dayana is iffy about changing it...the women have struggled when they are not in one room to discuss things...this is one of those instances.

 

Eric Trump comes to visit the men and he notices that George seems to be not leading...he says he has to step up and lead if he wants to win. Donald Trump, Jr. comes in to visit the women and he has no idea what their theme is and it seems like mass chaos.

 

Dee Snider injured himself last week during the medieval challenge and now goes to the doctor to get it looked at. He will need surgery a.s.a.p. because the bone will heal like it is unless surgery...will the men lose a team member?

 

The men working with the models finish up early and will be going back to the hotel, but meanwhile Lou, Adam and Michael are still working on the set. They feel George should have come checked out the set instead of going back to the hotel.

 

The women are struggling with the models and timing and Dayana doesn't seem to have a clue of what is going on. She can't come up with an idea and stick with it...Patricia really wants her to win because she feels like a little sister to her, but as it is going right now...it isn't looking so good.

 

The morning of the presentation and most of the women go to the set to see what happened and to get to work putting the set together. Lisa and Debbie went to pick up the pictures of the models they took the night before.

 

The men get to their set to get to work on their displays. Paul screwed up the display for the sign, so the men have to work on fixing that. Debbie calls Dayana and they are over an hour away with traffic and the display opens in 55 minutes...of course, they never factor in NYC traffic time. The men try to fix the sign and Lou kept getting in the way...Adam was not having it. Dee comes back from his surgery and will be participating the rest of the way, with one arm or both arms.

 

Lisa and Debbie get there with the sketches and the pictures from the models are not there, so one of the windows will have no pictures to display. The files Patricia was supposed to send over never got printed...she isn't helping her little sister too much right now.

 

With 10 minutes left and no pictures, Aubrey (who thinks Dayan cannot come up an idea that quick) comes up with an idea to use live models in the second window. The men get their models ready in makeup and George is doing nothing...if they lose, he is a goner. Clay said that he gave away so many responsibilities that he has no purpose now. The women get their models together and ready in 10 minutes and their display heads up the elevator...I think it is looking like a victory for them.

 

The teams drop the curtain on their displays and then explain them to Ivanka and Scott...George has no clue and stumbles through his explanation to them...it's rough to watch. They liked the concept of the twins. And during his explanation, he threw Lou under the bus for not working.

 

Ivanka and Scott go to look at the women's display. Lisa, Teresa, Debbie and Tia meet them and give a very good presentation and are wearing something from Ivanka's collection. They had a very good approach to it. Ivanka and Scott discuss it and they seem to have enjoyed both the displays, but I think it is a victory for the women.

 

Time for the boardroom: we start with the women and it is a big lovefest. They ask Dayana who she would fire and she said no one. The women all agree and no one will throw anyone under the bus...Adam says lets waterboard them until they say something...again, I'm glad he is back.

 

For the men, a lovefest seems to be brewing as well. Compliments for all until Trump asks Clay what he thought of George as a leader and he says he did well and Eric brings up Clay's response when he came to visit them during the task. He makes it up and they all love George...I think another drama-free boardroom.

 

After the teams get to look at pictures of each other's displays and get to beat each other up, Trump announces that the women's team is the winner tonight. Dayana's charity, The Latino Commission on AIDS, will receive $20,000 and one of the men will be fired.

 

Time for the men to fight it out: George seems to be slipping by because Adam is getting blamed for the midnight blue background on the display and Arsenio is getting blamed for the clothing choices. Finally, Clay says George should be fired and it continues as Adam and Penn agree. George decides to bring back Arsenio (because of clothes) and Lou (because he can't take direction and you could see the twitching in his face he is so angry).

 

The three men come back and it all seems to be heading towards a firing of George, as much as they tried to drag it along. In the end, Trump fires George...we all saw that one coming, even George.

 

The Celebrity Apprentice airs Sundays at 9/8c on NBC.

 

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