Firing Off
Jennifer C:
• “The women, from the ice cream challenge on, snowballed to the lowest common denominator. They never stopped. They were monsters.”
• “I definitely got a raw deal, no question about it, from beginning to end.”
• “What you don’t get to see on Task 1 is, I invented the toy, and that’s edited out. Task 2, I made a bunch of deals and ended up bringing in 25 percent of the profit. By Task 3, I’m the one who came up with Mike Piazza and got him.”
• “My family is Jewish, for Christ’s sake! I mean, I don’t think people are grasping that. There is a point on the show where I was asked about Italians. Straight out, asked about Italians. Did I take that as an insult? No. The thing that makes us great [as] a culture is our differences. Everyday I’m asked about being Italian and I have to make a joke out of it, eating pasta and this and that, being Catholic.”
• “If I were ‘playing the game,’ I would have brought Sandy in just to get her fired instead of myself.”
• “Fly under the radar if you want to be on a TV reality show.”
• “I’m potentially a poster child for ‘Do not do reality shows, you’re selling your soul to the devil.'”
• “The whole thing is a kind of debauchery.”
• “I’m not the first to go, and I’m not going to be the last to go. And I think you’re going to see a lot of bigger twists and turns. If you think mine was bad, watch out!”
Stacie J:
• “I only did this show because I thought going in…the firings [were] based on merit, not some hearsay from women that lack integrity and character and happen to bamboozle (Donald) Trump.”
• “I later found out we were not teams. We were all out for ourselves. It was more like SURVIVOR.”
• “I would immediately go to the guys’ team. Seriously. I was a split-second behind Pamela. She beat me to it.”
• “[Omarosa’s and my] situations are totally different. The only similarity we have is that we’re both African American. Maybe people just feel the need to group blacks together and say, ‘Oh, you guys must be the same.'”
• “People like to gravitate toward their own. I’m the only black girl in the cast. If it’s outright, in-your-face racism you’re asking me about, I didn’t see it outright in my face. But I know it had to enter [into it].”
• “I’d like to talk to [Trump] about his reasons [for firing me]. He could come up to Harlem and help promote my Subway. I’m not going to stop him from doing that. More business for me.”
Bradford:
• “Mr. Trump was a good guy.”
• “During the third show, when the girls ganged up on Stacie J, it started to become more evident why I was trying to wave my exemption and try to win over the trust of these women.”
• “[Trump] needs to look a little bit deeper than the surface on some of these things, especially like with Stacie J’s firing. She did nothing wrong on that task.”
• “Everyone should keep their eye on the women’s team, because they’re very self-destructive. They all want to be chief and no one wants to be an Indian. When they smell blood in the water they will attack.”
• “At first I was thinking Stacie J [should have been fired instead], simply because I knew that on that first task that she didn’t handle the pressure as well as everyone else. But after I saw how indecisive Ivana really was, I thought that Mr. Trump should have fired her, simply because she’s a great team player, but she wasn’t cut out to lead.”
• “If I was on SURVIVOR, I’d probably get kicked off first. I’m not a back-stabber. If you watch those shows, you won’t see me back-stabbing anybody.”
Rob
• “He’s a real genuine guy, somebody you’d sit down with and just shoot the B.S. If you’re going to emulate somebody and you want to become a billionaire, then you emulate him. [There’s] a version of Mr. Trump that America is seeing, and you don’t get to see the guy that just hangs out and sits down for a cup of coffee and shoots it with you. My impression of him is a brilliant billionaire.”
• “That is exactly the way it seems, and maybe that’s because they’re trying to create some controversy with the show itself.”
• “That’s what you sign up for. That’s what makes [APPRENTICE creator] Mark Burnett and his show No. 1 and makes him so brilliant. [He] can take somebody like myself — who is extremely driven, very competitive, a loud mouth…arrogant — and the way that I came across to 14 million people was kind of reserved and quiet. I’m the furthest thing from being quiet.”
• “I learned always be yourself. I learned the value of spending time with your family and the people that you love. Do those things that you take for granted sometimes.”
• “I’m going to write a book: What To Do in Manhattan for Seven Weeks on Mark Burnett’s Tab. I gained 15 pounds. You can’t really have contact any more than you would if you were on the show, so I was talking to my wife every couple of days. I had to maintain, this, ‘I’m still involved’ facade. I played pingpong a lot. I shot some hoops, went on some jogs every now and then. I tried to read a little bit. Started reading The Da Vinci Code.”
• “Be yourself, speak up, do not be afraid to say anything; definitely stick up for yourself.”
• “[I’m rooting for] Raj. He’s very entertaining. He is a very real guy. We like to call him the ‘International Man of Leisure.'”
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