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Gene Simmons fired from Celebrity Apprentice

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Friday January 18, 2008

Kiss frontman Gene Simmons has got the boot from The US Celebrity Apprentice. Businessman Donald Trump fired the rock star after he took over as leader of the women’s team – and failed to help them win the weekly challenge.

The singer showed no emotion as Trump told him to pack his bags and simply said: “I respect your decision.” But he blasted the female Apprentice team and claimed they stood no chance of winning the competition.

“In their present form the ladies don’t stand a popcorn fart chance of even shining the guys’ shoes,” he snorted. Simmons, 58, took over the girls’ side after they went 2-0 down in the weekly tasks. The two teams were told to come up with a way of marketing Kodak’s Easy Share printer – and sell the equipment to the general public. The ladies looked to have it in the bag after the men spilt a cup of coffee onto a computer and lost all their artwork. The mishap occurred as Lennox Lewis, Tito

Ortiz and Stephen Baldwin climbed down from a table and accidentally tipped the furniture up in the air.

But Kodak executives were less than impressed with Simmons’ selling strategy and named the boys’ team the winner. After the singer close Jennie Finch and Carol Alt to face the chop with him, Trump said he had no choice but to fire Simmons.

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Annette
I hate that I missed the show last night. I would’ve loved to have seen Gene Simmons kicked off!! He’s a complete jerk!!!!
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Sg
Gene Simmons was the ONLY worthwhile celeb to watch on this season…………I wiped The Apprentice off my TIVO schedule……
Sharon Strickland
I was never a Gene Simmons fan until this show. He is hilarious! Call him what you will: arrogant, cockey, whatever. HE made that show! To say things like, “Omarosa is a cock roach” and “I’m ruthless. I’ll fire anybody. I’ll fire Donald Trump.” and “You’re hardly a victim” to Omarosa. And to do it without cracking a smile! He kept me laughing the whole time. I think he probably had something else to do and let himself get fired so he could get back to his own empire. I won’t watch the show anymore. What’s the point?
joe porteous
I can’t beleive that gene committed television suicide. Donald was practically pointing at nelly, and gene in his usual “I’m right, end of story” attitude did him in when he didnt put nelly up. You can see The Don wants to get rid of her.
Mark
Good riddance! Simmons is an obnoxious jerk and was the main reason I haven’t even checked out this new edition of The Apprentice. With him gone, I might tune in.
Bette Green
I’m glad Gene’s gone. Now I can stop watching. He was the only reason for me to watch the show and now I’m free. Thanks Donald you retard.
Rachel
Without gene, I don’t want to watch the show any more. He is the real star.
Tucker
For this particular run of the show, Simmons was the show. As arrogant as he can be, Simmons clearly has a proven track record of marketing success and knows what people want. Those Kodak execs. were wrong and Gene knew it. Too bad their corporate pride got in the way of a potentialy awesome ad campaign. Too bad for them and the ratings for this show. I too will not watch the rest of this celebrity jaunt.
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At some point during the episode, it seems Simmons decided “Screw this, I’m outta here!”
Easy enough.
Now DJT has the remainder of the season to deal with. Good luck. I’ll keep watching and see how it turns out.
Hawkeye
To be quite honest, Gene’s antics and having him on the show amps the ratings and made the show…you think people tune in for Omarosa?? Frankly, the Apprentice is has become a tired show.
Gene’s a smart man and because
he’s already helped his charity, done the Donald a favor, he has no reason or desire to stay. He’s losing money
by being there.
Nina
Well Well it seems the Donald has just been Trumped! Not only was he forced to fire the only celebrity worth watching on his show, it was obvious he didn’t want to do it. I’m sure Gene simmons was toying with him and really was bored with the whole show. Really, who is going to watch now? Not me!
RayT
Trump should be fired for firing Simmons.
Greatest draw the show had is gone.
Fred
I generally despise Gene Simmons. In fact I would like to kick his ass for being a pompous asshole who brags about all the women he’s been with like some asshole. Who does he think he is anyway? He’s ugly to look at, talks like some kind of dork who’se too logical or something.
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Shawn
If I were Gene I would not have wanted to go back after losing. Better, to take the fall and go out with your honor intact. He could have easily taken out Nelly, but it was his task he was in charge and I think he took himself out instead.
Melissa
Gene brought a whole new twist to an otherwise boring show which I got tired of seasons ago. My husband even watched for the first time as Mr. Simmons was so entertaining. Too bad for the Donald that he couldn’t profit from Gene’s appeal and the writers strike for more than 3 episodes. VERY bad business decision. Ratings is the money maker with tv and he just bankrupted his own show. (He should have taken it upon himself to fire Nely when he realized Gene was putting himself up to get fired.) Tsk, tsk.
Mike from Montreal
I am in no means a Gene Simmons fan and have never heard a Kiss song in my life but the guy was darn entertaining, this is celebrity apprentice and these people don’t need jobs; Gene was a major draw and it was a mistake to fire him. NBC never learns???
Hank
I agree with most of the others that I will stop watching it because Gene Simmons made it wothwhile watching.
The Kodak execs. did not like Gene’s attitude to them I think and therefore it became more a power struggle between Kodak and Gene Simmons. Kodak did not want Gene to win so they gave the mens team the win. Gene knew he was right and stuck with it even it would basically torpedo now the show with his departure. He would not have been Gene if he would have chosen some other person into the boardroom just to save his skin so ; great job Kodak execs !!
Brian
Donald Trump has once again proved that he is just another overexposed blowhard. To think I idolised this guy back in the 80′s. He had no choice? It’s his bloody show! As you can see by the tread much of his audience has left him because of the desicion to fire Gene Simmons. For Trump to think Omorosa is a bigger draw is both foolish and stupid.
Sue
The Celebrity Apprentice lost it’s most astute contestant last evening. Even The Donald can’t “trump” Mr. Simmons.
Gene Simmons is far and above everyone else on the show – even The Donald. I cannot for the life of me believe The Donald brought back Omorosa. The Donald should be fired!
Call me a previous viewer.
Wanda
Too bad Gene pushed Trump in the boardroom…he had every opportunity to stay on the show, but blew it. Without Simmons, I have no interest in watching the rest of the season. He gave it such an interesting twist!
Meghan
I agree, Gene made this show extremely interesting and I will not be watching it anymore without him. I am a dedicated fan of the KISS Army and Gene Simmons, and I am proud of him for standing by his product no matter what Donald Trump said. It took a lot of guts. And I believe that the only reason he brought in Omarosa and Jennie with him was because he knew he was going to be fired, and wasn’t going to back down from it by bringing in someone he knew would be fired like Nely. It’s too bad he was fired so quickly, but I stand by Gene no matter what.
carolyn cavicchio
I agree that Mr. Trump made a HUGE MISTAKE firing Gene Simmons. The only reason to watch the show was because of Mr. Simmons,he is the only one with talent and brains. All the rest are jokes!! We will not tune in any longer.