There's such a fine line between what's brilliant and what's awful that sometimes we simply haven't got a clue what we're dealing with, as is the case with the proposed Celebrity Apprentice face-off between Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell.
Although the dismal failure of the last Apprentice season in America meant that Donald Trump had effectively been handed his cards, now NBC has thrown him a lifeline. According to reports, NBC wants Donald Trump to star in a version of The Apprentice full of nothing but celebrities, and – according to new NBC entertainment bigwig Ben Silverman – no celebrity would be more welcome than Donald Trump's arch-enemy Rosie O'Donnell. Donald Trump Vs Rosie O'Donnell on Celebrity Apprentice sounds like a fantastic idea, right up until the realisation sets in that, after five minutes of screaming abuse at each other, Rosie and Donald would start having the most disgusting rough sex in history on the boardroom table. On TV. Into your eyes.
Though they'd rather die than admit it, Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell are both very similar people. Both Donald and Rosie have large, financially-rewarding empires to oversee. Both Donald and Rosie have known the giddy heights of TV fame. And both Donald and Rosie know what it feels like when that fame crashes down around their feet. This time last year the pair of them were riding high – Donald Trump had seen off Apprentice competition from Martha Stewart and had fired his uptight female crony to remind everyone who the real star of The Apprentice was and Rosie O'Donnell was entertaining America's unemployed by making Danny DeVito dance around drunk on The View. But how quickly things change.
Thanks to a ten-minute split-screen shrieking argument about dead soldiers with the world's most objectionable woman, Rosie O'Donnell left The View only to fail to get a job presenting The Price Is Right. Meanwhile, thanks to setting it in LA and making people sleep in tents, Donald Trump saw The Apprentice get axed by NBC. But now fate is conspiring to bring Rosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump back together for a celebrity version of The Apprentice that will raise money for charity, as USA Today reports:
The network announced Monday that the game show will be back in the middle of next season with the celebrity twist, the winner donating proceeds to charity instead of going to work for The Donald… Which, of course, raised the question of O'Donnell, Trump's nemesis, maybe getting involved. "It would be great to have Rosie on The Apprentice," Silverman said at a morning Television Critics Association news conference. "Donald personally told me to extend an invitation to her." NBC entertainment co-chairman Marc Graboff echoed Silverman's comment, saying "we'd love her" to be on the show.
Although it seems as if Rosie O'Donnell isn't especially keen on teaming up with Donald Trump, just imagine how cool – and popular – it'd be to see the two of them sharing the same stage. Donald Trump could be all like "Rosie is a truck-driving loser slob" and Rosie O'Donnell could be all like "Donald's obsessed with me" and Donald Trump could be all like "No, you shut up" and Madonna could be all like "I agree with Rosie" and everyone watching Celebrity Apprentice at home could be all like "zzzzzzzzzz."
Yeah, we'd watch that.
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