How far will one of reality television’s arch villains, Omarosa, go to win “The Celebrity Apprentice?” Far enough, charges fellow contestant Piers Morgan, to propose a “showmance” for the two of them that would lengthen their stay on the show, garnering added publicity and money-making possibilities down the road.
Morgan, 42, who is known as the “mean” judge on NBC’s summer hit, “America’s Got Talent” and is an infamous former British tabloid newspaper editor, says, “Quite early on, before the first challenge, Omarosa sidled up to me and said, in all seriousness, ‘Do you want to have a showmance?’ And I said, ‘What is a showmance?’ And she said, ‘You know, a romance on the show. And then we can make lots of money out of it.’ And I just looked at her and I thought, ‘What a pathetic creature.’ And I said to her, ‘You really are a deluded woman.'”
But that’s not the way Omarosa remembers it. When told of Morgan’s charges, she laughs.
“The conversation did not go that way,” she says. “Piers started, early on, trying to jockey for position and trying to figure out how he could extend himself on the show. He started picking my brain about past seasons of ‘The Apprentice’ and he asked me about [first- season contestants] Nick and Amy, about their relationship, and didn’t I think that if they had stayed together, they could’ve done great things?”
“He said, ‘I would do damn near anything to go to the end of this show.’ And he said, ‘Think about it: The two of us together would make a fierce team.’ And I was looking at him, and his disgusting rotten yellow teeth, and I just couldn’t believe it. I was completely disgusted by the idea.”
“Look,” says Morgan, “Donald Trump cast her in this show because he knows people will wonder whether she can cast her evil spell over celebrities. If the only thing I achieve in life is beating Omarosa and exposing her for what she is — and I’m not saying that’s what happens [on the show] – but I am saying: Watch this space.”