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This season 16 new celebrities will be vying for the coveted title, using all their business savvy as they fight for causes close to their hearts.
Once again, it’s the men versus the women as all 16 celebrities compete in business-driven tasks around New York City. Ultimately they will face the judgment of Donald Trump and his advisors, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. Also appearing in the Boardroom alongside Trump will be his longtime associate and trusted colleague, George Ross. The Boardroom will feature a “rotating seat,” allowing a variety of famous business leaders and industry legends to join Trump in spirited judgment of the tasks.
When all is said and done, 15 celebrities will be famously fired and only one will emerge to become The Celebrity Apprentice!
Born and raised in Concord, New Hampshire, Annie Duke grew up in a family who had cards and competition in their blood. Card playing was the glue that held the family together in their home and everybody not only wanted to win but needed to win.
Early in her childhood, Duke struggled to fit in as a liberal product of two teachers in a sea of conservatism and privilege on the grounds of the prestigious St. Paul’s prep school. Never feeling like she quite fit in, at the age of 18 Duke matriculated at Columbia University and thought to try her luck in the big city. Pretty smart and popular, Duke completed a major in English and Psychology at Columbia University intending to follow in the footsteps of her parents and becoming a teacher. Instead, she enrolled as a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania for Cognitive Psychology.
In 1991, while Duke was knee deep in doctorate research, she proposed marriage to an old friend, Ben Duke, packed up her life and research and left academia behind for Billings, CO. Living in romantic poverty with her husband, Duke began to play poker in local pokers rooms to pay the mortgage on their first home. In 1994, at the suggestion of her brother, famed poker player Howard Lederer, Duke tried her hand at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. She ended up placing 13th in her first tournament, knocking her brother out of play. After winning 70K in her first month of competition, Duke and her husband made the move to Las Vegas so she could pursue poker professionally.
Over the course of the next decade, Duke established herself as one of the best poker players in the world. In 2004, Duke beat out an assembly of 234 players in the WSOP $2000 buy-in Omaha Hi/Lo Split and won her first WSOP bracelet. In August of the same year, Duke knocked out 8 of the worlds’ greatest poker legends and won $2 million in the No-Limit Texas Hold'em winner-take-all, invitation-only WSOP Tournament of Champions, established by ESPN and Harrah’s Entertainment.
Duke now serves as a consultant for the online poker site UltimateBet.com to ensure that their rules of poker and tournament structure match those you would find in the famous poker rooms of the Las Vegas strip. Furthermore, she is sought after for her vast poker skills and knowledge, coaching the likes of Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Ashton Kutcher and Charles Barkley on their poker game. Duke regularly offers a private poker lesson with herself as an auction item for charity auctions and has raised funds to benefit numerous charities.
Recently, Duke endorsed The ESPN Poker Club product line, which offers poker aficionados premium quality poker products of unmatched quality, style and authenticity. The line, which was launched in May 2005, includes poker chip sets, tabletops, tables and other poker accessories.
In September 2005, Duke’s long awaited autobiography hit the shelves “Annie Duke: How I raised, folded, bluffed, flirted, cursed and won millions at the World Series of Poke”. Written in conjunction with David Diamond, the autobiography highlights the obstacles in Annie’s personal life, with her path to achieve her first WSOP bracelet. Duke has released a series of DVD’s, which include “Annie Duke’s Advanced Texas Hold’em Secrets: How to Beat the Big Boys” in October 2005, “Annie Duke’s Beginner’s Guide To Texas Hold ‘em” and “Annie Duke’s Girl’s Guide To Texas Hold ‘em” both released in January 2006, and the February 2006 release of “Masters of Poker: Annie Duke's Conquering Online Poker”. Duke has also filmed a pilot called “Annie Duke Takes on the World” which premieres May 1 on GSN. The entrepreneur developed her own production company Ten Dimes Productions, which she started with Actor Joe Reitman. They currently have a film entitled “His Name is Murder” in production while developing an additional film.
In a city where beautiful women are a dime a dozen, Brande Roderick stands out as a star among the masses.
In addition to “The Celebrity Apprentice”, Brande will be starring in a new reality show with Brooke Burke and Tracy Bingham called \"Flirty 30's,\" a mix between “Sex and the City” and “Desperate Housewives”. Most recently, she guest starred in \"The Game,\" on the CW Network. Brande also hosts a show on the Reelz Channel called, \"What I Learned from the Movies.\"
Additionally, Brande has recently held supporting roles in several movies, including “The Nanny Diaries” starring Scarlet Johansen, “Starsky & Hutch”,Dracula II” and “Hood of Horror” starring alongside Snoop Dog.
Within her first year of moving to “Tinsel Town”, Brande landed a co-starring role in \"Beverly Hills 90210.\" Following that, she landed a string of guest starring roles on \"Just Shoot Me\", \"Jesse\" and \"Love Boat: The Next Wave\", and was cast in a string of national commercials for Snickers, Mentos, and Dr. Pepper, just to name a few.
Brande's big break came in 2000, when she was asked to audition for \"Baywatch Hawaii.\" During her screen test, Executive Producer/Writer Frank South felt she \"hit it out of the park,\" and gave her the starring role of Leigh Dyer. Brande is also widely known for being Playboy's coveted 2001 Playmate of the Year. In January 2003, following \"Baywatch,\" Brande took a bite out of reality, as one of the stars in \"The Surreal Life,\" on the WB Network. She also reprised her starring role as Leigh Dyer in the Baywatch reunion movie, \"Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding.\"
What Brande is less known for, however, is her daily life as a professional business woman. Brande started her first company in 2000 called She-Ra Productions, a film and television production company. She also manages two other companies, including Financiallyhung.com. Financiallyhung.com started out as an idea for a t-shirt, which then grew to the idea of using the name for a professional social network. A network that brings \"Financially Hung\" individuals together and creates a place for them to mingle with like-minded business people on-line as well as at one of our exciting, never forgotten FH events. We want to show our members the world of celebrity, fame and fortune by introducing them to the type of people we know and get to meet. We want our members to make that one connection that can help seal a deal or in some cases, even seal a kiss.
Since arriving in Los Angeles, Brande has trained under famed theatrical acting coaches, Ivana Chubbuck, and Sandy Marshall. Her outside interests include playing softball in her local league, hiking in the canyons with her cocker spaniel, and bowling. She also volunteers with various charities.
Embracing an effortless eloquence and smooth persona, the music of Brian McKnight has defined the true meaning of American soul man since 1991. Like his spiritual Motown godfathers, this upstate New York native has a pitch perfect voice and silky style that captures the vibe of vintage soul without being old fashion. In addition to a stellar career as a singer/songwriter, Brian McKnight has conquered all mediums. From his starring role on Broadway in “Chicago” this past winter to his upcoming gig as host of BET’s Soul Sessions, Brian can also be heard everyday as the host of 94.7 The Wave’s morning program “The Brian McKnight Morning Show.” Brian’s most recent album, Ten, can be found in-stores now.
In an industry that has a fast turnaround of acts, the fact that Brian McKnight is still creating beautiful music fifteen years after releasing his self-titled debut is proof of his innate talent. Like the late Luther Vandross before him, the secret of Brian McKnight’s rhythmic endurance comes down to his ability to create eternal music. Not only does he appear on his own albums, but Brian continues to produce music for Grammy Award-winning artists such as Justin Timberlake and Alicia Keys.
With the release of Ten, McKnight’s first disc for his new label Warner Bros Records, the Grammy-nominated singer could not be more pleased with the outcome. “I wasn’t very happy with the situation at my former label and perhaps that attitude was reflected in the material,” Brian confesses. Having penned and completed about thirty-three new songs before signing on the dotted line, McKnight was more than ready. “Right now, I am optimistic of what I can do in my new situation.”
Without a doubt, the landscape of soul music has gotten younger, but that fact did not hinder McKnight’s creative process. “It would be a mistake for me to try and compete with Chris Brown or Ne-Yo,” Brian laughs. “I’m not going to be dancing on TV, but at the same time I believe my material will appeal to everyone from teenagers to older folks.”
After 16 million albums sold since his self-titled debut, it would have been too easy for McKnight to simply follow the R&B template of rote romanticism. On Ten, the artist in him felt the need to be more revealing. “As a songwriter my biggest challenge has always been finding new ways to say old things,” Brian says. “For me, it was all about being honest and exploring who I am right now. Like everyone else, I am a much different man than I was ten years ago.”
While working on a variety of projects including a talk show and movie scores for two Tyler Perry projects, the veteran soul singer could not be happier with the outcome of Ten. “When I finish a record, I listen to it from beginning to end,” McKnight says. “Truthfully, I think this is the best record I’ve done in years.” For fans of real music, Ten is the perfect addition to the soul cannon.
Claudia Jordan has never been one to sit around in one place for too long. After a nomadic childhood, she and her parents finally settled down in East Providence, Rhode Island where she became Miss Teen Rhode Island and later competed in Miss Teen USA. As an adult, she won Miss Rhode Island USA and competed in the Miss USA pageant. It was only the third time in 46 years that anyone representing Rhode Island made the top ten. East Providence even named May 16th \"Claudia Jordan Day!\"
Besides competing in pageants, Claudia was an impressive sprinter and earned All-State honors in track and field. She competed in several Junior Olympics and in college became an All-American sprinter in the 400-meter relay. Her long jump record still stands. Claudia is also fluent in Italian - her mom is first generation to come to the United States from Italy.
After moving to Los Angeles with only $500 to her name, she became a model on “The Price is Right”. She then went on to co-host a TV show with Carmen Electra called \"Livin' Large\" and worked as a correspondent for \"The Best Damn Sports Show\" and \"5.4.3.2.1.\" She even had the opportunity to work with “Entertainment Tonight” for NFL Super bowl Media day. Claudia has also been a newspaper reporter on the east coast and was one of the few female reporters in Washington, D.C. to cover the Million Man March. She has co-hosted a week-long radio show at the Super Bowl in Jacksonville. She’s appeared in numerous magazines: Best Body (cover), Fitness RX, Maxim, Stuff, Sports Illustrated, Spanish People, King, Smooth, FHM, Woman's World, J'Adore (cover) and many more.
Currently she is a model for NBC’s “Deal or No Deal” and currently holds the # 1 box, indicative of her rise up in the business.
Not to mention she is on NBC’s “The Celebrity Apprentice” starring Donald Trump, premiering March 2009 and featured alongside Luke Wilson in the new film entitled “Middlemen”.
Her success has enabled her to buy two homes and a condo and travel to Italy seven times!
Claudia has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Dr. Phil, Extra, Access Hollywood, The TV Guide Channel as well as being featured on E! Entertainment in their special on the 12 sexiest jobs in Hollywood. Additionally, Claudia hosts a sports show on BET called \"Ballers\". She is currently co-hosting a weekly radio show with Oscar winner Jamie Foxx on Sirius Radio (channel 106) called The Foxxhole and she also hosts the “Claudia Jordan Show” on the same channel. She is currently shopping around a financial show that she created and hopes to host. She was fortunate enough to have been asked to judge the Miss Universe pageant in 2006. Claudia hosted two seasons of \"The Modern Girls Guide to Life\" on the Style network and has been featured in two E! True Hollywood Stories. Claudia plans to continue working in sports, produce a show, become a real estate mogul, do stand up comedy and buy her mom a big house since she left her country and sacrificed so much for her and her little brother. She is currently single and looking for her Prince Charming. Oh yeah, and occasionally, she loves to get more than 5 hours of sleep!
If allowed only one word to describe Clint Black, “profound” would cover a lot of bases. The artist has had a profound effect on the music industry, not only through his own recordings, but also through the establishment of his brainchild, Equity Music Group, a record company he co-founded in 2003. He is a profound, not to mention prolific, songwriter. To date, he has written, recorded and released more than 100 songs, a benchmark in any artist’s career. An astounding one third of the songs eligible for single release achieved hit song status at Country Radio. He has sold over 20 million albums worldwide. As a musician, he profoundly astounds—he is an accomplished guitarist, and humbly describes himself as proficient on drums, harmonica, bass guitar and any assortment of percussion instruments.
Clint Black—even his name evokes a deep sense of history and place in country music. The 1989 debut of his critically acclaimed and fan endorsed Triple Platinum Killin’ Time marked a subtle shift in the country music industry, and, thanks in part to Black, a return to the more traditional sounds of the genre. CMT lists this album as one of the 100 Greatest Albums in Country Music. That album, from a then unknown Texas-based artist and writer, boasted five #1 hits (unprecedented in any music format), and won Black a collection of awards that included:
• Country Music Association Horizon Award
• Country Music Association Male Vocalist of the Year
• American Music Awards Favorite New Male Country Artist
• Academy of Country Music Best New Male Vocalist
• Academy of Country Music Best Male Vocalist
• Academy of Country Music Album of the Year (Killin’ Time)
• Academy of Country Music Single of the Year (“A Better Man”)
For Black, this was only the beginning. The Triple Platinum Put Yourself in My Shoes followed in 1990, and the ride continued. To date, Black has had nearly two dozen #1 hit singles, and almost as many Top 5 and Top 10 hits, all of them original compositions. The number of awards crowding his trophy shelf surpasses the number of hit records. And the number of music fans he has performed for in concerts through the years is staggering.
Still, he keeps it fresh. When he felt that things were becoming a bit stale and feeling a certain sameness in the late 90’s, he took a risk and shook things up by leaving his label of more than a decade, and taking a much needed break to reevaluate where he wanted to take his career. And more importantly, he and wife Lisa Hartman Black decided to start a family. The birth of daughter Lily Pearl gave Black a new perspective and vigor that affected not only his personal life, but his professional and creative sides as well.
Black devoted his time to nurturing his little family, and his big career. In 2003, he decided the best course for that career was to start a record company that was artist-friendly, and would be not only home to his recordings, but to other artists of a like mind and approach. Enter Equity Music Group. The release of Black’s highly anticipated first album for the label, Spend My Time, received great critical acclaim and gave the company the credibility it needed. The label proved itself to be a little scrapper, taking on the big corporations with a flair and success that earned it Billboard’s #2 Independent Imprint of the Year and #4 Independent Label of the Year over all genres in 2006. In addition to Black, the label was, until recently, home to Little Big Town, whose first release for the label is already Platinum (and Billboard’s #1 Artist and Album of the Year for 2006 – all genres), and whose follow-up album, A Place To Land, is quickly making its mark.
Black takes great pride in co-founding a label that has the reputation in the artist community of being a true partner in the best sense of the word. Besides Little Big Town, the label has attracted Laura Bryna, Carolina Rain, Kevin Fowler and Blake Wise to its roster, with the promise of much more.
Without a doubt, Clint Black has earned his place in country music. But he also has a clear eye set to its future. When pressed to accommodate, one word will do—but so many more are needed to adequately convey Black’s particular talents and extraordinary place in music.
Rodman is a retired NBA player who played for the Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks. Born in Trenton, New Jersey on May 13, 1961, he was nicknamed “Dennis the Menace” and “The Worm” and was known for his fierce defensive and rebounding ability. Playing small forward in his early years before becoming a power forward, Rodman earned NBA All-Defensive First Team honors seven times and was voted NBA Defensive Player of the Year twice. Rodman also led the NBA in rebounds per game for a record seven consecutive years and won five NBA Championships (1989, 1990, 1996, 1997, and 1998).
Rodman was shy and introverted in his early years but reinvented himself as the prototypical “bad boy” and became notorious for numerous controversial antics. He dyed his hair in artificial colors, presented himself with many piercings and tattoos and regularly disrupted games by clashing with opposing players and officials. Rodman famously wore a wedding dress to promote his autobiography. He pursued a high profile affair with singer Madonna and was briefly married to actress Carmen Electra.
Apart from basketball, Rodman is a part-time professional wrestler. He was a member of the now and fought alongside Hulk Hogan at two Bash of the Beach events. He had his own TV show, The Rodman World Tour, and had lead roles in the action films Simon Sez and Double Team alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme. Rodman was the winner of the $222,000 main prize on the 2005 edition of The Celebrity Mole. Additionally, he participated in the UK Celebrity Big Brother and hosted Geek to Freak on Mark Cuban’s HDNet.
Rodman also recently challenged the famous Harlem Globetrotters with Dennis Rodman’s Bad Boys in Las Vegas during the NBA All-Star break in 2007.
Rodman advocates an ethical lifestyle. He is a long-time vegetarian, and in 2005, he became the first man (and the first sports star) to pose (naked) for PETA’s advertisement campaign “Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur.”
Since the beginning of his career, Tom Green has consistently challenged the status quo by being unique, progressive, and controversial. As a television personality, film star, best selling author, recording artist, and talk show host, Tom Green has always brought a unique and innovative perspective to the entertainment industry.
Green, who made a name for himself on his MTV hit show, The Tom Green Show, has returned to his talk-show roots with Tom Green Live!. Tom Green Live! is a groundbreaking, independent internet talk-show that airs nightly exclusively on www.TOMGREEN.com, The Channel. Not bound by FCC regulations or television executives, this cutting-edge, one-hour talk show breaks the traditional mold and puts Green one-on-one with Hollywood's most well-known and accomplished entertainers. Some of the show's recent guests include Val Kilmer, Thora Birch, Ed McMahon, Andrew \"Dice\" Clay, and Steve-O.
TOMGREEN.COM, The Channel, is a Web site geared to revolutionizing the World Wide Web. The Channel not only airs Tom Green Live!, but it also allows and encourages Web users to freely interact with one another in an all-access entertainment setting. With Green's direction, TOMGREEN.COM, The Channel has fused the 24/7 nature of cable TV with the ever-changing environment of the Internet to offer a hybrid entertainment venue like no other. Visitors of TOMGREEN.COM, The Channel can upload videos, experience real-time interaction with Hollywood guests on Tom Green Live!, engage with Green and each other on a day-to-day basis, as well as access the Tom Green Live! show OnDemand.
Most known for his roles in feature films Freddy Got Fingered, Charlie's Angels, Stealing Harvard, Road Trip, Tom Green has continued writing, producing, and directing numerous film projects. In 2001, Green starred and made his directorial-debut in the New Regency feature Freddy Got Fingered. Currently in post-production, Green is also editing Prankstar, a film in which he wrote, directed, and starred. In addition, Green starred opposite Brooke Shields in the comedy feature, Bob the Butler, which screened at the Aspen U.S. Comedy Arts Festival and received rave reviews.
Tom Green continues to star in and produce television projects. In 2001, Green wrote, directed, and starred in the special The Tom Green Cancer Special, which focused on his battle with testicular cancer and the importance of health education. In 2002, Green starred and executive produced the WB half hour special, The Skateboard Show. That same year, Green also directed and starred in MTV's Tom Green's Subway Monkey Hour, in which he headed to Japan to visit its many attractions and engage with the locals.
In 2005, Tom Green also added bestselling author to his long professional repertoire. In his autobiography, Hollywood Causes Cancer: The Tom Green Story, Green details his professional and personal life in ways the public has never seen. In the book, Green opens up about his humble upbringing in Ottawa, his beginnings in comedy, and his transition into television and films.
Green presently lives in Los Angeles.
A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Tionne Watkins is best known as \"T-Boz,\" the lead singer of the best selling female group of all time, TLC. With over 18 million albums sold worldwide. In addition to her success as a musician, Tionne is also a successful actress, producer and a tireless fundraiser for many important charities. Tionne has been named one of People Magazine's \"50 most beautiful people\" twice and appeared as Josephine Baker in revered makeup artist Kevin Aucoin's book, Making Faces. As president of her own entertainment company, Shee Entertainment, Tionne was the executive producer of the hit film, \"ATL.\" As an actress, Tionne received rave reviews for her role in the film Belly and guest starred on the long-running sitcom Living Single for FOX. She also had a small role in the feature film House Part III.
Tionne is the national spokesperson for the Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation. Her efforts on the group's behalf led her to be named by the Iris Captor-UCLA Women's Health Center as one of the top ten women in health education along with others, such as Katie Couric and Oprah Winfrey.
Her charity work and incredible contribution to the entertainment industry have come to define Tionne Watkins as one of the most influential and important performers of her generation.
The most recognized male figure skating star in the world, Scott Hamilton has won 70 titles, awards and honor including an Emmy Award nomination, induction into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame and a privileged member of the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame. He captured the attention of the world 25 years ago with his Olympic Gold medal performances in Saravejo and since has shared his love and enthusiasm for the sport as a commentator, performer and best-selling author. He further inspires others as a speaker, philanthropist and cancer and brain tumor survivor.
Six weeks after his birth on August 28, 1958, Scott was adopted by Ernest and Dorothy Hamilton. When Scott was about two, he contracted a mysterious illness that caused him to stop growing. For the next six years, doctors prescribed a variety of unsuccessful treatments. After his illness was mistakenly diagnosed as cystic fibrosis and he was given six months to live, the Hamilton’s took their son to Children's Hospital in Boston where his ailment began to correct itself by special diet and moderate exercise. From the beginning, Scott skated with great confidence and uncommon speed. He began taking formal lessons, joined a hockey team and within a year, his illness disappeared and he began growing again although he would always be considerably smaller than his peers. His miraculous recovery was attributed to the effects of intense physical activity in the cold atmosphere of the rink.
At thirteen, he began training with Pierre Brunet, a former Olympic gold medal winner and, despite steady progress, abruptly quit competitive skating in 1976 due to financial struggles and enrolled at Bowling Green. But before he began classes, an anonymous couple who had supported other Olympic hopefuls volunteered to sponsor Scott. He immediately resumed training.
By 1980, he earned a solid fifth place finish at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid. Then in March of 1981, Scott's dazzling free skate program at the World Championships enabled him to win the title, only the second American to do so since 1970. Later that same year, he took an individual gold medal at the first Skate America tournament and was voted Male Athlete of the Year by the United States Olympic Committee.
Scott held onto his national and world titles in 1982 and 1983. As the winner of sixteen consecutive championships after the 1980 Winter Olympics, he was heavily favored to take the Gold medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajevo, and that is precisely what he did, despite an uncharacteristically tentative free skating routine. A month later, he went on to score a stunning victory at the World Championships in Ottawa, Canada. Shortly thereafter, in April of 1984, Scott turned professional after being inundated with lucrative contracts from the major ice shows. The Ice Capades secured his superstar talents for two years.
In 1987, the United States Olympic Committee awarded him the first Olympic Spirit Award given for the 1984 Winter Games.
His October 1997 comeback to skating (preceded by a People Magazine cover story profiling his courageous battle against cancer and Maria Shriver's highly-rated profile of Scott for NBC's Dateline) was capped by the live CBS Television Network Special Scott Hamilton: Back on the Ice. By all accounts, the event was one of the most emotional and riveting evenings of the year. His life has also been profiled by the A&E Network’s Biography series, and E! Entertainment’s Celebrity Biography series.
In March of 1988, Scott received perhaps the second most important award in his career from the International Skating Union. This institutional governing body of all world amateur competitions presented him with their highest recognition of merit, the Jacques Favart Award. A most prestigious honor, he became the award's first solo male recipient.
In 1990, Scott was inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame. In that same year, he also became a privileged member of the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
In 1997, Scott was the recipient of yet another distinguished honor when on March 14th in front of a sold out crowd of 17,000 at Madison Square Garden, he became the first figure skater ever to be inducted into the Madison Square Garden Walk of Fame. Scott is now in the permanent company of such luminaries as Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, the Rolling Stones, and Frank Sinatra.
From 1986-2001, audiences saw Scott perform in his own Scott Hamilton's America Tour, with numerous U.S. symphony orchestras, and 15 national touring seasons in Stars On Ice, which he also co created and, for which, he served as co producer until his retirement from the tour in April 2001. Since then, he returned to Stars on Ice as a Special Guest Star in select cities for two seasons thereafter, and continues to be the creative producing force behind each annual production.
In 1986 and 1987, he also toured the country as co-headliner in the proscenium theater production of Festival on Ice highlighted by a two-week engagement at the Opera House of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
Festival on Ice was such a national success that it was immediately followed by Broadway on Ice, a 1989 \"book\" show specially written to showcase Scott’s many talents -- which also served as his \"musical theatre and acting\" debut.
Since 1989, Scott has made his motion picture debut in Blades of Glory, starring Will Ferrell and Jon Heder. He also hosted Fox’s reality series “Skating with Celebrities,” appeared and was a voice-over in “Fairly Odd Parents,” and has made guest appearances on “Wanna Bet?” and “Jury Duty.” He is also a frequent guest on Today Show, Entertainment Tonight and featured in various national news publications including People Magazine.
As an author, Scott received notable critical praise for his New York Times best-selling autobiography Landing It (Kensington Books, October 1999), an intimate, candid and insightful look at his professional and personal life on and off the ice. His new inspirational book, The Great Eight will be published by Thomas Nelson Publishing in January 2009.
Twenty-five years after his Olympic Gold, Scott continues to share his love and enthusiasm for ice skating as commentator for key competitions including Nationals, Worlds and the Olympics. During a fourteen-year tenure with the CBS Television Network as one of their most articulate sports analysts, Scott’s coverage of the figure skating competition at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan, the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway, and the 1992 Games in Albertville, France, were heralded as incisive, exuberant and refreshing. Scott was highly praised for his NBC Television Network commentating and coverage of figure skating at the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, and at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy, as well his co-hosting of the NBC-produced show titled Olympic Ice which aired on the USA Network nightly during the 2006 Winter Games. He recently signed a three year exclusive agreement with NBC Sports to cover all of their skating broadcasts including the upcoming winter Olympics in 2010.
Scott contradicts the saying that \"good guys finish last.\" As a humanitarian and philanthropist, Scott's bout with testicular cancer in 1997, and his November 2004 diagnosis of a benign pituitary brain tumor (from which he is successfully recovering), have led to his becoming a much sought after motivational speaker with his motto being, “The only disability in life is a bad attitude”
When he is not working or participating in a wide variety of charitable events, or acting as an official spokesperson for Target House at St. Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, as well as his own Scott Hamilton C.A.R.E.S. Initiative (Cancer Alliance for Research, Education and Survivorship) at the Cleveland Clinic Taussig Center in Cleveland, Ohio, or promoting his web site Chemocare.com (in conjunction with the Cleveland Clinic and CARES), or serving on the Board of Directors for Special Olympics, Scott can be found on the golf course and enjoys spending time with his wife and two sons – Aidan (5) and Maxx (11 months) - at their home in Nashville, Tennessee.
Natalie first hit a golf ball at age 4, when her father began teaching her to play golf. She soon fell in love with the sport; “From the very beginning it seemed like I was drawn to golf,” says Natalie. At age 7, she won her first tournament and at age 10, she first broke par. Several years later, at age 14, she won the California State Women’s Amateur and became the youngest player to ever qualify for an LPGA event, the Longs Drug Challenge, near her home in Sacramento.
In 2000-2001, Natalie attended the University of Arizona, where she won three tournaments and was recognized with First Team All-American honors. After her freshman season, Natalie competed in the LPGA Tour Qualifying Tournament in the fall of 2001, earning a spot on Tour. During her rookie season in 2002, Natalie tied for fifth at the ShopRite LPGS Classic and the Giant Eagle LPGA Classic. These two performances propelled her into second place in the LPGA Tour Rookie of the Year standings.
After solid performances in 2003 and 2004, Natalie experienced a breakout season in 2005, finishing tied for third at the Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill and the State Farm Classic, earning over $1 million for the first time in her career. She also qualified for her first Solheim Cup and scored three points for the victorious U.S. team.
Natalie’s game and confidence strengthened throughout 2006, as she recorded a tie for third at the 2006 Kraft Nabisco Championship (her fourth straight top-ten finish at a major dating back to 2005) and a tie for second at the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic (losing in a playoff).
Her first LPGA Tour victory arrived in 2007 at the Evian Masters, where she birdied the first hole of a sudden-death playoff. Her best season to date ended with a team victory at the Solheim Cup and a runner-up finish at the season-ending ADT Championship.
Natalie’s popularity and fan following have soared as she has become a recognizable figure both on and off the golf course. She has starred in her own reality television series on the Golf Channel, created her own line of fashion calendars, contributed to numerous charities and graced red carpets for events such as Fashion Week and The Grammys.
Additionally, she is a favorite at Pro-Am events, where she has teed off against such celebrity athletes as Derek Jeter, Michael Jordan and Jerome Bettis. Her approachability, work ethic, graceful beauty and magnetic personality make her a highly credible ambassador for the world’s leading brands.
Most people that see Melissa Rivers in all of her splendorous glamour on the red carpet have no idea that that the style maven is an Ivy League graduate, an accomplished equestrian and the mother of a young son. She also an executive producer and has ample experience behind the camera as well as in front of it.
The University of Pennsylvania graduate started to learn her craft after college at “CBS This Morning” where she quickly became a feature reporter which led ironically to a stint as a regular contributor on “Hangin’ with MTV.” Rivers joined her mother on the red carpet at E! Entertainment where they started the red carpet phenomenon. From then on, awards show coverage was never the same. The acerbic, dynamic duo even made it to celebrate their 1,000th interview on the Emmys red carpet – a huge milestone indeed.
During her time at E! Rivers produced and hosted a number of specials – two of which were two of the channels highest rated – “Oh Baby! Melissa’s Guide to Pregnancy” and “Oh, Toddler! Surviving the Early Years.”
When the Rivers women took their red carpet programming over to the TV Guide Channel a few years ago the ratings soared. Rivers has produced and hosted a number of specials and series including “TV Candy,” a weekly series that highlights TV fashion, the annual Mother’s Day special, The Stylist Special, the series “Stars First Jobs” (all produced with Steven Jensen) that features celebrities hilariously going back to their first jobs. Rivers and her production company also produce all of the red carpet programs. . She also hosted and executive produced “The Craze” on Fit TV which tests the efficacy of fitness products with normal people.
In 2003 Rivers had the opportunity to display her decidedly down-to-earth, tomboy side on ABC’s popular reality series “I’m A Celebrity! Get Me Out of Here.” The show featured celebrities leaving behind their pampered lives for weeks of roughing it in a remote outpost of the inhospitable Australian rainforest. She showed her strength and resilience under adverse circumstances and was the last woman standing, winning second place. She donated all of her winnings from the show to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
That same year she had the distinction of being PETA’s spokesperson and model for their highly publicized “I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur” campaign which featured a billboard in Times Square during the height of holiday shopping. Recently, she joined the Board of Directors of the Entertainment Industry Council. She moderated a panel on mental illness for the organization and continues to stay involved with their programs.
This spring she will appear on NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice” with her mother, Joan. The season premiere is set for March 1.
Rivers lives with her son, Cooper, and two dogs in Los Angeles.
Khloe Kardashian is the youngest of the three sisters introduced to Hollywood with the dramedy \"Keeping Up with the Kardashians.\" The show, which has quickly became one of the highest-rated shows on E!, gives the audience a glimpse into the lives of the Kardashian clan, an affluent Angeleno family made famous by Khloe’s older sister Kim and her tabloid teasing exploits. While Kim may have provided the initial impetus to watch, it’s outspoken Khloe who inevitably steals the show, coloring it with her witty and entertaining dialogue, her approachable personality, and her fun, spontaneous and sometimes inappropriate behavior.
The hit series rocketed twenty-four-year-old Khloe into the spotlight, enabling her to develop her own fan base, prove her strengths as a TV personality and initiate a series of projects to keep her busy. Aside from maintaining her daily blog, which reached 1 million views in its first month of launching, Khloe now works as a spokesperson for Crest. She contributes to MSN.com and uses her attractive, outgoing personality to host behind-the-scenes and red carpet events for Celebuzz.
In addition to dealing with the newfound responsibilities of being a reality star, Khloe also manages DASH, the high-end women’s boutique in Calabasas, California that she owns and runs with her two sisters.
Please visit her official website for more info: http://khloek.celebuzz.com/
Joan Rivers is a force of nature, and one of the hardest working celebrities in the world. Comedienne; Tony-nominated actress; best-selling author; Emmy Award-winning television talk-show host; playwright; screenwriter; motion picture director; columnist; lecturer; syndicated radio host; jewelry designer and cosmetic company entrepreneur; red-carpet fashion laureate; businesswoman and, most importantly to her, mother and grandmother. She is exhausted!
The daughter of immigrant Russian parents, Joan created her own brand of irreverent, unconventional comedy to forge her remarkable rise to stardom in the entertainment world. Enduring humiliation and deprivation for nearly a decade playing tawdry clubs, Borscht Belt hotels, and Greenwich Village cabarets (“I was insanely persistent,” she says), Joan’s career skyrocketed in 1968 when she appeared on THE TONIGHT SHOW Starring JOHNNY CARSON. Within three years she was hosting THAT SHOW WITH JOAN RIVERS, one of the first syndicated daytime shows, and went on to become the first sole guest host of THE TONIGHT SHOW. Her own THE LATE SHOW STARRING JOAN RIVERS helped launch the Fox Network in 1986. In 1989, she returned to daytime television with THE JOAN RIVERS SHOW, winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host the following year, and her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Using her unique gifts of humor, compassion and tenacity has enabled Joan to triumph over personal tragedy and attain extraordinary professional success. In 1990, she launched the Joan Rivers Classics Collection of fashion jewelry on QVC. She won an ACE Award from the Accessories Council in 1997, and continues to achieve unprecedented success with a record-breaking 500 million dollars plus in sales to date.
One of the most naturally style-savvy women on the planet, Joan consistently appears on Best Dressed lists around the world. Along with her daughter Melissa, she hosted E!’s red-carpet events from 1996-2004. From 2004-2007 they continued their “must-see” red-carpet coverage for the TV Guide Channel, garnering the highest ratings ever for the channel.
A pre-eminent connoisseur of fine art, antiques and vintage jewelry, Joan keeps her finger on the pulse of all the latest trends and is widely considered America’s most visible, accessible and authoritative fashion spokesperson. Her firm belief that when women look their best they can be their best was the inspiration for her Joan Rivers Beauty Line, a continually expanding line of products that was launched on QVC in 2000. It encompasses Absolutely Magic skincare treatment, color cosmetics, and her signature fragrance, Now & Forever.
While continuing to headline at prestigious concert venues worldwide, Joan is always working on new projects. In April 2002, she brought her critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe Festival one-woman show, “Broke and Alone,” to London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket. She received rave reviews and the first standing ovation at the theatre in fourteen years. Joan then took the show to the State Theatres in Sydney and Melbourne where it received the same enthusiastic critical and audience response. Subsequent performances, including two one-week runs at the Canon Theatre in Los Angeles, have all garnered “hottest ticket in town” status.
Good news travels fast and, before she knew it, Joan was back headlining in Las Vegas. In October of 2004, she returned to the U.K. for her first national concert tour. The Glasgow International Comedy Festival followed in March of 2005. But the U.K. was clamoring for more, so in 2005 Joan returned to England for her second major tour in two years. In the spring of 2006 she returned to Australia for sold-out shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Canberra.
In August 2007, Joan launched “The Joan Rivers Theatre Project: a play-in-progress workshop,” which she co-wrote and starred in, for a limited engagement at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco. Six months later the show opened to rave reviews at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles as “Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress,” with sold out performances for its entire six week run.
Constantly in motion, Joan knows first-hand the importance of healthy bones in helping us all live the life we want and deserve. In 2004, she reached out to the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) with a passion and purpose to get the word out about osteoporosis, a disease that affects one in two women over 50. As NOF Ambassador, she took this message to Capitol Hill in 2005 where she met with the Surgeon General and worked with Congressional leaders to encourage support for increased awareness and national action to prevent this disease. Honored by NOF in 2005 with its first-ever Innovation Award, Joan continues to lend her energy and creativity to encourage people everywhere to be aware of osteoporosis and bone health.
From her signature question, “Can we talk?” (a Federal trademark), to her red-carpet mantra, “Who are you wearing?” the woman who asks the questions gets the answers America… and the world… wants to hear.
Joan Rivers embodies class, confidence and chutzpah in all the right proportions and her accomplishments are amazing (see attached). Of course, her most joyous triumph is being grandmother to Melissa’s son, Cooper (Edgar Cooper Endicott), who was born on December 1, 2000.-- and she’s enjoying that immensely!
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