Remember that nasty piece of work Omarosa, from the first season of The Apprentice and later on Celebrity Apprentice? She was vile, and she was always fighting with the other contestants, but I guess Trump liked her because she ended up getting invited back. (Or maybe she was just good for ratings since you never knew who she’d pick on next.) Well according to the Enquirer, Omarosa, 36, is pregnant and the father is 52 year-old Michael Clarke Duncan, that huge dude from Green Mile. That sounds so random. The last we heard from Omarosa she was planning on entering a seminary and becoming a minister. I wonder what became of that. (I guess she also had a dating show this summer, not that I heard about it. Duncan wasn’t a contestant.) Here’s the story, from this week’s National Enquirer:
TV villainess Omarosa Manigault Stallworth is pregnant with “Green Mile” star Michael Clarke Duncan’s baby, the Enquirer has learned exclusively. But the couple is in no rush to walk down the aisle. The “Apprentice” troublemaker is telling pals they plan to tie the know after their bundle of joy arrives in the spring.
Omarosa, 36 – who is in her first trimester – met Michael in the produce section of a Whole Foods supermarket in LA earlier this year…
The two are now living in Michael’s Woodland Hills home and are making plans for their future together as a family. Omarosa’s publicist refused to comment when The Enquirer asked about her pregnancy.
[From The National Enquirer, print edition, November 22, 2010]
I checked Omarosa and Michael Clarke Duncan’s twitter accounts and they’re constantly tweeting about how much they love each other. They also came out to an event together a couple of months ago, with Duncan gushing about how smart Omarosa is. I completely missed that, or maybe I willfully forgot about it. If they’re pregnant congratulations to them. Omarosa seems like she’d be a worse mother than Kate Gosselin, but maybe she’s changed. You can bet she’ll try and spin a baby and her relationship with Duncan into some kind of reality show.
I watched that nasty piece of work Omarosa on her debut appearance on the first season of “The Apprentice” in 2004. She seemed to pick fights with people constantly and she once called it “racist” when another contestant (I looked it up and it was Ereka) used the common expression “pot calling the kettle black,” which of course has nothing to do with race at all. A quick look at the Wikipedia page for that season reminds me know that Omarosa also accused Ereka of calling her the “n” word when her original claim of racism didn’t stick. Ereka denied using that word and passed a lie detector test to back it up.
Omarosa then made a sort-of shameful career out of reality stints on shows like “The Surreal Life” and “Celebrity Apprentice” and bit appearances on TV shows as herself. I actively tried to ignore her, but she’d pop up now and then with news of the latest feud she was picking with whoever she decided she hated the most. Shortly after she came onto the scene she got an enormous boob job and flaunted it, and divorced her never-seen husband, dropping her hyphenated surname, Manigault-Stallworth. She wrote a book last year that no one seems to have read called The Bitch Switch: Knowing How to Turn It on and Off, which seems to be about succeeding in business by acting rude and alienating people.
Anyway that’s way too generous of an introduction for this wretched woman, who has now announced her plans to enter a seminary and pursue a doctorate in religion, and presumably a religious life. We just heard that she “apologizes” for all the nasty things she said about the other contestants on the various shows she was on, but it sounds like she never really took responsibility for her behavior, as we’ll explain in a moment. Here’s the news that Omarosa is going to seminary for whatever reason:
Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, best known for her diva antics on NBC’s hit The Apprentice, is entering an Ohio seminary.
According to the Associated Press, she is slated to begin her ministry studies at United Theological Seminary in Dayton on Monday.
She will spend about two years pursuing a doctor of ministry degree, says Ivan Hicks, the school’s associate dean for African-American studies.
“She has expressed a calling in her life and it is our opportunity to provide leadership and guidance as she makes a transformation,” Hicks says. “We’re excited about her coming to school at UTS.”
He adds that she “has a heart for ministry” after doing work on behalf of the homeless and the poor in Haiti.
Omarosa’s feisty reputation will actually help her as a minister, says Hicks.
“Some of the good things and bad things we’ve done in our lives help us to actually relate and to be more widely accepted as a minister,” he says.
So Omarosa is going to become a minister. Does she crave the power of Christ so that she has divine justification for being mean and belittling people? If she even completes her studies, and I highly doubt it’s possible for her given her issues with just about everyone, she’s going to use her title to lord it over people and excuse her terrible behavior. How convenient that Omarosa is doing this now, right when her last project, a dating show with Donald Trump that was announced last fall, has apparently fallen through. Is this a move of desperation or a genuine desire to become closer to God?
On Omarosa’s “apology” – she did it earlier this month while recounting some of the many inexcusable things she’s said about people she’s worked with, as if she was relishing her creativity in being cruel:
The new cable series “Life After” tells stories of people after they’ve found their fame. But Omarosa never quite went away.
“I have done 20-plus reality shows, and I enjoy doing it,” she said proudly during a session at press tour. “Clearly I’m good at it.”
I asked her what made her so good at reality TV.
“Whatever I’m feeling is authentic, she said. “Whatever I’m feeling at that moment is my authentic emotion. And I just let it go. And sometimes I have crossed the line. In fact, I’ve stepped over that line, and kicked the line, and walked past the line in every situation on realty television. But I own up to that. I take responsibility for the things that I have done.”
Given that, I asked whether there was anything she wanted to apologize for.
“I would like first to apologize for calling Janice Dickinson a crackhead,” she said. “And saying that she was cuckoo. And saying she was the oldest super model. I might want to apologize for talking about her jowls and her bad plastic surgery. I would also like to apologize for saying that she had a bad weave and that she was a terrible mother.
“I might also want to apologize to Piers Morgan for saying that he was a British idiot. And maybe to Wendy Williams for calling her a man…”
I googled that Omarosa and Wendy Williams fight, and it happened last summer. If you watch the video, below, Wendy just tries to find some common ground with Omarosa and she gets haughty, takes offense, and starts hurling insults. She also makes the obnoxious and uncalled for claims that “I give back more to my community than anybody that I know.” Oh yeah, she’s ready to devote her life to God.
Omarosa is shown on 6/28/09 at the BET Awards. Oh yeah she’s ready for a pious life. Credit: WENN.com.
