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"So it&amp;#039;s all come down to this. After weeks of bitching, backstabbing and a little bit of raising money for charity, either Clay Aiken or Arsenio Hall is going to be named the winner of The Celebrity Apprentice! First though, there&amp;#039;s time for some fun as Donald Trump makes his way to the American Museum of Natural History... driven by none other than Mario Andretti! We even get a totally real GTA-style bird&amp;#039;s eye view of the car beating the New York traffic! But soon he makes his entrance - let&amp;#039;s crown ourselves a winner!  The final task continues After a montage of highlights from the season (in which Clay and Arsenio again admit that this will be hard since they&amp;#039;re friends), we get some more on the final task - creating an ad for their charity, putting together a celebrity variety show and selling tickets to raise money. In the first bit of task update we get, Arsenio&amp;#039;s nervous - he has no footage of Magic Johnson looking at the camera for his ad! Luckily, it turns out that it was just delayed, and it soon turns up, so no worries. &amp;quot;There is a God somewhere,&amp;quot; Arsenio gasps. &amp;quot;All I want is both of his eyes at one time.&amp;quot; Over with Clay&amp;#039;s team, Debbie&amp;#039;s loudly announcing that she&amp;#039;s annoyed. Aubrey came up with an idea for a mural, which Clay likes, but understandably he wants an idea of what it&amp;#039;s going to look like before he lets Debbie&amp;#039;s artist cousin loose with a paintbrush. This strikes Debbie as unreasonable, so she loudly yells to her cousin on the phone words to that effect. Later, she points out that to perform, she needs to be &amp;quot;calm&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;centring&amp;quot; right now.  Back at the museum, Donald introduces Ivanka and Eric, and then it&amp;#039;s time to find out more about the task. The teams are on the way to their venue for the day, so Debbie takes the opportunity to show Clay some of her cousin&amp;#039;s past work. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s all I wanted,&amp;quot; Clay says, giving the go ahead.   But there&amp;#039;s still a lot to do to get the venue ready for Clay&amp;#039;s carnival-themed party (and it doesn&amp;#039;t help that Aubrey keeps interrupting Clay when people arrive... though she says that she&amp;#039;s working for him and he wouldn&amp;#039;t have a show if it wasn&amp;#039;t for her.) But it&amp;#039;s Clay&amp;#039;s neck on the line, so he wants to be involved! In fact, he&amp;#039;s so involved that he sticks a trash bag over his suit and gets painting to finish the mural on time (with the help of lots of others including, weirdly, Teller - who&amp;#039;s shown up for his act with Penn later.) But what about Arsenio&amp;#039;s team? They&amp;#039;re pleased with their space, which Teresa&amp;#039;s been decorating. But they still have to sort out the variety show part, so Adam comes up with some lines for Teresa and Paul. That&amp;#039;s all good, but when he begins suggesting stuff for Arsenio and proposes a roast, Arsenio is not too keen (he wants a &amp;quot;feel-good&amp;quot; tone). Adam sadly says he is &amp;quot;sort of confused&amp;quot; that his ideas were shot down, but there&amp;#039;s still lots to do! Saying hello to past contestants Time for a break from the last task drama - Donald invites Victoria Gotti, George Takei, Tia Carrere, Patricia Vel\u00E1squez, Lou Ferrigno and Dayana Mendoza to the stage! We begin with a fun montage of Lou saying &amp;quot;110%&amp;quot;, and then the Hulk star reveals that he has had some surgery for his hearing - he no longer needs a hearing aid. Plus he&amp;#039;s raised a lot of money for charity and hands a check to Donald (who admits that he thought Lou might be coming to fight him.)  Donald moves onto Dayana and asks how she feels about Lisa now (&amp;quot;I unfortunately have nothing positive to say about her&amp;quot; - yikes!) Probably best to move on to Victoria, who also slams Aubrey and Lisa (&amp;quot;One&amp;#039;s a cartoon character... the other&amp;#039;s crude, rude and classless&amp;quot;.) This earns her claps from the audience, by the way! Patricia&amp;#039;s also feeling a bit sad, explaining that she&amp;#039;s struggling since she lost money for her charity - it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;been a challenge&amp;quot;. As for Tia, she holds back on giving names... but she leaves no-one unclear that she&amp;#039;s not happy with Aubrey and Lisa (and their &amp;quot;insecurities and biases&amp;quot;). It&amp;#039;s getting a bit heavy, right? Thank goodness we can now talk to George, who reveals that since leaving The Celebrity Apprentice people have donated $10,000 to his charity, and he&amp;#039;s personally offered up $50,000. That&amp;#039;s a nicer note! Now, back to the final task... The final task continues It&amp;#039;s time to sell tickets, but Arsenio&amp;#039;s a little downhearted when he discovers that most of the people waiting outside are there for Clay. And though checks from his comedian friends soon start rolling in, they don&amp;#039;t seem to be matching Clay&amp;#039;s - one fan has gathered donations from a group of people and has a $20,000 check, for example. Even Lisa - working on Arsenio&amp;#039;s team - ends up donating $10,000 to Clay! He must be magic, or something. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s brave on her part,&amp;quot; Clay says, adding that he&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;touched&amp;quot; by the gesture. But when the tickets are sold, all that remains is for the separate parties to begin - and of course, Donald arrives to check them out! Clay&amp;#039;s thrilled with his carnival - people seem to be having fun - while Arsenio&amp;#039;s keen for everyone to enjoy themselves with a drink. Plus, Whoopi Goldberg shows up to be his date! When he sees Donald, her and everyone else smiling, he&amp;#039;s feeling good. But at Clay&amp;#039;s party, Donald&amp;#039;s treated to Debbie hula hooping and spinning plates. Yikes! And, of course, Aubrey makes it her mission to show him around... with Clay trying to get his say too! It&amp;#039;s almost time for the variety show...  Meeting more former contestants At the museum, Donald invites Adam, Debbie, Dee, Paul, Penn, Teresa, Lisa and Aubrey onto the stage. Aubrey&amp;#039;s first to speak and says that she has an &amp;quot;anxiety&amp;quot; to prove herself because she&amp;#039;s been &amp;quot;doubted and under-recognized&amp;quot; in her career. But she does say that she&amp;#039;s learned from the show - she doesn&amp;#039;t want to hurt anyone! Time to move onto Lisa... but first we get a montage of her shouting and swearing at everyone! &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m a freaking mental case,&amp;quot; Lisa confesses. Oh, and we also get a clip of Dayana mocking Lisa&amp;#039;s crying... but Lisa takes it in good humor and says that if you dish it out, you have to take it. &amp;quot;I thought it was great,&amp;quot; she adds. As for Adam, Donald asks if being funny was a help or a hindrance - &amp;quot;It helps about as much as it helps in golf and porn&amp;quot;, Adam replies, adding that he was conscious of entertaining viewers.  Then it&amp;#039;s Teresa&amp;#039;s turn, and Donald reminds her that Adam called her naive. Teresa admits that she&amp;#039;s trusting and tries to see good in people. While Dee shows off his broken finger, which could be about to face a third surgery (it&amp;#039;s admittedly looking quite crooked). Elsewhere, Paul insists that the softer side seen on The Celebrity Side is the real him, while Penn says that despite their problems, Clay should win the show...  More from the final task Time for more bits from the final task, and the variety show is about to begin! First, Clay and Arsenio introduce their ad campaigns for their charities. Then, it&amp;#039;s Arsenio&amp;#039;s team up first and they stage a comedy night, with some jokes sneaking a little close to the wind (those involving Mr Trump and Clay&amp;#039;s sexuality, for example, though both seem good sports.) As for Arsenio, all his nerves go away when he gets on stage and he seems to enjoy himself! Team Clay next, and the show begins with Debbie and Dee performing &amp;#039;Baby Love&amp;#039; together (I know!) Aubrey&amp;#039;s next to perform and sings &amp;#039;I Will Survive&amp;#039;, unsubtly directing: &amp;quot;You did me wrong&amp;quot; at Donald so he knows he shouldn&amp;#039;t have fired her. Yikes. Penn dances behind her, then performs a little magic with Teller. Afterwards, Debbie and Dee do a skit about what to perform - then Clay closes the show with Aubrey, singing &amp;#039;Time Of My Life&amp;#039;. Phew! But who will win - Clay or Arsenio? They both say they&amp;#039;re friends but will be victorious...  The Boardroom After the presentations, everyone heads into the Boardroom for one last time. Lisa says Arsenio was a &amp;quot;fantastic&amp;quot; project manager, but admits she donated to Clay. Arsenio is all very gravious about the whole thing, explaining that while it&amp;#039;s not orthodox for the game, it shows who Lisa is (I assume he means this as a good thing.) Adam&amp;#039;s less gracious and looks shocked... but says it was good of Lisa to do that.  Elsewhere, Teresa says Arsenio had no weaknesses as a project manager, though Aubrey obviously takes exception to that, saying she doesn&amp;#039;t have enough time to list Arsenio&amp;#039;s faults. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know him as a man,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t care to know him as a man. I hope Clay wins.&amp;quot; Yikes! Anyway, Donald tells Arsenio that Magic Johnson is very pleased with his work for the charity, and Ivanka praises the execution of his ad. Donald moves onto Clay&amp;#039;s team, praising their performances (and Ivanka describes Dee and Debbie&amp;#039;s energy as &amp;quot;incredible&amp;quot;). Then it&amp;#039;s time to reveal the amount of money raised - though Donald insists that the win does not rest on the donations. Still, Arsenio and Clay will be able to give all the money they&amp;#039;ve raised to their charities. Here are the figures: Arsenio raised $167,100, while Clay picked up a total of $301,500! It&amp;#039;s almost time to discover the winner...  Welcome your finalists! Donald introduces Arsenio and Clay to the stage for some pre-announcement chat! Clay answers Donald&amp;#039;s question about whether he or Simon Cowell is tougher correctly - they respect Donald more, apparently! And Donald also asks Arsenio why he broke down a couple of times, and Arsenio repeats that he is playing for his cousin, who passed away after suffering from AIDS shortly before he joined the show.  Then Donald goes to the former contestants to find out who he should fire. Dee votes for Clay, as does Lisa (though she wants Arsenio to get his own show). Debbie also says Clay should win overall, but after her &amp;quot;personal experience working with Clay&amp;quot;, Dayana unsurprisingly opts for Arsenio! Teresa also chooses Arsenio. After a slightly bizarre performance of &amp;#039;Lean On Me&amp;#039;, which sees Clay and Aiken singing along with a gospel choir, there&amp;#039;s a montage of previous winners to remind Clay and Arsenio of the company they can keep if they triumph - Piers Morgan, Joan Rivers, Bret Michaels and John Rich. Bit of a mixed bag, there!  Donald asks Clay why he should win - he replies that he raised the bar after coming in to low expectations. He says he proved that he can be productive, creative and a leader. And hey, his mom&amp;#039;s in the audience - she can&amp;#039;t see him lose twice! He&amp;#039;s also not worried that he lost as a project manager - after all, he did really well for the final task. Donald also wants to know whether Arsenio&amp;#039;s claims that he would use the Celebrity Apprentice title to raise more money for charity are true. Arsenio promises that they are - he wants to use this exposure for good. And hey, he&amp;#039;s been on the cover of Rolling Stone and the Wall Street Journal: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve lived the life of the apprentice - I just need the title now.&amp;quot; After getting the former contestants to ask Arsenio some questions (mainly whether he finds Lisa attractive), Donald asks Ivanka and Eric for advice. But they&amp;#039;re mostly next to useless, just saying that both candidates have good points and adding: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s up to you, dad!&amp;quot; So Donald admits that he&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;never been so torn&amp;quot;, describing the decision as &amp;quot;very, very tough&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re both amazing people,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;There is no loser tonight. But the winner of The Celebrity Apprentice and $250,000 to your charity in addition to all the money you&amp;#039;ve won is... Arsenio Hall!&amp;quot; So that&amp;#039;s that! There are obviously hugs and cheers and streamers and tears as Arsenio celebrates his victory. Bring on the next season... &amp;gt; Celebrity Apprentice: New winner crowned "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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