Joan Rivers To Compete On "Celebrity Apprentice"

Joan Rivers will be a contestant on the next season of Celebrity Apprentice, she told Ron Pascoe and Paul Telner for the Canadian Jewish News this week (midway through the article is the below excerpt):

After having celebrated her 75th birthday last month, Rivers continues to have a full schedule.

"I have a play in Edinburgh that will go to London. I have two books coming out. I have a tour going around with my comedy act. I have my jewelry company. I perform Wednesday nights at [the New York club] The Cutting Room," she said.

"I'm in a series called Z Rock coming to IFC [Independent Film Channel], doing a TV pilot, offered another game show and will be on Celebrity Apprentice."

She admits that she's never seen Celebrity Apprentice, Donald Trump's reality TV show. "They are going to send me tapes."

Rivers and her daughter, Melissa, have worked together as co-hosts of endless red-carpet events, starting in 1996 for the TV channel E! Entertainment, then for the TV Guide Channel and next for AOL."It's a lot of fun to work with your daughter. She's the only one that I'm happy who does better than I do," Rivers said.

"I'm very competitive. I'm not sitting back and passing the mantle. You're going to have to rip it from my shoulders."

Read the entire article here.

Watch Joan Rivers joke about Celebrity Apprentice honcho Donald Trump below (with Martha Stewart, from December):

On her show this morning, Martha Stewart hosted Joan Rivers, who mentioned that she received a gift of Donald Trump steaks. When Joan told Martha that they didn't slaughter Donald to make the steaks, she said "too bad!" http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1348330581http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=1178199204

Comments

[Outofnowhere]

Question.... Does she own a mirror? Next question.... Is she legally blind?

[jozielee]

Joan Rivers is never dull, always on the move. I LOVE HER spunk and resilience!!

[mollysgran]

Good Grief! I hope they put a (designer)bag over her head first!

[marc1antony]

THAT is one scary photo of Joan

[BWonka]

Welcome to Network Battle of the Uglies!!

The 1st Apprentice was an interesting show. Now, it is a freak show.

[WIpatriot]

The show peaked with Amarosa. I got a few good laughs every week watching the show. I caught a few episodes with Gene Simmons...he cracked me up every time he opened his mouth.

[happycat]

I saw her on the street a few years ago. Seeing her in person was absolutely shocking. She looks more like Donald Duck with that funny mouth of hers. I do give her credit for having the courage to leave the house without wearing a bag over her head though.

[Theda]

I never liked or paid attention to Joan until immediately after the first O.J. Simpson trial, when he was declared innocent. Joan was the first celebrity to get on TV and comment on the verdict. She furiously blasted Simpson and said what a travesty of justice it was that he was able to walk free. She was angry...as so many of us were...and she didn't give a damn if she was politically correct or not.

[nonconformist2]

Wrinkles are not a bad thing. When you are 75 and you don't have any, you look like a science experiment gone awry. Hollywood is a example of how not to grow old gracefully.

[booksnmore4you]

Is this lady from Earth?

[OsamaBushLadin]

Does she have the same plastic surgeon Micky Rourke does?

[anastasiabeaverhousen]

One more surgery and she'll be wearing her arse as a hat.......

[nanoscare]

Her face isn't just stretched. That smooth skin had to come from somewhere.

[truthyguy]

Well, it sure didn't come from her wrinkled old ass.

[happycat]

I hope that Joan wins so that she can finally get the plastic surgery she always wanted.

[NHGranite]

Come on now, did Fox News screw with this photo of Joan! They have no shame.

[truthyguy]

Cat Woman II

It is so bad that you have to be embarrassed for her, even if she doesn't have enough sense to be embarrassed for herself.

[jackie4444]

She's one surgery or so away from looking pretty much exactly like Jocelyn Wilderstein.
Anyone else old enough to remember what the real Joan Rivers looked like.

[egghumor]

My sentiments EXACTLY!!! When I saw that photo, I thought, eek! -- it's Jocelyn Wlderstein's sister!

[booksnmore4you]

http://www.independent-magazine.org/files/images/joanrivers.jpg

[jade7243]

Same thought here too!... Rivers and the "Wilder-beast" could have been separated at birth now. She doesn't even look like herself anymore... completely alien.

[dana94591]

My thoughts exactly! I thought I was the only one who knew about Jocelyn!!

[KindAndThoughtful]

I think that the really smart celebrities are the ones that compete on "Million Dollar Password."

Speaking of which...Betty White is still as sharp as ever. She is a class act and is one role model that Hollywood can actually be proud of.

[ZimboChick]

i totally agree

[adzeman]

Her face is better than the mom in Brazil, but barely.

[nanoscare]

I think she looks like the Son'a from Star Trek : Insurrection.

[HarlemFreeThought]

JR has complications from the complications!