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Niki Taylor was an underdog going
into this season of Celebrity Apprentice —
not because she isn’t smart and business savvy, but because so many of the
competitors are so strong willed. In a recent conference call interview, the
reality show cast off talked about being project manager, her decision to
sacrifice herself and being in it for the right reasons.
Taylor said that when she became
project manager on the camping task, she had already decided not to bring any
of her teammates back to the boardroom if she lost. “That was my thinking on
the whole thing. Yeah, I don’t know if you watched the show the week before
with Lisa [Rinna] it was really kind of testy waters. You didn’t want to pull
them aside, make sure they knew what the task was, what their job was because
they attacked Lisa. And I guess I didn’t want that. And the way they edit
everything, too, they kind of missed out a lot of the stuff of me talking with
them, too.”
The supermodel said she is still
satisfied with her choice to just take the hit for her team. She stated, “I
think it was the right decision…. Each girl, they did, they worked their butts
off. They did everything that I asked them to. They made their space in each
part of their camper that they were assigned to beautifully and they learned
everything about an RV and camping that day.”
Still in her heart of hearts she
thinks Team A.S.A.P. did the best job at the task. She reflected on the loss,
saying, “I think we should have beat the boys. So I didn’t have a guitar. I
couldn’t sing a jingle and I didn’t have green turf. I think that’s the only
reason why we lost.”
But she believes their strengths far
outweighed those of Team Backbone. “We had amazing branding. We gave out
folders to everybody who walked in. We gave them waters that had Camping World
on it. We just felt we gave everybody hospitality. And so we weren’t throwing a
baseball around. And so I think we should have won.”
Yet she was uncertain of her fate
going into the boardroom and told Mr. Trump that when asked. She recalled, “I
overheard that John Rich had come up with a jingle. And during one of my
interviews I saw that they had a whole bunch of green and trees and hedges and
beautiful turf all laid down. And I’m like, ‘Oh, my goodness, that’s what I’ve
been wanting.’ That’s what I wanted…. The green was just really eye-popping. So
I was a little unsure. I didn’t know what they guys were doing. I didn’t go
over the guys’ side.”
She might not have lasted long on
the show, but Taylor learned something about herself during her short run on
“Celebrity Apprentice.” She admitted, “I need to speak up a little more. Maybe
take somebody aside if they need to… or if they have a question. Definitely
speak up more.”
One other thing she learned was a
little bit of sign language from deaf teammate Marlee Maitlin. Taylor laughed,
“I learned bossy. I know how to say bossy because we were referring to a few
people. And then I know just like basic stuff that I do with my daughter like
please, thank you. But Marlee is an amazing lip reader and you can have a
conversation with her and she is so funny. Oh, my gosh. She’s got a sense of
humor.”
That’s part of the reason Taylor
enjoyed working on the show despite obvious tensions with players like Star
Jones and Dionne Warwick. She recalled her favorite parts of the experience, “I
actually had a really good time working with all the girls. And I got to bring
my husband and my daughter with me. We stayed in the Trump Towers. We were
right across the street from the Park. So I guess it would be coming home and
seeing my husband and baby every night.”
And after all it was for a good
cause. But Taylor revealed that while most people had their hearts in the right
place a few were still were too blinded by the competition. “We all love
everybody’s charity. I think everybody wanted to win money for each other’s
charity, as well. So, yeah, I think some people, there’s just other issues
there then being there for what we’re really there for.”
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