NBC: 'Apprentice' Will Carry On With or Without Donald Trump

By AOL TV Editors Posted May 16th 2011 09:48AM

If Donald Trump does throw decide his hat into the ring as an official 2012 Presidential candidate, he'll lose his place at the 'Apprentice' boardroom table. NBC President Bob Greenblatt has announced that the show will go on without Trump at the helm.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Greenblatt said that, although the network hopes to have Trump back for the next season, "If he decides to run and is unavailable to do the show, we will bring the show back and someone else will be sitting at the head of the board table."

However, Greenblatt wouldn't be drawn on who Trump's replacement could be. (Gary Busey, anyone?) "Who that is, we're not going to really entertain, because I'm still hoping we'll have Donald back in the seat."

Season 5 of 'The Celebrity Apprentice' is slated to launch in the midseason of NBC's 2011 fall lineup. It's due to air right before new drama, 'The Firm' (based on the John Grisham thriller), and NBC execs are confident it will deliver a strong lead-in audience for the newbie.

There's been much speculation in recent months as to whether Trump will actually run for President, and Greenblatt said he's not interested in stopping him if that is indeed what he wants to do. "I've said I don't want him to be unavailable. ... It's the right and privilege of anyone to run for the highest office of the land. Nothing would make me happier than for someone to reach that."

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Tags: Donald Trump, The Apprentice

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Monday 16 May

By mel1226

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"If Donald Trump does throw decide his hat into the ring as an official 2012 Presidential candidate"... Proof reading, it does the writer good. Might want to try it.

By cindy

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LOL!

By B

They can't read

By Bonbon

So true, i think they have high schoolers writing these articles, they don't know how to spell check either.

By Lisa

"If Donald Trump does throw decide his hat"? Is that a real sentence?

By KS.

Hmm, is THAT spray on tan?

By reggie damien

You should read Daddy-An Absolutely Authentic Fake Memoir. The guy looks like the donald and is just as outrageous! It's a hoot!

By joan

No wonder NBC is so low in ratings! With or without Donald Trump Apprentice is a show that is not good. It uses people who are like Trump, arrogant and it is boring. Novel when it first came on,9t is not anymore. The only hat Mr. Arrogant Trump should throw in a ring is one that runs for dog catcher, not President, and I apologize to the dogs for suggesting even that.

By Robert Drake

The show will fail without Trump!

By stewie1152

Got news for ya , it already sucks ! It was good for the first couple of seasons then went down the tubes.

By Synclaire

I don't watch the show and I despise Trump so if the show has to go on I vote without him.

By JESOPH

I would like to be there when they tell him, "You're fired!" That should be cause for national celebration.

By kayechrissy

I can't stand the self loveing fool. To stupid to know if he wasn.t rich people wouldn't have anything to do with him. Exspecialy the beautiful women in his life. Can u amagin kissing that.lol

NBC will carry on with or without ratings.

By Bob

Trump, you'er fired!

Notice libby AOL always puts the most unattractive photos of the GOP candidates that they can find, it's almost like the little libs go looking for a bad pic of someone! LOL

By ictmfn

Really????? Is there a good picture of him????

Tuesday 17 May

By gina

Bonbon,I always heard that attractive people son't photogragh as well as unattractive people. so mabe those ugly pictures og gop people is because they look good in person.

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