PIERS MORGAN
Editor/"America's Got Talent" Judge
Interview
Let's put the million-dollar question out there first. You've achieved fame and success in your life. Why put yourself through the
often-brutal Apprentice process?
As a judge on America's Got Talent, I often get contestants asking me what I have ever done with my life that qualifies me to judge them. The Apprentice
is a show that gives me the perfect chance to show how smart I really am... or not as the case may be!
As a daily newspaper editor in England for ten years, I worked very long, stressful hours on very tight deadlines, running a staff of 400 people and a
business making $100 million a year, in one of the most brutal industries in the world. So I should be in a better position to complete these business
challenges than most of the other contestants, some of whom I suspect haven't done a proper day's work in their lives...
What do you admire most about Donald Trump? Do you see a correlation between him and you in the sense that you are both famous AND business
people?
I see a lot of similarities between me and Mr. Trump. We're both smart, funny, handsome, hard-working winners who can be tough and ruthless when we have
to be in business, but kind and charming in our personal lives. We also share a hatred of mediocrity, and of quitters, schmoozers and losers.
In the past, when I've gotten into situations where there were people I didn't enjoy being around or couldn't tolerate, I'd just disengage.
But I wasn't able to do that here. So I just bit my tongue, didn't say anything, and tried to keep in mind that I was representing a charity and not
myself. It would have been different if I was there representing myself.
"Success" can mean different things to different people; what does it mean to you?
Success means winning. Period.
Why should you be Donald Trump's celebrity Apprentice?
Because I will be the smartest contestant in the competition, and the one with the power to raise the most money for charity because I have the best
contacts in the worlds of business, showbusiness, politics and royalty.
Since you are in the public spotlight, people already know a great deal about you. What's one thing that the public may not know?
I was a good friend of Princess Diana.
If you could be the star of any movie ever made, which star and which movie would it be and why?
Marlon Brando in The Godfather - I'm absolutely fine to do business with, unless you forget to give me respect. Then I'll kill
you.
What are your three favorite albums of all time?
"Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by The Beatles
"Songs in the key of Life" by Stevie Wonder
"40 Licks" by The Rolling Stones
What are your three favorite books of all time?
"Long Walk To Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
"Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Dude is gonna make Omarosa his bitch. I can see it now. Hopefully by the end he has her squirting some %%@+%
I love this guy already.
