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Why I Selected Jesse James for The Celebrity Apprentice
Jesse is a bit of a Renaissance man with his variety of interests and accomplishments. From motorcycles to a clothing line, he has the drive and diversity we’re looking for. But let’s see if he lives up to his name of legend.
Jesse James, www.westcoastchoppers.com, may be best known as a gruff looking custom motorcycle genius, but that's only the tip of the iceberg. Jesse's title at work is CEO, and for good reason. He oversees the chopper shop, a television production company, one of the hottest lines of clothing in America, a restaurant and more. Jesse may not wear French cuffs to work but he is most definitely a businessperson and an entrepreneur.
After working as a bouncer for bands like Danzig, Slayer and Soundgarden, Jesse opened West Coast Choppers in 1992. Because of his bikes' distinctive style, Discovery Channel featured Jesse in the documentary show "Motorcycle Mania." Jesse proved so popular that Discovery Channel asked him to create "Monster Garage," which turned Jesse James into a household name.
Last summer, Jesse toured across the United States to talk with American workers one-on-one and to launch his Jesse James Industrial Work Wear clothing line, available at Wal-Mart. Right now Jesse is producing his new show "Jesse James Is A Dead Man" for Spike TV.
Jesse James plays The Celebrity Apprentice for the charity, Long Beach Education Foundation, http://tiny.cc/longbeachfoundation. This foundation is the single largest donor to the Long Beach Unified School District in California. The Long Beach Education Foundation directs its donations to students and public schools in Long Beach, Lakewood, Signal Hill and Avalon.
Jesse turned hard work, camaraderie and a sense of style into business success on the west coast. Let's see how he does on the east coast.
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15 Comments
We know he is a great talent! He provided real solutions in the first task and in the first boardroom. He even called some-one out for doing a lousy job. We respected that view....
He stood up for himself and provided real answers and to it's real solutions!
He will do better in next years celebrity.
Wish him well...
Love his tv show and his work. We respect him.
He is a team player. Some of the other members of the male group were like a bunch of roosters in a hen house. Too much testosterone and not a lot of drive. There was too much territory marking instead of finding ways to get the job done.
Jesse called the shots correctly when he told Rodman that he wasn't pulling his weight. I can't understand joining Celebrity Apprentice and not giving 100% to the tasks at hand. You're a Celebrity for God's Sake, get out of the damn truck and strut your stuff, call your big shot friends and have them come down.
I was not impressed with the numbers that they pulled in. These were high profile men. Dennis spent that much money on the wedding dress he wore a few years back.
I did not see unity or focus in their team as I did with the women's team. Good luck Jesse, I hope you last long enough without killing the rest of the lower eschelon.
There are a lot of classy men there that will rise to the occassion once the insecure are weeded out, but my money is on the women.
He'll be in the top, whether he wins or not will depend on how badly he wants it. Jesse seems to function under the belief that all want to do well and he likes to provide that opportunity to those who are willing to work for it. He also seeks, respects and learns from those that are the best at what they do. .For those that come and choose mediocrity, well............. He and The Donald share that quality as well. He can see potential and drive in people and is able to not only bring that out, but orchestrate it with others to achieve a common goal.
All the Best Jesse
Kick some A$$
Jared
Also, the respect has gone out the door for so many of the celebrities by allowing Joan Rivers so many opportunities to slam these people. How much more "give" will Trump give to her. He has not set her straight by asking her to not insult these people, but he actually gives her more energy to keep making these off color comments and pick of the week badger to continue. Next weeks previews already starting to slam another. Dumb blonde? Come on Donald, get a grip on this old lady!!! She so does want Melissa to win and does Melissa have enough self-assuredness to become Trump's apprentice. She needs compliments on every task she does on the show. Stick with Jesse, he has more to offer the Trump empire and someone who hangs on her mothers coat tails!! This blog is supposed to be about positive comments, but how can this be about a show host who allows such nasty negativity.
He looked like a whiny kid that got busted because he wasn't as smart as he thought he was. He looked embarrased and pouted and not an intelligent word came out of his mouth. All insults that had to be bleeped. No class whatsoever.
I would never, ever even give him my breath. I am still sitting here listening to the show. He just called a woman (Joan) an ass hole. Seriously Mr. Donald....Why is Jesse still there?
None of my family or friends or neighbors or even my son and his soldiers buds in the Army has no respect, admiration and definatly not a drop of interest in Jesse. Use to but they say things about him that I can't repeat.
He is a depressing.......non intertaining........not attractive........boring.....a has been that has no tact or smarts when it comes to wanting to make results happen. Watch and see.... He will be out of the public in 5 years......Julie Knutson
Jesse chose not to go and twist hsi friends arm for money. Like Jesse said at one point that all of his friends do not have money. He comes from a working class, I mean a very hard working class background. I think the man is great. I have admired him from the first time I saw him on TV.
Back to my blog/ He has said that he did not want to get money from his friends. I think that is a great tribute. He was criticized for not using his wife as a cash cow, and have her use her influence to gather money for this program. There is not doubt in my mind that he could have and would have used them if he really needed to. But he chose to not use his wife for his problem. She was not one of the contestants, and I think it was great for him to not use her.
The point was made more than once that he had this famous highly placed clebrety for a wife. It was not her chore to earn the money it was upo to him. I so respect the fact that he did not do this.
I really feel he could have won the whole thing if given a chance. But to be sabatoged for not useing Sandra was wrong.
He could beat Anne Duke. She is an awful awful person. I would never trust her.
Clint Daniel
P.S. While I have always dug what Jesse James did I would not call myself a "fan" of his, but I can and do relate with him.
told him not to call dennis rodman
stupid and to calm down after dennis
had cussed him so bad they had to
bleep it out,I think trump just likes
freaked out people,I also wonder
if him and joan have a thing.
The minute my wife and I finished watching this, we both looked at each other and said the same thing, "Annie were set up". Annie Duke's comments at Final were exactly correct. In a real boardroom, Joan River's would have been fired or at least suspended. In our company we would have had a real problem on our hands making sure our company didn't get sued for condoning the comments and behavior that was allowed against Annie Duke from Joan Rivers.
My wife and I each had our own companies before we met, and between the two of us, we have over 3100 employees.
We realized Mr. Trump's CA has to capitalize anyway possible to keep up the ratings. But using Ms. Duke as the pigeon was less than anyone would have expected from you.
We have watched the Apprentice from day one. It went from real apprentices that many of our sales staff could associate with in coming into our companies, to a personality show.
Each week we felt for Ms. Duke having to sit through the personal accusations and Mr Trump allowing it.
Ms. Duke's last comment on the Final, " a girl can only take so much", should have been Mr. Trump's wake up call.
We have lost all respect for his ability and applaud Ms. Duke for taking the high road.
We may even start watching Poker!
I guarantee that both of your children have lost a certain amount of respect for you.
I didn't think it was right for Donald to fire the Kardashian girl for getting a DUI, but seemed to let Dennis Rodman drink during tasks. Isn't that a double standard? This show was a joke.