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Ex-White House aide Omarosa could be target on ‘Big Brother’
The new season of “Big Brother” might be the first one monitored by the FBI.
That’s because CBS’ inaugural celebrity edition — with such D-listers as “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ ” Brandi Glanville, E!’s Ross Mathews, singer Mark McGrath, UFC fighter Chuck Liddell, “The Cosby Show’s” Keshia Knight Pulliam (Little Rudy is 38 — do you feel old?) — also stars Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison.
She was either fired or resigned in December and she may or may not have been physically removed from the White House.
Some speculate she may have taped confidential White House conversations and may yet factor in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Trump.
Today she’s just going by Omarosa.
She’s back to her brand, down to one word, you know, like Cher, Madonna and anthrax.
According to CBS, Omarosa says her occupation is “television personality.” That’s the truth. Omarosa’s claim to fame: She competed three times, more than anyone else, on President Trump’s NBC “Apprentice” franchise. She was fired each season, not before doing what she excels at: making enemies.
She has feuded with such celebrities as Wendy Williams, La Toya Jackson, Janice Dickinson and Bethenny Frankel.
TV Guide named her one of the greatest reality TV villains of all time in 2013.
After she poured a drink on British talk show host Piers Morgan during their season of “Celebrity Apprentice,” Morgan called her “a pointless, irrelevant, ghastly little creature.”
Make no mistake. The author of the self-help book “The Bitch Switch: Knowing How to Turn It On and Off” is back — to refute at least one of those points. She’s not irrelevant. Like previous “Big Brother” seasons, the celebrity one will air multiple times a week on CBS (this week, tonight at 8, tomorrow at 8 p.m. and Friday at 8 p.m., for a live two-hour eviction episode).
The restyled digs make the civilian “Big Brother” house look like a blanket fort. The Chenbot — “The Talk’s” Julie Chen — returns as host.
As in previous installments, live feeds will stream on CBS All-Access. “Celebrity Big Brother After Dark” will air midnight to 3 a.m. on Pop TV. But perhaps in a nod to the fractured attention spans of its pampered stars, the season runs but two-and-a-half weeks.
The live finale airs Feb. 25 at 8 p.m.
With that schedule, expect multiple evictions a week — or players encouraged to huff dramatically out of the house.
The last remaining house guest wins $250,000. (Hey, playing for charity is so ABC.)
With all her recent notoriety, Omarosa has the biggest target on her back. She could be the first evictee this week, unless she can win the immunity that comes with Head of Household.
Her presence will no doubt draw viewers. There’s a chance even President Trump will be watching. Who knows? If Omarosa can help Trump break his Fox News addiction, it might be the greatest public service she has ever done for this nation.