Country Singer Make-Over The Celebrity Apprentice USA

You're fired. You're fired. You're fired. Go.

Rocksolid, are we ready?

Everyone is talking.

-Lying piece of

-BLEEP.

-He betrays me in the job.

I'm putting you in charge of this. Make the decision.

Now I know why Dennis Rodman started drinking.

The critics are raving.

Goodbye.

Ohh.

Let's do it.

Raising money for charity!

She said Carol first.

I don't know what to tell you to do, Bret,

because I'm not the Project Manager.

They can get their asses fired so fast,

your head will spin.

And we're just warming up.

Muggles and wizards, Muggles and wizards.

-Aaaah!

-Aaaah!

-Wing!

-SHE SNORTS

-BLEEP

-sake, Cyndi, shut up!

-Rosie O'Donnell.

-Ugh. She's disgusting.

Let's go!

My brain to my mouth sometimes is a disaster.

Dumb bitches.

As the celebrities fight to survive the pressure...

Her wordiness can be a little difficult.

-You're throwing me under the truck.

-No, no, no, I'm not.

..ass on the line, start throwing people under the bus.

Rod! Rod!

Don't tell me what to do.

Don't forget...

What I'm saying is

-you're getting me hyped up, so I

-BLEEP

-explode.

..everything is happening on the streets.

I think that we can win this.

No, no, no. Hi.

Every rug that we used, I carried one.

And anything can happen in the boardroom.

You all know an answer.

But somebody's got to be fired.

-I was sticking up for you.

-It's all bull

-BLEEP.

Just relax. Can I finish or not?

-I wish you people could answer the

-BLEEP

-damn

-BLEEP

-question.

Who knows what will happen next?

Smile!

-This is a reality check. Go

-BLEEP

-yourself.

Last week, the teams were given some surprising news.

Sharon's not here.

She's been sick as a dog.

We weren't going to have Sharon,

so I felt a little bit cheated as Project Manager.

Tasked with creating two commercials for Right Guard

starring NBA legends Clyde Drexler

and Scottie Pippin, Maria Kanellis questioned

if Selita Ebanks was pulling her weight.

Here I am carrying a sink and fridge,

but Selita disappeared on me.

That girl is strong.

On Rocksolid,

Bret Michaels received difficult news about his daughter.

My daughter... they're testing her for diabetes,

so I'm freaking out right now.

And family matters took Michael Johnson out of the competition.

Take care of your family. We love you, brother.

We're going to miss you.

In the boardroom,

Rocksolid's losing streak finally came to an end...

They loved the men's commercial.

Yes!

..leaving Tenacity to battle it out.

Can I say something?

Cyndi, you're not even coming back in.

-You should just be sitting back.

-OK.

Oh, thanks, Mom(!)

But it was Selita's silence

that singled her out.

I'm looking at Selita,

and I don't see the same fire in your belly.

Selita, you're fired. Go.

Listen, between my daughter and this,

I said, "If I lose tonight"... I was sitting in that chair.

I'm like, "If I lose, I may just walk

-"right to the

-BLEEP

-highest window and just..."

It's been way too long since we won,

and let me tell you something...

Tonight, with everything that's going on

in my personal life with my daughter,

I was willing it to win.

Yeah, but what about the test results? They come tomorrow?

They're supposed to come today, and we haven't gotten them yet.

Let's drink. Come on.

I'll find out about my daughter tomorrow,

and this is the beginning of a positive great karma right here.

She is not going to be diabetic.

It's going to be negative, and we're going to rock.

It's going to be great.

It was a really tough thing to direct.

Honey, it was a very tough thing.

She was... She was acting it, and she was directing it.

But that's the problem.

I mean, it was all about Holly, not for nothing,

and then she turns around to me and tells me what to do.

I don't need a mother.

The younguns...they don't listen.

They turn their backs and ignore what I'm saying,

and I feel like, "Big mistake."

Uh-oh. Here we go.

Hey, guys.

-Aww.

-Hi.

-Selita!

-Hi.

Why Selita?

I don't know.

Are you OK?

I'm good. I'm good, yeah.

'I was very disappointed in the boardroom.

'We were at a disadvantage.'

We got one person who's sick, Sharon Osbourne,

and then we had Cyndi Lauper.

Somehow she had all this observation

of a task that she wasn't even really present for.

So now you're mad at me?

I just felt like you were safe and exempt,

-and at that point...

-I didn't want them to fire Selita!

I didn't want them to do it,

but you weren't... you were defending...

You can do whatever you want to do, Cyndi...

whatever you want to do.

The Kumbaya moment is over.

I didn't want Selita to go, either.

-I didn't want Maria to go.

-All right, zip it. Zip.

RIP Kumbaya, because now it's game on.

# Money, money, money, money

# Money!

# Money, money, money, money

# Money! #

So, Clyde, when I'm...

when I'm not getting roasted by Mr Trump in the boardroom,

this is my reality, mate...the kitchen.

So, I'm here at the New York City Rescue Mission,

which is one of the agencies that Feeding America supports.

Feeding America's my charity, because food's my world,

and I want to make it happen for people that don't have enough to eat.

So, do you cook, Clyde?

-Not at all.

-No? Never?

Never.

Today I've got a special guest in the kitchen.

It's not every day that I can say I've got Clyde Drexler

standing next to me as my sous chef.

-Hey, guys.

-How are you?

Phil, this is Clyde.

-Hey, Clyde. Nice to see you.

-Good to see you, as well.

-Hey, Curtis. Nice to see you.

-Great to see you.

I wasn't expecting company today.

So, we've got a bit of a surprise for you, mate.

-I love it.

-Have a look at what's for lunch.

All right.

Chicken and leek pie.

And...

20,000! Holy cow!

-That's awesome!

-How cool is that?

I have a surprise for you both.

From Right Guard Total Defence 5,

we have a matching donation of 20,000.

No way!

Wow! Fantastic!

'I work for an organisation, Feeding America,'

that can take a dollar donation and make that seven meals.

So, a 40,000 donation is 280,000 meals.

To go back to Feeding America with that type of a donation

is just amazing.

I can't thank those guys enough.

It's time to get cooking, Curtis. 280,000 meals.

You got a lot of work to do - a lot of work to do.

'Things have been pretty crazy on Celebrity Apprentice.

'You know, it's been long hours and tough work,'

but right now, there's 49 million Americans

that are still affected by hunger.

What can I get you, sir? A bit of everything.

To come down here, that reminds me why I'm doing it.

Feeding America's so important to me,

and I'm so determined to win this.

-There you go, my friend.

-Thanks, man.

-You're welcome.

Come on, fellas.

I was a bit surprised to see Trace Adkins walk in.

He's a big guy.

So, once I saw him, I knew it was about music.

Sharon's still not here.

She's very, very sick.

It's up to you whether or not you decide to utilise her.

I don't know what's happening with Sharon,

but pretty soon we're going to have to make a decision.

I have to say I think there's a little bit

of preferential treatment going on with Sharon,

and I really, really like her a lot,

but she got to play by the rules like everybody else.

We're standing in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame annexe -

an amazing place.

In fact, I expect to see Cyndi and Bret here someday.

You'll get in. After The Apprentice, You're going to get in. You watch.

You're going to be doing something that, to me,

is very interesting,

and I think I sort of did it a couple of years ago,

and that had to do with Trace.

He did really well on Celebrity Apprentice,

and today he's the biggest country star there is.

So, you're going to be taking two young country stars.

Trace, explain.

You're going to make over two young country artists,

and you're going to prepare them for an interview

with People Country magazine and to do a live performance.

At that performance will be the journalists from People,

a well-known country-music disc jockey,

and Pete Fisher, general manager of the Grand Ole Opry,

judging you on this task.

You're going to be judged on the overall makeover,

the press kit that you'll be creating to promote them,

and whatever value you can add

to the artist's potential breakout.

Pick your Project Manager, please.

Cyndi.

I think I could do this.

Going to be Cyndi?

-No huddle needed.

-Yeah.

I would think, right? Cyndi.

Well, I love working with other artists.

It's what I do. I reinvent myself all the time.

I think Bill has got a shot.

He's got to go, man. He's got to go.

I mean, I would love to do it, but it's your time to shine, man.

OK, men?

Goldberg?

Bret, why wouldn't it be you?

It's... It's his turn, and I'll back him. I'm his right hand.

But don't you think you have an expertise

that Goldberg wouldn't have?

We work as a team, Rocksolid.

-You don't think it matters?

-No.

If you hadn't been a Project Manager,

then you kind of should step up.

The last thing I'm going to do is put my tail between my legs

and back up a little bit and let Bret jump in.

The winning Project Manager

gets 20,000 for his or her charity.

The loser, you know what happens.

Good luck.

I believe that if a person is comfortable

in the clothes that they wear,

you go from there and you make it bigger.

This week's task is transforming a country artist

from unknown to well-known.

I am an aspiring singer myself,

and I'll be able to watch Cyndi Lauper,

one of my idols, work on this person.

You're the perfect Project Manager for this,

but just be aware that both of...

No. Both of you are singers. Absolutely.

You think I don't know that?

-Wait, wait, wait. Let her finish her thought.

-All right.

I'm just saying to think outside the box

and use us in ways that you may not necessarily...

I know we haven't known each other very long.

Do you think that I stepped on you when I was...

when I was the manager?

I let everybody do what they wanted.

Cyndi, I'm just... You're not even letting me finish my thought.

-All right. Go ahead.

-But it's OK.

I like Holly.

She gets...you know, like this.

And I think when you have long, long hours,

you start to edge up on each other.

I want to do the best job for you,

and all I'm doing is expressing to you

how you might be able to get better...

-OK.

-..performance out of us,

and you're just, like, blocking me.

I'm not understanding where that's coming from.

All right. I'm not blocking you.

'After what happened last boardroom,'

this task was starting with a not-so-cohesive group.

Let's put it that way.

Cyndi's bedside manner needs help.

She just blew off anything we had to say,

and I mean anything.

Namely, sweetheart, you want a beauty shot if it's a she.

If it's a he, he should look sexy and cute.

Lady Gaga... I don't think she's concerned about looking beautiful.

Actually, Lady Gaga is very concerned about looking beautiful.

I've worked with her.

-So there.

-No, but I have.

It's all "So there" This morning. So, fine. Whatever. I know nothing.

That's not right, sweetie,

but sometimes you think you know something.

The reaction that I got when I tried to say anything

was, like, this... "Zip it."

And for one of my childhood idols to be coming at me that way

just totally changes my opinion about her.

How you doing?

-Hi, guys. Mike Dungan.

-Curtis Stone.

-Pleasure to meet you, man.

-Mike, how are you doing, man? Bret.

-Nice to see you.

-How you doing, sir? Bill Goldberg.

What are you looking for in their press Kit?

I'm always looking for some point of differentiation.

-OK.

-Unless you can differentiate yourself at key points,

then there's really no point.

Absolutely, and that was the first thing I said to these guys.

Don't start thinking of tractors and hay bales,

because country is such a massive demographic,

and for a band like Poison, we've...

Every Rose crossed over to...

I mean, it was one of our hits, both rock and country.

Right.

In the real world, on this task,

I probably would have been Project Manager,

but, honestly, we decided that

Bill needs to have his chance to win for his charity,

and we're going to fight to the end.

Would you guys like to meet the artist?

-Absolutely.

-I'll be right back.

It's cool to watch Bret do his thing.

It makes me feel a little useless sometimes,

because you have to defer to the experts.

-What's up?

-This is Luke Bryan.

Of course. How you doing, Bret? Good to see you, man.

Good to see you.

How are you? It's very nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you. Yeah, yeah.

'It was my image that we would sit down with two really young kids'

that were just trying to get into the music industry...

-Let's get you some chairs.

-'But that wasn't the case.

'These guys have already dealt with a certain level of fame.'

So, that's always going to be tough,

because you're not dealing with an 18-year-old kid

who's like, "Give me an image. I'm up for it."

So, what's your long-term goals, then, mate?

"Mate." Does that mean a woman?

Oh, you know, my long-term is to be able

to do this a long time

and then preserve the enjoyment of performing.

They were real intense, real businesslike.

They had a lot of questions that were great.

What's your biggest strength, then, Emily?

-My live shows.

-Mm-hmm.

Making the record and then doing a live show is so different.

I would be fine working with the men.

I think that it would be kind of funny going shopping with them

or whatever they're planning on doing with my look and my hair,

'but I'm going to really kind of shoot and pray'

that I get on the girls' team.

Five minutes until our person's available.

It's OK for us to ask them questions, right, Cyndi?

Yeah, just don't step over me.

-Let me introduce myself and introduce you.

-No.

Just allow us to ask the questions we want to ask.

You don't step on us, either, cos you can do that, too.

Right. I'm not stepping on you, Holly.

-I'm just saying...

-You said don't step on us.

-OK, OK, OK, OK, OK. No, no, no, no.

-I'm just saying.

Let me just talk to the guy, though.

We all looked at each other like,

-"Oh,

-BLEEP

-she is really trying to tell us

"we're not allowed to ask any questions in this task."

Hi!

-Hello, ladies.

-Have a seat here.

Yeah, let me clear up some stuff, cos I really want to...

I have some questions for you about these kids.

I have music.

That's wonderful. Can I... Let me listen.

Did Emily West write these songs, or is this...

Emily West wrote two of the three of them.

# So your conscience finally hit you

# And you're feeling guilty

# And you're wishing I was there... #

Emily has a very big personality,

and she's very funny, very creative,

very bright, and hard to put into a box.

Well, I don't think you should change people.

I think that's what's wrong with music today.

Well, I have no intention of changing her.

I just don't know if I should focus on that.

# Rain makes corn

# Corn makes whisky

# Whisky makes my baby

# Feel a little frisky... #

I signed Luke Bryan after seeing him live on stage.

It was just the kind of personality where,

the minute you see the guy walk in the room,

you want to know who he is and what he does.

That was clever, you know, about the rain.

He's a Southern, rural guy.

-Yeah, rural.

-Mm-hmm.

Well, would you guys... would you guys like to meet the artists?

-Please.

-Let me get them, OK?

I'll be right back.

Hello, there! How are you?

Emily walked straight through that door, and...

She was so excited to meet Cyndi Lauper.

It was really, really cute...

It's so nice to meet you.

I've been listening to you all morning.

Hey, I'm Luke.

..which I think touched Cyndi,

and they were both super personable

and passionate about their craft.

Who's your favourite country artist?

I grew up just a huge Alan Jackson and George Strait...

and I also liked Alabama.

I heard Patsy Cline, and I grew up listening to Loretta Lynn

and, you know, all kinds of music,

but lyrics and real-life stories is what I write from.

I think both of you are great.

Um, I'd just like to have a little time with them now

and just discuss who we think we can help the most.

After we met with our two artists,

we were going to decide which one we wanted

and then negotiate with the guys

to get the artist that we preferred.

OK. I like them both.

I think I can help the girl more than the guy.

-Yeah.

-My vision for him is hard because of his look.

Well, he's kind of a clean slate. I mean, you can dress him up.

You can't change the length of his hair.

You can't change the shape of his head.

I think they're both tremendous artists.

They're great artists. I'm not talking about that.

I'm talking about the visual.

'He was a shape I didn't know if I could wrangle.'

His haircut was very square-shaped and very short,

so I didn't know what the heck you could do.

'So, I thought, "Let the guys deal with him."'

I like the girl because I was looking at her face,

I was looking how she could be photographed,

her songs are awesome, and I think I can help her.

I don't know if you guys feel that way,

but I feel very strongly I'd like to help her.

Emily and Luke are tremendous people,

but we knew, I think, from the moment

that we were able to listen to Emily's voice and her music

that she was probably the artist for us.

I'm sorry. She was probably the artist for Cyndi.

'We didn't really have a say.'

You know what our next step is? It doesn't matter who we want.

We got to negotiate it with the guys.

We don't have her yet.

Yeah.

OK. So, here's the deal.

In 10 minutes, the guys are going to come in.

Yeah.

We're all clear that we like...

I like her. I think she's great.

This is the way the guys might be approaching this.

Bret might be going, "I can help both of them.

"Who can Cyndi help the least?"

Mm-hmm. Do you see what we're saying?

So you need to be smart when you're negotiating.

We got to negotiate like lawyers?

-Mm-hmm.

-BLEEP.

Voice quality is just, mm!

It's what she wrote about, too, that's awesome.

Right. We didn't really get a chance to hear what he wrote.

-No, I listened.

-Well, we didn't, so...

-OK.

My point is, is that... Since we have 10 minutes,

it would be good just to listen to the music.

But wait, Cyn. So, when the guys come in...

We'll listen to the music, and then when the guys come in, we...

All right.

You know, you do this, cos I'm just trying to help.

You want to listen to the song, we should listen to the music.

Cyndi, I was just getting a game plan.

We're trying to get procedural stuff in this, OK?

Well, don't you... OK.

If they want the girl, too,

we just have to start thinking about how we want to strategise.

Well, I'm going to tell them, if you don't mind,

that I think that Bret could help the guy much more.

Do you want us to sit back and let you do it?

We're not... I don't think we should say...

I think we should let Cyndi do all the talking.

When I just tried to do some procedural things, you were like...

Can we... Wait. Come back.

Can we end this now so we can move on?

Cyndi, in the middle of someone giving an opinion,

you react, like, before we have a chance to say anything.

OK. And that was rude of me, and I'm sorry.

-It's not so much rude...

-Do you accept that?

I don't want an apology.

I want to change the way we're doing it.

Well, that's what I'm trying to do.

OK, guys, we got 20 minutes to make a decision

on which artist we want.

You should listen to this with me, Bill.

This is what you want answered.

-Anastasia.

-'Yes?'

I'm coming in as a manager.

I've got Emily West and Luke Bryan are my two choices.

OK. So, here I go.

Which way would you lean for me to work with somebody?

In typical Bret style, he ended up speaking to, you know,

some really big people in the music business,

cos, of course, Bret knows them all.

Steve, a couple questions about your artists.

We have Luke today, and we have Emily.

Got it. Emily...give me a little background on her.

This is the CEO Of such and such,

and this is the boss of blah, blah, blah.

And, you know, he was getting great advice,

but we ran out of time.

Come on, Bret. We got to cut him off, man. I'm sorry.

Walk.

No, we've got to make a decision, Bret.

'He's a good guy, I can tell you.'

Thanks again, Steven. I'll call you a little bit later.

-Have a safe flight.

-'Take care, guys.'

OK. What did you get from that,

in a one-sentence deal?

I don't have one sentence. Here's my question.

Luke or Emily?

-What's that?

-Luke or Emily?

Don't know.

You got to make a decision. Just give us an answer.

I don't have a preference.

Then, in the end, he was like, "Doesn't matter which one."

Luke or Emily? I'm like, "I know it's Luke or Emily.

"Which one?!"

Knock, knock.

So, who do you want?

Would you guys like something to drink?

-Nope.

-No.

Who do you want, ladies?

You know, I don't like

negotiating with people that I can't beat up.

-You guys go first.

-No, you go first.

-Ladies first.

-No, no. Let's hear what you have to say.

Our goal within the negotiations is to let the boys talk first.

Did that work? No.

They're all staring at us like this.

What did you guys think of the music?

-We're not here to make friends.

-Yeah. I mean, honestly, guys,

we're not here to give you opinions.

We're not going to give you any answers. You're the enemy.

OK. I like the girl.

-You want to take the girl?

-He's more of a clean slate.

Here's the thing. Both are super talented.

Whether you took the guy or the girl,

whatever we got, we're going to win with.

They're women, for God's sakes. Let them have what they want.

-We'll take the guy.

-Don't put any guyliner on him, Bret.

Don't worry.

Hey, that guyliner will bring him superpowers beyond belief.

-Just know that.

-I haven't seen any yet.

Oh! Maria!

Maria, the best interviews are when you direct the interview.

Do bullet points... Yeah, me too.

That's how I became famous.

It's interesting answers, quick, funny answers,

like if they say, "What's your favourite colour?"

When I did Playboy, you know what they used to ask me?

That's a different kind of... Yeah, but go ahead.

I used to get asked, "Are you shaved, or are you hairy?"

I mean, it's just, I've done so many interviews.

Like, I don't like to be told,

"You think you know blah, blah, blah."

It makes me... It hurts my feelings.

-It really hurts.

-Oh, you're talking about something else.

You hurt my feelings so much in the car,

because you're like, "You think you know."

Do you have any idea what I've been through?

-OK, honey.

-You act like I know nothing.

-No. You do know a lot.

-And I hate that. I hate that.

-But you walk around like you know everything.

-No, I don't.

I watched you,

and I listened to you when I was growing up,

and you hurt my feelings in the car.

"You think you know."

Cyndi just has no clue whatsoever what anybody's done,

'and, finally, at a certain point, I decided enough was enough.'

You're right, and I'm sorry. Will you accept that?

-Of course I will.

-Really?

Look at me. You, me. Will you?

Of course I will.

I'm taking it in, and I'm sorry, OK?

-Mm-hmm.

-OK.

She needs that validation

all the time, because she's just a kid.

Like, were you there in the room

when she talked about media training

and she said, "Are you shaved or not?"

And I was thinking to myself,

"That's what we're going to tell Emily West?"

-I'm so happy!

-Come on over.

What I wanted to do was something that had yin-yang.

Like, you know how lace and leather looks,

where it could be glamorous and a little roughneck

-but just enough?

-Totally.

She and... Both of them took... We all took media training.

Obviously, I failed, but she's really good.

Yeah, you and me. I know.

And they're really good at it.

I told Holly to write up your bio, so you need to tell us stuff.

Cyndi's creative juices were flowing,

but her creative juices were just splattered all over the place.

But you haven't done that yet, have you?

-Done what?

-Leather and lace.

I've... No, I have not.

I knew if Cyndi didn't let go of this controlling attitude,

there was going to be a disaster at the end of the day.

But I think if we're going to do that hairstyle,

we should do really dark eyes like that

but just kind of shade it out a little bit.

Yeah, softer. Not so hard.

Yeah. I love you.

(AS CYNDI) "Yeah, softer. Not so hard."

All right, all right. So...

Listen, what we don't want to fix

is what we love about you, which is the music's great

and you're a humble, likable guy.

Thanks. Thank you.

So, we're being judged on three things.

The first one is the promotional materials

that we get together to represent our artist,

the makeover, and, also, the overall possibility

of breakout, you know, success of this artist.

You're a good-looking guy, you're a humble guy,

you're a confident guy, but what we want to do is -

go with me on this - I want to bring out the rock star in you -

go with me - but keep the humble,

down-home country, married... I'm a father, too.

But it's also not great for me to go down a path

where I'm like... that I'm wigging out.

I was in full-blown "Let's get it done" mode.

So, we're going to do four different looks with you.

'I want to elevate his presence a little bit,

'and, definitely, we had to get him some new clothes to do that.'

You know, with boots on, 6'3".

We're a pretty similar size, right?

Yeah.

Step up for me.

See, I'm a little... If you throw my boots on...

-Same shoulders and stuff?

-Absolutely.

-So, I'll be able to try on clothes for you.

-Yeah.

Perfect thing about this whole challenge

was Luke is nearly an identical size to me.

This is nice.

That's right. You know?

Try this shirt on real quick. It's mine.

Looks good, man.

And the colour works on you. Am I wrong, guys?

What colour are your eyes?

Yes, America, I just asked that.

I'm just putting this on. It's a simple chain.

-What are you thinking?

-You feel comfortable wearing a wife-beater

and something like that and a nice watch,

as opposed to, you know,

sitting there with that shirt unbuttoned?

I can't believe I'm asking another guy this.

No. This is part of creating the image, man.

Goldberg... He is, like, the man's man's macho man.

It was a very different side of Goldberg, but I enjoyed it.

It was very humorous.

We've got two hours to be back here with all wardrobe.

Let's go.

Good luck out there, boys.

It's my job to keep us all on time.

So, Goldberg and I went shopping.

We took our shopping consultant,

and it was pretty funny for me, to be perfectly honest.

I've got one of the toughest guys

in the world sitting on my right.

I've got one of the gayest guys in the world sitting behind me.

For him, I would stay with, like, earth tones.

It was just this strange dynamic.

This could be an option.

You know what I mean?

-She hasn't been seen like that.

-Yeah.

Our wardrobe stylist came in, and then Cyndi went on the internet

and sort of found this image of leather and lace,

a sort of soft and hard look for her.

I really think...

With the make-up, I want to talk to the make-up artist.

But you could put it... You've talked so...

-Well, do we want to wait for the make-up artist to come?

-No!

Cyndi wanted to do the hair, make-up.

Cyndi wanted to be with the clothes.

Cyndi did not want to task out anything.

To tangibly see the clothes,

I just think, Cyn, you just need to...

-That's up to you, though.

-Do me a favour, though.

Look up the '60s, like, movie stars with the darker eyes,

but she can't have it, like... Listen.

But that's softer.

-Mm-hmm.

-That's a look she's done.

But, Boo, come here. She's done that look.

What about Brigitte Bardot?

She's never done Brigitte Bardot.

OK.

We'll do whatever you want. You're the Project Manager.

When you do the curly look,

you should do the Grace Kelly look.

I'm not saying do Grace Kelly. I was just trying to get...

-No, no, but that would match.

-All right.

I did cut you off. Go ahead.

No, that's OK. I'm good.

I think we need clothes.

Would you do me a favour, though?

-Would you look up Brigitte Bardot?

-Yes.

All right. OK.

So, I left Maria to watch over the hair and make-up,

and I left the picture.

Ready? OK. Bye, you guys.

Call me if you need - if you think of anything.

-Bye!

-All right.

Look, none of us have the iconic status of Cyndi Lauper,

but we have been around the block a little bit collectively,

and I don't feel any respect for that from Cyndi.

Cyndi doesn't think that you or I...

I mean, we should just be called two tur...

two turnips and we just fell off the truck.

Let's move on to getting you ready for this interview, right?

The one thing I would always start every interview out with

is a positive.

The guys were gone, so I wanted to prepare Luke

for the interview with People magazine.

People is such a great opportunity for him.

Never use these words - "I'm tired."

Never, ever say that to anybody, and I'll tell you why.

If I was interviewing you and I'm like,

I just got out of bed to come over here

and interview you, and your opening response is,

"Yeah, I'm pretty burnt out. It was a long flight..."

You just say, "You know what? I'm doing great.

"Thank you for taking YOUR time to do this with me."

-Yeah, I've got it.

-It's the truth. "Thank you."

And I can't tell you how many times I've done that.

'Bret and I talked a little bit about some media training,'

and I think Bret gave me some great ideas,

stuff that's worked for him through the years.

Go to shake my hand. You say, "Bret, how you doing?"

-Bret, how you doing?

-I don't know. I'm tired.

-Where do we go?

-Yeah, there's nowhere.

Now my heart... My heart was pounding to meet you.

They're thinking, "You lucky son of a bitch, and you're tired?"

-Now my interview's about me being drunk and no-one gives a

-BLEEP.

How's it going today, Bret?

Today I can openly admit that I'm a little hung over/tired,

cos last night after our big win, we celebrated, and it was awesome.

All right. That was my two cents for the day.

Hey, that's good, though, man. That's good.

Think about what you can say, not what you can't,

because you're thinking about the wrong things.

-Well, it creates fear, and it just...

-Right!

And, you know, in the long run, I'm just going to be like this.

Uh-huh.

Cyndi went out to do the wardrobe,

and we stayed back to do the media training

and also to start the bio and hair and make-up.

IF they're like, "Oh, what was your past?"

That's far too broad.

Say, "What would you like to know about it?"

Ooh, let me write that down.

That's a whole lot easier to answer.

Can I have a piece of paper?

-You know how to power-shop?

-We're going to power-shop.

Come on. I know how to power-shop. Come on.

We left at 12:30 to go shopping, and we had to be back by 3:30.

I was extremely worried that we weren't going to get it done.

-So, we'll head right upstairs.

-Yeah.

Cyndi was going shopping,

and she was heading into big stores.

I was very worried...

Let's go, go, go.

..she was going to keep looking

for that perfect, perfect something

and that we weren't going to come home with anything.

Are you focused with me?

I just kept trying to make it happen,

grabbing the clothes and just going to the register

time after time... Ah!

Time after time to pay for the clothes.

-Thank you so much.

-Thank you!

And then I keep going back to her, "Cyndi, we've got to go.

"We have got to go."

-Thank you so much, sweetheart.

-Bye!

We'll make your press kit nice.

There will be an 8x10. There will be your CD.

There will be this bio with all your credentials.

Luke and I stayed back, and we're getting into

making this press kit and putting it together,

and this is definitely one of the things we're being judged on.

Here's what I got so far. I think you're going to like this.

"The only music that was ever right for Luke Bryan

"Was country music.

He knew it from birth." You know what I mean?

"Birth" May be... Nah.

"Birth" Sounds a little... That sounds funky to me.

OK. Um... I'll change "Birth."

"He knew it from the first time

he heard Mark Chesnutt's Brother Jukebox."

Nah. Uh...

Hold on.

I don't want to make it sound like Chesnutt

is the biggest influence I have.

No, no. I understand what you mean.

Don't fear me giving you an identity more.

That's kind of what I think you're looking for.

Well, yeah. Let's...

Let me try this.

"In the words of his fans from the Nut House..."

Can I say that?

I wouldn't use... Well, read that back.

There's something a little off in that.

OK. You got it.

What I like about Luke is he knows exactly what he wants,

and what I don't like about Luke is he knows exactly what he wants.

So, I know that this is going to be...

Without a doubt, this is going to be tough.

I put, "He is much more pipe than hype."

The "Pipes" Thing is a little...

Keep going without saying that,

and let's see how that does.

OK.

I think she should wear

the light leather jacket with no sleeves.

After all of our shopping, we went back to our photo studio

cos Cyndi wanted to be part of the make-up process.

They're going to do her all up for this interview.

Oh, God. She's going to look like Frankenstein.

Maybe not.

No, they said they're doing mellow make-up,

-like what you said.

-Yeah?

-That's what they said.

-Hi.

-Hi, Sharon!

Sharon's been sick, and she missed my entire task.

That's Emily West. Sharon Osbourne.

Nice to meet you.

-Hi.

-Hug.

I'm so sorry you're so sick.

Hello, there! Are you all right?

-I'm good.

-Oh.

-We were given two artists to try to make over...

-Uh-huh.

And do press kits on and do some media training.

It's just my luck that I wasn't here

and that I couldn't say, "All right, this one's mine.

"I'll take this."

Well, Cyndi went nuts for her.

She just heard her voice and heard her music.

-You don't know all this stuff, huh?

-She did?

I mean, to come up with a bio

and to come up with an imagery for an artist,

I can do it in my sleep.

Sharon's back.

And then in came Hurricane Cyndi,

and she started trying to re-micromanage everything.

Did you follow the map, or you just decided to do it?

No, I followed the map of just more of the line around the eye.

The make-up, honestly - they gave her the apple cheeks.

I was horrified.

And is this the Brigitte Bardot look?

That was the picture with the lining,

cos with the Brigitte Bardot,

it has more of that lining around the eyes.

And it went up.

Maria watched over the hair and make-up.

You know, it would be different if I didn't leave a picture,

but I wanted them to follow the picture,

and we all agreed, "OK, like this picture,"

but it wasn't like the picture.

You always wear your rouge this close, right?

Well, when she smiles, that's where it...

-I understand, but I don't want it like that.

-OK. OK.

I want it a little flatter here.

Cyndi hated the make-up. I thought it was fine.

A little bit of Photoshop, we'll be good to go.

Just open this up a little bit. Wipe it down.

I'm... I'm kind of doing that with the powder instead of...

Because, remember, I airbrushed her, so, then, I don't want this...

-You airbrushed her?

-Yeah.

Did you really?

You spray-painted this kid?!

She's 20-something! You don't spray-paint them.

You spray the old buzzards, not the kids.

She looks pretty heavily made-up.

You can't see her skin any more.

I made her wipe down the cheeks, and I thought, "Ay-yi-yi!"

We're going to wait to try everything on,

but we want to get her in her first thing.

Yeah, get her in her first thing.

Cyndi thinks she's right and everybody else is stupid.

Hey, Sharon, can I speak to you a minute, please?

But she listens to Sharon.

I don't like the coat with that blouse.

I think it's wrong.

And I think it's heavy to wear

-when you're sitting and talking to somebody.

-Mm-hmm.

This is how Cyndi and I make our living.

This is what we do professionally,

and we've both done extremely well out of it.

So, yes, she's going to ask me for my opinion

over all the girls.

It's just the way it is.

It's not about you, you. It's about the task.

-You've got to feel comfortable.

-She liked the grey.

It was Maria who didn't like the grey.

-What's up, Bret?

-How you doing, man?

-I'm good, man. How are you?

-Great to see you.

-You too.

-I'm building up Luke's bio right now.

-Yeah?

You know what? Here. You want to have a seat for a minute?

Yeah, sit down. We're just setting up for the photo shoot.

The guys are out collecting everything.

When you were given the task this morning

and they said, "Makeover,"

what did you think that... What did you think they meant by that?

Well, you know, here's my thing.

He has a definite line as to where his comfort zone is,

so what I said is, "I'm going to do a couple things.

"Show me where the end of your comfort zone is,

"And then I'm going to kick you in the butt

"right underneath there just about this much more."

"And take you across just a little more."

"I'm going to shove you across this much more."

Come on in. We can talk about this.

Didn't know this guy was going to be here.

Oh, this guy's great. Exactly.

So, how are you feeling about all this, Luke?

-I'm good.

-You're comfortable with it?

Obviously, coming in, it's a little scary. You know the deal.

When they tell you that some guys that you've never met

are going to try to market you in a new way,

you're like, "Oh, gosh, there's no telling."

But it's been great, man. We're trying to figure some things out.

I'm a little curious as to which direction they're going to go in.

I couldn't really tell, cos they didn't have

any of the wardrobe or anything there yet,

but Bret seemed to be comfortable and confident

in what he was doing.

Somebody told me

that one of your little girls has some health issues.

-Yeah, yeah.

-Yeah?

I have two daughters, Raine and Jorja,

and being a type I diabetic,

the chances of my kids getting it are about 50%.

And the minute that Kristi called me, their mom,

and said that she was sick, man, my heart... Man, oh, man.

So we're waiting for the blood results today.

You know, I've said so many prayers.

I don't even know what to say any more. I'm just like...

But what made me lose it, she was scared, and she's like,

"Dad, do I have to take a bunch of shots like you?"

And I was like... You know,

I don't know if you've ever had that happen,

where that lump... You know what I mean?

I was like...

Yeah, yeah. I've had that lump in my throat several times.

Trace and myself have kids,

and I think it was great to be able to relate on that level

of why we're here doing this.

-Thank you.

-I empathise with you.

And, man, I really hope everything works out good.

Right back at you. You too, man.

Thank you for saying that. That means the world to me, for real.

-Good luck, man.

-Thanks.

-Good luck in your task, too.

-Thank you.

I like this in there.

Yeah, she's going to, but I kind of...

-You're so big!

-Hello.

Could you take Goldberg if you wanted to? Summer.

I don't want to have to find out.

Hello, Emily.

Hi, Trace. How are you?

I'm fine. How are you?

-It's so good to see you.

-You too, darling.

Look at you. You smell like coffee and leather, just like a man.

Oh! I love this girl.

It was a beehive in the women's room.

They all seemed to be very focused on what they were doing.

Is this the side you part on, besides the middle?

I like the way it's going now. It's cool.

What do you think of our makeover so far?

Well, you guys are awfully busy.

Huge contrast from the other room.

Girls in here are all playing well together, or...

Trying to.

I sensed a little dissension there.

A couple of the ladies, you know,

were just kind of just looking, you know.

Ah, I don't... You know.

They didn't say anything.

I just kind of sensed that maybe not everybody was on board,

which I think is a mistake.

Should we pin it a little bit?

Cyndi Lauper influenced fashion

on a scale that most people can't even imagine.

I mean, there were a whole generation of young girls

trying to dress like Cyndi Lauper.

If it was me, I'd give her free rein,

let her do whatever she wanted to.

And I know you have the patience

to be very good at this game

because of the man you have to work with all the time.

I'm not talking about Ozzy. I'm talking about Piers Morgan.

Oh, please! Piers!

God!

I don't have the proper vision for something like this,

because all it would do is convolute what...

what's going on with...with Bret.

This is right up Bret Michaels' alley.

I mean, I... What am I going to do?

Tell Bret Michaels how to put a promo pack together?

Am I going to tell Bret Michaels

how to do a photo shoot for a musician?

Let's do it.

We had a photo shoot coming up,

so we literally had to go out,

get some clothes, get whatever we needed

to sort of make that photo shoot come to life.

Thank God that Luke was very similar in build to Curtis,

because I think we saved a lot of time

by going back to the hotel

and just grabbing a lot of stuff that Curtis had.

Nice work, brother.

Oh, God.

-Let's go.

-Go!

We would really appreciate it if you could hustle.

What I'm looking for for him

is I need to bring out the rock star in him.

I need to make him more identifiable.

-What I don't want to get is hokey old-school.

-Absolutely.

'The photo shoot is starting in ten minutes,'

and we've got to get this done. The guys aren't back yet,

and I'm really starting to get nervous.

Is there another way we can go?

There's no other way to get out of here?

cos this is a parking lot.

-Tell me what you're here doing.

-Make-up and hair.

That's all I needed to know.

That's perfect. And I apologise. We'll be just a minute.

I've had so many things going so many different directions.

Can I help you bring stuff up, anybody?

I probably would have liked to have kept Bill with me

just to get...you know, stay calm and focus on a couple other things

that we needed to get done, but there is no doubt

I bit off probably a lot more than I could chew.

The photo shoot started at 4.00 till 5.00, OK?

We're going to be there at 4.15.

We're going to have 45 minutes to nail the shots.

I'm going to call my guys and see how close they are.

-'Hello?'

-Hey, Bret.

-Hey. Who's this?

-Goldberg.

-Hey, Goldberg. Where you guys at?

We're close, ten minutes away.

As soon as you get here, I could use you, man.

'We finished the bio.

'Now I need you to help me put it all together.'

You got it, buddy. You got it, man.

We're hauling ass, dude.

We've just...we've had a couple traffic snafus.

OK, here we go. You ready?

So, I mean, there's no other way to get out of here?

This is painful.

We're going to have 20 minutes, realistically, to shoot this guy.

The funny thing about Bill Goldberg is,

if he ever gets angry, he just snarls.

SNARLING

I don't want to see him explode, and I think he's close.

God, you're kidding me.

Stressful, isn't it?

And what I want to do is really blow him out.

I want it to look great and, you, just confident.

-Here we go.

-All right, just give me your chin down a bit.

The photo shoot is upon us,

and the guys aren't back, and we've got no clothes.

Inside, I was getting concerned

that Luke was going to be wearing one shirt.

Down here, Curtis.

Little smile.

Terrific.

OK. Let's take a look at these.

Let's do a few more like this. See, that looks killer, man.

-There's my shoppers.

-Yeah.

And just go with me. Get that one on.

By the time we arrived back with all the clothes,

we just quickly got him changed and went for it.

It's different for me, I'll tell you that.

-But I got to go with you.

-Trust me.

OK. Let's get that outfit out of there.

Now I'll give you this and then the leather jacket.

Just see what that looks like. Do we have a necklace?

Put that on. Just try.

That looks manly on you. That looks good.

'You know, Luke definitely got outside of his comfort zone,'

but he rolled with it.

We got 20 minutes left with the photographer.

We want to get as many good shots as we can.

Set your chin on it,

and you got to aim this right down the pipe.

-That's what I'm talking about.

-That's good.

Yeah, you know what I mean?

It has a little Elvis vibe going on, too.

Maybe a little softer in the face. There you go. Right.

Let's slick his hair back. I mean, I'm talking quickly.

Great.

We're running so out of time.

Great.

Smile. Give him a big smile.

Smile, man!

Them teeth are going to sell records for you.

See? Smile!

Come on, man. You got them pretty white teeth.

Goldberg, the entire time we were doing this,

kept yelling, "Smile! Smile!"

Smile, big man! Come on!

I think Luke was so scared of him that he just, like...

He was doing this really cheesy smile,

cos I think he thought Goldberg was going to beat him up.

-Big smile, man. There you go.

-He's a sucker for the smiles.

No, man. That sells, bro.

It sells. You've got big-ass teeth.

That's it. We're done. Let's take a look at these.

I'm going to wake up in the middle of the night

going, "Smile, damn it!"

OK. Just don't bunch up those roses.

-Just separate them.

-OK.

Part of the criteria of winning this baby

is the press kit,

so the press kit needed to be smoking.

The one that's coming out of her head, we have to change.

Oh, but pull it up a little.

What do you guys think?

It's nice when she smiles, but you know what?

Can she give you a tiny bit more profile?

That's great!

It sounds so simple, but actually putting her in black

gave her somewhat of an attitude that she didn't have before.

Pretty. Open your eyes.

Big eyes, big eyes! Open, open wide!

I tried to stand along the sidelines, but it was hard to watch.

Straight hips.

I started modelling when I was 14 years old.

I taught my sister how to do photo shoots.

I've helped out some of the girls

within World Wrestling Entertainment.

I also know how to use a camera.

So, doesn't that make me a candidate to be able to help?

Can you do a couple where you look off, OK?

You don't have enough hair on the side.

You know, I was trying to direct, and then Maria steps in there.

You know, she should have talked to me and asked me.

A minute and a half. Please step out.

Please step out. Yeah, yeah. Go ahead.

No, you're in. You go. Connect, connect.

Let me know when we have 30 seconds, will you?

-OK.

-Great.

It's hard to get cut off all the time.

Yeah, some close-ups.

In my own thing, I don't put up with that.

Everybody has their job.

Sometimes church and state cross over,

and sometimes they don't.

You're beautiful. You're beautiful. You're strong. You're every woman.

Maria tried to step in, and Cyndi got annoyed.

I do think Maria has some great ideas,

but Maria also has to recognise,

right or wrong, Cyndi is Project Manager,

so the boss is saying, "I want this to be my deal,"

then let it be her deal.

You can't take it personally.

Straight underneath.

That's beautiful.

-OK, it's a wrap.

-All righty.

Thank you!

Cyndi has a vision, but Cyndi has

this very disorganised way of doing things,

but she gets there in the end. She really, really does.

And in her own way, I think she's pulled it off. I do.

Oh, my gosh! I love that!

There are some really lovely ones.

-That's cute!

-And you know what?

That looks nothing like what you've done before.

It totally doesn't.

If the ruffles were in a different place,

it would look really nice.

There's one that I know she'll like, but I don't know...

-Hi!

-Hello!

-Hi!

-How are you?

Good. I'm Cindy Sanz. Nice to meet you.

Emily had to be dressed

and ready for a People magazine interview.

Maria had already media-trained her.

So, Emily's over here. OK?

Yes. We're just going to step out and give you guys a moment.

Do you want to just introduce them?

Yes, of course.

-Hi. I'm Cindy Sanz from People Country.

-Hey!

Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you! Good to see you.

-You look great.

-Thank you. So do you.

Do you guys want to sit here?

-Sure.

-We consciously said, "Let's leave that space

"So that Emily doesn't feel nervous with us, like,

"you know, right over her, like, you know, nervous moms."

"I hope she says the right thing."

Now, certainly, there's a lot

of, like, terrific women in Nashville these days...

Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood,

Julianne Hough, Kellie Pickler.

I mean, how do you set yourself apart?

Well, you know, I have always had a tendency

to say... My mom says that I say things

that people think but don't have the guts to say,

and when I first moved to town,

I really didn't know how to sculpt a song.

'I'd met Emily West a few times before,'

and Emily's always been really bubbly and easy to talk to.

I felt like now she's a little more focused.

'She had things that she clearly wanted to say.'

Well, this has been a great time for you.

-You have a new single.

-I do.

And Keith Urban is singing backup on it?

Yes, he is.

I wrote this song, you know,

out of a really, really bad time in my life

with my mom and dad and their separation,

and it was written out of pain,

and it's been very much a healing song.

The interview that Cynthia did with me,

I felt ahold of my core,

cos she was asking me some serious questions,

and I didn't shy away and make a joke of it.

Well, thank you so much for your time.

It was great talking to you.

Thank you, Cindy. Thank you so much.

-Good luck with all of this.

-All right!

Maria gave me the confidence to breathe,

and she had such great advice to give me

about how to be interviewed.

I was a huge hit!

Did you listen?

SHARON: No. Tell me everything.

-I'm Cindy Sanz from People Country.

-Nice to meet you.

-How are you?

-Good to see you.

-Good to see you.

-You doing all right?

-Yeah. You look terrific.

Thank you, thank you.

People magazine is such a great opportunity for him.

I said, "When you sit down in an interview,

don't sit down and say, "Look, I'm burnt out. I'm tired."

I said, "You don't have to jump around and do jumping jacks,"

but I said, "These people are helping to break your career."

There's so many times you're tired out here and you're run down,

but you just have to... When you get on stage,

it just has to all be worth it,

and you have to give it all you got while you're up there.

So, what do you think it will take to push you to that next level?

-Ultimately, the right songs.

-Uh-huh.