Celebrity Apprentice Arsenio Hall will be playing for the Magic Johnson Foundation, supporting urban youth by focusing on HIV and AIDS prevention for the last 20 years, when the NBA star celeb was diagnosed with HIV back in 1991, shortly before he retired from playing professional basketball. Oddly enough, celebrity death hoax rumors swirled earlier in the year about actor Eddie Murphy, another celebrity friend of Arsenio Hall who played the lead role in Hall’s last memorable hit film Coming To America. Murphy was scheduled to host the Oscars in 2012 but backed out. In the weeks after he was replaced by comedian Billy Crystal. Keep reading…
February 25, 2012
Celebrity Apprentice 2012: Who is Penn Jillette? (Magician, Comedian)
Penn Jillette is best known as a magician and comedian often performing alongside another magician and comedian Raymond Teller in the hit Las Vegas act known as Penn and Teller. Watching him work a crowd while fund raising on the hit show Celebrity Apprentice in 2012 would never give you the idea he was not 100% comfortable playing an extrovert. If anything, Jillette is pretty well known for being outspoken, but he says he’s actually a quiet, pensive, and generally introspective person off stage (away from the bright lights and Donald Trump). The introverted comedian and magician knows what it takes to live life out loud. Keep reading…