Boob Tube: Jamie Anderson on the Celebrity Apprentice S. 7 Ep 1

With the complete lack of snow in Oregon, I have had plenty of free time, with with I’ve been enjoying my other passion: Television! So imagine my excitement over a professional snowboarder being on reality TV. Not just Bravo or Food Network reality, but NBC! That’s right, Jamie Anderson is on the Celebrity Apprentice this season.

Since apparently no one has any idea who Jamie Anderson is in “the real world”, let me fill you in. She is indeed a snowboarder, who wins every slopestyle contest (X Games, US Open, etc etc) and has been since she was like 16. Not because the other girls are bad, but because she’s just that good. Her business smarts include traveling the world and managing her own snowboard career (she didn’t have an agent or team manager for the first few years of it.)  Whether you follow contests or not, Jamie is a badass boarder babe, who’s recent Olympic gold medal certainly qualifies her for “celebrity” status in our book.

For the first episode, the players are broken into teams of men and women and tasked with raising money for charity by making and selling pies. It’s made very clear that the celebs will have to call in their famous friends for big donations if they want to win. Unfortunately, this leaves Jamie in the lurch since pro snowboarders are not known for their money mangement skills (though she should have at least tried to call Mark Frank or Nate Bozung.) Luckily, Jamie is a pie making machine, and in a stroke of genius, she suggests combining pear and blueberry in a pie, and that shit comes out great. In fact, it wins the team an extra $25k.

The board room drags on forever, even though the women obviously lost, and eventually, Trump lets the men leave and tells Rudy Huxtable to bring back two people. She picks Kate plus 8, and Jamie!? It’s true Jamie made zero effort to call anyone, but damn, she cooked the winning pie! This decision would prove to be fatal for Rudy as Trump basically defends Jamie’s case for her and it’s pretty clear she’ll be ok, even if she is too nice to say anyone should be fired.

Overall, Jamie’s general chillness might be a mismatch for the catty bitchiness that is required for good reality TV, so not sure she has a future in this – but I’ll watch as long as she lasts. Also, Jamie’s charity is Protect Our Winters, and I can’t wait to hear Climate Change denier Trump’s take on that.

You can watch it for yourself here. (Though I wouldn’t recommend it.)

Note: Apparently there is another episode already. No spoliers, please!