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T HE A PPRENTICE WAS

S UPPOSED TO B EA

B IG M ISTAKE

Ge t the Be s t Ad vice You Ca n,

The n Tr us t Your Gut

hen reality shows hit the scene a few years back, I found
W the premise interesting but I definitely wasn’t interested
in doing one. Even when I had been approached multiple times
to do a show, I found the ideas boring and stupid. To have cam-
eras following me around, to watch me brush my teeth, comb
my hair, conduct meetings, and eat lunch at my desk seemed like
an unnecessary interference. I turned them all down without a
second thought.
Then a couple of years later, I was asked by Les Moonves,
the head of CBS Entertainment, for permission to film the live
finale of Survivor at Wollman Rink in Central Park. (After I

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