Carey (YOU'RE FIRED! And dude, what's up with that bathing suit.)

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Carey
AGE: 25
JOB: Marketing Firm Owner
HOME: Atlanta, Georgia

Biography
Carey, 25, grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, where he continues to reside today. ...the night before the interview I was forced to fill out the application at gun point by my friend...Read Full Q&A » Not satisfied with working in a conventional office environment, he decided to pursue his real passion--marketing.

Carey's flair for crafting innovative promotions helped him to launch his own event marketing and promotions firm whose high-profile clients have included Adidas America, The Weather Channel, Stoli Vodka, Atlanta's High Museum of Art, Turner South, Verizon Wireless through its agency partner Mini Mobile Media, and Cartoon Network through Hothouse Inc.

He has served as National Political Director for the College of Democrats of America, one of the youth arms of the Democratic National Committee, and was one of the youngest members of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.

In his spare time, Carey enjoys playing flag football for the Atlanta Storm, an NFFLA team, working out, indoor rock climbing and creating "fashion forward couture" from items he finds at thrift shops.

"I should be the next Apprentice because I am a marketing guru and that's what this show is all about!" asserts Cary.
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Nice girly-pants.

When is the Apprentice on? I guess I am missing it.

Sundays now. At 8 or 9 I think.

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So why'd he get fired?

Carey in the Boardroom:

http://apprentice.tv.yahoo.com/trum...os.html#1636330

Hmm, yeah, I would personally go for the PM on that one. If Carey's pushing it hard, but the rest of the team are not on board, the PM should just overrule him. It's a hard to know where to point the blame sometimes though. Especially since I haven't seen it.

gabo the full episode is on yahoo.tv... The Apprentice. Follow the link I posted above. You should be able to get the 1st episode in full as well.



James was the one who opposed everyone in the boardroom and thought the PM (Nicole) should be fired. I agree with James on that point.

Those things never work for people living outside the US. I'll need to read the recap at sometime.

I agree that Carey wasn't at full blame...but lets face it, that bathing suit is so pathetic....the mere fact that he put them on, let alone make them, deserves firing.

The photo itself is funny...but the lady's facial reaction in the picture itself is even more hilarous! She looks she is about to lose it!

Yeah, his fate was sealed as soon as he put that pink nightmare on.

Too close to a banana hammock. Dude needed to be gone. Maybe Trump felt threatened.

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What if Trump puts on the pink bathing suit in one of the episodes? Imagine how scary it would look then.

The short white guy said he was day on the first day I believe.

Dunno why Trump asks. On one hand it's really none of his business. But I could see why he would be curious. You want to know everything about someone who could potentially run a portion of your company valued in the millions. Not that being gay speaks to whether the candidate is capable. But I'd want to know everything, even if he wipes standing up or sitting down.

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He must know they are gay beforehand. He has the application and interview process to find out all he wants to know before they become candidates don't you think?

An openly gay person doesn't hide it ( I don't think) from their employers. I mean what is the point of bringing it up in the boardroom? He may have "gay" people working for him already whether he knows it or not.

He's just a nosy bugger and doing it for the camera I would suppose.

Wait, I thought Derek was the other gay male? Is he short? Hmmm...I'm gonna have to check it out this Sunday.

Heidi is mannish. I don't know why you fellas like that woman who looks like she'd win a wrestling match with you..... HAHAHA! I'm just teasin' you boys.....












NOT!

I want Kinetic to go down this week. I'll be burning candles, incense and chanting this weekend.

He might know. It shouldn't matter to Trump. I don't know why he cares. This isn't the first time he's asked a contestant.

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I think he mentioned it on the first show too.

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Look at the last comment by Carey in this article:

The Apprentice: Does Carey Regret "Suiting Up"?
by Matt Webb Mitovich


When How I Met Your Mother's Barney tells a guy to "suit up," he probably doesn't mean for a fella to pour himself into snug, pink Spandex swimwear. Alas, that is precisely what Atlanta marketing whiz Carey Sherell did on NBC's The Apprentice, resulting with Donald Trump declaring his taste in fashion a total wipeout. But is the Donald's gaydar simply out of whack? And was Carey edited to look like more of a diva than he actually is? TVGuide.com spoke to him the day after his ouster.
TVGuide.com: Nearly none of it made it through editing, but there was reference made in the boardroom to your tailoring the pink suit to Trina Turk's gay customers. I was wondering if you could elaborate on that strategy.

Carey Sherrell: We were at the Trina Turk boutique, where we had a chance to speak to one of her assistants, and we realized they had a store in Palm Springs. Well, like 70 percent of the male consumers who shop in Palm Springs are gay, so in designing the concept for the swimwear line, we knew we had to do something that appealed to all her consumers, and not really appeal to the mainstream buyers [who decide the task's outcome].

TVGuide.com: You did seem a bit stubborn in fighting for the suit you wound up modeling. When all was said and done, you didn't change the cut or the color....

Carey: That's bad editing. You can talk to anybody who was there. I was just on the phone with James, and he was like, "Man, they made it look like you just went with the suit," and that's not the case. In the end, as Nicole said, we all took a calculated risk, and everyone was involved in that. But the editing made me look like I was saying, "We're doing the suit no matter what!"

TVGuide.com: I was surprised at the minimal airtime given to the actual strategizing and preparation. They made it seem like you spent 45 minutes designing the suits, and then put them on the runway show.

Carey: I know! It was about 30 hours of work, and we didn't really go to sleep. We were working on a really crazy timeline, so once a suit came out of production, the choice was to either stick with it or not have a suit [to show]. If we wanted to change something, we had little or no time to do it.

TVGuide.com: Did you really think you could sell Michelle as the one to be fired? Or were you grasping at straws?

Carey: No, you'll see. It has yet to be proven, but Michelle is a disaster.

TVGuide.com: Really? I've seen truly destructive team members over the past seasons, and I'm not getting that vibe from her.

Carey: She has this ability to stifle creativity, and she's negative.... It will come to pass. She's not going to last long, I don't think.

TVGuide.com: Now, does she look as much like Jaime Pressly in person as she does on TV?

Carey: She really does! [Laughs] Everybody kept saying Jaime Pressly, and I had never seen Jaime Pressly before. But then I caught My Name Is Earl, and she definitely looks like Jaime Pressly.

TVGuide.com: In retrospect, what would you have done differently?

Carey: Nothing. The fact of the matter is that [the gay consumer] is a market, and no consumer should be overlooked. If that's the kind of people who shop at a store, then they need to be respected and offered something that they want. I'm not in the business of overlooking people — I'm in marketing, and if the demographics say something, then that's what we do. We had that information, but you didn't see that. It looked like, "Gay guy goes crazy and designs a crazy suit," and that's sad. We acted on the information we had. Again, we took a risk, but if you've been to a Trina Turk boutique, you'll see that her clothes are risky. They're not clothes you'll see in mainstream America.

TVGuide.com: Who would you say is a player to watch?

Carey: James is stellar. He's the one I first got to know, and we became really great friends. I think he will go far.

TVGuide.com: Lastly, what's next for you?

Carey: We are going head-to-head with Trump by showing him that there is a marketplace for that "loser bathing suit," as he called it. We're designing some suits right now, and BlueMotionSquared.com is the name of the line. We're going to show Trump that we are a force to be reckoned with. Feb. 1 is the launch date, and it will be really cool stuff, with cool people behind it.

Admit it HECK....you already have on on order dont you?? Heh...just kidding!

They do leave out so much in the episode. I watched a webisode on yahoo and it showed how Marisa spilt a coffee drink on all Kinetics bathing suits. And how they had to argue with Surya to model the shorts.

You can't see everything that goes on, and to be honest... I don't care all that much... I watch it from time to time for the entertainment value. I don't give that much of a toss what 'really' happened

Every show is carefully edited. We're shown what the producers want us to see. A contestant could say three sentences the whole episode and they will be cut up and spread out so it seems like they were talking the whole show.

Webisodes kind of take away the luster. Puts the show in a different perspective.

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