As if insulting Annie Duke and the entire poker community on Celebrity Apprentice wasn't bad enough, poker hater-er Joan Rivers was at it again when she phoned in for an interview on SportsTalk 790 AM The Ticket, this time her target was poker legend Doyle Brunson.

When the whole Apprentice thing went down, Brunson took to his blog to decry Rivers as an enemy of the poker community and made a comment calling into question her intelligence based on ignorant remarks made by her on the show about poker players in general, and specifically Duke. When read this quote, Rivers erupted into another one of her self-centered, ill-advised and under-informed rants, accusing Brunson of trying to get famous "on [her] back" (so many jokes, so little time) and advised the poker great that when he was 76 and had a career like hers he could then come and talk to her, but until then could go "die under a deck of cards." She also called him a moron. Hi pot, this is kettle, you're black.

Anyway, as fate would have it. Brunson was scheduled to appear later in the show to hype his new book, The Godfather of Poker. The hosts of the show played back Rivers' rant an unperturbed Brunson just had this to say:

“That’s better than dying under what she dies under – a pile of manure. She insulted poker players as a group and I’m very upset with her. She had no call to berate the poker community like she did. I think it showed no class. Joan Rivers don’t need us and we don’t need Joan Rivers, so good luck to her. By the way, I’m 76 too – you can tell her.” (thanks to Bluff Magazine for the transcription)

So, kudos to Brunson for his vigorous defense of the poker community, and for giving us something to write about.

Filming for Celebrity Apprentice begins next week and producers have not made an official announcement about the new cast, but it looks like there has been a leak, as a handful of the new contestants were photographed filming promotional shots in New York City.

So far, castmembers indlude: Sharon Osbourne, Rod Blagojevich, Brette Michaels, Cindy Lauper, Holly Robinson Peete and Darryl Strawberry.

Most notable is Blagojevivh, the former Illinois Governor who was caught trying to sell Obama's senate seat. Blagojevich has been trying to pimp out his scandal with some serious media whoring since his impeachment. A judge had previously shot down Blagojevich's reality TV hopes for the NBC show, I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! by not allowing him to travel to Costa Rica for filming. His wife Patti Blagojevich joined the cast instead. Rod Blagojevich was seriously needing the cash with the impending legal fees, however the judge called it "a bad idea" and suggested Blagojevich find another way to earn money. Looks like he didn't take the judge's advice!

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In 2004, Duke beat a field of 234 players in the WSOP $2000 buy-in Omaha Hi/Lo Split and won her first WSOP bracelet. In August of the same year, Duke won $2 million in the No-Limit Texas Hold’em winner-take-all, invitation-only WSOP Tournament of Champions. She has been hailed the best female poker player in the world.

Do you think Annie Duke deserved the title of Celebrity Apprentice? Or do you think Joan Rivers' intense hatred of Duke was justified ? Duke explains on her blog about what happened after the last boardroom.

On Sunday night's three-hour live finale, Rivers and Duke were challenged to raise money for their respective charities by selling Cirque du Soleil tickets and providing a pre-show VIP party. Even though Annie Duke out fund-raised Joan Rivers, Joan took home points for attracting bigger celebrities and integrating the Kodak brand more.

Rivers went on the Today Show after her win, explaining her hatred from Duke by saying, "I love everybody. Don't you touch my daughter or you're dead in the water."

With her win, Rivers raised $250,000 for her charity God's Love We Deliver. When Trump announced she was the winner, Rivers stood up and gave Duke a hug. Trump's Celebrity Apprentice will back next year with another season.

Melissa had been having difficulties with the manipulative poker player Annie Duke and her "yes man" Playboy playmate sidekick, Brande Roderick, who assigned much of the work to Annie, leaving Melissa out of the task as much as possible.

Melissa confronted Brande, saying that she knew that they both would gang up on her in the boardroom should they lose the task. Well, they lost the task and lo-and-behold, Annie and Brande ganged up on her in the boardroom. Although Brande should have been fired for being project manager and allocating all of the work to Annie, in a strange move, Donald Trump fired Melissa, who flew into a rage yelling at NBC workers that she would not be giving them an interview.

Meanwhile, Joan Rivers, who was watching the boardroom antics from the hotel, began furiously packing up her furs and referring to Annie Duke as a "Nazi."

"You have a Nazi and a follower," Joan screamed of Annie and Brande.

Thus, Melissa's exit from the show was less than graceful. She limped around in a fury (wearing a boot due to an injury), trying to get her suitcase from staff members and yelling expletives about Brande and Annie. Oh, and it was awesome.

TMZ reports that the former NBA star was at the London Hotel in Hollywood on Friday, and booted from the hotel for "slapping and groping female guests, as well as yelling obscenities."

A hotel employee tells the website, "He is the most obscene and out of control guest I've ever seen up here."

Rodman was recently fired from Donald Trump's show Celebrity Apprentice for very similar antics. During the task, where the celebrities were asked to run a hotel, Rodman drank and acted out. In the boardroom, teammate Jesse James told Trump that he thought Rodman had a drinking problem. Rodman hung his head and didn't respond to the allegations. Both teams agreed with James.

Although we are at a time when we are emptying our penny jars for a Taco Bell meal, Donald Trump flies in on his private copter to school the "celebrities," a term used loosely on this show, about how such and such is a billion-dollar industry. That's because the show was filmed last year, before the financial shit hit the fan and Trump himself lost his casino to bankruptcy. And it does feel weird, watching celebrites furiously bake cupcakes then sell them to rich people for as much as $10K a pop (all in the name of charity, of course).

But it's still fun watching the cat fights, the stupidity – and, have I mentioned the enormous egos? So the task for the celebrities is to sell cupcakes. Whoever sells the most, wins. For his part, Dennis Rodman refuses to leave the cupcake van to actually sell the cupcakes because, he fears, his mere presence will cause such a commotion, the crowd will be too flustered to make purchases.

Andrew Dice Clay is kind of a sad spectacle to witness, constantly reassuring everyone (and perhaps himself) that he is the greatest comedian to walk the earth. There's also professional poker player Annie Duke who worries more about giving orders than making sound business decisions. Then, there's Joan Rivers, whose overly-reconstructed face is too distracting for anyone to even listen to her – although she does make a hilarious Mussolini joke during Annie Duke's fierce cupcake-making regime.

So the women out-sold the men by a landslide. It was obvious Trump wanted to boot boring ex-football star Hershel Walker. However, Rodman and Dice Clay are so blatantly useless that even Trump can't justify keeping them around without looking like a total twat – especially since Dice Clay mentioned that he wanted to quit and we all know, Trump hates quitters. Thus, Andrew Dice Clay is the first Celebrity Apprentice of season two to be fired.

In this new season of the show, however, the players aren't competing to win a spot within the Trump organization, they are playing to win money for their chosen charity. Duke is playing for Refugees International, very much in line with her work for Ante Up For Africa. The winner will also receive a $250,000 bonus check for their charity.

Getting to that point through will involve getting through a laundry list of A, B, C and D-list celebrities. Appearing on the show with Duke are musician Khloe Kardashian, Dennis Rodman, female golfer Natalie Gulbis, Herschel Walker, Clint Black, comedians Andrew Dice Clay and Tom Green, Joan Rivers and her daughter Melissa Rivers, Scott Hamilton, Jesse James, Claudia Jordan (Deal or No Deal ), Brian McKnight, Brande Roderick and Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins.

The eighth season of the Apprentice gets underway on NBC on March 1 at 9 p.m. ET.

Bodog Poker's own Jean Robert Bellande was the first poker professional to star on a reality TV show when he made an appearance on the CBS show Survivor: China.

• Claudia Jordan – Deal or No Deal briefcase girl
• Brian McKnight – singer
• Tom Green – comic
• Khole Kardashian – sister of someone who has a giant ba-donk-a-donk
• Dennis Rodman – wife beater
• Melissa Rivers – annoying chick with annoying mother
• Andrew Dice Clay – pioneer of offensive comedy
• Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins – member of the R&B group, TLC
• Herschel Walker – college football hall of famer
• Joan Rivers – annoying chick with annoying daughter
• Scott Hamilton – ice skater
• Annie Duke – pro poker player
• Clint Blank – country singer
• Natalie Gulbis – golfer
• Brande Roderick- actress
• Jesse James – married to actress Sandra Bullock

So what do you think? A-listers or Z-listers? Will you be watching Celebrity Apprentice?

Donald Trump named the British former tabloid editor Piers Morgan the Celebrity Apprentice. (Courtesy NBC)

NBC seemed to bill the battle between the all-American cowboy, Trace Adkins, and the ruthless British business man as a battle of good vs. evil — a rather unfair labeling if you ask The Beat. However, "evil" prevailed as Piers Morgan, who butted heads with many of the celebrities on the show, most notably Omarosa, took the Celebrity Apprentice crown. Piers, who in a previous episode had lost his mind when Omarosa had called him a bad father for apparently no reason, was dead-set on getting revenge and annihilated Omarosa, which Trump dubbed "the biggest slaughter in the history of The Apprentice."

Announcing Morgan the winner, Trump said: “You’re a vicious guy, I’ve seen it… You’re tough, you’re smart, you’re probably brilliant, I’m not sure, you’re certainly not diplomatic but you did an amazing job and you beat the hell out of everybody.”

For his win, Morgan earned an additional $250,000 for his charity, Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund which so far, has provided close to $20 million to families of United States military personnel lost in performance of their duty. The Fund provided unrestricted grants to each spouse, child and parents of service members.

In 2004, Morgan was fired from his position at the British tabloid the Daily Mirror after publishing photos that were exposed as fakes of British troops abusing Iraqi prisioners. Critics said the images put troops at risk and damaged their reputation.

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