Clint Black on the Orange Carpet at the 43rd Annual ACM Awards, Sunday, May 18, 2008 in Las Vegas, NV. Photo by David Vespie.
March 23, 2009 — A heavily promoted confrontation between Clint Black and controversial basketball star Dennis Rodman provided plenty of heat for Sunday's edition of the NBC reality series "The Celebrity Apprentice," but both of them survived for another week as the men's team ultimately won for the first time this season.
Dennis sulked during an early scene in the episode, in which he referred to Clint as "the dictator from hell." After Clint won a coin toss with the women's team, Dennis went chest-to-face against Clint, lashing out with a string of bleeped profanities before he finally walked off the set. "It's a team game!" he yelled as he abandoned his partners.
Brian McKight served as project manager for the challenge, which required both teams to do a presentation for a video phone at an AHN company=2 0conference. The men's group — KOTU, short for Kings of the Universe — put together a video that used footage they shot at West Point and incorporated a concert by Brian, an R&B singer who wrote the Mark Wills hit "Back At One."
Clint was disappointed that, despite his musical history, he was never asked for input in the music or the production, left instead to call for production information and for pizza. It took him out of the equation in the project's success but also absolved him from any blame.
"I'm kind of enjoying my great lack of responsibility," he said.
Despite walking away, Dennis eventually came back to the team, and Clint was willing to put it all behind him.
Dennis, he explained, "can still pull a rabbit out of a hat."
In the end, that wasn't required. The video and Brian's performance outdid a poorly organized presentation from the women's team, netting 80 percent of the company votes. Clint and Dennis shook hands in the boardroom, and Dennis insisted he had no hard feelings about the country singer: "We gonna be friends no matter what, brother."
They'll also be participating again on next Sunday's installment of "The Celebrity Apprentice." Promos for the installment suggest Dennis will have to answer for an alcohol problem.
In the meantime, it's not out of the question that Trace Adki ns, who made it all the way to the final competition a year ago, will return.
"The producers," Trace told The Riverside Press-Enterprise, "sent a message to me that they might want me to come to the finale."
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