MEET THE CELEBRITY APPRENTICE CONTESTANTS 2012

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PENN JILLETTE     

Penn Jillette is a cultural phenomenon as a solo personality and as half of the world-famous Emmy Award-winning magic duo and Las Vegas headliners Penn & Teller. His solo exposure is enormous: from Howard Stern to Piers Morgan, from Oprah to Glenn Beck, to the op-ed pages of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times.

Penn & Teller's live show spent years on Broadway and is now the longest-running headliner show in Las Vegas, where it plays nightly at The Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino

PENN JILLETTE

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TERESA GIUDICE   

As a New York Times best-selling author, "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice is taking the food world by storm. The fearless TV personality is emerging as a burgeoning businesswoman through her irresistible Italian-based cookbooks and forthcoming business ventures.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Teresa is a graduate of Berkeley College where she earned a degree in fashion marketing and management. Teresa still lives in New Jersey where she is the wife of her childhood sweetheart, Joe Giudice, and the proud mother of four daughters: Gia, Gabriella, Milania, and Audriana

TERESA GIUDICE

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TIA CARRERE   

Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Tia Carrere is an accomplished actress in motion pictures and television, and a Grammy Award-winning musical artist.

Carrere and her long-time friend, artist/producer Daniel Ho, have been nominated for a Grammy each of the last three years and won music's highest honor in 2009. Their acclaimed CDs consist of all-original Hawaiian language compositions. With "Hawaiiana," they reached No. 10 on Billboard's World Music Chart. Carrere also performed on the double-platinum movie soundtrack for "Wayne's World," had the end-title song on "Batman: Mask of the Phantasm" and released her own Warner Bros. record, "Dream."

TIA CARRERE

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VICTORIA GOTTI 

Victoria Gotti is a bestselling author of three novels including "The Senator's Daughter," "I'll Be Watching You" and "Superstar," as well as a cookbook, "Hot Italian Dish," a memoir, "This Family of Mine: What It Was Like Growing Up Gotti" and a book called "Women and Mitral Valve Prolapse," inspired by her experience with the disease. Formerly a New York Post columnist, she has been an executive editor and columnist at Star Magazine since 2004. Her newest venture is the recently launched Reality Weekly, for which she serves as Editor-in-Chief at Large.

Born in Brooklyn, NY, Gotti was raised in Howard Beach, NY with her four siblings. She currently lives in New York and is a proud mother of her three sons.

VICTORIA GOTTI

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CAST & CHARITIES:


Former American Idol Clay Aiken, The National Inclusion Project
Retired race car driver Michael Andretti, Racing for Cancer
Talk show host Adam Carolla, Catholic Big Brothers Big Sisters
Actor/bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno, Muscular Dystrophy Association
Actor/TV personality Arsenio Hall, Magic Johnson Foundation
Magician/TV personality Penn Jillette, Opportunity Village
Former Twisted Sister singer Dee Snider, March of Dimes/Bikers for Babies
Star Trek’s George Takei, Japanese American National Museum
American Chopper’s Paul Teutul Sr., Make-A-Wish Foundation
Actress Tia Carrere, After-School All-Stars
Singer Debbie Gibson, Children International
Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Teresa Giudice, The NephCure Foundation
Growing Up Gotti’s Victoria Gotti, Association to Benefit Children
Comedian Lisa Lampanelli, Gay Men’s Health Crisis
Miss Universe 2008 Dayana Mendoza, Latino Commission on AIDS
Singer/actress/model Aubrey O’Day, Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
Model/actress Cheryl Tiegs, The Farrah Fawcett Foundation
Model/actress Patricia Velasquez, Wayuu Taya Foundation