Access Hollywood reports that "Heather Mills has been "fired" before she ever set foot in Donald Trump's boardroom."

Ms. Mills, best-known for her divorce from former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney that included a demand for a $300,000 per year clothing allowance and a trial that involved Ms. Mills dumping a jug of water on McCartney's lawyer and shouting "You're a bitch! You're a traitor to your sex! How could you do this to another woman?"

Apparently her high-maintenance ways were also a turn-off to NBC insiders, one whom reportedly told The Sun that "The network was originally very keen on getting her involved. They thought it would be a clever move, attracting lots of publicity for the show... But her demands were ludicrous and it soon became clear that getting her involved would be a headache."

Here's the best part: she demanded a clause in her contract stipulating that she would make it to the finals!

I'm hugely disappointed that Mills won't be on Celebrity Apprentice. Having Heather Mills and Donald Trump on the same show would make for the most delightfully detestable hour of television since. . . ever. Maybe they should reconsider giving O.J. Simpson a spot. Some other celebrities I'd like to see on the most obnoxious show on television:

• Former Supreme Court Nominee Harriet Miers
• Congressional Sex Scandal Bad Boys Larry Craig and Gary Condit
• Amy Winehouse
• Former Enron chief Jeff Skilling (Let him out of jail early and call it community service!)
• John Rocker (Former pitcher who managed to insult just about every minority in a 2000 Sports Illustrated interview)

It seems like there are almost weekly opportunities to blast Donald Trump here on BloggingStocks, and the latest comes courtesy of Perez Hilton who reports (with a great illustration that is too vulgar for AOL) that "Last Thursday's Celebrity Apprentice came in at third place with a lousy 8.2 million viewers. That's down a sharp 26% from its previous week premiere. At its heyday, the show could get close to 20 million viewers per episode."

What went wrong, other than the fact that Trump has overexposed himself to the point where everyone wishes he and his comb-over would take a hike? Part of the problem is that the whole Celebrity Apprentice thing lacks the appeal of watching hungry up-and-comers duke it out for a shot at wealth. It's a little bit like watching Warren Buffett play Deal or No Deal -- Who cares? There's no drama, and watching Gene Simmons dial up his friends to buy a $5,000 hot dog so his team can beat Omarosa in a contest just isn't very interesting.

But then again, the whole Apprentice show has gotten stale -- and its applications to the real-life business world have always been highly overrated. It's a made-for-TV reality show full of over-produced melodrama.

But the flop of the celebrity edition probably spells the end of the series, and now Donald Trump can go back to focusing on his business ventures rather than his insatiably narcissistic appetite for publicity. And judging from the performance of Trump Entertainment Resorts (NASDAQ: TRMP), his real-life ventures could use some attention.

I was browsing through Forbes.com, taking a look at the Secrets of the Self-Made 2007. And there, staring at me, is possibly the ugliest comb-over ever. Yes, Forbes has chosen Donald Trump to be the poster-boy for self-made wealth.

Isn't that like putting Pamela Anderson on the cover of a magazine about all-natural ways to look good?

In his excellent book TrumpNation, Timothy L. O'Brien exposes The Donald for what he is: A charlatan born with his who has screwed banks and shareholders out of millions of dollars after ventures he's spearheaded have collapsed. His father was a major player in the New York real estate industry, and Trump used those connections to become a self-styled mogul.

Does that sound self-made to you? Couldn't Forbes have picked someone who really is an inspiring Horatio Alger story?

General Electric Company (NYSE: GE)'s NBC Universal did not include The Apprentice on its 2007/2008 schedule. But in true World Bank fashion, NBC Universal gave Donald Trump the last word -- letting him quit before NBC Universal publicly fired him.

The Apprentice debuted in 2004, averaging 21 million viewers and topped the new show ranking in its first season. But it steadily lost about two-thirds of its original audience by the time it completed its sixth installment in April 2007. I stopped watching it last year because it was too boring. And I think it jumped the shark when business schools starting using it as part of their curriculum.

During the late 1980s, Donald Trump invented the idea of using books to promote a real-estate business. During the latter part of the decade, he was all over the media -- but not to the same extent as he has been in the past few years. At the end of the 1980s, Trump went bankrupt, along with many other real-estate developers.

I see the demise of The Apprentice as the canary in the coal mine for this similarly debt-fueled decade.

Peter Cohan is President of Peter S. Cohan & Associates, a management consulting and venture capital firm. He also teaches management at Babson College and edits The Cohan Letter. He owns General Electric stock.

Trump Entertainment Resorts (NASDAQ: TRMP) shares soared more than 20% on Friday after the company disclosed that "The Strategic Committee has recently received preliminary and conditional indications of interest from parties proposing to acquire the Company. There can be no assurance that any of these indications of interest will result in a sale of the Company or any other transactions."

Given that the company had already announced that it was for sale and already jumped on that news, the shares may have gotten ahead of themselves today. But the storyline that interests me is this: If the casinos are sold, is it possible that the Trump name will be removed?

With the ratings of The Apprentice continuing to show weakness in the latest season (even after a move to L.A. to spice things up), I would argue that the Trump name may be suffering from overexposure. His huge ego may have finally turned off the public, and his book with Robert Kiyosaki is probably the worst thing I've ever read.

I just wonder whether the Trump name has much value anymore. There's no question that everyone knows it, but what is the average person's impression of Trump?

This post is written as part of AOL Money & Finance's Best & Worst 2006. You can vote for Donald Trump's hair as the Worst Signature Style.

Good Mr. Trump, he of the fluffy comb-over, had a heck of a year in 2006. We should all be so lucky (he would ascribe luck to none of it, of course, but that is another matter)!

Just a few of his accomplishments:

• The Iconic Donald saw his net worth rise again above a mere five billion dollars.
• He is erecting buildings all over the world, including a Trump Tower in Dubai. The Hair is literally global.
• He married a stunning model, half his age, and fathered a lovely son whom he subtly named Baron. He has stated for the record that he does not and will not change the baby's diapers.
• His television show, The Apprentice, is literally one of the top-rated shows in television. To demonstrate that his Trumpian blood line lives on, he fired his firm professionals from the show and put both of his genetically perfect children on camera alongside him. And they are articulate and on the ball, like pop.
• To put a capper on his TV dominance he put a smack down on his "friend" and Apprentice ingénue, Martha Stewart, when she attempted her own show and talked down the D-man. Nobody does that! Wonder how he handles his enemies when they cross him?

And now, at year end, he is giving foreign-policy style speeches and musing about running for president. And like our current president, the Donald does not drink alcohol. No wonder he is always so crisp.

This post is written as part of AOL Money & Finance's Best & Worst 2006. If you'd pick Donald Trump as the most annoying money personality, be sure to vote for him.

A leading contender for the most annoying money personality crown for decades now, consummate self-promoter and real estate mogul Donald Trump is also the producer and star of the reality television show, The Apprentice, from which comes his widely imitated catchphrase, "You're fired."

Trump, also known as "The Donald," a nickname given to him by his former wife, Ivana Trump, is recognized by his usual squint, pursed lips, and that distinctive comb-over, which has been the subject of humor by many comedians, and it's a nominee in another category of the Best & Worst 2006.

Known throughout the 1990s for his much publicized financial difficulties and a high-profile and messy divorce from wife Ivana, he'd already begun a lifelong habit of naming things after himself. Besides Trump Tower and Trump Plaza, there are also such things as a Trump menswear collection, bottled water, vodka, a magazine, an ice cream parlor, and Trump University, a business school founded in 2005.

Not only does Trump reportedly receive $3 million per episode of The Apprentice, but he also headlines the Learning Annex's Real Estate Wealth Expos, for which he reportedly receives $1 million per one-hour seminar. In addition, he's a professional wrestling fan, often appearing ringside at WWE Wrestlemania events, and for the 2004 Emmy Awards he appeared in coveralls and a straw hat, singing the Green Acres theme along with actress/talk show host Megan Mullally.