Dionne Warwick says Trump was ‘a very nice gentleman’ when she starred on Celebrity Apprentice
Music icon appeared on reality series in 2011, wherein she asked Trump to fire her four weeks in
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Your support makes all the difference.Dionne Warwick has claimed Donald Trump was “a gentleman” towards her while she appeared on a celebrity version of his US reality show The Apprentice.
The music icon said, however, that she no longer recognises the man today.
“The Donald Trump that I knew was very nice,” she told The Guardian. “He really was. He was a gentleman. He never was out of the way with me. I didn’t know what he did with anybody else but I know how he treated me. I did concerts in his hotel, and he was always very nice to me.”
As for Trump’s personality as US president, Warwick would not be probed.
“I don’t know that man,” she said. “That’s not the man that I knew. Period.”
She added: “Politics, religion and sex are three things that should totally be avoided in conversation.”
Warwick appeared on Celebrity Apprentice in 2011, where she lasted four weeks on the show before asking Trump to fire her.
“It got to the point where I felt this was not what I was supposed to be doing with my 50-year career,” she said.
Warwick also called the Whitney Houston hologram tour, the controversial music spectacle designed as a tribute to her late cousin, “a waste of time”.
“Whitney’s legacy, her music, speaks for itself,” Warwick said.
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