Omarosa: Reality's Queen Of Mean Is Back On The Scene

It's taken most divas a lifetime before they become known by only one name. For reality television vixen Omarosa, it only took 15 episodes.

The 33-year-old, Youngstown, Ohio-native (who's full name is Omarosa Manigault) became a household name in the winter of 2004, when her sassy and often controversial antics on Donald Trump's hit NBC reality show 'The Apprentice' made people take note.

The then-married, but now-divorced former White House employee was able to stretch her fifteen minutes of fame into a thriving career in entertainment, with guest spots on the sitcom 'Girlfriends,' NBC's 'Fear Factor,' the soap opera 'Passions,' Court TV's 'House of Clues,' and Bravo's 'Celebrity Poker showdown.'

A constant on the lecture circuit, both at colleges and corporate events, the one-time pageant contestant has hosted the 'Annual Mrs. America Pageant' for the last several years, appeared on Oxygen's 'Girls Behaving Badly' and had an infamous feud with supermodel Janice Dickerson on VH1's, 'The Surreal Life.'

Omarosa and her mother, Theresa Manigault also appeared on the Discovery Health series 'Plastic Surgery: Before & After.' On that show, the former Mrs. Aaron Stallworth, in her owns words, "relinquished the title as the president of the Itty Bitty Titty Committee" and had her "negative A-cup" transformed into a "full voluptuous C-cup."

And for those who were hoping she had tendered her crown as the 'Queen of Reality Television' – think again! To people who thought she was gone, she declares: "I never left!"

So many people are saying, 'The bitch is back!' How does that make you feel?

What tickles me the most is that people don't realize that I am one of the few television personalities in the non-scripted reality genre that has worked consistently. From when we taped the first 'Apprentice' in 2003, until when we taped 'Celebrity Apprentice' in January 2008, I have worked constantly.

You didn't waste any time before you began cutting up this season.

The only way that you win money for your charity is by being project manager. The only way you win money is by putting your neck on the line. I am truly there to bring home money for my charity, Positive Vibrations in Compton, Calif. That's why on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange I made a bold statement in the first episode within the first few minutes of the show and said, 'Mr. Trump, I want to be the first project manager.' So that set the tone for how serious I was and how committed I was to raising money for my charity and how serious I am about winning this.

Now contestant Piers Morgan, the British tabloid editor who's a judge on 'America's Got Talent,' told the New York Post that you wanted to have a "showmance" with him, which is basically a romance between two people just for TV. Is that true?

This man came to me and said he studied the DVD from the first season and studied everything I had done. He essentially said to me that he wanted to be BrOmarosa – the British Omarosa. It was the highest form of flattery, right? In sharing information and knowledge about past seasons with him, he wanted to know about a very famous couple from the first season, Nick [Warnock] and Amy [Henry]. From that, he made the impression that I wanted a "showmance" with him? Trust me, his yellow, rotten, disgusting teeth; his horrible, alcoholic breath; and his inability to grasp reality are all but three reasons why that would never happen! Not even to advance me in the show! I'll do anything to win, but I won't do that!

You became a "bad girl" because people say you sabotaged Kwame Jackson from the first season. But a source told me that you two actually were lovers. Is that true?

I want to know where you got that information from?

I can't tell you that. But is it true?

I am very reluctant to talk about that because Kwame has made such a career out of being the victim of the first season. 'Woe is me...look what happened to me.' I don't want to take that from him. His role as victim has been very lucrative for him. But Kwame and I had a closer relationship than what was portrayed on the show, that's all I say.

So you won't disclose if it was a sexual relationship?

I won't specify whether it was sexual, but I'll say that it was a very unique relationship that was not portrayed on the show. That's something that I think Kwame and I will have to share between the two of us, but it's not something I am willing to share publicly.

And apparently being the "victim" hasn't been too lucrative for him, because the papers are reporting that he is having financial trouble.

To hear that he is struggling and having problems makes me very sad. I am hoping he's able to overcome the financial hardships that he is having right now.

You were all over TMZ recently because of that "spoiler" video.

Did you see that spoiler? It really had legs and bounced around all over the place. I got calls from the powers that be and got into a lot of trouble. Clearly, if you watch the TMZ interview, Nely Galán and I are having a good time laughing. It was all done in jest.

And you and Nely have become friends. Who else have you befriended from the show?

Nely, Nadia Comaneci and Marilu Henner. We're inseparable! They're like the sisters I never had. Though I have one sister named Gladys that lives in Ohio. There's not a day that goes by since we've done the show that I don't speak to them. I value those friendships so much. That's something that has never happened to me. I've never tried to make friends on a reality show. But on this particular show, something very magical happened.

Did you experience Gene Simmons' notorious tongue before he was fired?

Carol Alt and I had his tongue rammed down our throats. Everyone around us thought it was funny, but I was terrified. He grabbed me while we were posing for a picture and felt that I needed to experience his infamous tongue. He straddled Carol Alt, grabbed her face and does the tongue thing. We both looked at each other and I said, 'I think we've both been molested.'

I hear you have a line of golf clubs coming out, but before I let you go, I have to know, if you could join any other reality show on television, which one would you chose?

There are three shows that I am addicted to that I would love to be on. I would love to be on 'Dancing with the Stars.' I am addicted to 'The Amazing Race.' And I would love to do 'Big Brother.'

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For details on Omarosa's 'Celebrity Apprentice' charity Positive Vibrations go to www.TAMUSEUM.org.

For more information on Omarosa, visit her online at www.Omarosa.com.