A former Celebrity Apprentice contestant is calling Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump a sexist hypocrite after she was unceremoniously fired from the reality show in 2010 for using “locker room talk.”
Maria Kanellis-Bennett, 34, a former professional wrestler, was “fired” by Trump after she chastised fellow contestant Curtis Stone for coming into their room and using the bathroom, leaving a “stench” behind. (You can watch the firing above.)
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In the episode, she said to Stone: “The reason why I said you were so arrogant was because you came in our dressing room and you took a crap and left the stench in the room.”
Apparently Trump took issue with the word “crap,” and called Kanellis-Bennett’s remarks “disgusting” and “gross.”
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On Friday, the Washington Post and NBC released video of Trump speaking to then-Access Hollywood host Billy Bush about making sexual advances on women without their consent.
Trump was forced to issue a public apology for the remarks and has repeatedly dismissed them as “locker room talk,” including during Sunday’s debate when he was pressed on the issue.
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“What I said is something that happens in the locker room, what he said is not. He fired me for what I said because I am a female,” Kanellis-Bennett told the New York Daily News Tuesday.
Adding insult to injury, after her firing, Kanellis-Bennett was ordered to apologize to Trump by Apprentice producers.
“I was told I shouldn’t talk like that as a lady, and that, to me, was inequality at its best,” she said. “I can’t speak my mind as a female, but he can speak his mind as a male. There’s a problem with that.”
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She also claims that during filming of the show, Trump frequently flirted with her and made inappropriate comments about her looks.
“He would say I looked nice that day. He would make comments in the boardroom,” she said. “He believes that just by being a celebrity you can get in someone’s pants. That’s not acceptable in any form or fashion.”
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