Was Bret Michaels’ condition exaggerated to boost Celebrity Apprentice finale ratings?
So, rocker Bret Michaels is set to give his first post hemmorhage interview on Oprah, and in the promo he’s looking fine.
Now, call me overly cynical, call me a conspiracy theorist, call me a bastard but…wasn’t Donald Trump just saying that Bret was in… “big, big trouble and the prognosis is not great.”? I’m not saying the guy wasn’t sick, I’m just saying, I wouldn’t put it past Trump to overhype the severity of his condition in order to boost the ratings of his crappy show’s season finale. I mean, it’s taken one month for a ‘full recovery’, that’s pretty astonsishing considering the reports we were getting made it seem like he was ready to slough off this mortal coil. Moreover, it’s pretty convenient that his recovery totally coincides with the final show.
Of course I have no proof of this mind you, just a hunk of concrete in my stomach that tells me something fishy’s going on in the state of Denmark. For all I know, the guy could have gone in and gotten another facelift, or maybe gotten his weave tightened. Who knows…maybe he was sick. If he was, I advise him to take some time off…a long time off…in fact, why not think of retirement?
I dunno, the idea that Trump could have been manipulating this situation all along just to give his crappy show a boost makes me sick to my stomach. It’s just so crass and the worst part is….it’s possible!
What do you think?
my money is on face lift!
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Ok you said it yourself. In your blog/post/watever. the MEDIA. They take everything out of context and blow it up. Yes he may have been critical at one point. And all Donald Trump said is he is not doing well or looking good? Ya that happens and its called fals alarms, relapses, the whole nine. Second off the show is raising money strictly for charity, so as far as reality/game show go. Id say its one of the best ones there is. Third of all, its not really any of your god damn business. Its Brett’s Health, so unless your a friend or family member, get a life and find something better to do with your life then gossip and theorize about whether or not he was really as ill as they said. Seeing as you asked Im betting you were not a friend or relative because you would have already known the answer. Live your own damn life and focus on your own issues.
That you have no idea what you’re talking about —
Bret cancelled a MONTH of concerts —do you think that he would give up that cash to fake an illness for a show that he has already been paid for?
That makes ZERO sense….before posting this nonsense – you should have looked at his concert tour schedule AND looked at the shooting schedule for Celebrity Apprentice – CA was finished MONTHS ago – all that is left is a finale wrap-up.
Bret lost TONS of MONEY on concerts…. DUH!
Yet another jealous man posting drivel.
Well, aside from all the speculation.. the fact that this talentless dipwad is STILL in the public consciousness is a mystery to me…
As I stated above – another jealous man just chimed in about Bret being talentless. I don’t really care if you are the “creator” of this blog or not.
Obviously, from the 24 year career and the fact that millions of people have been concerned about his health recently – you are in the minority on thinking that Bret is talentless.
People have varying ideas of what “good music” is – but just because it is not your favorite – it doesn’t mean that he is talentless…..and it TRULY is funny as to how many negative comments are written by men. Jealous much?
Maybe you should actually LISTEN to his new music –try “Raine” for instance —
And you are the only one who seems to be speculating about his illness…..
I love how you didn’t comment on the fact that it truly doesn’t make any sense at all. Giving up a month of concerts to promote a show that he has already been paid for? NOT happening.
I actually don’t think I’m in the minority thinking this wig wearing muldoon is talentless… His lack of talent is an empirical fact.
It makes sense that it’s been hyped up by Trump in particular to promote the season finale to his show… and by the way… Trump gets PAID for the show, and any future shows, which would depend on the success of THIS show.
Trump has been hyping a VERY REAL ILLNESS…..but Trump hypes everything. To suggest that Bret was faking an illness to help is childish and just plain ignorant. I’m all about conspiracy theories – but choose to concentrate on ones that make sense —THIS DOESN’T.
Bret, in no way, is faking this –and to suggest otherwise is ridiculous.
ONLY jealous men seem to have a problem with Bret – as to the extensions – who FREAKING CARES? I personally don’t…..I don’t mind if he has extensions; I don’t mind if he goes natural – I don’t mind if he shaves it.
– your inability to prove your point in this blog is in empirical fact. Your opinion, biased by jealousy, is that Bret has no talent –obviously that is not shared by very many people.
All that you have proven is your childishness – as evidenced by the photo accompanying your blog and by the incessant name-calling of somebody who actually has the talent to succeed.—Those who can argue and prove a point – do so WITHOUT resorting to the childish antics that you are employing.
Last post –to follow your logic – you would think that peter Sellers’ faked his heart illness to help resurrect his career….
oh wait – he DIED at age 54 or 55 of said ailment.
So, I guess that illness wasn’t fake EITHER.
Maybe Holly’s child doesn’t really have autism? Maybe Sharon didn’t really have colon cancer?
Bad things DO happen to good people…
I didn’t say he DIDN’T have an illness… I said that trump over-hyped it, saying he was on death’s door, that his prognosis wasn’t good etc.. to hype is crappy, lame show… If his condition was so serious, he wouldn’t be pefectly fine a month later…period.
As for me being jealous, that’s ridiculous.. just a pat cliched reaction to someone stating an opinion…if I don’t agree that this talentless muldoon is awesome, than automatically I’m jealous…yeah, jealous of a leathery skinned, bald, shkanky, std ridden loser…yeah that’s the ticket.
and who says he’s a ‘good person’? Why is that a fact? Seems like a whore mongering, dipwad who’ll do anything to remain in the spotlight with absolutely NOTHING worthwhile to offer the world.
How is this guy even still in the news? Is he still trying to give/get std’s on VH1? And the guy hasn’t had a career for 24 years. He had like 5 took 20 years off and did reality tv
And both naysayers are men –point proven.
You’re right —the Barrow institute and his doctor was also in on it….it was just a publicity stunt. The chief neurosurgeon just quoted the stat that only 20% of people make a complete comeback from this illness —but yeah –you, at your computer, probably know that it’s blown out of proportion.
You have ZERO argument –but I did actually read this nonsense today – so, YOU, in fact, used Bret’s illness to promote this lame blog.
As to the jealousy –really? hmmmm….
BTW, to call Bret talentless – then write this blog –NOW THAT is just pure irony.
You know what’s even MORE pathetic than Bret Michaels?…FANS of Bret Michaels. I can only imagine…probably some aging metal chick in stone washed jeans in an old Poison t-shirt.
Poison, and Bret Michaels are and were always LAME
All I know about the whole “Bret Michaels is sick” thing is that I was crushed to find out he wasn’t going to die.
a few things:
Bret Michaels is not talented. He’s a fucking VH1 celeb-u-whore. He’s completely and totally irrelevant, always has been and I’m truly amazed that 20+ years after that horrendous master class in rock douchebaggery called Poison – we’re still talking about this butt plug. It’s not hard to figure out – everyone who loved Poison and enjoys watching washed-up has-beens share mansions and pretend to argue on VH1 are all semi-retarded couch-surfing anal sacs who hungrily gulp up anything Viacom decides to mash up and feed them, then demand more of the same. If someone’s gonna get upset about Bret bashing, well – I’m upset I have to share a planet with such a cadre of dumb shitheads who love him.
yep.. think that kinda sums it all up.
Not only did I smell a rat the moment the “coincidence” of Bret’s illness was first announced, but then smelled an even bigger rat when, seemingly in response to some (justifiably) cynical press speculating about Bret’s illness, he suddenly developed a second (and third?) medical condition. I’ve heard both a stroke and a hole in his heart, but then on the show his limp was inconsistent, and he’s not sure when his doctor plans to repair his heart. (Yeah, right.) By the way, besides his fake hair to cover his baldness, he also has Fetal Alcohol face. This was CLEARLY all a shameless Donald Trump slick salesman trick for ratings. It was obvious that Holly Robinson, Bill Rancik, Trump’s kids and the rest all knew the outcome in advance, as evidenced by their bad acting jobs trying to feign a lack of pre-knowledge. Plus, what do you want to bet that Trump has some money invested in Michael’s career?
If you don’t think this garbage has been hyped up to re-sell this douche bag you are a gullible douche yourself. I totally believe Brett Michaels had a brain bleed or a bad migraine…. but to be near death and then be on every television show including an appearance against his doctors wishes? Imagine this guy really had everything wrong with him that he says he did – the near death – all of it ….. The way he is acting now is totally consistent with someone who cannot let the limelight fade. Against his own better judgement – and expert doctor opinion – he must continue to rock. He LOVES his diabetic daughter so much …. he doesn’t think that watching him die on international television would hurt her at all …. come on – this guy is as opportunistic as it gets – and that’s the best case scenario! The worst case? He had an issue that got solved – and might have had a scare – but he did not have a brain bleed and then a stroke, and then perform on American Idol. I’m calling bullshit on his story – If he released the tension on the bandana maybe it would be problem solved?
Zeitgeisty you are a loser.
First of all denigrating the fans of another performer is low because it has nothing to do with the question at hand. Brett’s popularity or lack of talent is all pretty irrelavent.
All I know is that when I heard this story I thought; that’s sad whoever he is. When I heard he was better I was glad he beat it. I don’t I needed to question the legitimacy. I mean I certainly didn’t care or hear about Sharon Osborne faking sickness and she was on the same show. Perhaps if you had approached it from the meme of Trump is hyping all of his show’s character’s by playing their illnesses then I would have bought your line that you are not jealous.
As it is you look just like a hater.
The best any of us can ask for after a bout with sickness is a full recovery. There is no need to be so petty. We have entered an age where everybody is a hypocrite and everybody assumes the worst.
Gary Coleman, and Dennis Hopper RIP by the way-let’s hope they aren’t faking it for ratings, eh?
I did approach it from the ‘meme’ of Trump hyping his shit-ass show…which it’s obvious he did.
Not sure how much plainer I could have put it…
“Now, call me overly cynical, call me a conspiracy theorist, call me a bastard but…wasn’t Donald Trump just saying that Bret was in… “big, big trouble and the prognosis is not great.”? I’m not saying the guy wasn’t sick, I’m just saying, I wouldn’t put it past TRUMP to overhype the severity of his condition in order to boost the ratings of his crappy show’s season finale.”
“I dunno, the idea that TRUMP could have been manipulating this situation all along just to give his crappy show a boost makes me sick to my stomach.”
If you have no basic reading comprehension, then perhaps you shouldn’t read…
“If you have no basic reading comprehension, then perhaps you shouldn’t read…”
Two words: Sharon Osbourne-figgure it out loser.
Here’s an idea-since you hate trump and all so much why don’t you spend a little time schilling for a show you do like?
Maybe then people wouldn’t accuse you of rumor mongering to hype your own blog.
I guess we can add Trump first and foremost to your bitter list of enemies.
What the hell does Sharon Osbourne have to do with anything? She had the flu and left the show… How is that a comparable situation to the Bret Michaels situation?
You don’t even have a clue to what you’re talking about. You didn’t even understand the article… You should go take a course at Kaplan, and brush up on your basic comprehension skills.
“What the hell does Sharon Osbourne have to do with anything? She had the flu and left the show… How is that a comparable situation to the Bret Michaels situation?”
Because Trump asked on air if she was faking it to get sympathy. Genius. He never did that with Brett. Put it together now. slowly, slowly, you startin to get it? slowly now.
But hey you just keep following Brett Michaels around speculating about his various doings.
As you can see from all the accolades here its done wonders for your blog’s credibility.
You might be the next Dick Morris with this kind of track record.
Political punditry is your destination-you’ve proven yourself a petty hater-step up to the big leagues
of muckraking.
You’re halfway there.
Your argument is all over the place… you say you didn’t hear about Sharon’s illness? Just type SHaron Osbourne illness in google, and here are a thousand stories related to it… I don’t even know what you’re talking about
“I don’t even know what you’re talking about”
That’s because you don’t watch the show genius.
Which lends even more creedence that you’re just taking cheap shots at a story you know nothing about based on your own dislike of Michaels, Trump, the world, the mother that didn’t love you.
Clearly the impetus for your blog was a rumor written on an Arby’s napkin in crayon by your invisble lemur butler boswell-and fact checker “Mr. Crispy”
Seems to me that even a journalist of your obviously low calibre would be accquainted with the notion of “research.”
And clearly I’m not the one in need of reading comprehension classes.
Listen Einstein, I understand that you’re a huge fan of this utterly moronic show, but when I say I don’t know what you’re talking about, I mean… you don’t know what YOU’RE talking about.
The topic of the article wasn’t about celebrity apprentice (again reading comprehension) it was about whether or not the severity of Bret Michaels condition was hyped up to boost the end ratings of the show.
As I said, I’m not saying he didn’t suffer some kind of event, however, to make a full recovery from a major life threatening brain aneurysm in less than a month, well…highly unlikely if not downright impossible. Period the end. Trump going around saying he’s about to die is ridiculously suspicious… I have no idea what you’re blithering on about as far as Sharon Osbourne is concerned. She left the show…she wasn’t in the running to win, she wasn’t scheduled for the finale, so it was a non issue. Get it? Or is that too difficult a concept for your pea brain to handle.
You couldn’t fill at thimble with your grey matter, moreover you’re an ignoramus, defending an idiotic show absolutely devoid of any substance and steeped in the type of values that have taken down this country. You want to go on the rest of your life not questioning the mendacity shoved down your throat on a daily basis – fine. STill, don’t get your miniscule, indignant scotum in an uproar over a story which you didn’t even have the mental wherewithal to even comprehend.
Luckily for us both you will not be getting a pulitzer for this so called reporting where you are so confused that you have spent the last four posts trying to justify your obvious ignorance. Nobody is taking you or your myopic idiocy seriously outisde of your insular trite little cultural bubble where you think you are oh so smart but not smart enough by half.
From your last post its obvious that you operate mostly on assumptions (and whatever Mr. Crispy tells you to write) cause clearly you are just too obtuse to grasp the pretty basic concepts at hand or any issue of cultural and relavenece judging from your previous attemps-failures all by the way-but we can all see why something like this or Megan Fox would merit the full attention of such and American Studoes scholar.
Hence why you and this blog are a laughing stock/sad joke at other blogs(like mediate) where this piece of garbage you call a collumn is held up as the product of an obvious bottom feeding cretin.
You’re not concerned with “substance” or value as your other insipid sophmoric pieces show. These dumb musing of yours clearly proves your utter lack of culture, perspective, or taste. Railing on heavy metal is such a highbrow calling-yeah Brett Michales is such good target for a potshooting smear merchant like yourself. You are railing on a show that;s off the air parsing issues after the fact like a good little monday mornng quarterback because you’re jealous of/threatened by Brett Michaels -as your earlier thread comments indicate. You would almost think he had sex with your mother or something-but of course that would be your secondary employment and what puts food on your table. And I’m sure Brett is more your fruity father’s type.
Of course you don’t know what I’m talking about; you still wouldn’t be able to pour urine from a boot if you had the instructions read to you using only single syllable words.
I wish I could stick around to see the next nugget of genuis you plan to expell from yoru swollen pie-hole next but like so many others you’ve managed to alienate with your ignorant hostility its unlikey I will visit this blog again.
Do not quit your day job, ca va?
Good.
Easy tiger you got spanked and now you’re rambling. You’re a fan of bret michaels and you got offended by the suggestion that he might have hyped his life threatening brain injury. Fine. I’m sorry to have distressed your delicate sense of well being.
I appreciate your steadfast and loyal patronage.
As far as the type of site I run here, as you can tell it’s slightly different as not only do I encourage differing opinions such as yours, I also feel it’s part of the job to respond – unlike most other websites. Dialogue my friend. In the end we both get our thoughts out, colorful language and all.
Now go relax, it’s memorial day…put your feet up and listen to a Poison record and enjoy your day off!
I agree 100%. An outrageous publicity stunt to hype both the TV show(s) and his tour. Anybody who believes otherwise is a total fool. Whoever in his camp thought of it deserves both a medal and a raise. His business manager or whoever it was. Way, WAY over-the-top, but it worked.
Oh, and one other thing directed to the boneheads that can’t comprehend that everybody was in on this fraud: EVERY STATEMENT FROM HIS PURPORTED DOCTORS WAS ISSUED BY *MICHAELS’ PUBLICIST!! *
I THINK HE DID FAKE THE SECOND AND THIRD ILLNESSES! THE APPENDECTOMY HE REALLY MUST HAVE GOTTEN, BUT THE REST I THINK IS MADE UP LIKE THAT JONNY FAIRPLAY GUY DID ON SURVIVOR. AND THIS EPISODE OF THE APPRENTICE HAS BEEN THE HARDEST FOR ALL THESE CELEBS. IT WAS NOT EASY AND I HEARD FROM SOME GIRL WHO WORKS FOR BRET MICHAELS’ PR FIRM… SHE SAID A LOT OF IT WAS HYPE BUT HE WON SO WHO CARES AND WHO WOULD BELIEVE HE WOULD GO TO SUCH LENGTHS BUT ALL WHO MUST KNOW, BRET MICHAELS ALWAYS WANTED TO BE AN ACTOR AND IF SO, THAN HE PASSED!
So glad someone noticed this as well. Never watch the show so had to go back and watch online. Have never heard of him for years yet kept being called rock star while sitting next to C. Lauper??????????? The whole daughter might be diabetic if parent has it. duh??? So sick he had to let people magazine in to photograph his last days with is wig/do-rag. How did they do he XRAY or did they just decide he was too pretty to make him remove his wig? THINK PEOPLE!
NC is nothing but a Bret stalker filled with man love. I’m tired of reading our bull refending Michaels. He was faking it and everyone with half a brain knows it.