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No brain hemorrhage nor hole in his heart could stop Bret Michael’s fight to win the third season of The Celebrity Apprentice.
Michaels heard Donald Trump’s coveted phrase em>”You’re Hired” after beating out 11 other contestants — including Darryl Strawberry, Sharon Osbourne, and Cyndi Lauper — to make it to Sunday’s season finale.
Michaels’ victory snagged $250,000 for his nominated charity, the American Diabetes Association. In second place, actress Holly Robinson Peete, who earned $250,000 her own HollyRod Foundation — which provides support for families with children facing serious illnesses.
Michaels, 47, the frontman of glam rock band Poison, suffers from diabetes and underwent an emergency appendectomy two weeks before suffering a potentially fatal brain hemorrhage on April 25. In an appearance on The TODAY Show Monday, Michaels admitted that he still isn’t “100%” after battling a laundry list of medical aliments over the past month.