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The most elegant madam in DC is Sharon Marquette and she is Olivia Pope’s newest client as the second episode of “Scandal” gets underway. Olivia has her team take all the incriminating evidence from Sharon’s home before the US Attorney has a chance to raid it. He wants Sharon’s client list that she keeps in her family photo albums. Abby is not happy as she learns that Steven was one of Sharon’s clients in a previous relationship.

Everyone who’s who in Washington is on Sharon’s list of clients, something that could cause a major shakeup for the White House, especially one of them named Patrick Keating, the President’s Supreme Court nominee. Meanwhile, Olivia heads straight for the Oval Office, but quickly discovers that her pass has been revoked and she can’t get in.

Luckily, Billy Chambers, the Vice President’s Chief of Staff helps her get in as he goes to bat for her, also talking her into a meeting with scandal-prone Patrick Keating.

Olivia breaks the news to Keating about the DC madam and lets him know he is listed as having had an engagement with a call girl named Stacey on several occasions. Both the Judge and his wife deny that he has been involved in such event. Olivia begins to think that Keating may not be the hooker kind, and that it is possible that Sharon’s list is inaccurate. Olivia sets out to locate Stacey and get the info straight from the horse’s mouth as to whether Keating was one of her clients or not. Read the rest of this entry »

Only 6 contestants left but that doesn’t make the show any less exciting or eventful with Aubrey O’Day and Lisa Lampanelli at the reigns and driving the boat each week.  Aubrey likes to lead while Lisa may get the job done, but her bully style personality should be left outside the workplace as she violates every hostile work environment rule in the book.

As the show begins, the teams receive their task to create a 90-second jingle and promotion about “Good Sam,” an RV roadside assistance program. Dayana Mendoza steps up to the plate as the project manager over a task that she is not really suited for, yet the two entertainers let her take the reigns as she volunteers for team Forte’s  project manager slot. Arsenio Hall took charge of the Unanimous team.

As usual, the challenges got of to a rocky start for each of the teams as Aubrey and Arsenio lock horns and Aubrey shuts down since the two never agree on the same themes in the brainstorming process.  Arsenio always denies Aubrey’s ideas, but Aubrey is good at bringing him around to her way of thinking as the task continues and Arsenio is good at giving in as she wears him down. They come together on Aubrey’s cheerleading theme.

Aubrey always gives her 110 percent to the projects and while Arsenio tries to pawn her off on helping Teresa so he can work on the jingle with the musicians, she finds her way into the sound room and takes over the show again.  Later Arsenio sends Teresa and Aubrey on to the studio to begin working on the choreography, while he stays behind to finish up the jingle.  To be respectful to the PM, Aubrey calls Arsenio for direction, when she realizes he has not thought it through, she suggests some ideas and he gets on board. Read the rest of this entry »