Clint Black Encounters ‘Intense Unkindness’ on ‘Apprentice’

Clint Black Encounters ‘Intense Unkindness’ on ‘Apprentice’

Clint Black says he is done with reality TV. When the country star signed up for NBC's 'Celebrity Apprentice,' he hoped the challenges would be exciting and fun. Unfortunately, Black found his experience to be filled with drama, made worse by misleading editing that he says is making him look bad on the show.

"I knew it was going to be difficult," Black tells The Houston Chronicle. "But I didn't realize exactly what I was getting myself into." He remembers calling home and telling his wife Lisa, "I don't belong here."

Black did manage to enjoy a few of the show's challenges, but he feels that the editors cut and spliced tape to depict him in an unflattering light. "They used some edits that made it look like I was arguing with everyone," he says, adding that he understands the need for drama on TV but that "the intense unkindness that these people displayed -- even when it wasn't directed at me -- was hard to be around."

When asked if he would ever do another reality show, Black answered, "I would never do any reality show ever again. No way." However, he joked that he hopes that he doesn't have to eat those words one day if the "right thing" came along.

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