Arnold Schwarzenegger announces departure from The Celebrity Apprentice, citing 'baggage'
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Add finding a new host for The Celebrity Apprentice to President Trump's long list of things to do. On Friday, host Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's leaving Trump's former reality TV show.
Schwarzenegger indicated in a statement that he loved everything about working on the show — from the network to producer Mark Burnett to the "celebrities to the crew to the marketing department" — except for one thing:
Schwarzenegger doesn't explicitly say what that "baggage" is, but it's not hard to read between the lines. Becca Stanek
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