Insurance Pros To Apprentice For Trump

NU Online News Service, Dec. 30, 1:26 p.m. EST? The insurance industry, the survivor of an unprecedented hurricane season and Eliot Spitzer, may now be facing its ultimate challenge---Donald Trump![@@]

According to NBC, a subsidiary of Fairfield, Conn.-based General Electric Company, contestants for the network's hit reality-television program, "The Apprentice," will include a pair of insurance professionals in its third season premiering in January.

The show, made popular by its on-air personality and New York real estate developer Donald Trump and his trademarked line--"You're Fired!" will include two insurance professionals, "John," from Tampa, Fla., and "Todd," from Carlsbad, Calif. The network indicated the two are in insurance sales.

The show's executive producer Mark Burnett describes John, 32, as "bright" while calling Todd, 34, "likable," NBC said.

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