Could Bret Michaels be the next to replace Simon Cowell on American Idol? The word on the street is that it is a possibility. Bret announced Friday night that he is in the running to be the next judge at the AI table.

Taking the stage in Biloxi, MS for a concert, Bret gushed, “”I can’t say this is true yet, cause I don’t know. Next year they asked me to possibly be the judge on American Idol,” TMZ reports.

I think it would be great. He has the experience. He is talented, talkative, likable, and funny. He would bring a breath of much needed fresh air to the show.

What do you think? Should Bret be the next AI judge?

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It’s Bret Michaels! I can honestly say that both him and Holly Robinson Peete were deserving of the title. It was a fierce competition. But how could Bret not win? After all, he practically cheated death to get to that finale.

Bret really looked like he was in pain sitting there at the final boardroom. He is a fighter and it was obvious that he would do anything to help his charity the American Diabetes Association.

But it all ended well with Holly also being awarded $250,000 to support HollyRod Foundation.

“You’ve done an amazing job in every single way,” Donald Trump said before announcing his choice on a live segment of NBC’s reality show. “A little flaky, but that’s OK. … You’ve also proven … to be very brave. I appreciate that.”

The other finalist, actress Holly Robinson Peete, has been “amazing,” Trump said, and then rendered his decision.

“Holly, I have to tell you, we all love you. And Brett, I have to tell you — you’re hired,” Trump pronounced, drawing a lusty “whoop” from Michaels.

Michaels’ appearance on the finale, which included live and taped segments, had been in question after he suffered a brain hemorrhage in April and was hospitalized again recently after suffering what doctors called a warning stroke. He faces surgery for a hole in his heart.

Trump didn’t downplay the drama involving Michaels’ health, asking the 47-year-old rock star of Poison fame if he was risking his life by coming on the finale against his doctors’ advice.

“Lately it seems like me just standing me up is risking my life,” Michaels replied, lightly, adding that it was worth the risk and he “came to win.” He walked haltingly and with a slight limp.

His presence brought a moment of honest reality to a carefully constructed TV genre.

Robinson Peete, 45, said she and Michaels had become close during the series and there would be none of last season’s animosity — a reference to finale fireworks between winner Joan Rivers and runner-up Annie Duke.

Robinson Peete teared up when she and Michaels took the stage before a studio audience in New York.
“Holly, that’s so beautiful. You’re crying,” Trump observed.

“Well, I mean, who in America isn’t?” she replied. Trump said that he’d never cried for his opponent.
“My 5-year-old son woke up this morning and said, ‘Mom, I love you, but I’m kinda pulling for Bret.’ How do you beat that?” Robinson Peete responded.

Both celebrities, who were playing to raise money for their favored causes, came out on top. Michaels, who as a child was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, claimed the winner’s prize for the, and Peete learned that her charitable group would receive a matching amount.

Trump said the maker of Snapple beverages had agreed to give a matching $250,000 to HollyRod Foundation, whose mission is to support families who have a loved one with a serious medical condition. The actress has a son diagnosed as autistic.

The final challenge for “The Celebrity Apprentice” had required Michaels and Robinson Peete to each create a new flavor of Snapple and a marketing campaign for the soft drinks. Their versions are being sold for a limited period and highlight work their causes.

This season of “Celebrity Apprentice” began airing in March with 14 contestants, each competing in business-oriented tasks around Manhattan to raise money for and publicize their favorite causes.

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After quite a scary night with a “warning stroke,” Bret Michaels has been released from the hospital.

Doctors have diagnosed him with a Transient Ischemic Attack, according to his website, and they said that it is treatable.

On Bret’s website, his physician Dr. Joseph Zabramskiwrote: “I realize Bret wants to make a full recovery so that he can be active with his family, attempt to attend the finale of Celebrity Apprentice and especially get back on the road to continue making music. Without a doubt, he is very determined to get healthy and make a 100 percent recovery. Medically speaking, it is a fantastic attitude, both mentally and physically, for him to have. However, Bret’s brain and body are not quite 100 percent yet, especially with the hole found in his heart.” He continued by saying Bret will be receiving outpatient care.

Although he has said that he wants to appear on the finale of Celebrity Apprentice, that is still up for debate. A rep told E! News that Bret will indeed appear as planned on this weekend’s live finale and his rep wrote on his site, “He is up, walking, talking, continuing his daily rehab and very happy to be alive but he has made it clear he is sick and tired of being in the hospital and is ready to rock again.”

Bret still has a concert planned for May 28 in Biloxi, Miss., at Hard Rock Live. We can’t wait to see him up and rocking soon!

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After suffering a warning stroke earlier this week, Bret Michaels is expected to attend the Finale of Celebrity Apprentice!

Michaels has been diagnosed patent foramen ovale, or hole in the heart and is currently receiving outpatient care. Doctors expect him to make a full recovery!

Keep fighting Bret!

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From TMZ:

Bret Michaels was rushed back to the hospital this week where doctors claim they found a “hole in the heart.”

According to Bret’s rep, the singer was complaining about “numbness on the left side of his body, predominately his face and hands.”

After a series of tests, doctors concluded that Michaels had suffered a “Transient Ischemic Attack — more commonly referred to as a “warning stroke.”

During the tests, the doctors say they found that Bret had a Patent Forum Ovale — which is essentially a hole in the heart.

Doctors say Bret’s condition is “operable and treatable.” The docs also don’t believe the “warning stroke” is related to Bret’s brain hemorrhage.

Bret will be treated with outpatient care — which includes a daily injection of a blood thinner.

Bret’s rep also notes that the singer is in “good spirits, great medical hands and is positive and hopeful that everything is going to be OK.”

The rep concludes, “He is up, walking, talking, continuing his daily rehab and very happy to be alive but he has made it clear he is sick and tired of being in the hospital and is ready to rock again.”

Rolling Stone has finally convinced rock & roll survivor Bret Michaels to fess up to what he was watching on TV when his near-fatal hemorrhage struck last month. The truth: “I was going back and forth from SportsCenter to Busty Cops 3,” the Poison frontman and Celebrity Apprentice finalist admits. “Maybe that’s what did it!” he says about the intensity of the “Skin-e-max” flick.

Michaels says his recovery playlist includes loads of classic rock, from Aerosmith to Kiss and AC/DC, and adds he heard Don McLean’s “American Pie” with fresh ears after being discharged from the hospital in Arizona where he spent two weeks recovering from sudden bleeding at the base of his brainstem. “When I heard lines like, ‘This’ll be the day that I die’ … I get chills just thinking about it,” he says.

Sunday night, the guy known for sloppy groupie hook-ups on VH1′s reality-dating juggernaut Rock of Love will enter Donald Trump’s boardroom for one last time as perhaps the most improbable Apprentice finalist ever. Michaels gets why people underestimated him, but says he’s a real contender. “None of them thought I was going to get out of bed,” he says. “I said it on the show: Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness.” As Rolling Stone reported, Michaels’ next reality show will be a more sober look at his struggle to balance his family with his rockin’ lifestyle in VH1′s Life as I Know It.

Yesterday on Oprah, Michaels got teary-eyed as his daughters and Celebrity Apprentice costars sang his praises. “I think of all the crazy, crazy things I’ve done in my life, I’m just thankful to be here,” he said.

Check out the full interview in the next issue of Rolling Stone, where Michaels opens up about his new album, Custom Built, how CC DeVille and his Poison bandmates reacted to his health scare and how he’s finally tamed his partying on newsstands nationwide Friday, May 28th.

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Bret Michaels’ sister, Michelle Sychak, says that the singer is not out of the woods just yet. We were all happy to hear that Bret is expected to make a full recovery, but we’re still wary that something unexpected could happen.

According to his sister, he may just be in clear, six months down the road. She talked to the Todd N Tyler Radio Empire earlier this morning and here’s what she had to say:

Radar Online reports:

Michelle says: “Good news! It was shocking because I really didn’t see that happening. He’s doing really well. I mean, he sounded great. I could tell, you know I think that Barrows Institute is great, but when you think (and this is kinda what I was saying on CNN) about what was around him, he was doing so much better than most of the people that are in there. Imagine if you will you’re in a ward where you’ve survived this brain injury and you’re feeling pretty good and you’re yourself and you can walk and talk and you can do all those things. and then everyone around you or most of the people around you are either in a coma or maybe a vegetative state or they’re just nowhere near the level, you know what I mean? And just, I think it was very difficult for him to see that every day, and he said it just was so depressing and he really pushed to be transferred to you know someplace with I think people that were in the same level of mindset as he is….”

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