Bill Cosby's TV Daughter Evicted From 'Celebrity Apprentice' Following Refusal To Contact Him
Keshia Knight Pulliam, Bill Cosby's TV daughter, has left the boardroom of "The Celebrity Apprentice," refusing to use her connections with the comedian who is currently facing rape or sexual assault allegations from over two dozen women.
Pulliam, who played Rudy Huxtable on "The Cosby Show," was fired by magnate Donald Trump when she failed to ask Cosby to give a donation in the show's fundraising challenge.
While other contestants contacted their famous friends to contribute, Pulliam, the project manager for her team which was assigned to raise funds via a bake sale, did not ask Cosby as she felt it was wrong.
"I have not talked to Bill Cosby on the phone in I don't know how long," the CBS News quoted her as saying during the episode.
"For me to pick up the phone having not talked to you for five years, except for when we run into each other for a Cosby event, I feel that's not my place to do," Pulliam said.
However, Trump did not accept her excuse, saying: "You have this tremendous guy with this tremendous amount of money. And with one phone call you could have won this whole event."
"I really believe, if you'd called that gentleman, he would've helped you, even if you hadn't spoken to him in years," he also said. "Because you were an amazing team with one of the most successful shows ever, so I think it would have been a very quick call to make for charity...Keshia, you're fired."
In his Twitter account, Trump clarified that the show was taped before the Cosby revelations.
"She still should have asked him for money-goes to charity," he also wrote.
Pulliam was fired while Olympian snowboarder Jamie Alexander and reality star Kate Gosselin were saved, the Washington Post reported.