The tough -- and occasionally gruff -- reality star Paul Teutul Sr. was in Cary today, presenting Cary resident Antonio Evans with a custom chopper.

Paul Sr., star of "American Chopper" and "The Celebrity Apprentice," designed and built the bike, which was won by Evans in a national contest sponsored by Mobil 1 and Advance Auto Parts.

Paul Sr. also had some nice things to say about his pal from "Celebrity Apprentice," Clay Aiken.

Here's the full story from Saturday's News & Observer. Below are a few extra photos from the event.

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Hallelujah! In the first five minutes of tonight's "Celebrity Apprentice," Donald Trump fired the insufferably bratty Aubrey O'Day. Yes!!

Not only did that mean Aubrey couldn't possibly win the competition, it meant Clay Aiken was a finalist -- against his pal Arsenio Hall.

"I'm having a little deja vu," Clay said, referencing the 2003 season of "American Idol" when he was a finalist on that show with Ruben Studdard. Arsenio joked that he's "not that heavy."

Trump asked Clay if "Celebrity Apprentice" was harder than "American Idol." "Oh, it's so much harder than American Idol," Clay answered.

Thanks to "Celebrity Apprentice," we now know that Clay Aiken can do almost anything.

He can sing (of course) and he can act. He can also write, direct, design and produce.

But the coolest thing Clay has done so far this season is display his mastery as an improvisational puppeteer.

For this week's challenge, the "Celebrity Apprentice" teams had to put on a show for the audience of Henson Alternative's Stuffed and Unstrung puppet show (which has a show in Durham this week!). Brian Henson, son of Jim, is the force behind "Stuffed and Unstrung," along with Patrick Bristow, who you may recognize from Ellen Degeneres' old sitcom "Ellen." 

The teams had to design and build their own puppets, get some quick lessons on how to handle the puppets (which Clay didn't need -- thank you very much, Vacation Bible School!) and a rundown on the rules of improv, and then finally, perform the show.

As promised, lots of fighting tonight! The show started with Arsenio Hall still ranting about Aubrey O'Day. When Lisa Lampanelli came in and heard the language he was using to describe Aubrey, she calmly suggested Arsenio might want to reconsider his choice of words.

Nah, just kidding. Lisa totally went off on Arsenio, screaming at him and calling him out for his language (b-word, w-word). Arsenio -- very correctly -- pointed out that Lisa is about the last person on earth who should be telling someone what kind of language to use. Lisa -- also correctly -- pointed out that Arsenio could be trashing his image and career by alienating women at home.

Lisa also made a comment to Teresa Guidice about how she felt bad for Aubrey being ganged up on by "those two" -- and I think she meant Arsenio and our boy, Clay Aiken, left.

I won't say who got fired till after the jump, but I also don't think anyone will be terribly surprised to hear that Clay Aiken survived another night on "Celebrity Apprentice" --  despite not being the right "genre of gay" to lead his group in this week's fashion challenge.

The "genre of gay" determination was made by Arsenio Hall (before you get riled up: it was a joke!!). Arsenio, it turns out, knows a lot more about women's fashion than either of his team's gay members, Clay and George Takei.

And yes, we all know that's a sterotype. Let's move on.

Jon and Kate were on separate couches again, but they seemed super relaxed. Kate was lounging on hers. It makes me wish that we could really live their relationships solely through the show; that we
weren't being bombarded by tabloid stories in real time that tell us their marriage is doomed. On the show, it seems like they could work it out.

But back to the Jon-centric episode. (Not much from the kids.) The gang gets a visit from fellow TLCers, the men of "American Chopper." Jon is going to help design his own bike with the Teutuls and their team at Orange County Choppers, which means hairy Mike.