Arnold Schwarzenegger new host of ‘Celebrity Apprentice’

Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger will be the new host of NBC’s reality TV show The Celebrity Apprentice, the network said, replacing Donald Trump who quit the show to run for US president.

Schwarzenegger, 68, who returned to movie making after ending his second term as California governor in 2011, will take over when the show returns in the 2016-17 season, NBC, a unit of Comcast Corp, said in a statement.

“Arnold Schwarzenegger is the epitome of a global brand in entertainment and business, and his accomplishments in the political arena speak for themselves,” Paul Telegdy, president of alternative programming for NBC, said in a statement.

Telegdy said Schwarzenegger had ideas for “a fresh take” on the show, in which celebrities compete with each other on business tasks.

Schwarzenegger said he was a huge fan of The Celebrity Apprentice.

The Austrian-born action hero and former bodybuilder has released a handful of movies since returning to the entertainment industry, but few have had the box office success he enjoyed in the 1980s and 1990s with films like Conan the Barbarian and The Terminator.