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Oh no, disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who’s charged with trying to auction off President Barack Obama’s former U.S. Senate seat, is going to be on the next season of “Celebrity Apprentice.”

Among the others announced to be on the Donald Trump reality competition show, which returns to NBC on March 14, are Sharon Osbourne, former baseball star Darryl Strawberry, Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson, Cyndi Lauper, Holly Robinson Peete, Victoria’s Secret model Selita Ebanks, Sinbad, comedienne Carol Leifer, wrestler “Goldberg,” wrestler/model Maria Kanellis, Olympic swimmer Summer Sanders, Australian TV chef Curtis Stone, and Bret Michaels, who’s calling himself the “super-underdog.”

The celebrities will, once again, be competing for various charities. Blagojevich will be trying to make money — not for his defense, but rather — for the  Children’s Cancer Center.

Blagojevich attempted last spring to appear on “I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here,” but was barred by a federal judge, who didn’t want him leaving country to compete in Costa Rica. Instead, his wife Patti Blagojevich appeared on the show.

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Talk about “Out of the Blue!”

Gossip Cop just confirmed the news that Debbie Gibson is going the reality show route. (So it wasn’t “Only in My Dreams.”)

The Eighties pop star recently shot a TV pilot for Endemol, the people who’ve brought us such shows as “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” and “Deal or No Deal.”

According to our solid source, the as-yet untitled series — produced by the team behind “The Osbournes” and “Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica” — will focus on Gibson working on her first studio album in nearly a decade. Already parts of the pilot were shot in New York, where the cameras followed her into a meeting with Warner Bros. execs and through the Times Square area, where she starred in a bunch of Broadway musicals including “Beauty and the Beast.”

While the show will also touch on Gibson’s recent 20–pound weight loss and her relationships with her mom/manager Diane and beau Dr. Rutledge Taylor, “the main focus will be Deborah’s musical journey and re-invention,” says the source, who adds there’s “drama” over whether she’ll go back to “Debbie,” the name she went by at the height of her fame.

While we were hoping Gibson would follow the reality model perfected by fellow Eighties stars Flavor Flav (“Flavor of Love”) and Bret Michaels (“Rock of Love”), we’ll take what we can get.