Concert promoters took notice, and when he plays concerts now, Trace often discovers the dressing room has been stocked with wheatgrass and black fingernail polish.

"Dude, I’ve got it out the ying-yang," he told The Las Vegas Review-Journal. "Oh, real funny. Big joke. I’m crackin’ a rib laughin’ here."

Trace still hasn’t tried wheatgrass. And he tries to keep the focus on another food issue that was the motivation behind him appearing on the Donald Trump reality show. He chose the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network as his charity. Had Trace defeated Piers Morgan for the "Apprentice" championship, he would’ve earned a $250,000 check. As it turned out, the awareness he raised has had even greater benefits.

FAAN has "made more money since the show than I would have won had I won the thing," Trace said. "If I had won, I’d have to be Trump’s Miss America and go around with him for the next year promoting The Apprentice. I’ve got a job, and Piers needed one."

"Celebrity Apprentice" helped Trace end up on the Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday. He wasn’t nominated for an award, but the show’s executive producer, R.A. Clark, said the visibility from his network TV run made him an attractive addition to the roster of ACM performers.