That show was “The Apprentice,” centered around bombastic New Yorkreal estate developer Donald Trump.
Prior to competing on Season 1 of “The Apprentice,” he began selling cars at age 15.
When Donald Trump made his final choice, it was Rancic, not Jackson, who emerged victorious.
It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination."
“It was like a marathon,” he explained.
I lost 16 pounds during the taping of it and I wasn’t trying to lose weight.
You’re out there giving it your all."
According to Cohen, Trump balked at making Jackson his first TV apprentice.
“At the time, no; now, yes,” he said.
Still, Donald Trump left no doubt as to who was actually in charge.
“I’ll be the one supervising.”
“I like how he does business,” Rancic added.
“He’s above board.
He takes the high road.
I wouldn’t be here if he didn’t.”
Trump, however, insisted that Rancic’s duties would be both significant and authentic.
“It will be an important job,” Trump insisted.
“He will be a project manager.”
“I felt that this was a great opportunity to promote a great project,” Trump said.
For his part, Rancic conceded there was a lot to learn.
“I think I’m going to need some guidance,” he said.
“It will be a privilege to spend another year with him,” Rancic said.
“I think he’d be a great president, certainly,” Rancic toldCBS News.
“He’s a hard worker,” Rancic said.
“You saw him on that campaign trail.
He was doing six, seven, eight, 10 stops a day.”
“He knows how to lead.
He knows how to get things done,” Rancic said, reported theDaily Herald.
“One day I’d like to be partners on a project with Donald Trump,” he said.
“I think it would be a great ending to the story.”
During a 2018 interview withUs Weekly, Bill continued to heap praise on then-President Trump.
“He was great to me.
He treated me very fairly.
He genuinely wanted to lift me up,” Bill said of his one-time boss.
It’s an opportunity that I’m always grateful for and that I will always appreciate."
The two became an item not long after, and were married in 2007.
“He was incredible to me and changed my life,” Bill said.
“I give him a lot of the credit.
Giuliana Rancic (nee DiPandi) echoed those sentiments in a solo interview withCBS Newslater that same year.
“I met my husband because he won ‘Celebrity Apprentice.’
That ability was also something that Rancic credited to Trump, praising his abilities to garner attention for himself.
“He knows how to brand,” Rancic explained in an interview with CNBC.
“He knows obviously how to use the media and he does it very effectively.
There’s no question about it.”
The first of these was “You’re Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life.”
Trump wrote the forward.
co-written with his wife, Giuliana Rancic.
In 2018, Bill published his first novel, “First Light.”
