If you know one thing about Bill Rancic, it’s probably that he’s married to former E!
News red carpet correspondent Giuliana Rancic.
Once upon a time, though, he wasn’t sure whether his fame would last.
That prediction hasn’t exactly come true.
He loves the city he came from, even writing an ode to Chi Town forHuffPost.
“There were so many ball games, parks, and museums that I couldn’t say no.”
He’s the youngest child, and he has three older sisters.
His parents were teachers who later became school administrators.
Rancic, however, showed an aptitude for business at a very early age.
In an interview withThe New York Post, Rancic recalled spending time with his grandparents.
One weekend, he learned how to make pancakes from his grandma.
When they left, they all put five-dollar bills underneath their plates," he said.
Soon he was running his pancake scheme every weekend.
Rancic concluded, “They knew I was kind of a different breed early on.”
Instead, he wound up taking a gig as a commodity metals salesman.
In his memoir “You’re Hired,” he reflected that the job was a strange one.
That is, I knew crap," Rancic joked.
It was a life lesson that Rancic would take with him moving forward because fame soon came knocking.
He was flown out to Los Angeles for the casting process.
“At the end of the week, I was the last one chosen,” he said.
“It was actually worse than that: I was the alternate.”
“The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there.
He claimed that he’d been focused on the business opportunity and not the chance at fame.
“I don’t know that I’ll ever get used to all the noise.”
A certain E!
He firstmet Giuliana DePandi at a party in 2004, but not much happened.
When she interviewed him forE!
Do we make a good couple?”
It seems that Rancic certainly thought they’d be a good couple.
“We knew instantly.
“That was on our first date.”
He toldABC Newsthat he orchestrated a big, grand gesture with the help of his three sisters.
When she got out of the limo, there he was.
That’s when I got down on one knee.”
They married in 2007 on the island of Capri, and Giuliana DePandi became Giuliana Rancic.
One famous face associated with the couple was nowhere to be seen.
Donald Trump, it seems, couldn’t make it to see his protege get married.
Rancic explained simply, “His schedule didn’t allow it.”
They were famous as individuals, but they were even more famous as a couple.
Accordingly, they did what a lot of people did in the 2000s: They launched a reality show.
In other words,the simple key to Bill and Giuliana’s marriageis genuine love.
Giuliana has even since sharedthe inspiring lesson she learned from having breast cancer.
According to Bill, that storyline became very influential, affecting the audience.
“We can’t make it through an airport without someone coming up and saying, ‘Thank you.
My wife finally got a mammogram,'” Bill shared.
“I mean, not a day goes by where that doesn’t happen.”
That said, Bill emphasized that they weren’t just lending their names to the project.
“We’re very hands-on,” he said.
“We go to all the tastings, we work on the marketing side and the style side.”
“This is our home,” he said.
“It’s where our support group is.
It’s where we will raise our kids and where we will retire.”
Bill toldVegas Magazinethat he reviews attendance reports every single morning.
He insisted, “We wow and make an impression every time.”
“Our journey has a happy ending.
The happy couple both spoke with Redbook about various facets of becoming parents.
He also opened up about what their IVF journey had done for them.
“When I look at that little guy, he saved her life,” he said.
Becoming parents had another effect on their lives, too.
Because of privacy concerns, their reality show “Giuliana & Bill” wound down in 2014.
Giuliana toldHuffPost, “Bill and I are very open.
We share a lot, but it’s our son.
And so, until he has a say, we want to just protect him.”
Accordingly, there’s a lotwe don’t know about Giuliana and Bill’s son Duke.
A marriage advice book called “I Do, Now What?”
followed in 2010, co-written with his wife Giuliana.
In 2016, Rancic’s writing career entered a new phase when he moved into the fiction space.
He also promised that his audiences would enjoy spending time with the novel, a relatively more believable claim.
“It comes with a warning,” Rancic joked.
“He lifted me up.
“That’s something that I think everyone should cherish and value … Pear launched in May 2018.
The app does not seem to have been particularly successful, to put it mildly.
“So many of us try and do everything.
We’re know-it-alls,” he said.
“When the conductor tries to play every instrument, it sounds pretty bad.
It’s the same with the small business owner.
We let our egos get in the way.”
“No matter the size of the group, Bill Rancic is the secret weapon,” Harris wrote.
“His poise and class is something that cannot be taught.”
