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  'Apprentice' loser Kwame Jackson debates job offer from 'Benefactor' star Mark Cuban

  April 17, 2004
  It looks like Kwame Jackson, the runner-up on the final episode of NBC's The Apprentice for a "huge job" with egomaniac real-estate developer Donald Trump, won't have to learn anything about fast-food chicken after all.
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  Bill Rancic trumps Kwame Jackson to become The Donald's 'Apprentice'

  April 16, 2004
  In the two-hour season finale of NBC's The Apprentice, New York City real-estate mogul Donald Trump selected Chicago native Bill Rancic, 32, founder of the web site Cigars Around the World, to be "The Apprentice."
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  'Apprentice' finalist Bill Rancic dating former 'Bachelor 3' fiancee Jen Schefft

  April 15, 2004
  In one of the more interesting recent pieces of reality TV show gossip, Extra! and the Chicago Sun-Times report that Bill Rancic, one of the two finalists on NBC's The Apprentice, is dating Jen Schefft, the woman selected by Andrew Firestone as his bride-to-be on ABC's The Bachelor 3.

• 'The Restaurant' chef Rocco DiSpirito and business partners continue trading lawsuits

  April 15, 2004
  No wonder reality TV superproducer Mark Burnett decided to feature celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito in the second season of his hit NBC show The Restaurant, which debuts Monday, April 19 on NBC for a six-episode run through May sweeps. Hot food and spicy lawsuits all in one show: how can it miss?

• 'Apprentices' Troy McClain and Jessie Conners launch credit-counseling website

  April 15, 2004
  Forbes Magazine reports that the two candidates on NBC's hit The Apprentice who brought only a high-school education to the table are the first two to launch a business based on their time on the show.

• Will ‘The Apprentice’ make Donald Trump the highest-paid actor on prime-time TV?

  April 13, 2004
  In the 1980s movie Wall Street, the main character (Gordon Gecko) opines, "Greed is good." Apparently, NYC real-estate baron Donald Trump was listening.

• NBC's penultimate 'Apprentice' episode tops the week among Adults 18-49 ratings demo

  April 12, 2004
  Last week's penultimate thirteenth episode of NBC's The Apprentice delivered its best performance to date, drawing 22 million overall viewers and ending the week as the week's top-ranked program among the important Adults 18-49 demographic for the first time ever.

• The Apprentice - Episode 13 summary

  April 10, 2004
  "You Get What You Pay For," our episode summary for the thirteenth episode of NBC's The Apprentice, written by landruajm, is now available.
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  Donald Trump's 'Apprentice' comes down to Kwame Jackson or Bill Rancic

  April 10, 2004
  After the next-to-last episode of NBC's The Apprentice, we know that the winner will have been a loser in all of the first four challenges on the show.

• Omarosa hawks tell-all book, as production secrets of 'The Apprentice' slip out

  April 8, 2004
  Some shows are so hot ... how hot are they? ... that they can make stars out of people like Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth. That's HOT!

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