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'Apprentice' runner-up Kwame Jackson axed as 'MIss Universe' judge
June 1, 2004
Maybe Kwame Jackson, the Harvard Business School graduate who was runner-up on NBC's The Apprentice, just isn't meant to work for Donald Trump. First, Kwame lost out to Bill Rancic in the "hiring" on the finale of the show. Then The Donald hired Kwame as a "temp" -- to be a judge at the 2004 Miss Universe beauty pageant, which Trump sponsors and co-owns along with NBC. But, before the pageant even took place, Kwame was once again out of work.
'Apprentice' Bill Rancic no longer dating 'Bachelor 3' finalist Jen Schefft, now seeing Amy Henry
May 31, 2004
The big cross-network romance of Apprentice and Bachelor reality stars is over... only to have been apparently replaced by some Apprentice intra-show romance.
NFL's Oakland Raiders hire 'Apprentice' loser Nick Warnock
May 8, 2004
Looks like finalists Bill Rancic and Kwame Jackson weren't the only contestants on NBC's The Apprentice to hear the words, "you're hired" after the show.
'Apprentice' winner Bill Rancic to star in an on-the-job sequel?
April 21, 2004
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Mark Burnett, creator and co-executive producer of NBC's The Apprentice, is considering production of a spinoff series featuring Bill Rancic, the winner of the program's one-year job with The Trump Organization, during his employment with real-estate tycoon Donald Trump. Although no formal production plan has been put in place, Burnett was quoted as saying that a follow-up series on Bill was a "fairly obvious choice."
Will 'Apprentice' winner Bill Rancic's Chicago Trump project actually be built?
April 20, 2004
Was the finale of NBC's The Apprentice little more than a Donald Trump publicity stunt to put pressure on the city of Chicago? Was the most important thing about winner Bill Rancic his hometown rather than his management skills?
'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.
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."
'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.
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.
It's the men vs. the women on NBC's 'The Apprentice'
January 6, 2004
Clearly Survivor producer Mark Burnett recognizes a good idea when he sees it. After witnessing the ratings success that a men vs. women gender theme brought to his Spring 2003 edition of Survivor: The Amazon, Burnett is bringing the idea back -- this time for his new NBC The Apprentice reality show.