• NBC's 'The Apprentice 2' begins filming in NYC... and spoilers begin leaking

  May 13, 2004
  It looks like NBC and Mark Burnett are discovering that it's a little more difficult to keep the secrets of a smash-hit reality show under wraps when you're filming on the island of Manhattan as opposed to a remote island halfway around the world.
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  '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?
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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.

• '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.
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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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