The Apprentice 1 News
April 22, 2004
After extensive publicity, Clairol has decided not to use Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, the deceitful villainess from NBC's The Apprentice, in an upcoming commercial for its Herbal Essence hair color.
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."
- 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?
April 20, 2004
Could Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, the deceitful, lazy villain of NBC's The Apprentice, turn into the show's big winner?
- April 19, 2004
NBC has announced that Thursday's two-hour finale of The Apprentice was seen by more than 40 million viewers who watched all or some of the reality hit's conclusion.
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.
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."
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.
- 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.
- 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.