William "Bill" Rancic (born May 16, 1971) is an Croatian-American entrepreneur who was the first candidate hired on national television by The Trump Organization at the conclusion of the first season of Donald Trump's reality business show, The Apprentice.
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William "Bill" Rancic (born May 16, 1971) is an Croatian-American entrepreneur who was the first candidate hired on national television by The Trump Organization at the conclusion of the first season of Donald Trump's reality business show, The Apprentice.
Rancic is also an international motivational speaker hired by corporations, universities and organizations to give talks on success in business and life. He is also a real estate developer (residential and commercial) mainly in and around downtown Chicago and designs properties under his banner, Bill Rancic Homes.
Biography
Rancic was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in the suburb Orland Park, of Croatian and Irish extraction. Originally, his last name was spelled Rančić (pronounced Ran'tchich). He went to St. Michaels School in Orland, and graduated from Carl Sandburg High School.
Rancic attended Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois for his freshman year of college, majoring in Criminal Justice with a focus on going to law school. During this time Rancic's father took a teaching job at Loyola University Chicago, allowing Rancic the free tuition benefit enjoyed by all dependents of faculty members. He eventually received a Bachelor of Science degree from Loyola University, graduating cum laude in 1994. However, he did not attend law school.
During his college years Rancic worked at FAO Schwarz as a security guard. Next he took up a boat detailing business on the sideFact: date=January 2008 prior to starting his online cigar business.
He started his own cigar business, which helped him negotiate the price of a cigar during one of Trump's tasks of negotiation.
Personal life
Rancic splits his time between Lincoln Park, Chicago and Los Angeles, California.
On December 15, 2006, he became engaged to E! News co-host Giuliana DePandi . They were married on September 1, 2007, on the island of Capri.
The Apprentice, Season One
Rancic was one of the job applicants in The Apprentice 1 during the spring of 2004, as one of sixteen contestants. Rancic was ultimately hired at the conclusion of the fourteen-week job interview after Donald Trump fired Kwame Jackson for not re-firing Omarosa for her false testimony throughout the final task.
As a result of being the first reality TV star to be hired on national television, Rancic had three minutes to decide which project to manage while in front of an audience of nearly 30 million viewers. Rancic elected to take charge of the construction of the Trump Tower Chicago in his native Chicago, Illinois, on the site of the demolished Chicago Sun-Times building. The other option he had was to oversee and manage a new Trump National Golf Course and resort in Los Angeles, California. The Trump National course was a potential site for season 6 when it is filmed in Los Angeles during 2006.
Most of Trump's advisors thought Bill was the one during the episode "Down to the Wire". In this episode he explained that things not being to his satisfaction is sometimes a blessing but also a curse.
