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Will anyone want to watch Donald Trump from the time when he was just entertainment?

NBC’s reality competition The Apprentice concluded its first season live 15 years ago tonight, on April 15, 2004.

The president’s former personal lawyer, who has pled guilty to eight crimes, is speaking out in advance of the midterm elections.

Omarosa can’t be separated from the image of her created by reality TV.

Donald Trump used the n-word during production of The Apprentice season one, according to excerpts from Omarosa’s new book that will be released Tuesday. 

So what does Omarosa do for her $179,700 besides directing a “floundering” office? A must-read story has the details.

Donald Trump promised he’d donate his Apprentice salary to charity, but later said he would not. That’s different than other charitable promises.

The first Apprentice winner, Bill Rancic, will return to reality TV with his own series on Style Network that will follow him and his wife, Giuliana DePandi. Giuliana & Bill will debut in August. Bill and Giuliana met when she interviewed him as part of her job as an E! News anchor; they were engaged …

Although NBC has abandoned the version of The Apprentice that stars real people in exchange for the celebrity edition, CNBC will soon start broadcasting the U.K.’s non-celebrity version of the show, which some in the U.S. are already fans after watching it online. CNBC announced that it will broadcast it twice every Monday night, at …

Say what you want about her, but Omarosa Manigault is one of the primary reasons why The Celebrity Apprentice is so entertaining. While she’s one of the few people willing to pick fights and make the show more entertaining, she also reveals that she walked away from the experience with strong friendships–but no showmance. Omarosa …

Original Apprentice winner Bill Rancic and E! News’ Giuliana DePandi were engaged to be married on Friday. They’ll are “[planning] to wed in late 2007 in the south of Italy, where DePandi grew up,” according to People. The magazine reports that the couple “first met when DePandi interviewed Rancic … more than two years ago. …

A 30-year-old man is suing Mark Burnett for “improper business practices and ethics” and for defamation, slander, and libel. Oh, and probably for attention. Nicholas Christakis wasn’t cast for the first season of The Apprentice, but he did make the finals. He “claims in his federal civil action that Burnett ‘defamed, slandered and libeled’ him …

The man who sued in federal and state court claiming that the idea for Apprentice was his has settled both cases out of court. Mark Bethea and Velocity Entertainment Group settled their claims against Mark Burnett, Donald Trump, and NBC, but his lawyers “declined to disclose terms of the settlement,” according to the AP. Late …

Janice Dickinson may have an unlikely ally in her war against Omarosa. “Cop Killer” rapper and Law & Order: SVU actor Ice-T told Lloyd Grove, “I’ll tell you who I don’t like: Omarosa. That b- is not supposed to be famous. Being somebody in the business, you have a lot of admiration for people because …

Bill Rancic, the original Apprentice, has already renewed his contract with the Trump Organization once. But when the extension expires in March, Bill says he’s ready to move on. He told attendees at a conference in Malaysia, “That will probably be it for me. I’m gonna go out and start another business of my own. …