Before television viewers metGiuliana Rancic, they met Bill.
Interestingly, one of the viewers of that firstApprenticeseason wasGiuliana DePandi, an entertainment journalist with the E!
I’m like, ‘I do need to marry him,'" she toldHuffPost.
When the opportunity arose to interview theApprenticewinner for E!
in 2005, she admitted she was “all over that!”
Sparks flew during that interview and the two began dating.
The relationship grew serious, and in 2006, they got engaged, thenmarriedthe following year.
Giuliana and Bill Rancic’s first date was the craziest thing ever
The first time E!
correspondent Giuliana DePandi encountered her future husband Bill Rancic was at a party hosted by NBC.
“Isn’t that crazy?
And we did… like years later.”
The couple’s first date, at Giuliana’s suggestion, took place at posh Malibu eatery Nobu.
“Little did I know it was paparazzi heaven and she was walking me into the shark tank.”
It was the craziest thing ever."
That’s when I got down on one knee," Bill toldABC News.
“It was incredible.
It was a dream come true.
It was even better than I ever imagined it to be.”
As Bill toldABC News, the thrice-married Trump offered his congratulations and some advice.
“Get a prenup,” Trump said.
“So, I called up Giuliana and told her what Donald said.
She said, ‘That’s a great idea!’
I thought, ‘Wow, that was a lot easier than I thought.'”
Confident that he’d remain faithful, Bill agreed to that clause.
As the wedding loomed, though, Giuliana still hadn’t signed the prenup.
When Bill finally asked what was up, she replied, “Didn’t I tell you?
My lawyer told me to tell you Italian girls don’t sign prenups.”
In 2007, reportedPeople,the couple exchanged vows in a500-year-old churchsituated on the Italian island of Capri.
In 2011, while preparing for her third round of IVF, Giuliana got a routine mammogram.
Her world came crashing down around her when the results revealed that she had breast cancer.
“My great, amazing life changed just like that.”
As she toldSurvivorNet, fighting cancer was something they undertook as a couple.
“I didn’t go through breast cancer on my own.
Bill was right there by my side.
We went through it together,” she said.
After undergoing a double mastectomy, Giuliana has been cancer-free ever since.
It was actually a blessing that I got that mammogram at 36 years old."
As she explained, “…
It’s just reassuring,” she said.
In 2010, the couple releasedI Do, Now What?
job, whereas Bill was still working in Chicago managing the Trump International Hotel and Tower project.
According to Giuliana, opening their lives to television cameras hadn’t been an issue before Duke’s arrival.
That’s how we connect," Giuliana told theChicago Sun-Times’Splashmagazine (viaRadar Online).
“It’s okay to have thatmetime and it’s okay to have thatustime,” she toldParentsmagazine.
Sage advice, to be sure.
“I don’t get kind of sidetracked talking to my mom” or other distractions, she said.
It’s never going to be perfect, but it’s a great start."
“The minute we come home, all our phones go in there,” Bill explained.
“That way, we’re not texting or emailing people at work.
We’re interacting with each other.
It was hard at first, but we got used to it.”
“We try not to let [distractions] happen,” she said.
“When we’re home, we’re home.”
In an interview withUs Weekly, the couple recalled their very first fight as spouses.
I stayed back, seething."
When Bill returned from his solo movie night, there was awkward silence for about 20 minutes.
It was Bill who finally broke the tension.
I said, ‘Well, I’m just very upset,'" Giuliana recounted.
That was something of an epiphany for her, and she admitted “that’s nice to hear.”
Despite the difficulties in getting there, she added, the arrival of Duke made it all worthwhile.
“It was amazing, and it worked out for us in many ways.”
