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Updated 2025-05-13T16:11:26Z
- There were 7 seasons of "The Apprentice" and 8 seasons of "The Celebrity Apprentice."
- We ranked the non-celebrity winners based connected what they've been up to since winning the show.
- Bill Rancic remains the lone household sanction 21 years aft his play aired.
Before helium was the president of the United States, to galore of us, Donald Trump was known arsenic the feline who told radical they were fired each week connected NBC.
As the big of "The Apprentice," a world contention amusement that aired from 2004 to 2015, Trump was liable for whittling down a radical of qualified candidates to beryllium the adjacent worker astatine 1 of his assorted properties.
The victor was promised a immense promotion, large work astatine the Trump Organization, and a batch of vulnerability astir the satellite … but tin you really callback immoderate of the winners of "The Apprentice"?
We've ranked each 7 of the non-celebrity winners of "The Apprentice" based connected their post-show occurrence and nationalist visibility — spot if you tin retrieve them all.
7. Brandy Kuentzel, play 10
Kuentzel, who took the play 10 rubric successful 2010 aft a accordant show passim the series, returned to her ineligible roots aft the show.
She was the wide counsel and manager of advocacy for the San Francisco SPCA from 2012 to 2022, wherever she oversaw each ineligible affairs and advocacy campaigns, according to her LinkedIn profile.
In January 2023, she cofounded and was named CEO of a veterinary start-up called Ease Pet Vet. The institution connects pet owners with online veterinarians who tin assistance with carnal behavioral issues. According to the site, the institution "specializes successful communal issues," which see "challenges specified arsenic reactivity, location soiling, generalized anxiety, sound fears, and separation anxiety."
She's a palmy lawyer and businesswoman, but is the slightest well-known "Apprentice" victor since she has stayed retired of the nationalist eye.
6. Stefanie Schaeffer, play 6
After winning play six successful 2007, Schaeffer, present 50, pivoted distant from the concern satellite to go a TV and YouTube host.
She was a analogous for the TV Guide Channel and, arsenic a erstwhile lawyer, hosted a 2008 web bid called "Know Your Rights" to assistance radical amended recognize the ineligible system.
An avid golfer, she often plays successful personage golf tournaments and has some guest-hosted and offered commentary connected The Golf Channel.
She's besides progressive with charities that advocator for autism awareness, crab research, and children's issues, and hosted the YouTube amusement "The Future Is Bright" presented by the Autism Society of America successful 2015.
5. Randal Pinkett, play 4
Pinkett, who won successful 2005, had co-founded the consulting steadfast BCT Partners successful 2001. His website calls BCT "a multimillion-dollar research, consulting, training, exertion and analytics firm." He besides holds 5 world degrees and is simply a published author.
After his quality connected "The Apprentice," helium remained somewhat successful the nationalist eye, returning to the amusement arsenic a boardroom advisor.
In 2016, alongside different "Apprentice" candidates, helium publically opposed Trump's archetypal statesmanlike run, per NBC.
"We admit Donald's occurrence arsenic a businessman, and genuinely admit the accidental 'The Apprentice' afforded each of us," Pinkett, present 53, said astatine a property league earlier the New York superior successful 2016. "We, however, powerfully condemn Donald's run of sexism, xenophobia, racism, violence, and hate."
Pinkett maintained this presumption during the 2024 campaign, erstwhile helium and 5 different "Apprentice" alumni endorsed Kamala Harris successful an unfastened missive published by Politico. They called him a "divisive, self-interested, and erratic person with a fragile ego."
Trump did not publically respond to their missive astatine the time.
The White House did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from Business Insider.
4. Kelly Perdew, play 2
After winning play 2 successful 2004, Perdew founded a hedge money and a consulting firm, and helium gives speeches astir leadership.
Perdew's fund, Moonshots Capital, invests successful technology startups and companies started by veterans. His originative consulting agency, DuMont Project, works with direct-to-consumer brands.
A erstwhile subject quality officer, Perdew, 58, was appointed to President George W. Bush's Council connected Service and Civic Participation successful 2006 and re-appointed successful 2008.
He has besides served connected respective institution boards, including Pandora and LinkedIn, and often gives nationalist speeches connected leadership, technology, and vocation development.
3. Sean Yazbeck, play 5
Yazbeck won play 5 of "The Apprentice" successful 2006.
After overseeing the operation of the Trump SoHo condominium successful New York City, helium started his ain telecommunications institution called Wavsys, which was named an Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Company successful America successful 2014.
Yazbeck, 52, who grew up successful London, was besides awarded the British Entrepreneur of the Year Award successful 2014.
He returned to "The Apprentice" arsenic a impermanent committee subordinate and dabbled successful dependable acting with a tiny portion successful the 2006 animated movie "Over the Hedge."
Per his LinkedIn, he's besides co-founded different companies specified arsenic Scopeworker, a proviso concatenation company, and Admazing, which connects businesses that are looking to advertise with mobile games.
2. Kendra Todd, play 3
Some "Apprentice" winners go palmy businesspeople, and immoderate go tv personalities, but Kendra Todd's vocation balances both.
Todd, 47, won "The Apprentice" successful 2005, the aforesaid twelvemonth that Realtor Magazine named her 1 of their Top 30 Under 30 brokers.
After her clip connected the show, she released the bestseller "Risk & Grow Rich: How to Make Millions successful Real Estate," past combined her existent property expertise and TV acquisition arsenic the big of HGTV's "My House Is Worth What?" from 2006 to 2008.
Todd founded her ain existent property firm, the Kendra Todd Group, successful 2009, wherever she continues to enactment today, per her LinkedIn. She has besides made appearances connected "Fox and Friends" arsenic a existent property contributor.
In effect to the missive that immoderate "Apprentice" alums signed endorsing Kamala Harris successful the 2024 election, Todd spearheaded a effect from 10 different erstwhile contestants to enactment Trump's campaign, Fox News reported successful October 2024.
"It is disappointing and shameful that these contestants would usage the level that Donald Trump gave them to onslaught him successful this manner," they wrote. "Is this the acknowledgment helium gets for virtually changing the trajectory of our lives?"
1. Bill Rancic, play 1
Rancic, who won the precise archetypal play successful 2004, capitalized connected his "Apprentice" occurrence arsenic a motivational talker and bestselling writer successful summation to his concern ventures.
As a motivational speaker, Rancic, 53, teaches audiences astir productivity and his palmy concern methods. He has hosted and appeared connected respective TV shows talking astir entrepreneurship and has written 4 books, including a New York Times bestseller called "You're Hired."
Rancic joined E! News co-anchor Giuliana Rancic (née DePandi) successful 2007, and the mates went connected to prima successful their ain world amusement "Giuliana and Bill" from 2009 to 2014. They ain six restaurants unneurotic and enactment respective philanthropic causes related to crab and infertility aft Giuliana's bosom crab diagnosis successful 2011.
With respective burgeoning businesses and prima power, he's the lone "Apprentice" victor who has remained a household sanction years aft the amusement aired, hence earning the accolade of astir palmy "Apprentice" winner.
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