Giuliana and Bill Rancic were two of the most popular reality TV stars in the early 2010s, until everything came crashing down for them in 2014.
The two married in 2007 in Italy, when Giuliana was a successful reporter for E! News, and a few years after Bill Rancic won the first season of The Apprentice.
Shortly after their wedding, the couple signed on to a reality show on The Style Network, called Giuliana and Bill, that followed their lives as they tried to have a baby, start new businesses, and split their lives between Chicago and Los Angeles.
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The show was wildly successful, because people loved to see two celebrities who were from normal backgrounds, and who had fairly normal lives despite their crazy careers.
Fans especially felt for Giuliana during her scary breast cancer diagnosis, and the couple’s fertility journey, which ultimately ended with the two having a baby via surrogate in 2012, Duke Rancic.
During the show, their lives were wild, and featured a crazy amount of jetsetting around the country. Giuliana was on E! News and Fashion Police, and started a clothing line with HSN. Bill was opening many restaurants all over the country, they wrote a book together, and their son was growing up quickly.
The Comment That Ruined Giuliana Rancic’s Career
However, everything came to a screeching halt in January 2015, when Giuliana famously made comments that put her in hot water about Zendaya on Fashion Police.
The “joke” was widely condemned by the internet, Giuliana’s Fashion Police co-hosts, and even Zendaya herself.
Giuliana made a statement, apologizing and saying that she was using the experience as a learning experience.
She also stated that she believed that the joke was edited to come off as having bad intent, but when watching the unedited version, it was clear that that was not the case.
The unedited version was obtained, and many believe that she was correct in saying that her joke did not have bad intent.
However, many people believed that she was trying to channel Joan Rivers, who had died a few months prior to the scandal.
Whatever happened, it wasn’t good for Giuliana and Bill’s careers.
The couple’s reality show ended abruptly in 2014 after seven seasons.
Giuliana made comments that they had decided to end the show due to their son’s age. They believed that he was getting to an age where all of his firsts shouldn’t be filmed and displayed on TV.
However, many believe that the show would’ve been renewed for an eighth season, but was ultimately canceled following her controversial comments about Zendaya.
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Her longtime career as an E! News lead anchor ended shortly after as well.
In August of 2015, just eight months after the Zendaya controversy, Giuliana announced that she was leaving the job that made her a star, and that she was leaving E! News and the E! Family.
This didn’t come as too big of a shock for people who had been following the controversy over the previous eight months.
After her comments about Zendaya, insiders believed that it would blow over and she’d go on with her career as normal. However, that wasn’t the case, and her career continued to plummet.
Giuliana claims that her decision to leave E! was entirely her own. She says that she wasn’t secretly fired, or forced out. However, from the outside looking in, that’s hard to believe.
It’s been six years since Giuliana first left the show that started it all for her. So, just what are Bill and Giuliana up to these days?
Where Are Bill and Giuliana Now?
The couple seems to live a more “normal” life than her days of hosting E! News. Their son, Duke, is 9 years old, and the family appears to now live full-time in Chicago.
Giuliana and Bill were still splitting their time between Los Angeles and Chicago until October 2020, when they sold their Brentwood mansion for $10.7 million, which was $3 million more than they paid just a few years before.
After selling their Los Angeles home, they were left with two residences: their home in Chicago, and their vacation home in Idaho.
And as for more children, Giuliana’s said that the dream is still there — but she’s focused on Duke right now.
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The couple unfortunately miscarried their remaining two embryos in 2014. At the time, Giuliana and Bill said that they were so grateful for Duke, and focused on him, especially because of how hard they fought to have him.
Surprisingly, Giuliana’s retirement from E! News in 2015 wasn’t the end of her career with the popular channel.
She had previously been doing award show and red carpet coverage after her departure, but decided to come back full-time and host with her former co-host, Jason Kennedy, once again, in June of 2018.
Giuliana took over for Catt Sadler, who famously left E! News in 2017 after learning that she was getting paid considerably less than her co-host, Jason Kennedy.
Giuliana’s Return to E! Was Short-Lived
However, Giuliana’s return was short-lived.
In 2019, E! announced that the filming of E! News would be moving to New York City. She later announced that because of the move, she would be leaving the show.
Giuliana made a statement about focusing on her family, but fans took note of something interesting in her announcement. She said that nothing is more important than family, and that they were hoping to grow their family soon.
Unfortunately for the couple, that was two years ago, and Giuliana and Bill have not had another child yet.
As for what the couple’s up to now, it’s hard to say with certainty.
The famously public couple has been increasingly private in the past few years.
Giuliana and Bill have pulled back their social media accounts considerably.
Both used to post very frequently, but now only post a couple of times a month. It appears that they’re choosing to live life out of the spotlight as their son, Duke, continues to grow up.
While she no longer appears on E! News every night, Giuliana and Bill do still make appearances on various talk shows.
Most often, they appear on Rachael Ray, where they share their tips for raising a family, balancing work, and having a successful marriage.
Along with their Hollywood aspirations, they also own several restaurants. They co-own RPM Italian in Chicago, Las Vegas, and Washington DC, and RPM Steak and RPM Seafood in Chicago. They also co-own Giuliana Prosecco, a wine company that’s stocked all over the country.
They recently made headlines last fall, when their entire family unfortunately contracted Covid-19, including their son Duke.
Giuliana unfortunately tested positive when preparing for the E! News red carpet coverage of the Emmys.
Bill did an interview via Zoom on the popular daytime talk show, The Doctors, shortly after the family’s diagnosis.
He said that the three of them had been secluded together at their family home in Idaho since March, and they unfortunately contracted the virus from a family friend who was in their “pod.”
Fortunately, he shared that while he had body aches and some respiratory problems, Giuliana had even fewer symptoms. He said that they were worried about her symptoms due to her breast cancer diagnosis in 2011.
Since the family’s unfortunate diagnosis, Giuliana’s career has changed once again.
In May of 2021, she announced that she was leaving E! once and for all.
While she remained on the team doing red carpet coverage previously, in May of 2021 she announced that she was stepping down for good, after hosting the red carpets for hundreds of award shows over the course of 20 years.
Her announcement came just weeks after her co-host, Ryan Seacrest, announced that he would also be stepping down from red carpet coverage with E!. He had been in the role for 14 years.
Fans were shocked by both announcements, but it doesn’t seem like Giuliana will be completely stepping away from the spotlight.
She announced that although she was stepping down as a red carpet correspondent, she had signed an exclusive deal with NBC to produce television rather than host it herself.
Giuliana and Bill Have Remained Together Through It All
It’s still unclear what exactly Giuliana will be producing, but her fans are excited to see what she brings to television screens with this new deal.
Giuliana and Bill have had two of the most varied careers in the history of reality TV. It seems like they’ve done it all, from books, to restaurants, clothing lines, and multiple TV shows.
While their navigation through stardom and fame hasn’t always been easy or without controversy, they’ve managed not only to remain successful, but to stay together and maintain a healthy marriage while doing it.
Their 14-year marriage and 20 years together is virtually unheard of when it comes to reality TV stars.
While we can’t predict the future, we can only hope that Giuliana and Bill will come back to the reality TV world and keep gracing our TVs for many years to come.
