Going Off Script by Giuliana Rancic

Author:Giuliana Rancic [Rancic, Giuliana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Nonfiction, Personal Memoirs, Retail, Television
ISBN: 9780553446654
Google: EBO_oAEACAAJ
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Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2015-04-07T04:00:00+00:00

chapter eight

By the time I met Bill, I had been at E! for four years, and had made it across the minefield of network politics intact to become anchor, despite my embarrassing tic of hitting on George Clooney at every opportunity. He is taller than you think. The first time I met George, at a press junket for his movie Solaris, I blurted out a marriage proposal in front of a room full of people and two cameras recording my every breath. A girl’s gotta take her shot when the sexiest bachelor in the known galaxy is standing right in front of her, right? Before I even got the second syllable of “marry” out, he rejected me and broke into a sweat, like I was a horny cavewoman about to club him and drag him off to my dressing room. Hurtful. But not a deterrent. I’ve asked several times since, and the answer is still “get away from me, you psycho stalker,” or something to that effect. At least that’s what he is probably thinking, though George is way too polite to ever say anything like that. Instead, he breaks the awkward moment by making a funny joke and gives me that perfect Clooney smile complete with dimples.

I’m a flirt by nature. I flirt with everyone. I’ll flirt with straight men, gay men, old men. I flirt with women, with babies, even dogs. In cases of actual infatuation, however, I do my research first. When I came to work one day and noticed that E! was sending a reporter to cover Bill Rancic, who was doing volunteer work at the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Monica, California, I snatched the assignment for myself, claiming I wanted to get out in the field more and raise my charity profile. No one bought it. I had been a major fangirl ever since Rancic had won season one of Donald Trump’s reality game show The Apprentice. My BFF Colet and I were obsessed with Bill, and I would watch the NBC show and tell Colet that I needed to marry him. I was dating Jerry at the time, and ironically, Jerry is the one who first introduced me to my future husband. We were at an NBC party in New York City for Jerry’s show Crossing Jordan, and Bill was one of the guests. Jerry spotted him first. “You are going to freak out, homegirl! The Apprentice is here! Your favorite!” He dragged me over to meet Bill while I begged him not to. “Jerry, you’re gonna embarrass me. Please don’t embarrass me!” I hissed. He said, “I won’t. I just want him to know what a big fan you are and that you were rooting for him every week.” When we reached Bill, Jerry introduced himself, and the two men got caught up in a guy convo about sports and stuff, leaving me just standing off to the side. Finally I nudged Jerry.

“Oh, yeah,” he said. “Bill, I would introduce you to my girlfriend, but I’m afraid the two of you would run off together.

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