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Is there anyone straight on that show?

Bravo, unsatisfied with just the gay male demographic, is making a play for the lesbian market as well. This season of Project Runway features a lesbian model, Marie. Add that to the gayest group of contestants ever and Dante???s Cove is starting to look straight. [Queerty]

Nov 12, 2007 · Link · Respond

Christian Siriano: Meet The Christian Right

How gay is the upcoming season of Project Runway? More so than usual, it seems! And yet, despite the higher than usual incidence of homosexuality amongst aspiring fashion designers, one contestant is apparently so straight he makes Tim Gunn look like Vin Diesel. Or something. Says one totally random lady:

[Christian] Siriano is so gay he makes Austen Scarlett of Season 1 seem like Rock Hudson. Oh wait, I mean Tom Cruise. Oh, that doesn???t work either???

Ha! Wait—so is she saying everyone is secretly gay or what? We’re feeling as about as confused as an adolescent Perez Hilton watching a Jodie Foster movie in his all-boys boarding school while listening to K.D. Lang. Meanwhile, anyone else psyched for Runway? We hear Michael Kors is a real bitch this season.

Nov 8, 2007 · Link · Respond

Rumor has it that Project Runway booted out designer Jack Mackenroth in the fifth episode for developing an HIV Staph infection.

The skin infection apparently made his skin blow up ???like the kid from Mask.???

Bravo rejecting an HIV positive contestant is sort of like having an HIV-negative-only gay dance party. Oh wait, that already happened.

Oct 15, 2007 · Link · Respond

If Only Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Watched Bravo…

Any show starring huggable homo Tim Gunn, bitchy queen Michael Kors and a requisite army of would-be fashion designers is unlikely to start encroaching on SportsCenter’s overgrown jock demographic or start oozing rugged masculinity.

All that said, we were still somewhat surprised by early reports that the upcoming season of Project Runway is (almost!) too gay to function.

And that’s according to the gays.

[Queerty]

Oct 1, 2007 · Link · 1 Response


We Can’t Tell If Shar Jackson’s Trying To Stick It To Brit With This Tee, Or Just Saving Us The Trouble Of Asking Who She Is

• Just because your name’s Shar Jackson doesn’t mean you can pull off an “I’m Shar Jackson, Bitch” t-shirt.

• Rachel Zoe deludes herself into believing that she’s more influential to fashion than Anna Wintour

• When the headline reads: “Diapered man charged with stalking teen,” there’s pretty much nowhere to go but down.

• It’s hard to believe the exuberant Zulema Griffin in front of us today is the crazy control freak who got booted from Project Runway shortly after barking, “I don’t care if you’re crying as long as you’re still sewing!”

• We never thought “funnyman” Dane Cook was particularly funny. That is, until we saw him trying to be a serious musician.

Sep 13, 2007 · Link · Respond

Another night, another party and another chance to remind ourselves that we’re not nearly as fashionable and glamorous as we like to think we are. Yes, Fashion Week is upon us, which means shapeless pillowcase dresses are the new black and naturally slender is once again the new morbidly obese.

And yesterday, we spent the better part of our evening ogling the reality stars of yesteryear at the Bravo/Entertainment Weekly party for Tim Gunn at the Soho Grand and marveling at the fact that somebody had the lack of foresight to serve miniature Reuben sandwiches at a snotty skinny-person party.

As always the event was, well, eventful.

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Sep 6, 2007 · Link · Respond



Finds Way To Extend Brand Beyond Incessant Bravo Repeats

“Aspiring designers will soon be able to cut their creations from “Project Runway”-branded patterns and stitch them together using fabrics and sewing machines also carrying the hit TV show’s name,” reports the New York Post.

Which means all you Project Runway devotees will have (almost) the same opportunities available to you as the contestants on the show!

Oh, except instead of having to face Tim Gunn and his gay thesaurus, stare down Nina Garcia, best known for pursing her lips, lemon-style, and barking, “THESE SEAMS ARE UNEVEN!”* or achieve brief D-List status before fading into complete and utter obscurity, you’ll be surrounded by a supportive group of encouraging family and friends.

Who will all beg you to try out for Project Runway.

*And reminding us she works for Elle

Aug 21, 2007 · Link · Respond

Or Crazy Like A Fox?

Earlier this morning, we flipped through the latest issue of New York magazine and paused, with fleeting interest, at a wordy “Where are they now?” type profile on fashion has-been/never-was Jay McCarroll, and his marginally more successful Project Runway compatriots. In the piece, Jay, the overweight, tinny-voiced season-one winner, claims to be homeless, unemployed and sleeping in his studio, which is to say he turned out pretty much exactly as we would have expected.

But wait!

An angry tipster (who also appears to be suspiciously like Jay’s best friend-slash-Number One fan-slash-publicist) suggests that we’ve all been the victim of a bizarre and rather unfunny prank perpetrated by one semi-employed Jay McCarroll.

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Aug 7, 2007 · Link · 6 Responses

Fledgling Designer Jay McCarroll Unable To ‘Make It Work’ With His Landlord

Two years after winning the inaugural season of Project Runway, the annoying, overweight and objectionably talented Jay McCarroll continues to wage war against the producers of the show that made him semi-famous.

???You don???t think I took the fucking bus to New York the day after I won the show, thinking someone was going to come up to me on the street and say, ‘You???re awesome, here???s money?’??? he asks. ???I thought that for two years. But I???ve given up on that…I haven???t been living anywhere for two years,??? he says. ???I sleep at other people???s houses. I sleep here if I???m drunk.???

In other words, only as an absolutely last resort, when you’re slightly intoxicated and everything else fell through? What a coincidence! That’s exactly how we feel about Project Runway.

Aug 7, 2007 · Link · 4 Responses



• The Coop puts himself on the charity auction block, and—unsurprisingly—finds himself sold to a male bidder.

• Here’s exactly what your afternoon’s been missing—a cheesy, 80’s-themed pop video featuring Hugh Grant in too-tight pants.

• Joss Stone dated some producer guy for two years and all they did in the bedroom was hold hands. Seriously.

• Owen Wilson and Kate Hudson (Kate-o? Will-Hud?) are possibly back on, definitely giving bloggers everywhere an opportunity to use the phrase “down under” while snickering.

• More about the crazy, do-whatever-it-takes intern who’s making LC and the dumb one look bad on The Hills.

• Turns out Project Runway winner Jeffrey Sebelia is as much of a jerk off-screen as he was on the show.

Feb 19, 2007 · Link · Respond

• Lindsay texts LC’s ex to tell him she wants sex and a Big Mac. Related: Brandon “Small-Fry” Davis still not getting any.

• Turns out Hillary Clinton is as good at stand-up comedy as she is at wearing pastel colored pants suits!

• Diddy takes five minutes out of his busy, party-hopping schedule to pretend to be a loving dad.

• Jason Giambi can take all the steroids he wants, but that still won’t prevent a a pipe from bursting. in his Upper East Side apartment. Or, you know, small testicles.

• It will take more than $25 million to get rid of Kevin Federline, who continues to be the annoying thorn in Britney Spear’s Hebraic side.

• In shocking news, it turns out that the always-crazy, future Scientologist Jim Carrey is “unpredictable” on set.

• Although Project Runway’s Tim Gunn is leaving the Parson’s School of Design, he vows to “make it work” and return to set next season.

Feb 1, 2007 · Link · 2 Responses

MollyGood answers Nerve.com’s sex-ionnaire, with great tips on how to make your sex tape Oscar-worthy.

• Because the H&M/Madonna collabo worked so well the first time, they’re gonna do it again.

• Proud papa and biz pioneer Joe Simpson whores out Jessica for $10k to be filmed reading a tabloid of your choice in Blonde Ambition.

• Liz Smith cries for Dakota Fanning.

• Si Newhouse expected to continue the grand tradition of dropping major pink slip bomb after the New Year with the canning of former Vanity Fair publisher and current group prez Mitchell Fox.

• Tim Gunn may have to pull out of Project Runway’s fourth season for something called “job responsibilities.”

• CNN celebrates one year of discovering broadband video.

• Time Warner chief Richard Parsons dumped Warner Music in ‘03, but first he backed up the catalog for his iPods.

$bull; 666 5th goes for $1.8b.

Dec 7, 2006 · Link · Respond

• E! trespasses on Brad Pitt’s property. Brad Pitt’s camp tattles to TMZ. [TMZ]

Bill O’Reilly slams Oprah for not having any conservative (err, “traditionalist”) guests on her show. In unrelated news, O’Reilly is doing Oprah’s show. [Media Matters]

Jack Shafer on newspaper staffers losing whole portions of their newsroom: “Eh.” [Slate]

• That law President Clinton signed supposedly protecting children from harmful online content? Never been used. [AP]

Jeffrey Sebelia may have won Project Runway, but that doesn’t mean any stores are stocking his clothes. [FWD]

• MSNBC reduced to breaking news about Internet C-listers identities. [Gawker]

Oct 24, 2006 · Link · Respond

Jon Friedman points to Time.com as evidence that the magazine industry is finally understanding the web. Our first (and last) clue, however, was ShopVogue.com. [Marketwatch]

Project Runway racked up 5.4 million fags, fag hags, and their malteses for a ratings record-breaking finale. [AP]

• Recovering former ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff is putting together a primetime special and book about his Iraq war injury and recovery. Set to air next spring, it’ll coincide nicely with another half dozen journalists kidnapped by then. [AP]

• The first substantial inkling that Jesse Oxfeld, in the lovely tradition of other ex-Gawker editors, carries on the source torch. [Gawker]

• GLAAD is keeping mum on the Mark Foley scandal so as to not elevate the voice of congressional pederasts and their sympathizers. [Queerty]

Oct 20, 2006 · Link · Respond

• Fame-seeking rapper Fabolous proves his namesake by posting bail with $15k in cash. [NYDN]

O.J. Simpson nets $3.5 million to write a book where he only pretends to have killed Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. [Scoop]

Project Runway’s winner was neither the straight-but-gay black guy or the pregnant white mama. [AP]

• Meanwhile, Bravo insists its new interior design show Top Design is not a spinoff of Runway. The formats are so different, minus the celebrity hosts, designing theme, contestant eliminations, and prize package. [Radar]

Heather Mills ramps up accusations against Paul McCartney, claiming he stabbed her with a broken wine glass. Yes, but did he spill a drop? [Daily Mail]

Kirsten Dunst flirts up ex-boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal, only to be informed his allegiance lies with Lance and Matthew. [P6]

Paris Hilton understands she’s a box office flop; refuses to attend own movie premiere. [P6]

Oct 19, 2006 · Link · 3 Responses