• Jennifer Lopez has set the birth of her twins for February 14. Cheesy, sure, but a total J. Lo move. What we do judge is planning her c-section on a Thursday, for the benefit of the tabs. If that's true, he deserves every forthcoming invasion of privacy.
• Kate Hudson and Liv Tyler threw a party at the Waverly Inn. Where did those ladies meet, a group for the famous children of famous parents?
• Paris Hilton is still into men with fading fame; she hooked up with Simon Rex last night.
• Playboy bunnies hit up Mardi Gras. Hopefully they know better than to give it up for a free t-shirt.
• Pictures of the bump that launched "My Humps"
• Pink Is The New Blog is better at keeping Project Runway related secrets than we are.
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It's been much-rumored about, but a source seated at this morning's PR show confirms it's … CONTINUED »
Friday kicked off Fashion Week, and that evening I attended the afterparty for Nabe, a collection by Project Runway's Victorya Hong and my first FW event.
I got the invitation late Friday afternoon — after I had already made plans to escape the bad weather and curl up on my couch for the evening — but the guest list made me change my mind and brave the storm:
Guests include: Jack Mackenroth, Christian Siriano, Daniel Vosivic, Carmen Webber, Kevin Christiana, Alisa Jiminez, David Evangelista, Patrick McDonald, Nigel Barker, and more.
So I arrived at the Maritime Hotel's Hiro Lounge promptly at 10 p.m. so as not to miss any of my favorite reality TV stars. I didn't need to see everyone on the list; just Christian, Nigel Barker and Tim Gunn. CONTINUED »
Every week, a bunch of “real” people say really stupid things on reality TV. We dispatch Intern Whitney to find the ten stupidest.
Every week, a bunch of “real” people say really stupid things on reality TV. We dispatch Intern Whitney to find the ten stupidest. After watching American Gladiators last night, we can’t believe she was able to narrow it down to ten.
10. "The three-headed dog that guarded the gates of hell? No, that was my ex-wife." — Vincent Pastore, The Celebrity Apprentice
Ever since he got the boot from Parsons School for Design – in so much as they could no longer afford him – Tim Gunn hasn't exactly been hard up for jobs. He's kept his gig on Project Runway telling people to "make it work," secured his own makeover show Tim Gunn's Guide to Style (which is, let's face it, crap), and landed the gig of chief creative officer at Liz Claiborne, which doesn't necessarily mean the stock at Macy's is going to improve anytime soon.
He also scored a gig as a fashion expert for Richard Desmond's OK!, where he – you guessed it – recommends Liz Claiborne brands as the ultimate fashion panacea. Not that OK! discloses it. And not that readers actually take fashion advice from OK!. No harm, no foul?
Have you heard?? Bravo "stars" Dale Levitski (that prematurely balding fellow who lost Top Chef 3) and Jack Mackenroth (that sort-of hot guy who gets eliminated on next week's Project Runway) have confirmed to Bravo that they're not-so-secretly dating!
Says Jack: "It's very baby steps. I really like him a lot. And geography is a bit of an issue, but we'll see where it goes. I like him a lot. I assume he likes me a lot. Unless he's lying." (Awkward!)
• Breaking! Brad Pitt to stop doing nude scenes and start making crappy family-friendly films a la Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. And while he's at it, he's also going to offend Jack Nicholson, Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep by insisting that acting is a "younger person's game."
• "A meeting held at Madison Square Garden Wednesday between New York Knicks ownership and head coach Isiah Thomas was interrupted more than half a dozen times by 'Fire Isiah' chants which came at various points throughout the two-hour-long discussion, Knicks officials reported." Okay, fine, so that didn't really happen. But we're thinking it's just a matter of time.
• The most objectively attractive male contestant on Project Runway receives the honor of dressing Tiki Barber. In semi-related news, this is officially the happiest moment of his life since the day he got cheekbone implants.
We heard about Project Runway contestant Jack Mackenroth even before the series started. Spoilers have it that the sewing hunk leaves in the fifth episode when he develops an HIV Staph infection. Even though Mackenroth is still in primetime, he’s bolstered his B-level celebrity by posing naked.
Oh, Jack, you’re supposed to save those naked pictures for after the show ends.
NSFW pictures at Queerty.
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]
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.
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.
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.
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• 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.
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.
"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
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.
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.
• 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.
• 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.
