My heterosexual credentials are solid. I was in a fraternity in college. I served in the Marines. I went to war. I have, on occasion, kissed girls. I own a Rottweiler. My favorite drink is whiskey. (Which is not to say that gay/bisexual men can’t do these things, but they’re typically associated with straight men.) And yet, I love “Project Runway.” What gives?
The notion that straight men can’t watch and enjoy “Runway” because it’s about fashion and therefore “gay” needs to be blown up, and I’d like to supply the C4 and detonation cord. At my most meatheaded, I’m happy to point out that there’s plenty of eye candy to ogle on the show, from the models to host Heidi Klum to the two or three designers that I end up pulling for merely because they’re attractive and I’m extremely shallow.
Here are eight televised spots to introduce you to the cast of the new-old “Project Runway.” And I’ll be honest: I like “Project Runway,” but it belongs on the glam-trash channel of Bravo, not the estrogen-and-tears world of Lifetime. Watch these and try — just try – to not want to murder whoever came up with the touchy-feely tinkling piano track.
Thumbs down, Lifetime. This better not be a harbinger of what you’re doing to the show. If you put Heidi Klum in fat clothes to make your viewers feel better about themselves, we’re gonna have words. You’re on notice, bitch. **snaps in Z formation, wags head back and forth**
The finale of the newest season of “Project Runway” was taped in February, but the show has been held in legal limbo while Bravo and Lifetime and the Weinsteins struggled to scratch out a deal. However, with Season 6 beginning on its new home of Lifetime on August 20th, we finally get a look at the new cast.
As the female friendly network prepares for the Aug. 20 premiere, the 16 contestants’ diverse faces and backgrounds are ready for launch. Three of them — Nicolas Putvinksi, Gordana Gehlhausen and Irina Shabeyeva — hail originally from Russia, Bosnia and the Republic of Georgia, respectively.
Yet another contestant, Malvin Vien, lists his favorite designer as “himself” and inspiration as “the farmers of rural China.”
Translation: he’s the contestant you’ll want to brutally assault.
Season six takes place in Los Angeles, where celebrities such as Christina Aguilera and Lindsay Lohan will make cameos during challenges.
“Look out for the girls,” [host Heidi] Klum said Wednesday, during a break from filming the show’s seventh edition in New York. “The girls are very strong on season six. There’s a lot of crying, there’s fighting going on, there’s a lot of drama going on — but especially with the girls.”
That should be refreshing. Usually it’s the gay men who do all the fighting and crying and melodramatic posturing. And I can’t wait for Lindsay Lohan’s input. “This is great, but does it show my vaj when I wear it without underwear?”
I know Lifetime landed a ratings coup with the upcoming season of “Project Runway,” but everything else about the channel is so immensely depressing that I get suicidal just thinking about the kind of people its programming appeals to. To wit: Liza Minelli and Delta Burke have been cast as guest stars in an upcoming episode of “Drop Dead Diva.” Get ready for sad faces:
Minnelli plays a psychic who takes her sister (Burke) to court after she opens a competing psychic shop directly across the street from her store. Their episode also features an encore appearance by Rosie O’Donnell as a judge…
Drop Dead Diva… tells the story of a vapid model who dies in a sudden accident only to be reborn in the body of a brilliant, plus-size attorney (Brooke Elliott). [EW]
That’s right, fatties. You were all once supermodels in a previous life. And so were your fat heroes. Now break open another pint of Haagen-Dazs, let your cats get comfortable in your oversized lap, and stay tuned to Lifetime for “Summer’s Hottest Muumuus”!
Season 6 of “Project Runway” wrapped a month ago at New York’s Fashion Week, but it has stayed off the air because the Weinstein Company tried to move the show from Bravo to Lifetime, and Bravo’s parent company NBC Universal sued. Or something like that. I see anything resembling legal news and I just kind of… I wonder what happened to all my old Star Wars toys. Are they still in the attic? Oh, anyway, the case is settled.
NBC Uni was apparently paid multiple millions in the settlement, which also calls for Lifetime to delay the launch of the long-awaited sixth season of “Runway” to mid-August. That gives NBC Uni’s Bravo a free field to launch its “Runway” successor “The Fashion Show” unchallenged.
The two sides finally came to an agreement after Tim Gunn sashayed into the courtroom unannounced and told the lawyers to “Make it work!” Thank God his catch phrase isn’t “Hold out for something better.”
With Fashion Week coming to a close last week, there was a lot of talk about “Project Runway.” Ordinarily, Fashion Week is the backdrop for the “Project Runway” finale, and fans of the show are usually familiar with the finalists showing off their collections. However, due to lawsuits and counter-lawsuits between NBC Universal (which aired the show on Bravo) and producers the Weinstein Company (which sold the show to Lifetime), Season 6 has been shooting with nowhere to air, forcing last week’s runway show to keep the final designers a secret.
ANYWAY, with that annoying background info out of the way, let’s get to a fun Season 6 spoiler (fun in that it ruins suspense for other people):
Certain secrets about the show came to light… when a few models who were in the show revealed to OK! that there will be three finalists, all of them women, and two of them blonde.
Oh, good. It’s nice to see blond women finally getting noticed. And it’s nice to see the gays getting booted off the show. I’m not homophobic, I just get tired of all the prima donna “Look at me! Here’s my catchphrase” bullshit. Like, I don’t hate you because you’re gay, I hate you because you’re annoying. I’m only bigoted against assholes.
[via TiFaux]
