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"Project Runway's" Move Taking a Lifetime
Posted: September 27th, 2008, 8:00am CDT by TMZ Staff
Tags: celebrityjustice tv Bravo
Seriously? OMG! WTF?
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Diane von Furstenberg does Project Runway tonight
Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 8:30am CDT by SeriouslyOMGWTF
Tags: Bravo
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Diane von Furstenberg is the special guest Judge on tonight’s Project Runway at 9p on Bravo and it is going to be interesting to see if the designers will be intimidated because they are designing for her. I am sure they will be, how can you not be.
And stay tuned after Project Runway to watch the season premiere of Top Design. -
Tabatha is taking over the Salon and Bravo tonight
Posted: August 21st, 2008, 12:14pm CDT by SeriouslyOMGWTF
Tags: Bravo
The straight-talking, perfectly coifed Tabatha Coffey lends her sound advice and styling expertise to help desperate salon owners turn their struggling businesses around in the new Bravo series, “Tabatha’s Salon Takeover.”
“Tabatha’s Takeover” will follow Coffey, the charismatic former “Shear Genius” contestant and Australian native, as she visits struggling salons in the Los Angeles and New York areas and literally takes over the establishments to whip them into shape. Coffey brings her no-nonsense approach to the salon owners and stylists, all teetering on the verge of collapse and in dire need of her skilled business direction. With just a week to work her magic, can she put these salons back on their feet or is it time for the shops to put up the closed sign for good?
At first meeting, the owners and stylists find Coffey’s distinct personality and wicked comments jarring; but they soon figure out that in order to be a success in the competitive high-end beauty business, they need to take the savvy and fearless approach that has helped Coffey’s own career flourish.Shear Genius’ Tabatha is back on Bravo tonight at 10p with Tabatha’s Salon Takeover, but instead of fixing hair she is fixing the salons that fix the hair. The best way to describe it is Kitchen Nightmares in a salon. Just like Kitchen Nightmares this show is fun and touching with little bite to it.
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It is great to watch as the salon and the hairdresser go through the changes they need to to keep the salon alive. The first salon is Ten Salon in Long Beach and they desperately need help. Tabatha comes in and she really saves the day. She teaches these hairdressers what they need to get this salon up to status quo. Although she said that not everyone would still have their job after she was done with them, sadly she does not let anyone go. And there was this woman who thought 3″ equaled a inch, for me that is enough reason to fire her. Don’t cut too much off without warning. But even though everyone survived, this show is a must watch. So tune into Bravo tonight and every Thursday at 10p for Tabatha’s Takeover Salon that is a cut above the rest!!! -
Flipping Out’s Zoila needs her own show
Posted: August 12th, 2008, 4:32pm CDT by SeriouslyOMGWTF
Tags: Bravo
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Tonight is Bravo’s Flipping Out’s reunion show for the season, but just by watching that 2 minute preview of the show, I think they should give Zoila her own show next season! In fact I think that her and Jimmy Kimmel Live’s Guillermo should get a sitcom together about living the American Dream!!!
To see more Zoila check out the Flipping Out reunion show on Bravo tonight at 10p! -
Charlie’s Angels’ night on Shear Genius!!!
Posted: July 30th, 2008, 8:18am CDT by SeriouslyOMGWTF
Tags: Bravo
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Jaclyn Smith is reunited with her former Charlie’s Angel’s Angel Kate Jackson tonight on Shear Genius as the stylists try to modernize their famous ’70s dos on Bravo at 10p! This should be a fun challenge with lots of cattiness because the stylists are paired up!
And before you watch Shear Genius, check out Project Runway at 9p and watch the designers get all wet.
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Shear Genius gets wiggy tonight
Posted: July 23rd, 2008, 2:38pm CDT by SeriouslyOMGWTF
Tags: Bravo
Life’s a beach! The stylists must create a fun new look for laid-back surfer boys, giving them hair that compliments their lifestyle, both on and off the beach. The competition heats up during the elimination challenge as the stylists must use customized wigs to create a fashionable cut and style for prematurely balding women.
I think that is really nice that Shear Genius is doing something nice, by creating cool hairstyles on wigs for women who need them. So tune in to Shear Genius tonight at 10p on Bravo to see them do something for women who deserve and some I am sure to be Surfing Eye Candy.
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Oh and before you watch Shear Genius, make sure to check out Project Runway at 9p on Bravo where Natalie Portman is a a guest Judge on the show!
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The maid had me Flipping Out!!!
Posted: July 7th, 2008, 5:15pm CDT by SeriouslyOMGWTF
Tags: Bravo
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So I just discovered Bravo’s Flipping Out and the best part of this show is Jeff Lewis’ maid Zoila. She is so spunky and seriously you got give her credit for making a $90 shirt that belonged to her boss, her own!!!
What is also fun about this show is all that Jeff has to do flip a house like stepping in rat poop. I am still grossed out by that.
So tune into Flipping Out on Tuesdays at 10p on Bravo! -
Orange you glad you watch Shear Genius?
Posted: July 2nd, 2008, 7:39am CDT by SeriouslyOMGWTF
Tags: Bravo
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I wonder what type of hairstyles they are going to have to create tonight on Bravo’s Shear Genius at 10p especially after seeing their reaction to what they were assigned to do!
Gawker
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Sponsor Drops Workout Over 'Negative Icon'-Gate [Jackie Warner]
Posted: May 10th, 2008, 3:14pm CDT by ian spiegelman
Tags: Bravo
Jackie Warner, star of Bravo's Workout and lesbian fantasy girlfriend to straight women everywhere, is in trouble for being mean on the show and getting called "a negative icon to the gay community." In response to complaints from Warner's former fans, salty green water purveyor and Workout sponsor Gatorade is ending its relationship with the program. The sports-drink giant told the angry mob: "We have notified Bravo we no longer wish to be associated with The Workout and will be pulling our commercials. Furthermore, we will not renew our sponsorship of this program in subsequent seasons." But wait! A new sponsor has stepped forward!
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Bravo Steals Project Runway Producers [Feuds]
Posted: May 6th, 2008, 1:10am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: Bravo
Will cable network Lifetime ruin reality fashion television forever when it takes over Project Runway from Bravo later this year, de-snarking the show on behalf of overearnest spinsters and partnering with a third-tier fashion magazine? Bravo is working hard to make sure it doesn't have the chance. First it sued to stop the show from moving. Now Bravo owner NBC Universal has cut a deal with Runway's longtime executive producers for new shows. The deal would presumably enable Bravo to create something very similar to Runway if its lawsuit fails, assuming the poached producers never signed anything that would prevent a Runway copycat. In any case, the producers are definitely done with their old show. Reports the Wall Street Journal:
The two said in an interview Monday that signing the deal was part of a plan to own more of their work.
"It is sad," [Jane] Lipsitz said of leaving Runway behind. "But in terms of the bigger picture of building our business, it was a decision that we had to make."
A Weinstein Co. spokesman said, "They've been fantastic producers, and we wish them well." Weinstein Co. and Lifetime have already signed deals for host Heidi Klum and fashion mentor Tim Gunn to stay with "Runway" — even though Mr. Gunn also stars in Bravo's "Tim Gunn's Guide to Style."[WSJ]
Celebrity-Gossip.net
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Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz Hit Bravo Supershow
Posted: May 4th, 2008, 1:21pm CDT
Tags: Ashlee Simpson Pete wentz Bravo
Fresh off of a promotional stop in London, Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz packed their bags and headed over to Germany for a red carpet appearance.
The newly engaged couple attended the 2008 Bravo Supershow, which was held at Arena Nurnberg in Nuremberg, Germany on Saturday (May 3).
Gawker
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Hags Vs. Homos: The Project Runway Holy War Is Upon Us [Feuds]
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 4:46am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: Bravo
The migration of Project Runway from Bravo to Lifetime is getting ugly, and not Harvey Weinstein ugly — partition of India ugly. The fashion show won't actually move until November, but things are already bad, so bad, between the trendsetting supergays who TiVO Bravo and the spinster homebodies who drink white zinfandel until they pass out on their cats in front of Lifetime. Wrote a commenter on Dlisted: "Being on Lifetime ... automatically makes [Runway] not cool, trendy, or creative. Bravo is funny and gay. Lifetime is timid and stodgy." Doree Shafrir's mom at the Observer rounded up other examples of anti-Lifetime fearmongering by Runway fans, then quoted a Lifetime VP saying, "We care about women — we put them first." PUT WOMEN AHEAD OF GAY MEN, HUH?? Oh, it's on, and even the inevitable Chistian Siriano-mediated peace talks may not be able to turn it off. A bullet-point summary of each side's strategic strengths, distilled from the Observer piece by a party not directly involved in the dispute, after the jump.
Gays would rule the show because:
- Women, or at least Lifetime's women, are not snarky enough: "Lifetime’s untrammeled earnestness — eagerness, even — comes off as distinctly uncool. And tucked within online commenters’ anxieties about whether Lifetime would keep Project Runway gay was the fear that Lifetime, in its implied anti-irony stance, would, therefore, be resistant to kitsch and camp and sarcasm, and perhaps leave on the cutting-room floor the bitchy asides that the PR contestants make."
- For example, instead of ultra-uplifting makeover show How To Look Good Naked, Bravo has Tim Gunn's Guide To Style, which involves eye-rolling. Gunn and "his co-host, Veronica Webb, make fun of their subjects and their awful wardrobes/haircuts behind their backs, even as they do make them undeniably more attractive in the end... It’s funny, ironic, hip."
- They have grass-roots operations online, like at Project Rungay, whose co-editor told the Observer, "They talk about the show in terms of it being a women’s show... We’re living proof that that’s not entirely the case. It has a very large gay viewership."
- Golden Girls. You are going to leave Runway in the hands of the ladies who put that on Lifetime's programming lineup?
- The gays are more finicky.
Women would rule the show because:
- Um, they just paid $150 million for it.
- They have already co-opted their very own gay! Carson Kressley of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy has since January hosted Lifetime's How to Look Good Naked, "an Oprah-fied version of Extreme Makeover... featuring rather overweight, depressed women with negative amounts of self-confidence who, thanks to Mr. Kressley’s relentless cheerleading and a haircut, become the women they were meant to be."
- There are these two new lady top executives at Lifetime, Andrea Wong and Susanne Daniels who are, in Daniels' words, "working toward making the brand cool, one way or another." How positively lovely!
Hopefully the two sides will eventually work things out, with Lifetime promising gays equal rights within its borders, and the gays apologizing for calling Lifetime a ginormous cow. Because it's not like you can just recreate these reality-based fashion shows.
[Observer]
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Julia TV Gets The Green Light [Julia Allison]
Posted: April 23rd, 2008, 1:43pm CDT by Nick Denton
Tags: Bravo
Our culture cannot be so debased as to give a television platform to a woman who pretends to be a Star magazine journalist, one who claims to design handbags, and the third an heir to a Sun Microsystems dynasty that we've never heard of. But, of course, it has. That rumored reality television project, one of the few things that Star's Julia Allison has ever kept secret, has been greenlit by Bravo, we're told by people familiar with the cable network. The show, tentatively called IT Girls, begins shooting this summer.I suppose congratulations are in order, to Allison, whose pink and perky determination has propelled her to fame of some debased sort; to the blonde one, a veteran of reality shows, Mary Rambin, older sister of the Hud-banging teen star; to Megan Asha, the supposed tech heiress; and to the agent who has shepherded through the project, Jason Fox of William Morris Agency, pictured here with his three angels.
It would be easy to dismiss IT Girls as final proof of a culture gone spongy in the brain, in the final stages not so much of Alzheimers as syphilis. But let's be honest: the concept, three girls are followed by the cameras as they set up an online chat show, a younger version of The View, is positively gripping compared with some of the other reality projects being touted. Julia Allison's obvious ambition provides a dramatic core; she's better at least than the empty socialites around Kristian Laliberte, another group with television ambitions.
Finally, IT Girls promises to take watching-me-watching-you media narcissism to a new plane. A girl who is famous for photographing her every move, sets up a pretend chat show which is itself the focus of cameras from a cable show. So meta! And that will, for a blog that has designated Allison an icon of a new age of self-levitating celebrity, make great entertainment.
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Nothing Real About Real Housewives of New York City Except My Agony [Reality TV]
Posted: March 5th, 2008, 10:07am CST by Richard
Tags: Bravo
In last night's premiere episode of Bravo's Real Housewives of New York City no one bothered to stay in New York City very long. They all flounced off to their gaudy Hamptons manses or, in one ridiculous case, to the classy-talk speaking island of St. Barth's. Ramona, the most image conscious of the leathery ladies, flirted with her nincompoop tennis pro and got drunk poolside with her dopey friends, much to the chagrin of her stick-up-her-ass daughter. Betheny, some sort of aspiring Martha Stewart (and the youngest and only single member of the group) didn't do anything memorable. Jill, the one from the Long Island "Jewish ghetto" who does bulk resale, pranced around playing tennis and sending her perfectly healthy looking daughter off to some sort of weight loss detox program. LuAnn De Lesseps (the countess) barked at her maid and talked about money. And then there's Alex, the stern-jawed Brooklynite (she's the only one who doesn't live on the Upper East Side) who, with her fey Australian husband and forcibly French speaking children, trotted off to St. Barth's to avoid the crush of the Hamptons. There she and her husband wore hideously skimpy bathing costumes and bought tens of thousands of dollars worth of ugly dresses.
So yeah, they're all awful. But the most awkward, and only marginally interesting, thing about the show is how remarkably and painfully self-aware these women are about their outsider-looking-in status. They're not old money, they admit, so they have to work twice as hard to get anywhere in the highfalutin milieu they so desperately love. The sad trouble is, the key to "high society", especially in the pinched wilds of the Upper East Side and the Brahmin corners of the Hamptons, is to present the air of trying very little and having everything come to you. (Or is this an old idea? Am I being naive?) No wonder real UES ladies think the show is "a joke". It's not half as entertaining as Orange County, mainly because I recognize the landmarks and personalities and can detect that it's not, in fact, representative of anyone except a few gaudy idiots. At least Orange County is far away and mystical. Are all the mothers there drunk child neglecters? Sure! Why not? But in New York, in places I've seen and experienced often, it just doesn't seem authentic, or even worse, exciting. Sure these women are "real" in that they exist, but as for "New York", well, they may as well live in Coto, CA. Needless to say, I'll be watching every episode. Below find video of crazy Ramona (who's a bit of a Mrs. Malaprop: "Double duo!") putting goop on her face and drinking champagne, and the countess LuAnn ordering her maid Rosanna (the hero of the show) around the house while packing for the Hamptons.
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Is Project Runway Already Too Ugly For TV? [Sew Over It]
Posted: November 15th, 2007, 3:10pm CST
Tags: Bravo
You may have noticed Heidi "Kissed By A Rose" Klum roaming around the top of our site screaming, "IM IN UR 'POOTS, SEWING UR CLOZE!" That's because last night was the season premiere of Bravo's Project Runway Season 4. We watched. The ladies at Jezebel watched. It's a funny thing because we know at the end of the season we will have become passionate advocates and bitter enemies of some of the designers. Remember the passion for Santino? The antipathy toward Pepper? The love for Jay? But last night, they kicked off the only beautiful woman. She was named Simone Le Blanc. Now we're left with a bunch of gays (most are jacked! some are obese!) and some lady who described a cut of her dress as a "haiku." Blarg!
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Top Chef: Dale Is An Stupid Useless Idiot Genius
Posted: September 27th, 2007, 1:20pm CDT
Tags: Bravo
Last night was the first half of the "Top Chef" finale. Last night was when jerky boys Brian and Dale were supposed to go home. Last night, particularly, we planned to celebrate the departure of Dale, the LOLmegagay, from our lives forever with a bottle of Chandon. But Bravo once again jiggled the rules of the competition, so only one contestant was going home. Why, why can't they respect the stern rule of reality show law?
So the exiled chef was Brian Malarky, the ADD koosh ball of a chef. He's soft and harmless and kind of retarded. Good riddance. But really, Dale won? Le Bernardin's Eric Ripert picked Dale as the winner? Over technical perfection or Texan heart, he picked Dale, whose plate admittedly looked like a carnival? Also, that he slept with cowboys is A) probably not true and B) too much to know. That he was dumped right before the show, however, is completely believable.
We were so upset by the wan depravity of it all that it was not until this morning that we realized: Dale might really win. Last week, we thought maybe he was a genius. So sad! Now we must admit that yes, Dale, though every fibre of our body rebels against it, is a genius. Or maybe he just has Asperger's.
Not that we're abandoning Hung, whose tale of immigrant woe brought us close to tears. Nor are we hanging Casey out to dry. Her decision not to use her own personal stash of spices (as a result of her victory in the quickfire challenge) was ballsy and laudable. But if M. Ripert says Dale's elk is perfect, it is perfect. Dale might actually have game. (GET IT? ELK? GAME???)
I was shocked and saddened to see that 69% of the audience polled wanted to see Hung go home. Sure, he's pompous and arrogant and selfish. But why are those behaviors, lauded in other competitive arenas, so spat upon in "Top Chef"—which is, at the end of the day, no less brutal a test of man-on-man action than any a boxing match or island-stranding?
Dale's continued presence on the T.V. has also made us rethink our question to you last week of who will be victorious. So once again, vote for your choice. Not if they deserve to win, mind you—but if you think they'll win.
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A Socialite's Life
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Jeff Lewis Still "Flipping Out" on Bravo - New Episode
Posted: August 14th, 2007, 8:59am CDT
Tags: Bravo
Tonight, there's a brand, spanking new episode of "Flipping Out" on Bravo at 10/9c. In this third episode preview clip, Jeff Lewis, just happens to be bickering with a business partner. Jeff is clearly still as controlling and single-minded as ever in his goal to sell houses. He's going back and forth with a business partner about financing a joint project. The tension between the two is no surprise, since Jeff seems to stress out everyone around him, and I can't seem to stop watching. I think mostly because I'm just so glad not to have to work with anyone that crazy...for now.