Heidi Klum, Tim Gunn and Michael Kors are my vice every Wednesday. Project Runway is the jewel of Bravo and launched several catchphrases thanks to Tim urging contestants to “make it work,” while last season’s winner Christian Siriano killed us with his overuse of the phrase “hot tranny mess” and the word “fierce.”
Now that the beloved fashion reality show has found a new home with Lifetime, rumors of a sabotage have begun to rumble. The premiere episode of the last season on Bravo was, to put it nicely, dreadful. The challenge was a throwback from the first season. Contestants had to create an outfit from raw materials found from a grocery store. The group of halfwit style aficionados all chose a table cloth instead of fashioning a jumpsuit from ramen noodles and floss. Where is the wow factor and challenge, not to mention actual talented designers?
The typical media frenzy shilling the show is also missing. Of course, a budget for a show that has served it’s purpose has dwindled. It is being said that Bravo is trying to “kill” the show before it is yanked away to swim in the seas of “television for women” flanked by Golden Girls reruns.
Theories have been put forth that Bravo doesn’t really want to spend money on a show that it’s losing, but I don’t buy it. Look at all the promoting they did for their silly A List Awards. That was only for one night, and you’d have thought the pope was coming to town there was so much fanfare. There are still advertising and branding dollars to be made here, and Bravo has to know that.
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Along with the sabotage rumors come spoilers. Leaks to Wikipedia early today revealed the next 4 eliminations. The chart containing the contestants who have been eliminated popped onto the site. Since the news of the spoilers on Wikipedia started to spread the chart been removed, but you can still see it on Gawker (spoilers). So is it real or is the work of some hoax-driven maniac out to take the mystery out of Project Runway?
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Here is your guest judge spoiler alert! I hear they have employed Apolo Anton Ohno to fill the judgment seat just in time for the Olympics. Brooke Shields will follow with a jungle themed episode and RuPaul finally scores a spot. I am not sure why LL Cool J is deemed worthy to participate, but I am hoping there is some shirtless-ness involved. Finally, Diane von Furstenberg, Francisco Costa and Cynthia Rowley rescue Michael Kors from the celebrity hell.
I am pretty sure that with Natalie Portman guest hosting the next episode and Rachel Zoe clawing her way on we should put the show on suicide watch.
Heidi Klum is shown “leaving ABC Studios after appearing on ‘Live with Regis and Kelly'” on 7/15/08. Credit: Ray Filmano / WENN
Moron on board. That’s you, vandenberg, btw, just in case you thought I might be referring to the far less offensive morons on Project Runway.
I love love LOVE Project Runway.. I hope it just gets the chance to air without any interruptions.
Heidi has the creepiest eyes.
I actually thought the little dress that kelly did with the vacuum cleaner bags that she marblized with coffee and bleach was lovely. The fact she used a sprial notebook for the hook and eye closures was priceless.
Most of the other dresses were odd, but I thought the guy who used the cups made an interesting dress. I do love some of Michael Kors’ comments. He, who’s line is swimming in desperation at most lower end department stores, claiming to be bored by some of the creations. I appreciate his opinion but it should be tempered with a little less distain.
Me too Snappyfish…I loved Kelly’s dress very much. It reminded me alot of Jeffrey’s ugly/beautiful dress that he made out of newspaper and painted.
Kelly’s dress was fab. And not made out of a table cloth, so it was original in the sea of really boring stuff the rest of the designers made. I did like the cup dress and the yellow one with the kale and tomato trim, but Kelly really stood out.
I was disappointed overall with the premiere, but it usually takes me a few episodes to get to know the designers well enough to tell them apart. I’m sitting on my hands to keep from reading the spoilers…. : )
A bad show poorly executed. People who watch that drivel should be ashamed.
Chamalla: I agree it takes a while to whittle it down to the truly talented or at least most interesting ones. I wasn’t terribly thrilled with the premier but will watch the entire show of course. I will be hating hating hating the “holla atcha boy” thing that Blake (is that his name?) is trying to make his “fierce” tag. So I hope he’s eliminated quickly. His outfit was a horror.
To vdantev: I suppose you’re right. It’s a guilty pleasure, yes. I also listen to cheesy dance music with headphones on. I think it’s my inner fag.
I didn’t read the whole post, just the comments. Thanks for alerting for spoilers, CB.
Thank God we have in our midst vdantev who can save us all from our lowbrow hell. Excuse me now, I need to go watch cspan.
These results are 100% false, I know for sure… watch tomorrow night, you’ll see… the outcome is unexpected if you were to follow the charts suggestions and the blog hype on people’s favs
I love project runway. But The first episode or two I have to force myself to watch, that’s when they get rid of the worst and then it gets interesting.
If it’s true what BRAVO is doing it shoudl be ashamed. Just because your first huge reality show is leaving doesn’t mean you should kill it. See if any of them ever work with you again on anything.