Project Runway Blues

Tonight starts a brand new season of Project Runway. So why am I not more excited? Is it reality TV burnout? I just got finished watching The Bachelorette last week and before that Top Chef finishd out their season. I have no idea but I just can't seem to get into the happy peppy mood I'm normally in when it comes to the show.

Maybe it is the fact that this is the last season of the show on Bravo or the fact that they are moving the show to LA next season. I think it may have to do with the fact that the last season ended in December and here we are again. I really wish that they would space out the seasons a bit better but I have a feeling that it has to do with fashion week. Since the top finalists do a runway show in Bryant Park, the season has to be built around either Fall fashion week, with designers showing off their spring line or for Spring Fashion week in February.

Tim Gunn spoke about this season's crop of contestants over at People.com and it looks like a good crop of contestants. People.com also has what some of the previous contestants are up to as well. My brain has been so involved in MI-5 recently that maybe I need to watch something lighter.

I'll let you know tomorrow what I think.

Oh No She Didn't!

MY Kristi did it! She scored a 30 last night for her jive with Mark Ballas, who has to be the best choreographer of the group of professional dancers this season. He knows how to play to Kristi's strengths, and he knows how to teach as well. Pretty awesome for someone who is only like 23 years old. Of course, he has been dancing since he was in utero since his parents are ballroom dancing champs.



Mario and Katrina did a nasty, raunchy rumba to Marvin Gaye's 'Let's Get it On,' which DANCMSTR Len hated, but what did he expect with that song. Its kind of hard to do any dance without it getting raunchy, that's the point of the song. Thank god, they didn't dance to 'Sexual Healing.' Len would have had a coronary. As it was, Bruno called him 'crusty and stiffy.'



Poor Marlee, unless they go back to either a Quickstep or a Foxtrot, she's going to be lost. Right now, it looks like Fabien is jerking her around the dance floor to the rhythm. However, I gave her all 21 of my votes because I would rather she stay than Marissa Jaret, who is working my last nerve. She needs to lay off the sugar or take a valium. She's exhausting.



Christian de la Fuente was all over my TV this weekend, what with Viva Hollywood and DWTS last night. He was very funny on Sunday, trying to convince Vinci to do a gay love scene and Vinci freaking out. And then when he criticized Roseny, who got attitude, like 'Who the heck are you?' Someone with a career, honey, which is what you are trying to get out of this experience. So shut up and listen! Anyway, he did a very nice foxtrot on DWTS.



On The Bachelor, for some reason, Matt let Noelle go home, even though he said in a voice-over, that he could see spending the rest of his life with her. WTF? Chelsea doesn't want to hold hands, and Shayne only wants to be a huge star, Noelle was genuine. Seriously, he's going to be sorry he kept either one of those other than Noelle. I think he's blinded by Shayne's sex kitten attitude. But seriously, if he picks her, is he going to move to LA? Because there is no way than she's going to have a career in the UK, except as a TV presenter. Her next move after this show is DWTS. And Lorenzo still looks good, although you could tell that he pretty much abandoned her during childhood for his other wives/kids. And her mother (along with Priscilla Presley) is the poster child for reasons not to have plastic surgery. Although I couldn't tell if maybe she might have had an accident or something.



Wow, Amanda, huge risk using your hometown date to play a prank on Matt. Good thing he found it funny, eventually. Amanda had hired actors to play her parents, including drunk Mom hitting on him, and conservative Dad. My question is this, why would you waste your homedate to play a joke? I have a feeling that he is going to choose her in the end.

Gone Reality!

Can someone explain to me how Julio Iglesias Jr. won the CMT reality show Gone Country? Seriously, his song sucked compared to the other contestants. The only thing he had going for him, is that for some reason, women find him sexy. Maureen McCormick overcame severe stage fright, Bobby Brown had the most passionate performance, and Dee Snider actually did something that remotely sounded like country and John Rich picks Enrique Iglesias less talented brother? Go figure!

This week was the first episode of the new Top Chef and all I can say is how can you be a chef if you can't make chicken piccata? Seriously, I don't even eat meat, and I know how to make chicken piccata. It's not even hard, you dredge the chicken, after pounding it into thin cutlets, into a mixture of flour and then eggs, and then cook it in a lemon butter sauce with capers, maybe a little white wine. A ten year old could make chicken piccata, and this guy Ryan apparently has been cooking in kitchens since he was 11 years old. He actually bragged about his father firing older employees because he outcooked them. Bet Dad's not proud of him now.

Oh, and casting the lesbian couple, who cares? They are competing against themselves, and each other. The show is called Top Chef not Top Chefs. I can only imagine that relationship is going to end up in tears. But how awesome was the house they get to live in? Apart from Survivor, I think people go on reality tv shows so that for a few weeks they can live in better real estate than they already have. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it. Seriously, the women on The Bachelor seem to have a better time in the house than they do with The Bachelor.

What do people think? Julio Iglesias Jr. Country star in the making? Do you know how to make chicken piccata? And have you ever thought of going on a reality TV show just to live in a cool house?


EKM