Can six gay Designsketeers renovate "Top Design" in Season 2?

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on July 17, 2008

Todd Oldham is back for more Top Design

Yes, it's a big gay week over at Bravo. Hot on the heels of announcing the cast of Project Runway 5 (which starts ... um ... last night! More on that later...), the net is immediately diverting attention to their ongoing Top Design franchise by announcing that cast over a month and a half in advance of the show's premiere. Are they deliberately stealing Runway's thunder now that it's a lame duck franchise bound for Lifetime?

It's all the same to us ... More Team Gay!

If you remember Season 1 (and we barely do), it went a little something like this: Four guys on Team Gay ... We Heart Todd Oldham ... Pacific Design Center ... What the eff is Kelly Wearstler wearing ... Why is Goil crying again ... "Mayor of Excuses Village" ... Straight Matt wins.

Though the challenges actually got interesting by the end, the show overall was a snooze. There's just something about dressing up a plain white space that isn't nearly as interesting as making a living person wear produce (Runway) or cutting their hair with hedge shears (Shear Genius). But Bravo took drastic steps for Season 2 in hiring Runway producers Magical Elves and adding a host (India Hicks) to play Heidi (Oldham is back as mentor, and Jonathan Adler, Wearstler, and Margaret Russell are back as judges). Here's to hoping the renovation makes a difference.

So here are your gay contenders for Season 2 (note that 6 out of 7 total men are gay, or 6 out of 13 total contestants).

Nathan