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Queer Eye final season "Straight Guy Pageant" pics
As you may have heard, grande dame of gay reality television Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is returning tomorrow for its fifth and final onslaught on stray body hair and flannel. To celebrate the final season and the groundbreaking success of the show overall (because love it or hate it, it really did blow the lid off), Bravo has staged a Straight Guy Pageant that challenges the show's titular victims to compete for the crown ("Most Zhuzhed"? "Most Likely to Manscape"?). Soap darling Susan Lucci guests as the mistress of ceremonies and of course all the queer eyes are as twinkly as ever. Is it just me or does the whole event kind of look like a lost gay episode of The Muppet Show? Check out more pics after the jump, and check out the show tomorrow night for the full pageantry. And check back here next week for all-new interviews with Thom, Jai, and Carson!
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The Fab Five...
...are certainly looking very sharp themselves. Looking forward to a great final season and wishing Carson, Thom, Ted, Kyan and Jai all the best in their future endeavours.
(Already saw Ted on an episode of Iron Chef America as one of the guest judges.)
Hats Off To The Fab Five
I'll miss "Queer Eye" and what it did not only for the GLBT community, but for the reality television genre as well. This past summer, in an article for the UK website I write for ("Television Heaven"), I named "Queer Eye" one of the ten best US reality shows of the past decade:
"Personal "makeover" shows were not new in the summer of 2003, but "Queer Eye" put a new spin on the genre, and for a time because a cultural touchstone in the U.S. Originally titled "Queer Eye For The Straight Guy," it brought together five gay men (aka the "Fab Five") who helped a helpless heterosexual man improve his looks, clothing sense, romantic instincts and home decor. Flamboyant "fashion savant" Carson Kressley became the breakout star of the "Fab Five," and "Queer Eye" put Bravo on the map. The show also aired on parent NBC as a series of specials, one of the few times a cable hit migrated to broadcast television. "Queer Eye" also sparked a new wave of "make better" shows–home, fashion, what have you–for everybody. (A spinoff, "Queer Eye For The Straight Girl," didn’t do as well.) Declining ratings mean "QE’s" final season will air (this fall). But "Queer Eye’s" contribution to the makeover reality genre remains (pardon the pun) straight-on."
Hail the Fab Five!