Shear Genius Reunion: Boogie wonderland

Did anyone else watch the smorgasboard of bizarre that was the Shear Genius Reunion last night? Or am I the only masochist who willingly subjects himself to such things (keep repeating, "it's for your job... it's for your job...")? I need help. "Hello, my name is Brian. And I Watch What Happens."

It was of course the makings of great television, but much of what happened still boggles the mind. The better part of the discussion was about the spectacular bleached-out rivalry between Tyson and Tabatha, of course. But the really interesting bits centered around Anthony and Dr. Boogie.

Anthony is of course the lone gay man to make it to the final three. Or wait -- is he? Because when host Andy Cohen asked him point-blank if he was gay on the reunion show (noting that there had been a lot of people asking on the Bravo's website), Anthony took the fifth. Which is totally his right, don't get me wrong.

But this is interesting, because Bravo had confirmed with us months ago that Anthony is gay (along with Theodore, Jim, and... that was it. Yes, seriously.). I'm not sure exactly when the reunion was filmed, but it must have been before Anthony decided to go public about it -- assuming he did (I hope he did!).

But the strangest moment of course involved the show's resident preconception-shatterer, Dr. Boogie. They showed a clip reel of a bunch of Boogie's more notable moments, several of which involved his open ogling of resident stylist Rene Fris (whom we just interviewed yesterday, in fact). Cohen asked Boogs why he was so obsessed with Rene, and Boogie went off on a tangent about how Rene is so beautiful that you'd see him walking on the beach and want to give him a beer and take him home.

Now, Boogie is not openly gay and has said as much on the show. He also has a very sweet and adorable son, as we learned in last night's episode. And when Cohen asked Boogie to elaborate on what he had just said, noting, "because you're straight, right?", Boogie gave one of his trademark cryptic answers about how he didn't say exactly what he'd do with Fris once he got him home.

SO. WEIRD.

Even weirder? On the exclusive clips over on the show's website, Cohen asks the contestants who in the cast they'd most like to make out with, and Boogie says that he's "already had Rene". Yes, "had". He's kidding, but you could cut the tension between those two with a pair of safety scissors.

Otherwise, nothing much surprising went down: Tabatha won the viewer's favorite $10,000 prize (of course -- she's a glorious beeotch and a crazy-talented hairdresser), Evangelin is still gaga over those hedge clippers, Danna and Fris are still competing for the Most Untraceable Accent honor, and Jaclyn Smith has a heart of gold (come on -- as if we didn't know our Angel by now!).

So that was it -- next week's the big finale, and tomorrow we'll of course have our full recap of last night's competition episode. All told, not a bad season -- although I'm still itchin' for some Runway action!