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AfterElton Briefs: Colin and Justin get hitched, Lifetime goes "Runway"-crazy, and more!


Let's hope that doesn't mean what we think it means...
(Cheyenne Jackson in Paper magazine's "Beautiful People" issue)

In a continued effort to bring you all that is important in the world of gay entertainment and ensure that you are being spoon-fed images of gorgeous, commoditized manflesh, we present the newly-minted AfterElton Briefs. Following the usual assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.

  • Paper magazine has released their annual "Beautiful People" issue, and out Broadway wonderhunk Cheyenne Jackson is among those honored. Everyone cool with that? Yeah, I thought so.
  • The Queerty boys chatted up gay author Scott Heim (Mysterious Skin), whose new novel, We Disappear, is a return to dark, quasi-autobiographical territory.
  • Lifetime is going Project Runway crazy, with a makeover series called Project Pygmalion and another as-yet-unnamed series about the Runway models (America's Next Top Coathanger?) in the works for November.

Newlyweds McAllister and Ryan of How Not to Decorate
  • Decorating duo Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan (we profiled them back yonder) have gotten hitched in their native UK after 22 years of being together. Congrats, fellas! I guess our invite got lost somewhere in the Atlantic ... :(
  • Gay Doctor Who, Torchwood, and Queer as Folk mastermind Russell T Davies laughed off being named the "most influential" gay person in the UK, and then called the designation "slightly demeaning". (He'd been hoping for "Best Dressed", maybe?)

And today's Briefs are brought to you by...

Colin and Justin: decorating divas

As television’s best-loved style experts, Colin McAllister, 40, and Justin Ryan, 39, first came to the British public’s attention back in 2003 in BBC2's hugely successful series, the Million Pound Property Experiment, which saw them buy, renovate and sell seven properties across Britain, ranging from £100,000 to £1.25 million.

And now, our favorite Scottish interior designers, who are openly gay life-partners off screen, are back with a brand new TV show. Colin and Justin’s Home Show sees the lovable duo take to the road to visit some of the UK’s biggest retail destinations, ranging from Bluewater to Meadowhall to the Trafford Centre. The format of the show requires Colin and Justin to make their own set from scratch in the middle of a shopping centre, transforming the set into a spectacular themed room in front of a live audience, using furnishings and accessories sourced from the shopping centre.

With their trademark bickering behavior, temper tantrums and light-hearted put-downs, Colin and Justin’s Home Show has all the ingredients to be as riveting viewing as their previous endeavors. Who can forget their unique presenting style on the second series of the controversial reality show, The Farm? And watching the pair trying to bring up an animatronic baby for six days in 3 Celebs and A Baby was TV at its most hilarious.

Together for 21 years, the couple recently crossed the pond (well, Canada!) to present a new TV show on Canadian telly. Colin and Justin’s Home Heist sees the boys trying to put an end to bad taste in Canada, as they hunt down homes with criminally bad interiors, in which they have just one week to give them a stylish makeover.

Colin and Justin’s Home Heist can be seen on HGTV in October 2007.

Colin and Justin’s Home Show starts on UKTV Style from September 25, 2007 at 8pm.


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