Reality Reiterated: "Project Runway" Picks Up Steam, More "Real World" Icky Shenanigans

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on August 6, 2010

Buckle up, kids! We’ve got a whole week’s worth of reality to repeat including the return of Project Runway (sorry, I missed the first week), more Real World icky shenanigans (remember when the kids used to get drunk and mess around instead of this stuff?), plus the return of Brad Goreski, er, Rachel Zoe!

Project Runway

Mondo (left) and Nicholas (auf'd)

Having little fashion sense but hard crushes on saucy Amazon Heidi Klum and the sublimely delightful Tim Gunn, it is with great pleasure that I welcome back Runway! As you know from our very own snicks, there are seven delightful gays amongst the seventeen contestants. These, my friends, are good odds.

I’d like to begin by putting a twenty on Mondo to win. Okay, so Gretchen has swept the first two competitions, and our first gay casualty, Nicholas, was auf weidersehen’ed right off the catwalk.

It’s just that I find Mondo so endearing and really talented. He’s the dark horse here, people. Maybe I’m a sucker for a crying underdog, but Mondo’s touching moment where he admits to being lonely after failing to connect with his roommates had me reaching for the tissues.

Okay, so he also comes across as “weird” or “different.” And so he doesn’t have the classic good looks of out contestant, Christopher, with his piercing blue eyes, sparkly smile, and … where was I?

Christopher

Christopher is the frontrunner for “hottie of the season.” Heidi and out contestant Michael both told us so. Christopher is also, in Big Brother speak, a “floater.” It’ll work for awhile, but eventually Nina will smell blood.

As for the other out contestants, I haven’t made up my mind about Michael or A.J. but I find Andy ultimately fascinating. Was that really his personal airbrushing makeup thingy he brought with him to the show?

As for Casanova, he makes me uncomfortable. It’s like when you date a guy who makes you call him “daddy” even though he’s twenty years older than you. I noticed Casanova’s English improved part way through the episode and then heard a designer comment on it. This guy will either win it all or stick a shiv in Michael Kors’ neck.

Nina Garcia, Michael Kors and the troubling Casanova