'Queer Eye' Cancelled

Copyright World Entertainment News Network ^ | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 | WENN

[presidio9]

Groundbreaking reality make-over show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy has been cancelled after three seasons--but the stars of the show insist they are still a huge hit with celebrities. The show features five gay men who make-over unstylish straight men each week on the Bravo network, and since hitting the screen the camp stylists have been asked to revamp the homes of stars including Jennifer Lopez.

Queer Eye member Jai Rodriguez says the show won't be returning for another season, explaining, "Well, we haven't been asked back for 2007.

"It's only been three years, but it feels like so much more due to the overexposure. I started when I was 23. In that first year, I was on Oprah's couch.

"I was on Ellen (DeGeneres). People recognized me. J. Lo is a huge fan of ours. (Queer Eye member Thom Filicia) just re-did her house."

The show recently broke new ground again by making over Miles, a transgendered man.

Rodriguez adds, "Maybe this is how we are going out with a bang. Everyone (in the group) has big new projects.

"I'm working on a TV show and a movie in the fall. We just had a tour of the Philippines. We are huge there. Like Michael Jackson in 1983."

[EagleUSA]

Good.

[pissant]

That log cabin republican troll from earlier will be saddened.

[bmwcyle]

Thank God!

[JRios1968]

You mean "thaddened"?

[No Blue States]

I never unsderstood why straight men would take fasion tips from gay men anyway.

Id rather look like s**t 1st.

[Doomonyou]

Oh man, I never got to see it.

[Hydroshock]

We are huge there. Like Michael Jackson in 1983."

Hopefully they are not like Jackson in other ways.

[Sybeck1]

Death to the Metrosexuals!! Back to men being men, and women loving them for it!

[presidio9]

Amazing: Seven posts and nobody has yet said the obligatory "Bush's Fault."

[Allegra]

I shall heave great wracking sobs into my pillow tonight.

[ArGee]

WTF? How can anyone in the US possibly put up with cancelling a group of deviants explaining to the normal how they should behave?

Oh, for shame.

Shalom.

[jimbo123]

Shep Smith is deeply saddened.

[lilylangtree]

Never watched it. The show didn't get the sponsorships, huh? And the stars are such a hit in H'weird!!!! Not surprising.

[M1Tanker]

There is so much in this story to make fun of, I don't know where to start....

Big hit with the "celebrities" translates to "no one who actually works for a living and has their head based in the real (not "reel") world cares about our show".

And being as big as MJ in 1983 translates to "You'll see us appear in court on molestation charges in a decade or so."

[JohnnyZ]

We are huge there. Like Michael Jackson in 1983

We done touched on everything BUT little boys
That's not a stab at Michael
That's just a metaphor
We're just homo
We like to be such fairies sometimes
We get a little bit gay with our rhymes

[Sybeck1]

I'm going to have to get my old high school annuals from my mom's and post some of Shep's pics from the 80's. Their a trip!

[hellinahandcart]

"It's only been three years, but it feels like so much more due to the overexposure.

I feel the same way! :D

[divine_moment_of_facts]

[pissant]

Yeth.

[mikrofon]

Queer Eye member Thom Filicia

Figures....

[JRios1968]

You just said it!

[hershey]

I never watched the show, but TV has room for just about everything. They'll return in another guise, and that's okay. They're talented, smart, funny, and if they trigger independent, creative though in their viewers, how bad is that? Sexual inuenndoes which probably ran rampant through the show I could do without, however.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

"I'm working on a TV show and a movie in the fall. We just had a tour of the Philippines. We are huge there. Like Michael Jackson in 1983."

Ironic.

[Free ThinkerNY]

I heard they're planning to replace the show with some exciting episodes of Barney Frank's favorite series, "Rear Admiral."

[Old Professer]

We've all seen fads come and go and it is seldom, if ever easy to note when they began to die away; but lately, it seems to me, the bloom is off the rose for the lightfoot crowd as they traipse through joy's garden.

[hershey]

Umm, that's 'trigger independent, creative thought in their viewers'...sorry.

[JRios1968]

[TonyRo76]

Good! No more "making over" real men into limp-wristed metrosexuals.

I think I'll go blow away a few clay pigeons to celebrate this. Maybe crack open a cold beer and grill a nice thick steak afterwards...

[pissant]

If only gore would have hired the fab five to pick his wardrobe instead of Naomi Wolfe.

[Doomonyou]

Amazing: Seven posts and nobody has yet said the obligatory "Bush's Fault."

That just goes without saying. Everything is Bush's Fault!

[rightinthemiddle]

How is this possible at LEAST 10% of the population is gay and another 20% is in denial of their sexual orientation. There HAS to be an audience for this.

I'm shocked!

[No Blue States]

[Old Professer]

Hershey, are you one of life's wanderers on the lonesome highway?

[JRios1968]

That was uncalled for!

[Palladin]

Are you sure the Fab Five didn't do this to Al Gore?

[Rummyfan]

Rodriguez adds, "Maybe this is how we are going out with a bang. Everyone (in the group) has big new projects.

I'm sure these guys go out with a bang all the time! I won't miss these poofs - and I've never even seen the show.

[Fury]

Noooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[brooklyn dave]

Oh dear, what a loss. Now where will you go for haute-couture? Actually someone came up with a spoof--Straight Plan for the Gay Man.

[pissant]

They would have used better makeup, instead of the ghoulish embalming fluid used in this picture.

[linda_22003]

It was a a fun show, but repetitive- the same "dressing, cooking, decorating" process every week. Like "What Not To Wear" - if it's 40 minutes past the hour, you know they've finished shopping for new clothes, and now it's time for clothes and makeup! It's time for that one to end,too.

[brooklyn dave]

I met someone years ago who called himself a tri-sexual--he'd try anything.

[GianniV]

How long before a sad story appears on 'Dateline' or 'Primetime' where one of these idiots has AIDS?

[freedumb2003]

Hershey, are you one of life's wanderers on the lonesome highway?

Or, perhaps you are named after a highway, Hershey?

[M1Tanker]

I don't think they used make-up in that photo.....

[Vicki]

I have never understood why straight men would take their advice. Even worse, I think many people forget that for the most part it is gay men behind womens' fashion designs. Sometimes I think that is why some clothes are so ugly. They are trying to make us look bad on purpose.

However it doesn't stop there, they are giving advice on everything now. Give us all a break!

[Condor 63]

Back to men being men, and women loving them for it!

Good luck with that. A generation or two has already been ruined.

The women are already starting to figure it all out.

[domenad]

Hell yes to manliness. I just defeated an entire platoon of crab people this morning, thanks to the raggedy beard I'm growing.

[Lucky9teen]

I want them to bring back straight eye for the queer guy. Now that was some good tv.

[TexasCajun]

Damn Good!

I can't explain it, but my wife loves the show.