Posted on 08/02/2006 10:07:21 AM PDT by 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."
Figures....
You just said it!
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.
Ironic.
I heard they're planning to replace the show with some exciting episodes of Barney Frank's favorite series, "Rear Admiral."
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.
Umm, that's 'trigger independent, creative thought in their viewers'...sorry.
If only gore would have hired the fab five to pick his wardrobe instead of Naomi Wolfe.
That just goes without saying. Everything is Bush's Fault!
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!
Hershey, are you one of life's wanderers on the lonesome highway?
That was uncalled for!
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.
Noooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
They would have used better makeup, instead of the ghoulish embalming fluid used in this picture.
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