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Friday, October 20, 2006
10:00 am
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Project Runway has managed to be the smartest, no-guilty pleasure in all of reality television: a finely-produced, compelling series with real drama and true talent– a fact made very clear in the surprisingly terrific clothing lines that the Final Four (even poor Michael) displayed in that fashion show finale.
But now there are accusations that the producers tarnished the Runway brand by planting a ringer and troublemaker in the Final Four– which was supposed be the Final Three.
The finger-pointing comes from the high-brow journalistic website Salon.com (we wouldn’t want to give the National Enquirer, which pays sources and lawyers to make sure its stories are spot-on, credit for this one), which accuses producers of “contrived turns that smeared off some of the show’s high gloss and made its usually sturdy premise suddenly seem a little wobbly.”
Salon points to Laura Bennett, the “caricature of the idea of class and sophistication” who threw a surprise spanner in the works by accusing fellow contestant Jeffrey Sebelia of cheating:
“This was not the first time that Laura has seemed like a total plant by the show’s producers. There were moments– like the time she told Kayne, her voice campily dripping with sugar, that she ‘really questioned [his] taste sometimes’ — when you watched with awe, and then suspicion.
“Even her inclusion in the final four seemed somewhat dubious; Laura’s clothes are so one-note, they barely register… Later, when she told Jeffrey of her charges… she did it with such brazen camera mugging, it made you wonder how many times she had practiced it in a mirror beforehand.”
Salon doesn’t stop there: “But the probers did discover that Jeffrey went $200 over budget, and needed to knock something out of his collection. But wait a minute, isn’t going over budget also against the rules? Why didn’t that lead to his disqualification?”
Says Salon: “The culmination of so many questions dimmed the luster of ‘Project Runway’ this season.”
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yeah i still don’t understand why breaking the rules warranted a slap on the wrist only. They kicked that one guy out in no time, and they didn’t seem to actually do any ‘investigating’ into Jeffrey’s work. I’m doubting Laura was there for the sole purpose of causing a fuss. But whatever, it’s over.
This sounds like total crap to me. Laura made some good pieces and had excellent tailoring skills. While never the outright winner she survived from week to week by simply not being the worst, which is what happened every other season, as well. Kara Janx made the final four last season, but really, did anyone think she was going to win?
What a bunch of horseshit. She was picked by many from the beginning to be in the final 4. She must be a plant because she mugged for the camera? They ALL did. Vincent made mugging for the camera his life’s mission. Because Laura has an acidic sense of humor shes a plant. That’s just dumb.
As for the Jeffrey thing, they same thing happened to Kara Saun in season 1 with her shoes, so they were consistent thus disproving the entire premise.
Its annoying that this is even talked about, much less forwarded here. But now that the show has become a huge hit (wednesday was its biggest ratings ever), the freaky accusations are bound to start coming out.
I read that article too, and I also read Tim Gunn’s blog on Bravo—he mentions that the rule for contestants who go over budget is simply to remove items that bring the total over—it’s not grounds for disqualification. He cites Kara Saun from Season 1 as an example—her specially-made shoes were discounted & therefore not judged as part of her collection.
this whole thing abt Laura being a mole is a buncha b.s.—the example they cite w/ her commenting on Kayne’s taste?? hello, did Salon not see the entire season, she said something abt EVERYBODY (see reunion recap for a great example) so why would that make her suspicious? One-note or not, the woman could sew, she displayed excellent sewing skills and to call all that a sham is a waste of everyone’s time & intelligence, not to mention the stupidest conspiracy theory i ever heard!
These Tabloid Baby posts are starting to get on my nerves.
I like getting my TB fixes. Like the recaps, too. Sounds like someone doesn’t have a sense of humor — it’s gossip. Gossip is snarky. B-Side and J-Unit are snarky. Snarks rule.
watcher = Tabloid Baby.
It’s as transparent as a his jokes.
(psst, cool people avoid the word “snark” at all costs.)
No sg-dub. Not TB here. Snark all over the place in comments on this site. Who appointed you?
Hate to break the news to all you Jeffrey nay-sayers, but Tim Gunn, THE Tim Gunn, is “thrilled” that Jeffrey won. If you don’t believe me go to the Chicago Tribune site and read the interview he gave Maureen Ryan.
“Even her inclusion in the final four seemed somewhat dubious; Laura’s clothes are so one-note . . . ”
Did I miss something all season because didn’t the judges also think Uli was rather one-note UNTIL the very end?!? How stupid. I will stand by my own opinion and say that Laura had one of the best outfits in just about every competition. To say she isn’t a designer is ridiculous because it is “to each his own” and I LOVE her style.
If we want to point at someone as being “dubiously put into the finals” it would be Jeffrey. He missed the mark on the final challenge and this wasn’t the first time he had done so. He made it this far into the season because he was the token villain. He simply got extremely lucky at Fashion Week.
I guess I’d rather read this tabloid baby nonsense, than read about Omarosa’s new fake water balloon shaped tits.
laura did some awesome work, and her line was f ing beautiful.
Laura consistently showed great designs all season and deserved to be there just as much as Uli, Michael, and Jeffrey. To say that she was kept for the sole reason to criticize Jeffery is crazy. Are they not aware of the phrase she used all season-”serious ugly” ? I think at some point she used it to describe practically every other designer on the show. That’s just Laura’s personality-if she thinks it, she says it.
Is Tabloid Baby getting paid by the word here?
“Tim Gunn, THE Tim Gunn, is ‘thrilled’ that Jeffrey won.”
Takes one to know one.
What ISN’T fixed on this show?