a couple of things on a scorcher of a friday

[jlh]

Cat and Ryan: TWOP thinks Cat Deeley was robbed and is clearly better than Bergeron or Seacrest. I think she's clearly better than Project Runway's Heidi Klum, who yes, has hugely improved since season one, but really splits the hosting duties with Tim Gunn. Padma Lakshmi does a lot more on Top Chef than Heidi does on PR. Also, the performance show of SYTYCD is not live! I feel this makes all the difference. Love him or hate him, Ryan has to get a bunch of amateurs (and the singers are MUCH more amateur than the dancers) on and off the stage and keep the judges from taking over the show and get everything in on time and he does it night after night after night. Cat doesn't have to control Nigel; they just edit the comments to fit. I adore Cat—she's my second favorite host and given my Ryan love that's saying a lot. I agree that she should have been nominated. But I think it's Heidi and Howie Mandel who are the head scratchers in that list, not Tom and Ryan.

Andy Cohen: I rarely say really negative things here—it's just not my style. I'd rather talk about things I like than things I don't. But I was on the Bravo web site today looking at the judge blogs and noticed a little "catching up with Ronnie" (from Make Me a Supermodel) and decided to click on the video. Unfortunately, it was one of those annoying Andy Cohen interviews and I have to say, just because he's a network exec doesn't mean I have to listen to him. I used to find him amusing until he started taking over all the reunion shows. He was dreadful on the Top Chef reunion! His show online is like a really bad cable access show, but without the charm. He epitomizes that sort of gay male sensibility that I don't have much time for, where everything has to be either fabulous or bitchy. Ugh. After the Emmys last year he said "who cares about America Ferrara?" and pretty much, he lost me. I don't care if his after the show can only be seen by AmEx members; I certainly don't want to watch!

Comments

[redwhitedresses.livejournal.com]

Howie Mandel is on the list for hosts?! Umm... isn't all he has to do is tell a bunch of women to open cases? D:

I completely agree with youuu. I hope Ryan wins. -crossesfingers-

[eilujspark.livejournal.com]

I'm not suprised about TWoP's Ryan hate. With the exception of Jacob and SOMETIMES Joe R, they all disrespect him. But I'm stunned that they don't even like Tom.

Such fucktards over there.

As for Cat, she's alright...but her voice can grate on my nerves.

[eilujspark.livejournal.com]

P.S.

In terms of "head-scratching", TWoP is REALLY out of the loop if they think that either Tom or Ryan are shocks. Both were frontrunners. CAT would have been a long shot.