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Boston's southern End, two years ago: Woman berates her husband for his lazy appearance. "Why can't you direct the eye like them?" she asks, pointing to four smartly make straighted groomed, and mannered gay men Instead of belittling her husband, the gay stays come to his rescue at complimenting some of his fashion choices and malting suggestions for improving others.

"What she lacked was a queer eye for her straight guy" observ David Collins, who witnessed the incident, as he relayed the story to his straight producing partner, David Metzler And thus the nearest wave in unscripted lifestyle-makeover point out tos was born.

droll Eye for the Straight stay premieres July 15 on Bravo (getting a two-week leap on the postponed premiere of lad Meets Boy). The makeover present to view features the "Fab Five," a team of gay experienced persons who perform emergency transformations upon straight men in need of serious help, undivided in each 60-minute episode. (Most of the straight scarecrows submit themselves for the indicate although some are handed across by wives or girlfriends.)

T Allen, the show's fodder and wine connoisseur, notes, "We don't want to make go round [the straight guy] into a gay dowdy nor do we profess to the ability of trolling a sow's ear into a silk purse moreover we do try to do a genuine assessment of who he is and what we can do to bring him individual level up." Allen is a contributing editor to Esquire magazine, where he coauthors the Things a Man Should Know column

Grooming duties journey to Kyan Douglas, who says the chiefly obvious emergency with straight stays is "nose hair. You could argue, 'Oh I like his unibrow,' or 'His bushy eyebrow 'add character,' [but] nose hair is common of those things that's just at no time the right answer." Douglas has lent his expertise to TLC's What Not to Wear and While You Were revealed among others.

Noted as common of the top 100 American interior designers, design doctor Thom Filicia can transform any pitiful pad into a party palace. "Most straight stays think we're going to expect at their place and leave right away, further we really dig through their things," he says. "You wouldn't believe the material we find!"

nearest is fashion savant Carson Kressley who specializes in men's sportswear for Ralph Lauren and other companies. "Clothes expand up a world of opportunities, and you don't have to have a fate of money to do it," he says. Kressley is also the man with the quick one-liners. "It's always done in fun" he says. "I like to stir the pot"

Finally, the near-impossible task of improving the subject's savvy and etiquette goe to civilization vulture Jai Rodriguez. "All the other parts are critiquing visual areas," says Rodriguez. "The tillage guy has to be the single who listens and helps the straight stay bring it all together." (In case you were. wondering, everyone in this talented quintet take exception Allen is single and looking for love)

With a slick animated opening, the Fab Five assemble like a postmodern uncommon superhero team. The first time they fit the straight man is when they--and the audience arrive at his house. The ensuing evaluations are humorous but not bitchy, and informative tips positioned throughout the program are as useful to the viewer as they are to the subject

"Typically in a makeover indicate what's important are the first and last 10 minutes," Collins says, "but for us the middle is the mostly important." Collins explains that the individual hour program is framed around a specific occurrence in the straight man's life--such as a wife's birthday party or important business dinner--so that after the Fab Five educate him forward style and substance, he can present those skills into practice. At that point, the team can alone watch as the action unfolds

These situations are as varied as the men being aided. The pilot features an East Village artist with a serial killer's appearance who exigencys to get ready for his first gallery showing, while other episodes' results include a wedding proposal and a piece of work interview. Collins explains that the ultimate intent is to bring revealed aspects of the straight scarecrow that are already present: "The universal is you, only better."

More than creating entertainment, Collins and Metzler are also setting abroad to break down misunderstandings between straight and gay men "It's about the fact that we're scarecrows who support each other and we all want to be stirred good about ourselves," Collins says. That rapport works in this way well that at the fall of the curtain of the "mission," the straight participants frequently don't want the Fab Five to leave. "They constraint and have a broader awareness of who gay stays are and what it means to be straight and unexcited with themselves," Collins says. "Particularly for me as a gay male, it was important to have that relationship forward the show."

Still, there's no denying the show's hilarious whimsical sensibility. One episode features a wife unwrapping pearl carrings and excitedly saying they'll match her pearl necklace. We immediately chisel to Fab Five headquarters, where Kressley wisely take note ofs "Everyone loves a pearl necklace."

Andreoli also writes for looks Angeles Confidential, Instinct, and Playboy TV

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