Project Runway season one cast member Wendy Pepper, whose full name was Anne Eustis Pepper, died Sunday. Her obituary, published today in the Washington Post, and which also lists her name as Anne Pepper Stewart, says she “died peacefully on November 12, 2017, surrounded by her loving family,” but does not give a cause of …
Project Runway debuted to dismal ratings 10 years ago this December. Here’s how it grew into a hit show.
A lawsuit filed almost three years ago by two women who claim they created Project Runway has been thrown out by a judge. Cynthia Rodriguez and Elizabeth Marie Anne Zwiebach claimed they pitched the idea for American Runway to Heidi Klum’s agents in 2003. Judge Loretta Preska wrote, according to the Daily Mail, that the …
Tim Gunn was paid just $2,500 an episode for season two of Project Runway, but that’s a lot more than the zero dollars he received for the show’s first season. That’s according to Harvey Weinstein, who said that in court as part of his testimony in the pending lawsuit over the show’s sixth season, according …
Last Monday, Slice, a Canadian TV channel, debuted the first international version of Project Runway. It’s hosted by supermodel Iman and features designer Brian Bailey in the Tim Gunn role, mentoring the show’s 13 designers. Their time on the show began with a 30-minute challenge that eliminated one designer, and the debut’s major challenge was …
Project Runway winner Jay McCarroll told New York magazine for its story on Bravo fame that he’s homeless, but he was apparently just kidding. Jay himself mocks the idea in a series of five short videos (1, 2, 3, 5, 6) posted on YouTube featuring him pretending to be homeless on the streets of New …
Although has a studio space with no kitchen or bathroom, Jay McCarroll, the winner of Project Runway, is homeless. “I haven’t been living anywhere for two years. I sleep at other people’s houses. I sleep here if I’m drunk,” he told New York magazine for their 6,000-word, quasi-expose of Bravo’s reality show stars and the …