On the finale of Top Design, Jonathan Adler’s eyebrows announced that Chicagoan Matt Lorenz won the competition. He gets $100,000 and a spread in Elle Decor, and we never have to hear Jonathan Adler say shit like, “judges, shall we motor?” again, at least not until next season. Matt’s competitor, Carisa Perez-Fuentes, created a loft …
Bravo’s Top Design ends tonight at 10 p.m. ET; either Carisa or Matt will win $100,000 and an awkward hug from Jonathan Adler. Perhaps because the show hasn’t really been a breakout hit, it concludes with just a one-hour episode, and there’s been no word of a reunion. The show has never really gotten over …
Top Design‘s judges may be boring and barely competent, but at least one of them has an interesting past. Kelly Wearstler appeared as Playboy’s Playmate almost 13 years ago. Bravo’s profile for Kelly Wearstler says she “ranks among the design industry’s most influential new tastemakers.” In September 1994, appearing as Kelly Gallagher in Playboy, she …
After three episodes, Top Design is shaping up to be an interesting talent competition, and a semi-worthy replacement for Project Runway. It benefits from a process we can watch unfold and judge in a way that Top Chef will never be able to match. And perhaps because the show is produced by Mole producers Scott …
On tonight’s Top Design, one of the cast members will reveal that they are HIV positive, becoming only the second cast member in reality TV history to reveal on camera that they have HIV. (This story identifies that Top Design cast member, and thus constitutes a mild spoiler.) The first was The Real World San …
The controversy leading up to the finale of Top Chef 2, never mind the spoiled outcome, helped bring it an audience 3.896 million viewers. That’s a 157 percent increase from its first finale, according to Bravo. While nearly two million viewers changed the channel after Ilan’s victory, Top Design premiered with 1.786 million viewers, enough …
At 11 p.m. ET, immediately after the conclusion of Top Chef 2, Bravo debuts its latest talent competition series, Top Design. While networks plagiarizing from one another is nothing new, Bravo may be the first to take a successful show of its own and try to copy it repeatedly (a fourth show, Shear Genuis, is …