Chic and Untroubled

Being the reality TV show victim that I am, I tuned in last night to BET to watch the second season debut of Baldwin Hills, the more colorful version of MTV’s The Hills.

The cast is 100% black, comprised of mostly high school kids, and very, very, real. As with the majority of the programming over at BET, the show couldn’t be scripted even it really wanted to be.

The characters are very believable and the entertainment level was at an all time high throughout the thirty minute broadcast. Basically, I was sold in the first five minutes.

Did you watch?

This is most certainly a bittersweet moment.

While the announcement that Weinstein and Co. is now looking for a new round of budding designers for the sixth season of Project Runway brings excitement with it, this also reaffirms the sad truth so many PJ fans refuse to face: Buh, bye Bravo and hello Lifetime.

The sixth season will usher in an new era of Project Runway as it receives a new network home, location, and producers — leaving many to question if the show can still maintain its certain je ne sais quoi.

But that aside, anyone aching to be apart of this new Project Runway listen up:

Send in a personal video, virtual portfolio, and complete the application here. The deadline is July 9th. Oh, and you must be at least 21 years of age by September 15, 2008 to compete. Sorry, early 90s babies.

PS: If you have an asymmetrical haircut, your chances maybe have just exponentially increased (wink, wink).

After a temporary vacation, we now find our stars of As Project Runway Turns in yet another veritable quandary bound to make its devoted followers (ahem, me) even more annoyed about the direction that the beloved show is heading towards.

Variety reports the good ‘ole people behind MTV’s The Real World — Bunim-Murray — are “this close” to signing on to work their magic over at Lifetime for Harvey Weinstein and Co.

In case your life has been devoid of reality television for the past decade, this production duo are the same culprits behind such hits as Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Living Lohan, and drum roll please, Bad Girls Club.

Oh, yes. Those panel discussions are about to get a whole lot better. Especially, if Michael Kors’ or Heidi Klum’s criticisms have anything to do with the clanging of kitchen pans and/or daring a contestant to “pop off.”

Hopefully, this design overhaul won’t appear on television as gruesome as it reads. Switching production from New York to Los Angeles; going from Bravo to Lifetime, and now this? It’s only a matter of time before American Apparel’s Dov Charney creeps on to set, no?

On Saturday, I made a trek to Old Navy with my friend who was equally excited about purchasing flip flops that were going for a measly $1.

Apparently, everybody else in my small college town got the memo about our a little weekend shopping expedition because when we arrived there were absolutely no sandals left. None.

Disappointed, we got a pretzel and call it a day. I temporarily found comfort in Bravo TV’s reality show, Shear Genius. Basically, it’s Project Runway for hair stylists.

For the contestants first challenge this season, they had to make their models look like popular cartoon characters. The most creative hair styles sought Marge Simpson as their inspiration. While this brave women looks more like the bride of Frankenstein with a dye job than Homer’s wife, I love the effort put forth by the stylist.

Meanwhile, Project Runway returns to Bravo in two weeks and will air right after Shear Genius every Wednesday night. Can.not.wait.

Meet Tinsley Mortimer. She’s a socialite, Dior Beauty spokesperson, Patrick McMullen darling, and apparently kind of fame hungry.

Recently, the New York resident made an attempt to get her very own reality show with MTV. Unfortunately, that project was quickly shelved.

A source tells Page Six, “She looked good but she just got dressed and went to parties every day and didn’t have anything interesting to say. It was incredibly boring. The project is dead.”

Go figure? Anyways, her agent found her a new gig that’s actually much cooler and probably more accurately paints the picture of what goes on in her day to day life: Not a damn thing — except for pampering, pampering, and, um, texting.

Just Jared has obtained picks of the blonde on the set of Gossip Girl. Much like Lydia Hearst last season, the “Tinz” is making a cameo appearance. Her scene was shot in the Hamptons.

In the photos, she looks just as camera ready as her Style.com party pics would indicate. See? I told you the role wasn’t that much of a stretch.

This weekend, MTV aired its Once Upon A Prom special, where famous teens who are unable to go to their own proms because, well, their usually home-schooled are hooked-up with non-famous high school seniors who can’t find a date to their big night.

Country crooner and L.E.I Jeans’ campaign princess Taylor Swift was the celebrity tapped to give one lucky Tuscaloosa, Alabama his dream prom date.

Much like every other event that involves too much hair spray, an abundance of pink blush, and a mystic tan in the southern region of the United States, there were quite a few bizarre dresses at the aforementioned prom.

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