Leno goes gay....

[TexasF355F1]

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NEW YORK - "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" is turning its gaze toward Jay Leno.

The host of NBC's "The Tonight Show" will undergo a makeover at the hands of the "Fab 5" - the five gay stylists who give a straight man a new look each week on the hit reality show.

They're scheduled to appear on Leno's late-night talk show Aug. 14 - the same night NBC will re-air the second installment of the Bravo series. Then they'll come back the next night to show off the results of their work.

"Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," which made its debut July 15, provides a twist on the newly popular makeover shows, while even managing to impart a message.

Straight and gay men "are just guys, and they want to feel good about themselves," said David Collins, the series' creator. "We all do."

The show has set ratings milestones for Bravo and has been repeated on NBC. Last week, Comedy Central's Jon Stewart joked about it on "The Daily Show."

In what turned out to be a lucky break, Bravo was bought by U.S. NBC broadcast network after the channel picked up "Queer Eye" - and Jeff Gaspin, the NBC executive vice whose responsibilities include the cable channel, was enthusiastic about the series.

That support has translated into on-air NBC promotions as well as high-profile billboards touting "Queer Eye" in New York's Times Square and on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.

Like NBC's gay-themed sitcom "Will & Grace," the Bravo series is groundbreaking, said Gaspin. "We're taking a common genre, the makeover show, and we're being really honest with it, we're having fun with it."

The gay stylists include food and wine connoisseur Ted Allen, co-author of Esquire magazine's "Things a Man Should Know" column, and Thom Filicia, named by House Beautiful magazine as one of America's top designers. Culture maven Jai Rodriguez, "grooming guru" Kyan Douglas and fashion sage Carson Kressley round out the advisory board.

The idea for the series came to Collins while gallery-hopping one day in Boston. He overheard a woman comparing her spouse, unfavorably, to a trio of sharp-looking gay men.

The three men heard too, and intervened to offer constructive criticism, Collins recounted. "As I left with my buddy, I jokingly said, `That was kind of the queer eye for the straight guy.' These guys swooped in there and helped this man out."

Collins marched into Scout Productions, the film and TV company which he co-founded, and suggested that a show had been born. Collins, who's gay, enlisted a straight colleague, David Metzler, to join in producing it for Bravo.

Next week, when the stylists head to The Tonight Show, they will have their eyes on more than just a Leno makeover. The trade paper Variety reported Tuesday that Leno's set also will get a new look. The New York-based cast is expected to travel to Los Angeles next week to begin shopping for furniture and other fashionable goodies.

[sidewinder69]

Just another example of T.V. trying to branch out for the sole purpose of getting more ratings.

Same shite T.V. as that stupid ass Temptation Island. And Paradise Hotel....just trying to get some shock value I'm guessing.

[2strokebloke]

I don't watch either of those shows, but in the interests of being fair - I think that Jay Leno should be allowed to give the gay guys makeovers in exchange for the makeover they're going to give him.

[ugly kid jon]

Why is the media being flooded with gayness? I thought it was taboo?

[Graphik Styles]

i think it will show Jay Leno as being more comedic....and it will surely improve his popularity through gays, and also just the general population. Its a good Popularity Stunt

[Toksin]

Originally posted by De$i Gank$ta
i think it will show Jay Leno as being more comedic....and it will surely improve his popularity through gays, and also just the general population. Its a good Population Stunt

ROFL

What the fuck is a population stunt? POPULARITY STUNT.

ugly kid: Crawl out from under your rock and have a look at how the world is changing.

[Graphik Styles]

Originally posted by Toksin


ROFL

What the fuck is a population stunt? POPULARITY STUNT.

ugly kid: Crawl out from under your rock and have a look at how the world is changing.

heh heh shutup......you knew what i meant, thats all that matters........

[ugly kid jon]

Originally posted by Toksin


ugly kid: Crawl out from under your rock and have a look at how the world is changing.

It's TV that is changing.

[freakray]

Originally posted by ugly kid jon


It's TV that is changing.

Really? Who are you fooling?

The whole world is turning into this politically correct 'gay is okay' idealism, not just TV.

Why do you think the Episcopal church elected a gay bishop?
To give the message that being gay is alright.....it's not being driven by TV, it's being driven by weirdos!

[V-8Fan]

Ya really gotta hand it to Leno...to do such a thing would demand a very high degree of self confidence. Makes my skin crawl!

Seems like the homosexual's are having a lot more success pushing their agenda these days, but one thing they cannot change is the fact that homosexuality is a perversion...always was, always will be. And I don't have to accept it as "normal." Next thing you know someone will start demanding that everyone recognize the sky as being yellow.

[ugly kid jon]

Originally posted by V-8Fan
they cannot change is the fact that homosexuality is a perversion...always was, always will be.

Ditto!

[2strokebloke]

Yes, but these days if you think that homosexuality is a perversion, you probably also think that nobody should ever have sex except for the purpose of procreation - and that even then only do so in the missionary position - lest you be a total perv. Sex out of marriage is just as immoral, but you don't hear many people speaking out against that sort of sin these days. Could you imagine it? "Unmarried Skanking Slutress eye, for a straight guy?"

[Veyron]

It may be a perversion, but I believe some people are born homosexuals just as some people are born with their organs on the outside and other birth issues. It isn't normal but it doesn't mean that it never happens. I'm not afraid of gay's and they have a right to push their agenda's. Of course they have a lunatic fringe just like any faction does that has a negative effect on their cause.

[V-8Fan]

Originally posted by 2strokebloke
Yes, but these days if you think that homosexuality is a perversion, you probably also think that nobody should ever have sex except for the purpose of procreation - and that even then only do so in the missionary position - lest you be a total perv. Sex out of marriage is just as immoral, but you don't hear many people speaking out against that sort of sin these days. Could you imagine it? "Unmarried Skanking Slutress eye, for a straight guy?"

Just because something is immoral or a sin does not make it a perversion.

If everything is relative, maybe in another ten years it will be normal to have sex with dead people. Necrophilia, anyone?

[sidewinder69]

Originally posted by V-8Fan

If everything is relative, maybe in another ten years it will be normal to have sex with dead people. Necrophilia, anyone?

Not only that they would prolly. make it into a reality show.