Maybe you'll get the version with Gok eventually...?

hah! I just went to check out the website for his version and his rules are cracking me up:

RULE 4: Wax and shave the hair on your body – your muff area should always be maintained

"muff area" heh

We get the Gok one in Canada on one of the cable channels. I've only caught it occasionally but thought it was fabulous! I love the huge naked picture on the side of a building! Also, the line up of all sorts of women in all shapes and sizes in their underwear (or knickers!)

I love the ads for it, for sure. I think it (the Carson Kressly version) might be on Lifetime or something....

I think it might be on Lifetime or something....

It is! I just this minute so an ad for it on the Fug site.

That's why I'm afraid I'll never watch it, because I don't watch anything else on Lifetime. But I mean to!

Also, the line up of all sorts of women in all shapes and sizes in their underwear (or knickers!)

I know! Real, actual women! Nekkid! Jibbly bits and all! How rarely women's bits are allowed to be jibbly on tv these days.

Several posts upthread, there were comments about Tyson Beckford looking different. I didn't see the program, but could his changed look be due to the car accident in 2005?

It was a horrifying accident that will be forever imprinted in model Tyson Beckford's memory: a Mack truck ramming his red pickup off the road. Beckford found himself trapped inside the burning vehicle, and five weeks later, he's still recovering.

"He just pushed me right into the light pole and then the engine burst into flames," Beckford recalled. "My lip was busted, one of my teeth was knocked out and my eye was swollen shut. My nose was fractured and the blood was squirting out of my face."

(That's from ExtraTV, on 7/13/05)

I remember seeing him talk about it on Oprah, and it looked pretty horrific.

"My lip was busted

you can definitely see where his lip looks a bit . . . off in the closeup. But, I saw him in October, and he was still fine. I have a pic, but it's a bad angle, and his face looks really long.

So, I'm very enamoured of How to Look Good Naked. You guys have it yet?

I've been watching the British version in Canada and it's amazing. It's great to see a makeover show that doesn't transform a person into something they're not in a week, but takes time to work with them to learn to love who they are.

At six in the morning I'm having no trouble getting through Tim's Take.

Ouch ouch ouch:

Christian, I suspect, will have a polarizing effect on our viewers. I write this largely out of projection, because I alternate between wanting to give him a big hug and wanting to give him a sobering slap. In a manner that evoked the discovery of penicillin, he believed that the material he chose (hundreds of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup wrappers), coupled with his design (a mini-dress with a halter and choker), would ensure his win.

Furthermore, he was “finished” hours before the deadline. When I found him in the workroom gloating over his achievement and offering spare-time critiques to his fellow designers, I pulled him aside to suggest that he consider giving his design some more time and thought. “I certainly don’t think that you’re going home (and he won the last challenge, so he had immunity), but I’m not as confident as you are that this design is the winner.” If looks could really kill, I would have been a goner.