Jay McCarroll Video

TV Guide has a new video discussing reality show pioneers and Jay McCarroll of Project Runway Season 1 is featured. Click here to see the segment; Jay's portion starts at about 3:41. Thanks, Roz.

From The Mailbox

Here is a TVGuide interview with Rita Verreos. Thanks Frank.

Tim Gunn will be honored at the 59th Annual Parsons Benefit on April 30th. Click here for more details. Thanks Deb!

Tim also will be hosting a live auction at VH-1's Save The Music benefit on September 20th.

Here is a press release about the LA Times Book Festival. Tim Gunn will be signing. We're counting on you all for Field Reports!

Speaking of Tim's Book Tour....here is a link to an updated calendar of appearances. Thanks Kerry!

Mychael Knight's designs were featured on BET's Rip The Runway show. Don't miss the link to the video. Congratulations, Mychael!

Ugly vs. Pretty

It's going to be a tough decision tonight if you don't own a TiVo.

Tim Gunn will reprise his role as a fashion correspondent covering Fashion Week on the hit show Ugly Betty on ABC (8/7 Central). If you missed him on last week's episode, here's the link to the video.

Airing opposite Ugly Betty on CBS, it's the premier of Survivor: Fiji. Uncle Nick's lovely sister, Rita, will be among the 19 contestants starving for the million dollar prize and the title of Sole Survivor. That's one crown this beauty queen wouldn't mind wearing. Good luck, Rita.

Q&A With Nick Verreos

Hi everyone out there in "londonfashiontrends World." It has been a crazy week for me, especially since it finally "came out" that my sister, Rita, was going to be in the new season of "Survivor: Fiji". I kind of felt like TR Knight or Neil Patrick Harris, when they were officially outed on "People Magazine". OK, I may be exaggerating. But it was good to not have to "hold the secret" any longer.

My sister and I have always been very close--we are only 18 months apart--and I have always been very supportive through all her endeavors. From being in the "Miss Venezuela" pageant, to majoring in French and Italian at UC Berkeley, to coming to LA to pursue acting, up to the present, beginning a (hopefully) successful career in Pageant Coaching in Texas. I have always been very proud of her. However, I am most proud of her for being a great mother (as well as jealous as heck for how she maintains that damn hot figure of hers!).

BPR: When did you find out that she was considering this?

She visited Los Angeles several months back to coach some contestants for "Miss California" as well as to attend the "Miss Universe" contest. She said she was approached with an opportunity to try out for the newest season of "Survivor". I sort of brushed it off as her just getting "caught up" in the Hollywood "reality show" babble that does sometimes envelop people the minute they breathe the LA-LA air. Well, I soon realized she was serious, when she told me that she had indeed tried out and was in consideration as one of the new cast members of "Survivor: Fiji". Now you guys know the rest.

BPR: Why do you think she'll be a great "Survivor?"

She has been doing "competitions" since she was 18 years old (even though they were International Beauty contests, they are still no "walk in the park"). She has been dancing ballet since she was 5 years old, therefore she's athletic and flexible. She is not only beautiful but intelligent, so she could possibly use both qualities in this crazy game that is "Survivor". Also, as a single mother of two kids, I think any mom can attest that the show "Survivor" is, pardon the pun, "kid's stuff" , compared to raising two children in this day and age!