One good thing about long lead times on articles: Even though I'm deathly ill and spending my days curled up in bed awash in self-pity, stuff I wrote last week is just now appearing on the Internets.
Everyone knows I'm an HGTV addict, never more so than when I'm sick. I got to interview the two out gay contestants on this season of Design Star, Josh Johnson and Scott Corridan:
Last year, out gay designer David Bromstad emerged victorious on HGTV's knockdown, drag-out home decorating competition reality show, Design Star. Bromstad's prize was his own show, Color Splash, which became a runaway hit, has been picked up for three more seasons, and made Bromstad a near-household name. But is America ready for another out gay design star?
Apparently HGTV thinks so, because this season the cast includes not one but two out gay contestants: Josh Johnson, a long, lean blond with a Tennessee twang whose audition presentation looked like a very tasteful – and expensive – version of Barbie's dream house, and Scott Corridan, an event planner from Santa Barbara, CA, who arrived on set clutching his own personal espresso maker.
Both Josh and Scott had some extremely interesting things to say about the whole experience, and about David Bromstad, and their cast mates, and each other... read it here.
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