Thursday, April 27, 2006

Mystery Guest Revealed

In doing a story about a new suit that can be washed and dried in your home machines (and don't need ironing), we decided to order the suits for our on-air talent to model. The plan was to get the suits, have a guest on to talk about them, film the reporters wearing them and washing them, then have that guest back the next day to see how the suit held up.
The guest we got was Carson Kressley from "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." I met him this morning and filmed him behind the scenes discussing the suit (some of this will air tomorrow). In fact he was a really nice guy, funny and charming even before I put the camera on, at which point he became funnier and charminger. I got the impression that like most TV people, the personality you see on TV is real, just jacked up a couple notches. He made some very funny jokes and was very pleasant. He wore no socks (even though he wore a very nice suit), came without any one else (though he did tell someone to contact his publicist) and even walked himself into the breakroom to make himself a cup of tea.
Bottom line, I really like the guy and you all will now have to hear me say "Carson Kressley is my friend."
More tomorrow, hopefully.


Carson hates socks

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