Out in Reality TV: March 2008 Archives

"Project Runway" winner Christian Siriano paid a visit to Craig Ferguson Thursday and he announced that replacing his catch phrase "fierce" has been replaced with "expired." I dunno, how many catch phrases can you have during your 15 minutes of fame?

Caught a little bit of "Dancing With the Stars" results show last night and enjoyed seeing Monica Seles all dolled up and dancing as opposed to tennis whites and a hair bun! But Monica trailing all comers on the judges' leader board and became one of the first to be eliminated from the sixth season of the show.

Monica, winner of nine grand slam tournaments in her hall of fame career, earned just a combined 30 points (out of a possible 60) for two dances in two weeks, After her departure, I saw Monica appear on Jimmy Kimmel's show where her dancing shows were burned! "A part of me is disappointed, another part of me is absolutely relieved...I was definitely disadvantaged. I had no acting experience and this show is about being a dancer and an actress and I didn't have either so I think that really hurt me because I just could not sell the performance. I never missed a step but yet I could not sell the actual storyline."

While Monica didn't get enough votes to stay on the show, I know one person who did vote for her: fellow tennis legend Martina Navratilova.

"I''m pulling for her," Martina told me yesterday before the vote was made public. "She got so much better the second week., There's no way I could do that, to go out there out of your comfort zone. She is such a perfectionist as I am and went out there and put herself on the line."

Martina and I spoke for an interview to be posted here tomorrow and in my newspaper column on Friday. Look for it!

I'm just gonna say it: I am so over Oprah Winfrey. I used to absolutely love her - for decades I loved her - but between Oprah's Book Club, Oprah Winfrey Presents, Oprah's Favorite Things, the upcoming Oprah TV network and tonight's new show: "Oprah's Big Give," I'm starting to agree with a joke Kathy Griffin made a few years ago: Oprah thinks she's Jesus."

However, I am not sick of Oprah's annointed designer, Nate Berkus, a gay man who is the host of "Give" and who heart-breakingly shared the trama of losing the love of his life in the tsunami. According to ABC, the show premieres tonight and defies television convention with the bold idea of people competing to give rather than get. Cast members include host Berkus and expert judges including world-renowned chef and philanthropist Jamie Oliver, NFL star and Boys & Girls Club Hall of Famer Tony Gonzalez, and wife of Chris Rock and charity founder Malaak Compton-Rock.