So the new season of Project Runway kicked off with a nifty "hat' trick yesterday. By nifty, I meant to say quite terrible. Using materials and items from their apartments, the designers had to construct a dress. One of the designers placed what quite literally resembled a lampshade onto of his model's head. The hat paired with the big lamp hat made the model look...unwell. She might as well have been wearing a bicycle helmet and looking for her baseball. Nonetheless, the model still looked hotter than you and me. That's why she's a model and you aren't. I didn't want to be sucked into yet another reality show (I'm already committed to "So You Think You Can Dance"), but this damn show had me at hello.
Anyhoo, the gossipmongers at New York Daily News have a bit of a spoiler for this season's Project Runway. If you're curious, click on "more" below.
The Daily News writes:
Hungarian model Jia Santos (whose real name is Eliza Jakubek), 18, became one of the three finalists. But near the end of taping, she was struck by a bus while riding her bike to the show's location in the city.
"She was dragged underneath the bus," her agent, Avenue Models' Javier Hernandez, told us yesterday. "She fractured her skull and her eye socket and was in critical condition for three days. Now she has been in intensive care for a month."
Her first words upon waking up, Hernandez tells us, were: "Am I still on 'Project Runway'?"
It's good to see that this model has her priorities in the right place, but I'm wondering who chose her "model" name "Jia Santos." Her real name seems model appropriate. I wonder how frequent this practice of changing names is in the modeling industry.
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