Before I get to what I did last night -- and I know you can't wait for that -- I want to address something you may have heard, that Katie Lee Joel wont be joining us next season on "Top Chef." It is unfortunately true that Katie has left us to pursue other opportunities. She is a dynamic, beautiful woman who is passionate about food with a real zest for life. Everybody at "Top Chef" is going to miss her next season but she will always be part of the Bravo family.
If there's one thing I've learned in my two years at Bravo, besides that I love me some Katie Lee Joel, it's that when Queer Eye throws a party, go because it will be good. Those five queens don't need a joker to turn it out, and last night's Season 3 wrap party was no exception.

Kyan, Thom and Jai flank surprise guest: the Legendary Shirley Q. Liquor!
There is a weird thing that happens in life when you find out about something you've never heard of and then, miraculously, repeatedly hear about that same thing over and over. So it was that I found myself on the rooftop of 230 Fifth Ave, the spot who's existence I questioned at Monday's "Devil Wears Prada" premiere party. I doubt it will become a weekly hangout. Last night's party was on the far side of a rooftop so you had to wade through about a thousand heteros on the make paying $12 bucks a drink and contributing to what has to be one of the great fire hazards in all of Manhattan. En route to the crafty queers, I walked through the horny heteros plotting my dive from the building should it burn. I was terrified of a fire, and as I fought through a crowd that looked like Satan's children all gathered on a rooftop, all signs pointed to a disasterous end.

The Empire State Building stands erect, perhaps in salute to Season 3 of Queer Eye!

Carson and I work overtime.
But in QueerVille, spirits were high and drinks were flowing. Jai led a raffle. Thom and I hunted down waiters. Carson cavorted. And Ted drank champers. I was shocked when a massive TV screen appeared and I learned that there was a gag reel. That's surprising because as I watch rough cuts of Queer Eye, I am regularly the person who wonders if we can cross the line so I couldn't imagine there was content being edited out of the show. I'm talking about, say, showing Carson discovering AnalEese in a Straight Guy's nightstand. I wondered what could possibly have been left on the edit room floor.

Kyan and his fiance Greg celebrate their love.
Well I found out and there was plenty, trust me. The place was howling. I need to talk to our Bravotv.com folks about setting up an adults only part of the site where we can show this gag reel. I love a blooper, and by the end of the night, there were plenty more....

Ted and his partner Barry.

Rob, Thom, and Exec Producer Linda Lea yuk it up.










Comments
Andy, Andy, Andy...I'm in Top Chef/Project Runway withdrawl....Blog for me, Andy. Blog for me.
Posted by: Sharla | June 22, 2006 08:00 PM
Isn't it season four? Season three ended ages ago. Season four has already started airing.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 25, 2006 06:42 PM
love the palm tree in front of the erect E.S.B.
also are those glasses you are wearing, since when?
who is the guy in the background drinking dark brown water? and is it fiance for a queer and not fiancee
Posted by: Maxie Halston | June 26, 2006 06:19 PM