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Tim Gunn has a new reality show coming out, aptly named Tim Gunn's Guide to Style.

The fashion maven talked about it with Us Weekly...

Usmagazine.com: With so many makeover shows for viewers to choose from, what makes Guide to Style unique?
Tim Gunn: For one, our show is not an intervention. These women have self-declared their need for help - they share being in a fashion rut. We're not telling [participants] what to wear. It's really an education about who they are, with whom they interact and how they want the world to perceive them. It's the semiology of dressing. It's all about the message that our clothes send and how the world perceives that.

Us: What wardrobe pieces are essential to complete the perfect fall look?
TG: If you don't have a basic black dress, you'd better get one. And you can certainly do that for $200 or under.

Us: Which Project Runway designer could most benefit from your fashion know-how?
TG: That's a great question. God, I don't know - maybe Diana Eng from season two. She's our little math and science nerd and she kept saying that her own personal style wasn't a priority for her, but if you're going to be in fashion and especially if you're going to be a designer, you'd better send a message about what you can do for your customer.

Us: Do you keep in touch with any of the Runway designers?
TG: Austin Scarlett and I spoke recently, Daniel V's doing really well. Robert Plotkin is working for Laundry. I'm in touch with a lot of them â€" those who want to stay in touch. We have our own Alumni Association now!

Us: Lastly, what can we expect from season four's crop of designers?
TG: I love the fact that people will be surprised this season, and what I'll tell you about this season is that there were 120 semi-finalists, and any one of the 120 could have won the whole season. I don't think anyone in the audience is really going to know - challenge to challenge - who's going to win and who's going to be out.

That didn't take long.

We recently reported that Bravo was looking for a female to co-host with Tim Gunn on his upcoming reality show, Tim Gunn's Guide to Style.

The network has now found that special someone: Veronica Webb. The press release identifies her as:

"One of the world's leading supermodels" and "a journalist, essayist, author and actress." She's also "the first African-American woman to sign a major cosmetics contract."

"We think Veronica will make the perfect complement to Tim â€" she'll add a little sass to his class," said Bravo VP Frances Berwick. "She not only brings extensive fashion expertise to the series, but she will be someone for our makeover subjects to lean on, creating a fun, comfortable, yet educational experience that our viewers can learn from."

No matter what, though, she'll never be Heidi Klum. Sorry to break it to you, Veronica.

Bravo is searching for a female sidekick to co-host Tim Gunn's forthcoming series Tim Gunn's Guide to Style.

The new show's "producers have mounted a furious search for a female cohost," Radar reports. According to a woman who auditioned for the job, they don't think Tim Gunn can host the show by himself because he's too smart and not exciting enough.

"A source who auditioned for the job was told that the show's producers felt Gunn, who will offer up style and make-up advice to schlubby civilians, was a bit ‘too highbrow' for viewers, and they needed a ‘more down-to-earth and fun' female presence to balance him out," Radar reports.

The show "was set to start taping [last] week," according to Radar, so "the continuing search for Gunn's go-to gal may delay the release date."

Bravo had no comment.

We weren't kidding when we said Project Runway star, Tim Gunn, would be sharing a table at last week's White House Correspondence Dinner with Sanjaya Malakar.

Each reality TV star was a guest of People magazine.

Gunn looks really psyched to be posing in a picture with the American Idol castoff, doesn't he?

So much for those rumors that Project Runway casting calls for season four were a disaster.

At least according to one of the reality show's stars.

Fashion guru Tim Gunn says Bravo seems to have found enough designers to start its own clothing label, never mind film the popular series.

"We just finished auditions, and I will tell you, we found the most phenomenal designers," Gunn recently told The Seattle Times. "We could cast three seasons with the talent we saw."

Earlier this month, Bravo announced that the upcoming fourth season of its Emmy-nominated Project Runway series will not air as part of its Summer 2007 programming schedule; it will instead premiere in late 2007.

Casting for the series began in late March, and despite being busy with his new job as chief creative officer for Liz Claiborne; working on his new book, "Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style;" and casting for a Bravo reality series version of the upcoming book, Gunn was part of the process.

Never one to shy away from offering criticism to Project Runway's designers, Gunn apparently took the same approach to book editors who asked for clarifications on such Gunn-isms as "faux bois!" and "sturm und drang!"

"The editors said, 'Change these words, change this reference,'" Gunn said. "And I said, 'You know something, I can't do that.' If this is a problem for the reader, they can sit with a dictionary in their laps."

Sounds like the Tim Gunn we all know and love.

File this under "Random Gatherings."

People magazine has assembled a slew of reality TV stars and pseudo-celebrities to fill its table at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner tomorrow night.

To begin with, Sanjaya Malakar's hair-raising adventure will continue at the event. The recently dispatched American Idol contestant will attend the ceremony atWashington Hilton.

He'll be joined by People's guests that include: Valerie Bertinelli, Tim Gunn from Project Runway, Zac Efron of High School Musical, comedian Eddie Izzard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Bravo, along with show producers the Weinstein Company and Miramax, announced last week that Tim Gunn would be back to knock another season's worth of straight-talking design sense into the often feuding aspiring couturiers.

"I am thrilled to make it official that I will be back in the workroom for season four of Project Runway," Gunn told E!. "We are in the midst of casting the designers now, and I can already see that it will be another amazing season."

As previously announced Heidi Klum, will return in her capacity as host and judge on the show, alongside designer Michael Kors and Elle fashion editor Nina Garcia.

In December, Entertainment Weekly reported that Gunn was the only Runway player without a new deal, sending TV blogs into a tizzy with speculation that he would not return. In the months that followed, he changed day jobs, moving from chair of fashion at Parsons The New School of Design to chief creative officer of Liz Claiborne and got more TV gigs.

First, Bravo gave him his own series, Tim Gunn's Guide to Style (based on his book of the same title), and then he guested as a TV reporter on ABC's Ugly Betty in February. All the while, his Runway future seemed uncertain.

However, Gunn's importance to the series wasn't lost on producer Harvey Weinstein, who credited the fashion guru's "passion, creativity and dedication" to making the show "such a commercial and critical success."

While the new cycle of Runway won't air until this summer, the casting process kicked off last week in Los Angeles. Gunn, along with a contingent of the Emmy-nominated series' producers and last year's winner, Jeffrey Sebelia, gathered together to whittle through the wannabes, each of whom was required to show up with a sample of three articles of clothing and a portfolio.

Gunn told E! News that while such outré personas (think inaugural winner Jay McCarroll, season two finalist Santino Rice and Sebelia) were expected on the fashion-centric show, the primary criterion for prospective contestants was "design aptitude, not personality."Continue Reading...