HGTV Star: Let’s Work Together

Week two had the contestants pairing up to see how well they could work together. This week was unconventional living spaces.

Task: Turn an industrial loft into a home. four distinct area living, working, eating and sleeping. there will be in teams. one item must be vintage that be reimagined and be used in their camera challenge. They made a story that there’s a rock star art couple. and worked together on a space.

Teams: Jessie, Boris & Abby= kitchen, dining and foyer area. Each doing one area Jessie does the kitchen, abby has the foyer while boris got the dining room. There was tension between Abby and her team while she’s left painting and her team does other things.  Cris & Tyler= living space hip space, she hates his art and she’s critical.  Anne & Tiffany= bedroom space, glam yet sophisticated. Jerabi & Brooks- workspace cool jam area and use the open space to have a showcase piece. These two’s styles of decorating do not mix at first but then it blends well.

The only problems they had was that the host called their color choice for the walls juvenile, we must have not been seeing the same colors cause I thought they looked awesome. Abby has the great idea to change one of the colors to add in black although she got stuck painting again and she got stuck sewing for Jessie while her space got neglected.

Camera Challenge:

Cris uses an old camera to make a floor lamp and the host loved the idea.  Jessie is using safe deposit box as spice rack shelves.  Tiffany turns a vintage sign into a headboard. Tyler changed a car hood into an art piece, he tended to babble on and messed up. Boris uses corrugated metal sign  into art on the wall,  Anne did a table into a nightstand and did really well.  I liked Abby’s idea of redoing a cabinet and Jerabi’s chair idea seemed to simple. Brooks totally messed up with his vintage record player by babbling. Anne won the camera challenge and design.

My Favorite Room:

Jessie’s Kitchen is amazing the light fixtures are glam and the pops of color work great in the room.

Judges Favorite

The judges loved the living room done by Cris and Tyler, they liked the reinvention of the vintage items and the color choices.

The bottom two were Jessie and Abby, I feel that abby was taken advantage of by her team and my favorite room by Jessie wasn’t enough to save her there was too many things wrong with the room in the judges eyes.

Anne, Tobin, Tyler, Tiffany, Abby, Jerabi, Boris, Jessie, Tylor, Cris, Brooks

TV Summer Schedule June 17-23

June 19th Wednesday

Franklin & Bash 3rd season TNT 9 pm

Hot in Cleveland 4th season TV LAND

June 23rd Sunday

Crossing Lines New Show NBC 9 pm

Whodunnit?  New Show ABC 9 pm

Drop Dead Diva 5th Season LIFETIME 9 pm

Bachelorette: To Tell The Truth

This week had drama, injuries and excitement. which included one of the bachelors being injured on the group date and a secret is revealed.

My picks for this season are as follows : Chris, Brandon, Brooks, Drew, Michael, Zack K, Robert, Ben, Bryden, Juan Pablo, Larry, Nick M

Chris called Des and told a secret about one of the bachelors, so she drove over and handled the situation on Brian calling him outside and revealing he has a girlfriend back home. The guys find out when the host walk through the house with her following him, they all watched from the window. Brian is such a liar claiming it was a past relationship and she claims wanted to break up with him the day before he left and she broke apart on tv. He helped take care of her son with her and he told her he was coming on a business trip. The jerk claimed he was being attacked and Des took her side not his, She then kicked him out and sent him home.

Group Date  Chris, Brian, Drew, Brooks, Mikey, Zack k, Ben , Brandon, Brad, Michael

The guys got competitive in this date, des looked good in her pink hoodie. They first met the national dodgeball team who gave them a lesson on how to play seriously. In the middle of the lesson the host walks in to announce they were battling each other and the losing team was going home with the winning team goes on rest of date with Des. Red team : Mikey, Michael, Brooks, Chris and Brandon. Blue Team: Brian, Ben, Zack K, Brad and Drew

The game was in a public place which was a caged in area in an outdoor mall area  and the teams had jerseys to wear. The blue team was good leaving just one man on the red team then it was one on one, chris vs drew. 2nd game the red team got their revenge taking down the blue team and they one, leaving it at a tie. The last game starts out with an accident with Brooks getting his finger broken and being taken away to the hospital so the blue team had to bench one member. Blue had the advantage with the skinnier guys and left it down to two men Zack K vs Chris. Blue team wins!

Desiree let both teams come to the party and unlike the women they did not get upset about that. The guys all except brooks got time with her. Brad revealed that he has a 3 yr old son named Maddox whose with his mom during this time. Chris sneaked her away to the rooftop of the building. The biggest surprise of the night was Brooks who got out of the hospital and surprised Des by being there. Chris got the group date rose which included bonus time and a private concert by Kate Earl dancing together while all the guys watched nearby. They make a cute couple.

1 on 1 date Kasey love defies gravity

The pair of them were dancing on the side of a building and while the professionals make it seem graceful they were clumsy, afterward they had dinner on top of the building the  on. The santa ana winds tried to wreak their date, but they made the most of the things by getting into the pool which was cold. That was the most awkward date that i’ve seen so she gave him the rose.

group date 2 Bryden, Zak K, Juan Pablo, James, Dan

The  guys greeted by a at their door and were transported to a mockup ranch and Desiree all dressed up. They met up with the stunt team from The Lone Ranger Movie. Going through cowboy boot camp, learning how to lasso, quick draw and mock fight. The guys all did good at their challenge but I agreed with Des that Juan Pablo did the best job although I could not understand a word he said only the Mi Amor part that was easy. Thank you hs spanish.

She watched the movie with Juan Pablo ignoring the moving and making out instead. They both looked great in costumes. After that she had alone time with Bryden whom she thought was shy. Her time with Zak was filled with laughter but she gave the rose to James to give him confidence she gave him the rose and he gave her a daisy in exchange.

The cocktail party was cancelled and instead the men were all invited to a pool party. Ben ambushes her by taking her on a car ride instead of going in with the guys. Its a bold move but I’m not sure about his intentions which had Des totally falling for him. Yes I know he seems shady but so far he hasn’t done anything that’s that underhanded so he remains on my list.  She got extra time with some of the guys. Mikey got upset and heated with Ben when he confronts Ben lying about seeing her first before the other men. While that was going on Brandon got time with her sharing his experiences of childhood and that he was falling in love with her.

chosen 13 this week ( 8 my picks ) : Chris, James,Kasey, Bryden, Juan Pablo, Zak W, Brooks, Drew, Zack K, Brad, Michael, Mikey, Ben

 

HGTV Star Premiere

This series debuted Sunday night on HGTV Star which is formally HGTV Design Star is now in it’s 8th season. I love this show because it gives me ideas about decorating plus I always like to watch a variety of reality TV shows. These posts will be posted on Mondays.

This season the designers will go to real homes, college campuses, be on THE TALK, and exotic locations.  Judges are Sabrina Soto, Vern Yen, Genievive Gordon. The Winner will have their own show, HGTV Magazine  feature and each week one of their designs will be available for sale on One Kings Lane and they will also offer a boutique of items for the designers to use on tasks. Hosted by Season 1 Winner David Bromstad.

Meeting The Contestants

Anne interior design FL Tobin designer photographer FL Tiffany Interior Decorator IL Abby Interior Graphic Designer TX Jerabi All around designer Boris designer high end CA Jessie freelance designer MO, Tylor designer  modern MI Cris designer bold contemporary FL Brooks college professor

Task: Show what shows work apart from everyone else use a white space area to create their brand and style. design their own fabric and wallpaper.

They all had different brand and style ideas Jessie  Urban Glamour, Tobin  Industrial Fusion, Brooks  cutting edge modern, Tylor Midwest Modern Anne Artistic Edgy Jerabi Fresh Mix Abby Refined Bohemian Cris Bold Contemporary Tiffany Classic Funk Boris High End

The drama of the show was that Ann was dumb enough to trust Boris to go pick up her bedding and being the sneaky competitor he was he left it at the store so she was left to make do and ended up in the bottom three, do not trust your competitors.

My Favorite Room:

Abby had a very unique design with the ink blots and words in the background as her trademark design, love the pillows that give the design and color its a great design.

 

 

 

Judges Favorite:

For some crazy reasons the judges loved quirky Brook’s design which to me seemed totally crazy with its mishmash of objects and that crazy pink color in the background.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anne, Tobin, Tyler, Tiffany, Abby, Jerabi, Boris, Jessie, Tylor, Cris, Brooks

67th Tony Awards Review

The Tony awards were at Radio City Music Hall in NY, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris this is his 4th time. He did an awesome job with his humor and knowledge of plays and musicals helped to make the show a success.

 Musical Performance : Matilda , Bring it On , Roger & Hammerstein’s Cinderella ,  Motown  Annie,A Christmas Story, Pippin, Phantom of the Opera , Kinky Boots, etc.

Award Winners:
Featured Actress in  Play Judith Light “The Assembled Parties”

Featured Actor in Musical Gabriel Ebert “Matilda the Musical

Best Score  Cyndi Lauper  “Kinky Boots”

Best Play  Vanya, Sonia, Pasha and Spike

Best Revival Play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe

Leading Actor Musical Billy Porter Kinky Boots

Leading Actress in Play Cicely Tyson The Trip to Bountiful

See the full List of Winners from USA Today

Call for Blog Ideas?

Since this is summer and most reality shows are over with I am short on ideas for my readers ,all  26 of you whom I am thankful to have. Feel free to like any of my blog posts you like. Currently this is my current schedule, soon I will be adding So You Think You Can Dance to the lineup.

 

So far I only have 3 posts a week for the summer:

Bachelorette commentary post

entertainment news

summer TV schedule

 

I am looking for more ideas would you like to see movie reviews, book reviews, any shows you think I should cover, I look forward to hopefully  hearing your comments feel free to tweet me @lorrieangel79 or email me uniquegemini@yahoo.com with your ideas. Also, let me know if you would like to guest post on my blog: I cover anything entertainment related: television, books, movies, etc. I want to make this blog a success thank you and have a great summer.

 

Summer TV Schedule June 10-16

June 10 Monday

Switched At Birth 2nd season ABC Family 8 pm

King & Maxwell New Show TNT 10 pm

June 11  Tuesday

Twisted New Show ABC Family 9 pm

June 12 Wednesday

Royal Pains 5th season USA 9 pm