Under Tim Gunn

Project Runway's celibate Yoda Tim Gunn is out promoting his book Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work, and he's granted a juicy interview to TheFrisky.com. In it, he confirms this season's Gretchen is a psycho (albeit one he's come to appreciate). Of his confrontation with her, he says:

"I have never done that before and I will be honest with you, I asked permission to do it. I have a role in that scene [after the judging] saying, 'Go to the workroom and clean up your space.' That's why I said to A.J. [the designer who was sent home last episode instead of Gretchen], 'I want you to hear this.' Because I also wanted the whole team to know that I was disappointed in all their behavior. They allowed Gretchen to bully them and direct everything...The behavior that Gretchen demonstrated on the runway during that Q&A with the judges is about as close to psychosis as anything I have seen on the show. But I have to tell you something, too. I've learned to really love and adore her. I'm extremely fond of her. There are multiple dimensions of her."

Gunn also apparently believes his dad was a closeted gay man having an affair with J.Edgar Hoover, per this exchange:

TheFrisky.com: You book doesn't just criticize the behavior of celebs — you write about your own family, too, including where you say that you believe your father may have been a closeted homosexual in a relationship with J. Edgar Hoover. Are they going to be happy about that?

Tim Gunn: (In gloom-and-doom voice)They haven't read it yet. 

TheFrisky.com: How do you think that's going to go?

Tim Gunn: My deathly ill mother, if she's still alive next Tuesday, she won't be by Wednesday.

TheFrisky.com: Oh, I'm so sorry!

Tim Gunn: (laughs uproariously) She's not going to like it.

Like one of Casanova's ill-considered designs, this book sounds trés revealing. (But in a way that works.)

Comments

[Dan]

Link to interview? It's currently not up on TheFrisky.com.

[Chris M]

I bought the eBook this morning, can't wait to read it. :) Read about his tiff with Anna.

[apernett]

Will buy it. I surely will love how he dishes the Nuclear Wintour... :)

[forgetmenot]

There are so many Tim Guns out there among our people. Witty, knowing, unfailingly polite but with a tongue than slices like a razor -- you don't even know you've been cut until time passes and the bleeding appears.

He is a gay archetype in the best sense of the word, and outside of their individual circles, these guys are rarely celebrated.

Most gay blogs have devolved into a tired formula of comment-hungry provocation and us-versus-them witless posturing.

Unfortunate for us that too many of our wittiest sisters are just having so much fun being themselves that they can't be bothered with the hard work of blogging.

Its why I come back here every day -- even when I don't agree with what its saying -- because I just never know what clever little bits I will pick up along the way.

So here's to Tim, and his ilk.