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Queer Eye" Gets Straight Dose
Mon Nov 10, 4:30 PM ET Add Entertainment - E! Online to My Yahoo!


By Lia Haberman

Straight guys will get a chance to convince the nation they're not style victims as Queer Eye for the Straight Guy producers plan a one-shot spinoff episode titled Straight Eye for the Queer Guy.




During the one-hour special, five straight men will tutor one gay guy on testosterone-driven "culture" (and we use that term loosely).


Segments could include power tools 101, NFL basics, decorating your garage, two-minute hair and sports-event etiquette.


The five hetero taste makers have not been cast, and it's unknown if the original show's breakout stars, Carson Kressley, Jai Rodriguez, Kyan Douglas, Ted Allen and Thom Filicia, will appear in the Straight episode.


No air date has been scheduled for the special, which is still in the early planning stages, according to a network spokesperson, but it is expected to be broadcast some time next year.


Programming execs at Bravo have been putting their noggins together to obtain maximum mileage for their hit series. Two weeks ago they announced a very special Queer Eye Christmas episode.


Airing December 16, the Xmas episode comes complete with holiday-themed "hip tips," a brand new Fab Five loft designed and decorated by design guy Thom, plus surprise visits to the straight guys made over on the first season.


Both the Straight episode and the Yuletide special are part of a 40-episode batch parent company NBC ordered after the hit series smashed ratings records for Bravo. The next installment of Queer Eye eps return to the cable net on November 18.


The misfits undergoing make-betters this time around include a hippie dad postal worker who dabbles in taxidermy, an ex-marine striving to be both an officer and a gentleman, and a conservative lawyer who is ready to go topless for the first time in 13 years by losing his toupee.


Meanwhile, the folks at Comedy Central are getting in on the act with their own straight guy style guide, and not a moment too soon. Straight Plan for the Gay Man, a three-episode spoof on the Bravo series, airs on February 17.


Call it a case of art imitating art, the Comedy Central project features the Flab Four tutoring their gay subjects on the finer points of heterosexuality: uglier clothes, a bare kitchen and a healthy dose of false egotism to cover for all personal failings.


At stake are the ambitions of three gay men who respectively dream of becoming a blue-collar meatpacker, a competitive basketball player and a bar-hopping Casanova.