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Queer Eye for the Straight Guy episode featuring UNT airs this month
By Kelley Reese
InHouse@UNT

Don't miss UNT's debut on Bravo's run-away hit Queer Eye for the Straight Guy at 9 p.m. CT March 29, when one lucky North Texas fraternity gets a complete makeover.

The episode, which was shot at the Sigma Chi house at UNT from Aug. 31 through Sept. 3, 2004, is the first of three Queer Eye shows that were filmed during a four-week stay in North Texas. It marks only the second time the Fab Five — Ted Allen, Kyan Douglas, Thom Filicia, Carson Kressley and Jai Rodriguez — and crew have ventured out of the New York tri-state area.

"When we decided to do a series of American shows outside of the New York area we wanted to really go someplace different, and Texas seemed to be about as opposite from New York as you can get," said producer Jerry Kolber during the first day of filming. The show filmed a series of episodes in Great Britain that aired earlier this season.

The Emmy-nominated reality show lets loose the Fab Five's fashion, grooming, culinary, cultural and interior design expertise to the benefit of a straight guy in need.

Read more about the Fab Five's filming at UNT.