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NEW YORK (AP) - Chalk up another convert for the Fab Five.
A Port Authority police officer, who went on television for a makeover courtesy of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," is in no trouble with his bosses.
"Our police superintendent watched the show and enjoyed it thoroughly," Pasquale DiFulco, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said on Thursday.
Officer John Verdi, 29, went on the Bravo network show in hopes of changing his image with the help of the show's five gay consultants. While touring his Staten Island apartment, style gurus Thom Filicia and Carson Kressley tried on Verdi's uniform shirt.
The Daily News reported Thursday that Port Authority officials said Verdi didn't get clearance to say he was a police officer on television, and that he shouldn't have let a civilian wear his uniform.
But DiFulco said it's OK with the Port Authority for its cops to be stylish when it's off the clock. "The officer did this on his own time. We have no issue with this."
On the show, the style team took Verdi to have a pedicure, gave his pale feet a spray tan and taught him how to cook a quiche for his vegetarian girlfriend.
"It was good entertainment," Port Authority Police Benevolent Association President Gus Danese told the News. "What he did, he did on his own time. He didn't portray the Port Authority in a bad light. It was harmless."
The episode is scheduled to be re-aired on NBC on Thursday at 10 p.m.
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