NEW YORK (AP) – A Port Authority police officer who went on national television for a style makeover is under some scrutiny for allowing his uniform to make an appearance - on somebody else. Officer John Verdi, 29, went on the Bravo network’s “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” in the hopes of changing his image with the help of the show’s five gay style consultants. During the show, which aired on Tuesday, two of the “Fab 5” put on Verdi’s uniform while on a tour of his Staten Island apartment, the Daily News reported Thursday. 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. “We are looking into the matter,” Port Authority spokesman Greg Trevor told the News.
Oh.my.Gawd.
If the Staten Island Port Authority has nothing greater than that to concern themselves with then they must be the best run state agency in the world.
And yet, they’re not bothered by him bouncing around like a 3 year old.
Glad I’m not the only one at a complete loss as to what she’s doing with him.
Yup, I caught the shrimping line, too.
Have to add my favorite quote, which was when John was getting sappy with the girlfriend and saying how much she mattered, and he said:
“I feel…a spark in my pants.”
Ooooooh yeah. So romantic. I’d slap the guy and walk away!
My wife and I watched QE last night and I was having trouble explaining why the Air Force would not like it if I went on this show. I think they might even prosecute under the Uniformed Code of Military Justice, article 133: Conduct Unbecoming an Officer. Or article 134: General, which prohibits “all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces…”
FTR, I don’t think appearing on the show would constitute “conduct unbecoming” nor do I think that it would bring discredit to the Armed Forces.
The cop’s Port Authority supervisor went public with his opinion that there was nothing wrong with what the guy did, and he didn’t portray the department in a bad light. It’s in Yahoo News but I’m too lazy to dig up a link.
The girlfriend was lava hot, but I cringed at the “boobages” line. But to be honest, I wonder how often I’ve irritated my own wife with similar Cro-Magnon crudities. Hmmm.
I found his near meltdown with Kyan to be hysterical. His whole “Tough Guy” facade was so thin.
DeskMonkey, high five! I didn’t like this guy either.
He was so on after the makeover, all self-conscious and loud, clowning. Ick.
My favorite line was from Carson, when he was getting everyone together in the bedroom to look at the new clothes:
“Come on, it takes a village, people.”
Get it? Village . . . people?
I missed the first half hour. Just got the satellite and haven’t gotten used to having more than 15 channels.
My only question is why is it that Kyan is the one who the straight guys have to get all thugg-y, my-boys-would-kick-my-ass-if-they-saw-me-do-this with? Are grooming and spa treatments really so earth-shattering (and I’m speaking as a straight guy who uses a shampoo-conditioner)? Or is it that they don’t hate gays, they just hate the ones that turn them on?
Hmmm… maybe we are a little too hard on this guy as far as the homophobia thing.
He was still a tool though: he’s gonna have to take that experience as a starting point for some real change if he wants to hold onto that fine, fine lady!
Anyway, I meant to include: I really have yet to be all that impressed with Carson’s fashion sense. I mean, what he’s wearing is always beyond silly, and what he gets these guys into is kinda trendy, but it also a little off-kilter.
Thom’s design though… it’s just amazing what he does with these places. He really does all that in a single day? I don’t believe it. Not even with a crew backing him up. If he does, then every remodeling crew I’ve ever hired has totally bilked me for days of work on what seems to take Thom (and unseen crew) hours.
Ted’s cooking looks cool, but I still cringe thinking about the foie gras. What was he thinking?!!
From The Advocate (print edition)
Saw a few minutes of this show for the first time ever.
Why don’t they just call it “Let’s Perpetrate Some Stereotypes!” and be honest about it? Maybe they can have some spinoff show, “Black Men Teach White Men How To Jump” and “Chinese Guys Do Math.”
Lesbians teach the straight women how to …? That was running through my head last night when I watched Queer Eye for the first time last night. The only thing I could come up with is 5 lesbians go to a straight woman’s house and throw out all the back issues of Cosmo and Jolen bleach kits we keep scattered around. :rolleyes:
Even though there’s something distinctly strange about the premise I did like the makeover. They made him look like a well groomed ugly man and it gave me a feeling of satisfaction.
That man was sad. I couldn’t muster any admiration for the girlfriend because of him. I shouldn’t say it but I got the vibe that she is a codependent type and gets off on taking care of a drooling fool because he’s a somewhat nice person and she doesn’t want him to be all alone and unloved in the world. She feels that if she leaves him for a melanoma-free, non-babytalker it will prove that the universe is indeed a cold and unloving place in which shallow human beings are isolated from each other and no one is ever truly loved. So she gives him her love as a way of assuring herself that God does exist and we really do live in a world where such unconditional acceptance is possible. Loving John allows her some peace from her unceasing existential depression!
Oops wait that’s my relationship.
I am really beginning to lose patience with people who don’t watch the show criticising it for perpetuating stereotypes. How exactly would you know since you don’t watch the show?
I admit that I thought it was a dumbass idea for a show that would perpetuate stereotypes when I first heard about it. After the first episode I was hooked, though, and ended up being like the priest in SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE who was cheering loudest at the end of Romeo & Juliet.
To me the cool thing is that there really is gay-straight male bonding; the gay guys really are on-edge and nervous hoping that she’ll accept the proposal or that the wife will like the song, and the straight guys really are grateful for the changes. Ultimately the gay/straight thing is a gimmick- this is an extreme makeover show, pure and simple, but I actually like the fact that the gay straight theme is a gimmick rather than the point of the show.
Jai was particularly defensive about the stereotype issue in one interview, saying something to the effect of “We’re not playing characters, we’re being ourselves… when you say it’s a negative stereotype, that’s a very personal attack…”
But the point is that Kyan is dreamy and, I honestly believe, the most recently sired progeny of Zeus. And he will be mine one day. Oh yes, he will be…
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But I DID watch the show.
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Are you denying it perpetrates stereotypes? You have a pretty difficult argument to make there.
Umm not really. In your own words.
So given the many episodes of an hour each, you have seen “a few minutes” on a single episode and yet you make this mighty pronoucement of fact.
And these actual people, being themselves and delivering their own expertise to the show are perpetuating stereotypes just because they are gay? :dubious:
Reminds me of the people who were very, very upset about how horrible the show was before it aired, because they’d seen the one commercial and heard the title.