{"id":93565,"date":"2025-02-16T15:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T23:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93565"},"modified":"2025-02-16T15:54:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T23:54:02","slug":"gunn-out-wendy-wants-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/02\/16\/gunn-out-wendy-wants-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunn Out\/Wendy Wants Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you can go home again \u2013 and sometimes you can\u2019t.&nbsp; After years of bad recasts and inactivity, <strong><em>Project Runway<\/em><\/strong> is returning to the air, now as part of the <strong><em>Disney <\/em><\/strong>family on <em>Freeform<\/em>.&nbsp; Lo and behold, they\u2019ve lured back <strong>Heidi Klum<\/strong>.&nbsp; But in a surprising move, <strong>Tim Gunn <\/strong>won\u2019t join her&#8230;and it wasn\u2019t his decision.&nbsp; When Klum texted Tim to ask how his contract looked, he said what contract?&nbsp; Tim says, \u201cI called my agent and he knew things were going on, but he contacted the executive producer of this new show, and they said, \u2018We don\u2019t want him.\u2019&nbsp; And my agent said, \u2018Well, he\u2019s done 19 seasons of <em>Runway<\/em>, 16 with Heidi.&nbsp; The two of them won an <em>Emmy <\/em>together as hosts, and now you\u2019re going to separate them?\u2019&nbsp; And they said yes.&nbsp; So I wasn\u2019t asked back.\u201d&nbsp; Well, that\u2019s not completely true.&nbsp; He was asked to make a cameo in one episode.&nbsp; He shot back, \u201cWhat do I do?&nbsp; Wave from a bus as the designers are going into <em>Mood<\/em>?&nbsp; Heidi comes to see me at the retirement home and we play croquet?&nbsp; So no thank you.&nbsp; And as Heidi would say, you\u2019re either in or you\u2019re out.&nbsp; And I\u2019m out.&nbsp; So I wasn\u2019t asked to join.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Someone who is trying to get out is <strong>Wendy Williams<\/strong>.&nbsp; As you know, Wendy\u2019s been in a memory unit of a NYC care facility which she describes as a prison.&nbsp; Of course, that is where people with dementia and Alzheimer\u2019s are placed, and Wendy was diagnosed with frontal temporal dementia \u2013 which she\u2019s vehemently disputed during a recent media blitz.&nbsp; Due to these lucid appearances, a new medical evaluation has been scheduled.&nbsp; In fact, by the time you read this, that will have already taken place (by a doctor her legal team hand-picked).&nbsp; She also filed papers with the court asking that her guardianship be dissolved.&nbsp; Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you can go home again \u2013 and sometimes you can\u2019t.&nbsp; After years of bad recasts and inactivity, Project Runway is returning to the air, now as part of the Disney family on Freeform.&nbsp; Lo and behold, they\u2019ve lured back Heidi Klum.&nbsp; But in a surprising move, Tim Gunn won\u2019t join her&#8230;and it wasn\u2019t his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93569,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93565\/revisions\/93569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}