{"id":94864,"date":"2026-03-16T00:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=94864"},"modified":"2026-03-16T00:02:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:02:36","slug":"suddenly-out-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/03\/16\/suddenly-out-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Suddenly Out Of Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

A bunch of \u201cluminaries\u201d (for lack of a better word) will find themselves in the unemployment line.  NBCUniversal <\/em>is leaving the first-run syndication business, which means the end of Access Hollywood<\/em><\/strong>, Access Live<\/em><\/strong>, Karamo<\/em><\/strong> and The Steve Wilkos Show<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 a show I never ever heard of.  Curious that after Karamo <\/strong>skipped promoting the final season of Queer Eye<\/em><\/strong>, he ended up out of work just like the rest of the guys.<\/p>\n

Well, not exactly.  Antoni Porowski <\/strong>is showing off his new gig as model for SAXX Underwear <\/em>\u2013 once again, something I\u2019ve never even heard of.  Nonetheless, he looks quite fetching in his scanties \u2013 or, more to the point, they look good on him.  The variety of wrapping of his package is quite appealing, as seen on BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Carson Kressley <\/strong>was recently a guest on Today with Jenna & Sheinelle<\/em><\/strong>.  They asked him for his take on the turmoil surrounding the outgoing Queer Eye<\/em> cast.  Aside from calling the experience of making that series \u201cvery intense\u201d, he added this: \u201cI don\u2019t know the circumstances.  There is such a great cast.  It\u2019s a great show.  And I think the quality of the show and the great work they do transcends any little drama that might have happened.\u201d  Then he dropped a little bombshell of his own.  When the original Devil Wears Prada<\/em><\/strong> movie was being cast, he claims to have been asked audition for a role.  But, when push came to shove, they went in a different direction.  \u201cThey said, \u2018Oh God, you\u2019re great, we love you, but we can\u2019t have somebody who\u2019s never been in a movie in the scene with Meryl Streep<\/strong>.  That might be too big of a gamble.\u2019  So I didn\u2019t get it…Damn you, Stanley Tucci<\/strong>!  Thanks for ruining my career.\u201d  And you wonder why we\u2019re still talking about Carson Kressley 25 years later?<\/p>\n

Before we leave Queer Eye<\/em> behind (for now), former Fab-Fiver <\/em>Bobby Berk <\/strong>weighed in on the controversy.  \u201cIt\u2019s sad that clearly stuff was going on, but yeah, I decided to leave at a time that was right for me.  And, of course, I\u2019m sad that there was any drama surrounding the show because the show, I think, has such a great legacy of helping people.\u201d  It should be noted that Berk is hosting HGTV<\/em>\u2019s Junk or Jackpot?<\/em><\/strong>, which makes him the only Queer<\/em> still on the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A bunch of \u201cluminaries\u201d (for lack of a better word) will find themselves in the unemployment line.  NBCUniversal is leaving the first-run syndication business, which means the end of Access Hollywood, Access Live, Karamo and The Steve Wilkos Show \u2013 a show I never ever heard of.  Curious that after Karamo skipped promoting the final<\/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,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94864"}],"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=94864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94865,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94864\/revisions\/94865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}