After five years of transforming the looks and lives of straight men on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, their fashion expert Carson Kressley will now be using his well-honed skills on a new reality TV series beginning in the US early in 2008. Called Crowned: The Mother of all Pageants, the show will have eight episodes, and will focus on mother and daughter pairs who Carson Kressley want to compete in both the Miss and Mrs USA Pageant. The pairs will all be living together in a house in Los Angeles, and will undergo weekly “de-sashing” ceremonies. The teams will be judged by Kressley, along with former Life and Style host Cynthia Garrett, and former Miss USA Shanna Moakler. Carson will be putting his experience as a stylist for Ralph Lauren, as well as his time on Queer Eye, to use in evaluating the strengths of the mother-daughter teams. Despite the ominous-sounding “de-sashing ceremonies", the show is “played mostly for laughs,” says USA Today. Executive producer Laurie Girion said, "People might have the idea this is a stage-mom kind of show," "But we have some really bossy daughters. It's a balance of power between mothers and daughters, and neither is calling all the shots." In addition to the honor of making it to the very end, the winning mother-daughter team will also win a cash prize - $100,000. The fifth and final season of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy began in the US earlier this month - with its premiere episode featuring a pageant of previously 'made-over' men, to see who has kept up, slacked off, or gone beyond the hosts' wildest expectations. Ref: After Elton (m)
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First published: Saturday, 20th October 2007 - 8:25am