jeff lewis

‘Flipping Out’ Star Threatens ‘Ugly Betty’ Actress; Gays Unable to Choose Sides

6:05AM Kyle Buchanan | High camp has no enemies. Besides—humourless scolds (like Anita Bryant, or Chuck Norris) produce unwitting camp through their very opposition. But what happens when it’s camp vs. camp? More »

Come Fly with Cloris!

4:53AM Kyle Buchanan | The indomitable Cloris Leachman’s quest to become a Sanjaya-level pox/boon to Dancing with Stars continued last night, and it looks like the 82-year-old has finally hit upon a winning formula. First, Leachman shuffles around, doing little but mugging. Then, just as people begin to tire of her simple soft-shoe, she pulls out the big guns: in this case, allowing partner Corky Ballas to grab one leg and one arm and spin her around in the air, treating all of America to an impressively unexpected upskirt shot. More »

‘Flipping Out’ Star Makes Mistake Of Apologising To Abused TV Underlings

5:35AM Defamer Hollywood | Upon seeing the bile-spewing, assistant-firing, OCD-fuelled “monster” captured by Bravo’s unblinking TV cameras, Flipping Out star Jeff Lewis had something of an epiphany: Holy crap, I really was that guy with the screaming and the cat psychics and the 70 percent lemonade/20 percent punch/10 percent Sprite drink orders, wasn’t I? Rather than blame the network’s editors for making him into the most watchable reality TV star in recent memory, Lewis did the unthinkable: he apologised to his abused employees. [Ed.note - Audible gasp!] He tells the OC Register: “When I got into it, I told the production company and the network to show all sides of me,” he says over lunch at a Los Feliz restaurant the day after the second episode aired. “After all, I’m human. I have bad days, I have meltdowns, just like everybody else.” More »