Last week Top Chef contestant Dale Talde and his team, comprised of Lisa and Stephanie, created a dish inspired by the element fire, but instead tempers flared between “self-proclaimed a——” Dale and “I can be that b—- everyone hates” Lisa. When Lisa suggested strictly Asian food to impress celebrity guest judge Ming Tsai, Dale tartly replied, “I don’t want to do Asian,” and it was a stalemate all the way to the market, where they somehow agreed upon a dish of prawns and bacon with an Asian chili pepper twist. Their Asian cooking won the challenge, with Ming admiringly saying that “the bacon with the miso created a new technique that I have never seen” and then promptly awarding Lisa a trip to Italy. Dale was not pleased, saying, “She made bacon and she wins a trip to Italy? I’m bitter.” I’d be bitter too for having been so cowardly in cooking Asian.
“Rumba is … the vertical expression of a horizontal desire,” coached Mark Ballas to his rather embarrassed, blanched-faced partner Kristi Yamaguchi in Dancing With the Stars. The passion for this dance was so overwhelming that Kristi suggested alter egos; he would be “Marcuccio” and she, “Kristiana.” A crash course in playacting worked for the pair as Judge Len Goodman raved, “You cast off the shackles of inhibition like Mark cast off that ribbon from your hair!” Kristi may have graduated with honors, but she also seems to have enrolled in “Sexual Voyeurism 101,” with her husband watching from the wings. “Looks good, Mark!” He said. “You seem to be drawing something out of her that I haven’t seen yet.” It’s a little weird.
In Paradise Hotel 2, Myrna locked out Mike for fear “he might flip out” because she sent his girlfriend packing. So she has little talent for making friends, but proves her worth in her ability to apply makeup and coordinate her outfits in a moment’s notice, right? New guest Zack isn’t impressed and accused her of “breaking the rules” to his mini-challenge of not dressing up for dinner. “I am what I am,” she said, quoting Popeye’s much famous phrase. Meaningless words unless she has a can of whoop-ass in that cleavage of hers.
In this week’s Beauty and the Geek, it was a heartfelt, fond farewell for Greg who never had a chance with antagonizing Randi as his partner. Like a brilliant self-taught student, he learned that he is indeed a “cool gay geek” and demonstrated the qualities of why he’s such a favorite: “I really wanted to learn how to be loud, and I couldn’t have asked for a better Beauty. Randi, you really helped me to come out of my shell.”
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