Vivacious redhead Paige Davis has agreed to return as host of a new HD version of the once-geisty TLC home-swap design show Trading Spaces. What does this all mean? Well, for one thing, that the Broadway dreams of one Paige Davis, who's played Roxie in the stage version of Chicago —she's a thespian on the level of Lisa Rinna and Ashlee Simpson!— are dashed. Tail between legs, she slinks back...but wait! Perhaps Paige Davis is merely the Terry Malloy of the troubled labor times! She does kinda look like a young Brando.
Ms. Davis can just blame it on the stagehand strike! Still, she has to come to terms with the step backwards into the reality dregs—I mean, she couldn't even get on a Lifetime serial? But wait some more! There's a writer's strike on; no scripted TV! Little by little, the week's bicoastal labor unrest has acheived its goal: excusing one lady's career failure. [AP]







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Not only did I read "vivacious redhead" as "viscious redhead" the first time, but I was really wishing somebody would describe me that way.
I'd settle for "viscous."
You're a viscious redhead!
How was that?
@collegecallgirl: I'll make you melt, baby. Grrrr!
(I'd assume your viscosity is similar to a 40-weight motor oil.)
@Sarcastro: Reading is a skill I've yet to master.
And karenuhoh, you are viscous.
Something for everyone!
Her real name is Mindy Page Davis Page.
Why do I even know that?
That picture reminds me. Where is the nearest Glamour Shots? The holidays are coming and there are gift certificates to buy!
@zequ: Better than I thought it would be, but not as good as a grilled cheese sandwich.
Having worked with Ms. Davis I can say first-hand that she is...how to put this gallantly...fucking nuts. Her delusions about becoming a movie star screwed up the good thing she had going at Trading Spaces.
She does kinda look like a young Brando.
I've noticed that all Chicago's purportedly supposedly sexy costumes make ladies look like really *mean* dudes. That might be it.
@collegecallgirl:
Of course. i would never try to compete with melted cheese. At least not this early in the morning.
@MultiSlacking: I was wondering why I knew that myself. She's Paige Page!
That's not Victoria Jackson?
@MultiSlacking: I knew that too, it's mildly hilarious! But I'm still not sure why we're talking about her?
OK, not to sound like a pervert or anything, but how can Gawker post a piece about Paige Davis without mentioning her infamous public (or should I say pubic?) flashing of her see-through lace thong for a male stripper in front of a tabloid fotog's camera?
Had it not been for the strategically placed head of audience-member in the row in front of her, Paige would have pretty much revealed a "Full Britney" shot to the world.
(I'd link it here, but I'm at work.)
@MisterHippity: You are trying to make me puke.
@SecureLocation: I thought it was the sex tape with her first husband that was leaked causing Banyan to terminate her contract. Who knew Paris Hilton got her ideas from Paige Davis??
@MattGaymon: I assume that she turned this "Jon" fellow down at a bar once, and he's been hatching this comeuppance since? Or a really fucking slow news day.
href="#c3000545">collegecallgirl:
I'm a voracious redhead myself.
@CodePink:
Woah, what happened to that reply?
@CodePink:
I can only do so much.
The hairdo and dress make me wonder if she sewed the dress herself from the old-fashioned prom dress her dad bought her and the cool vintage one she found in a second hand store. This photo is taken after the rich boy negs her.
@rod:
Oooh,doesn't she look like a "Short Hair Model" in one of those cheesy hair magazines in your Mom's hair salon?
She should ask if she can keep this dress for her inevitable "Dancing with the Stars" run in 2009.
@CodePink: Any ostentatious redheads out there?
@Sarcastro: I believe the dominant vector here is loquacious bedheads.
As long as they hook her up with that batshit insane designer who glued straw to someone's walls and dumped sand on another couple's living room floor to create a "beach," I'll watch again. Despite the fact she is the most annoying woman on television.
@Queen of the Passive Aggressives: This picture was miscaptioned. It is actually Carson Daly
@reluctantentity: I thought she got fired for *gasp!* stripping down to her bra and rubbing up all over the gays?
I actually just filmed "the hipster episode" of TS. I pressed the crew for dirt on Paige, but everyone apparently loves her (ditto to Frank and Genevieve).
@collegecallgirl: "Redheads are made of sugar and lust."
This is Mario Lopez
@RosemarysBabyDaddy: Tsk tsk . . . are you trying to get yourself fired as a New York Times commenter?
@CodePink: I was thinking more like a figure skater at the Olympics...once they win and get to do their "sassy" routine.
Always wondered what a Molly Ringwold drag queen would look like. Figured it would end badly.
Is that her dramatic groundhog/David Caruso face?
@BalknChain: No - it's the generic "I'm Roxie Hart for 6 weeks somewhere" shot. There is also some serious boob taping there...or is it a staple gun?
Carrot Top
@RCreed: Well, judging from the strip-club photos I saw, she's a very generous tipper. So she's got that going for her.
@NinaHagen: It's Trading Pasties. Now Caruso as Roxie would get me to watch.
@Wrath of Farrakhan: And a splash of tequila.
@MultiSlacking: You have a most excellent user name.
@CodePink: I used to look at those girls like it was porn...then again, I was a confused 12 yr old. They all looked so 'andro' and butch! Hot...
didn't she marry some tool from Beauty & The Beast? The spoon or coffee-cup? He totally had gay-face. How would you like introducing your husband as 'He's a broadway dancer...he plays a cup in a new disney play! Isn't he dreamy?'
@RCreed: I misread that and thought you actually pressed dirt for the show, and thought "Man, what crazy shit is Frank up to this time?"
Genevieve is mad hot.
@RCreed: Do tell what TLC thinks makes a hipster! Is it also what a hipster thinks makes a hipster?
@collegecallgirl:
Why thank you. It is an ode to my time reading Gawker.
@MattGaymon: You don't even want to know. The ep airs in a few weeks, and it should be mortifying (they have me blog on camera). I did manage to wear an airbrushed Anderson Cooper T shirt.
@RCreed: Renember when they went to San Francisco and they picked a lesbian couple and a hetero mixed-raced couple? They didn't call it "the all-colors-of-the-rainbow episode" but they might as well have.
@collegecallgirl: Not a redhead?
@Sarcastro: Today I'm feeling like a cretaceous redhead.
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