Our fab one matches wits with the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy guys: Ted Allen (Food & Wine Connoisseur), Kyan Douglas (Grooming Guru), Thom Filicia (Design Doctor), Carson Kressley (Fashion "brace yourself" Savant) & Jai Rodriguez (Culture Vulture). Or as they like to be called, "The Fab Five."

Bosie Crawford: There’s been a lot of talk of stereotyping. The gay hairdresser, the gay fashion queen…this show seems to reinforce every gay stereotype one can imagine.
Carson: Not every one! We don’t have a florist. If there are any florists out there, we have an opening! But when you see the show and you see the heart of it, you realize we’re just six guys hanging out and all those stereotypes kind of fall to the wayside.
Bosie: And the feeling you all take a bitchy, somewhat biting, tack with the guys you make over?
Kyan: Ooh, I don’t think that at all.
Carson: There’s some "tough love" in the opening scenes, where we tease them. But we never try to be mean-spirited and we try to be funny with it. It’s never like, "Wow, you’re a big, fat loser and you look awful!"
Jai: We’re actually his biggest supporters.
Carson: Because we want him to be a success.
Thom: He’s coming in for our expertise in our areas and he wants to raise his bar. So, we’re working with him and he’s working with us. It’s really sort of a collaboration, all of us together. And we make fun of ourselves at the same time.
Ted: Absolutely.
Carson: Good times…good times. [laughter from group]

Bosie: So what if the tables were turned and they did a show where a group of straight guys tried to "help" a gay guy be more masculine in order to survive the rough and tumble macho world?
Carson: It’s called high school!
Thom: We’ve been through it. It already happened!
Kyan: Done that! Didn’t like it!

Bosie: Do you get to be friends with your subjects or is it haircut, manicure, slap on some designer clothes, maybe a new set of sheets and they run out the door?
Jai: By the end, they’ve become so close with you, they get to share so much about their personal lives that they might not normally share. And here they have five men who are trying to help them with means that they didn’t have before. They don’t want to leave us!
Ted: There have been tears!
Jai: — shocking to us!
Ted: It transcends the whole gay-straight question. Who wouldn’t want five experts in their field to come and help with these areas?
Carson: Or just get you a new couch!
Ted: Or a new couch.
Carson: Who wouldn’t want that?!
Jai: Some of the best things are when we meet a guy and he says, "Oh my god! I didn’t even know this existed." You know, like they’d have tried this had they known it was available to them.
Ted: They’re like, wow, Windex! Who’d have thought.

Bosie: What are the most common things you run into when starting the makeover process?
Ted: PORN!
Thom: Badly hidden porn!
Ted: Quantities.
Jai: Like, Oh My God!!
Ted: Absolutely amazing. You’d think they would hide the embarassing stuff, but they don’t. It’s all right out there on the coffee table.
Kyan: And dirty bathtubs!
Carson: Dirty underwear!
Jai: Feet shaving!
Bosie: Feet shaving?!
Ted: It’s terrifying! Almost every one of the guys we’ve worked with so far seems as if his father never had the [shaving] conversation with him. We had one guy who shaves his head without shaving cream!
Jai: Just water!
Ted: Hacking away…really terrifying.

Bosie: Scary stuff! Have you had any guys who were homophobic?
Ted: The one we all thought would be the scariest was a policeman from Staten Island.
Jai: Yeah!
Ted: The Sicilian policeman.
Kyan: By the end of the show, I was in his arms!
Jai: He was like, "If you guys need anything, you call me."
Ted: He gave each of us Fraternal Order police cards to get out of jail free.
Carson: They don’t work, by the way! They don’t work!

Bosie: Do you think there are gay men out there who could benefit from your lessons…you know, uncouth slobs who have no style?
All: [voices overlap in agreement] Oh yeah!! [laughter…big gay laughter!]