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The Oprah Winfrey Show, 9/22/2003

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Oprah: An all-new Oprah.
Ted: Hello?
Oprah: Hello.
Ted: Guys, it's Oprah.
Thom: No.
Oprah: Hey, Fab Five.
The Guys: Hey, Oprah!
Oprah: Everyone's talking about you. I've got a special assignment just for you guys. We need "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" makeovers on our viewers.
Ted: Oprah, anything for you. You got it.
Oprah: You have one hour to pull this off.
Carson: OK, people, let's motor.
Ted: Let's do motor. All right, let's do it.
Oprah: It's like the gay Beatles.

Two of the audience members who are receiving Queer Eye makeovers are shown.
Kyan: These bad boys are long. The unibrow's gonna go away.
Carson: I haven't seen that look since "Private Benjamin."
Kyan: I mean, look at that.


In the studio
Oprah: Come on out, guys. (The Fab Five come out and all hug) Group hug! Good. Howdy. Good to see you all, too. Good to see you. Thanks. Thanks. OK. Have a seat. So there are five gay men who have taken the country by storm. I think it's such a great thing, because it means the country's opening up, the fact that five gay men can have their own show now. That is so extraordinary, America. That in itself is a big statement. So if you haven't heard of Bravo TV's groundbreaking "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy"--Have you heard of it? You've heard of it? Because I'm looking at you. I saw you whisper to your friend. I saw you, with the blue collar on, ma'am. Have you heard of it? Yes, yeah. Have you heard of the show?
Female Audience Member: Me? I have.
Oprah: OK. OK. Because I heard you whisper to your friend. I wasn't quite sure you knew what gay was. You--you do. You know what that is.
Female Audience Member: I know.
Oprah: You do. OK. But if you haven't heard of it, you are so out of it, people! Because these guys are in such demand, they're in all the magazines. Everybody wants a little piece of them. And today we've got them. We've got them. We've got them. Whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo! OK, 'cause--OK, listen. They're here on special assignment doing their signature "Queer Eye" makeovers on our viewers. Meet the Fab Five. They are five gay men on a mission, to make over the world, one straight man at a time. [Clip from Queer Eye] Bravo network's runaway hit "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" has caught just about everybody's eye. It's a makeover show with a twist and a little swish. An elite team of gay experts use their talents to transform straight men from drab to fab. There's grooming guru Kyan Douglas. [Clip from Queer Eye] Design doctor Thom Filicia. [Clip from Queer Eye] Culture vulture Jai Rodriguez. [Clip from Queer Eye] Food and wine connoisseur Ted Allen [Clip from Queer Eye] and fashion savant Carson Kressley. [Clip from Queer Eye]. Each week the Fab Five meet a straight guy who needs a complete overhaul in just about every facet of his life. [Clip from Queer Eye] And then the real work begins. [Clip from Queer Eye] In the end, the Fab Five leave their main primped and prepared for a big night. [Clip from Queer Eye] Please welcome "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy's" Fab Five: Kyan, Jai, Ted, Thom and Carson!
Carson: You look fantastic.
Oprah: OK. So we've asked women everywhere to turn in their straight guys who suffer from fashion failure. We heard your cry. Send them to "Queer Eye." So I want you to meet Chip and Steve and Heath. Come on up here, guys. Chip and Steve. Come on, Heath. OK. Their wives--Carol, Larice and Kelly--are hoping Carson can save their fashion flunky husbands. Take a look at this.
Carson: I think we can fix them here. We got...
Oprah: OK. These three men have been walking the streets sporting offensive fashion for years. But now they're finally getting busted. First there's Chip. His crimes: owning 37 golf shirts, always tucks everything in, seen wearing sneakers with suits. Then there's Steve. His rap sheet reads like a laundry list: loves old, ripped and stained clothes, bleaches everything, still wearing suit he wore on their first date. And finally Heath. His offenses: wears 'Zuba' pants circa 1980s, can't match his shirts with ties, wears metallic shirts. Their wives have had enough.

A short segment of the wives of the men getting makeovers is shown, with them explaining what they don't like and what they hope the Fab Five will do for their husbands, intercut with the husbands defending their clothing and grooming choices.

Oprah: Back with the Fab Five. You got your work cut out for you, guys. OK. OK. "Queer Eye" fashion guru Carson Kressley had his work cut out for him. He's known for cleaning out the closets of straight guys everywhere. And he spent yesterday shopping for some fabulous new looks for our straight guys. This is a day these wives have been hoping for. They have no idea what Carson has come up with, OK? So we're going to send the three men backstage to their dressing rooms and later we'll see all the results of their "Queer Eye" makeovers. Whoo, power!
Carson: We're like the gay Beatles.
Oprah: Yeah, you are like the gay Beatles.
Carson: (Unintelligible) this morning, I'm sorry. Loaded them up.
Ted: I'd like to apologize for their behavior.
Oprah: Yeah. No, this is funny. They were saying it's like the gay Beatles. But isn't it--isn't it--Don't you guys think it's extraordinary? I mean, I've been doing this show for 18 years and I remember 18 years ago when I first had the first gay guy on, people were calling, complaining, like, 'What are you doing? Oh, my goodness.'
Jai: Right.
Thom: I know.
Oprah: And now you have your own show. And it means that America has at least stretched itself out and opened up and is more accepting of the rest of the world.
Thom: Absolutely. Yeah.
Kyan: It's a beautiful thing.
Oprah: Yeah. Isn't it?
Ted: It is so exciting.
Carson: Plus, we're sick of looking at ugly shoes.

Oprah: Sick of looking at... No, we were just saying, that, the producers were saying that we'd like to know what this audition must have been like to get this job. What was that like?
Thom: It was crazy.
Kyan: It was long.
Ted: I still remember the first day Carson walked in the room and threw his bag down on the desk and said, 'I think it's so cute that they're putting you guys under the illusion that you might get on because I've already got the part.'
Carson: Thanks for coming, but we won't be needing you.
Oprah: Thanks for coming. Coming up, what's lurking behind the wild whiskers and long locks of these straight guys? That's what their wives want to know. It's a "Queer Eye" transformation you won't want to miss. OK. We'll be right back.

Oprah: So you know the team. We're doing "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" makeovers. Kyan Douglas is "Queer Eye's" grooming guru. And our next grooming challenge goes to Kyan. Reona Erickson, a wife all the way from Alberta, Canada, heard that you were going to be here and she just had to turn in her hairy husband.
Reona: Oprah, I need your help with my husband, Gerald. When we first got married, I loved his clean-cut look, but now he looks like a total hippie. Over the past eight years, I've watched his handsome face disappear behind a full bushy beard and his long shoulder-length hair. It's so bad that I can't even remember the last time he had a real haircut. And now I'm also feeling like we need to take care of that unibrow that's starting to develop. I want to show him how good he'll look if he'd just invest some time in himself. I know there is a beautiful face hiding under all that hair. But I'm having a hard time finding it these days. Can the Fab Five help me find my husband under all that hair?
Kyan: Yes.
Oprah: Yes. Gerald, come on up. Gerald, meet Kyan. That's going to be fun. OK. There's--there's help and hope there.
Kyan: Absolutely. He's got beautiful eyes there, but you can't see them behind all that hair.
Oprah: Yeah, yeah. What do you think you're going to do with the brows? Oh, my.
Kyan: Yeah, we're going to do some serious eye--eyebrow grooming. The unibrow is going to go away.
Oprah: The unibrow's going away.
Kyan: I don't know if you can see this. But look at how--these bad boys are long. I mean, look at that. They're out to here. They're enormous.
Carson: That's incredible.
Oprah: You could braid that.
Carson: You could braid that!
Oprah: Yeah, do little cornrow.

Oprah: OK. Our producer spotted this next grizzly guy on the streets of Chicago and knew it was a job for the Fab Five. Come up here, Roland. Oh, my. Come on. Roland--Roland Jones is here with his wife, Kimberly, who says she's never seen him without the beard and long hair. Never.
Carson: ...(Unintelligible) like them, right?
Oprah: Yeah. And it's been 20 years since his daughters, Debrit and Bridget, have seen a clean-shaven dad. So that's pretty amazing. Pretty amazing. So--but a least the beard's neat. I'd say it's very neat.
Kyan: Yes, absolutely.
Oprah: Yeah, I know.
Kyan: Absolutely.
Oprah: But when you see this, do you get a little excited, a little tingle growing on you, Kyan?
Kyan: Well, I see--I see so much potential with these guys. And they're both extremely creative guys.
Oprah: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Kyan: Roland's a photographer and Gerald builds homes and he also makes acoustic guitars.
Oprah: Wow.
Kyan: So we're going to, when we, when we create their new look, we're going to keep in mind that they're very creative guys.
Oprah: Yeah. So you--have you held onto the hair because you think it helps the creativity?
Roland: Yes.
Oprah: Yeah.
Kyan: That's an old wives' tale.
Oprah: Yes. OK. Kyan's team of stylists is going to get their clippers and razors busy on Gerald and Roland, and we'll see what's under all that hair a little later in the show. So--can't wait. You're going to see it later in the show. Coming up, this pad is so bad, it screams for some "Queer Eye" style. The Fab Five's decorating makeover next. We'll be right back. Back in a moment.

Oprah: OK. Thom Filicia's the design doctor of Bravo network's smash hit. He's the design doctor. So, Thom, our next straight guy is all yours. Victor Terese's girlfriend, Lisa, turned him in. And she says that her lawyer boyfriend's apartment is a crime of design.
Lisa: OK. Are you ready to see this disaster of a bachelor pad that my boyfriend calls home? I mean, look at him. He's a good-looking 31-year-old attorney. He's got style, but when it comes to decorating his place, there's no excuse for a place looking like a dorm room.
Victor: When I moved in, these walls were already painted this awful kind of drab color. I don't like it, but I don't know what color to paint them either.
Lisa: A beach chair in the living room. Isn't this supposed to be in the garage? And then we've got this ottoman. I mean, it's orange. It's an eyesore.
Victor: As for the clothes all over the chair and the floor, I have no excuse. I'm just a lazy guy.
Lisa: This futon was Victor's bed for four years. He finally bought a bed, so this graduated to become the centerpiece of the living room. This nightstand, it's a nightmare. And the lamp, it's even older than the nightstand. These aren't contemporary. They need to go.
Oprah: Oh, my gosh. What is that?
Victor: This is an air compressor. These are all my tools. I have nowhere to put the stuff.
Lisa: I know, but this is a dining room. Now the stained glass I love. This is a beautiful piece. But it doesn't belong on the floor. It needs to be mounted on the wall. He did finish this project, but it is so ugly, it's for moving furniture. It's not a TV stand. Please, get this out of here.
Victor: These cheap blinds were here when I moved in. When the sun comes up, I wake up. I need blinds that work. Lisa was right. My place does need the "Queer Eye" touch, because I'm tired of living like a slob.
Lisa: So, Fab Five, please help. I've tried. I can't do it. I'm turning him over to you. So good luck.
Oprah: OK. Well, Thom's been busy. In just one day, one day, he transformed this straight guy's bachelor pad into a space truly fit for a king. Victor and Lisa have not seen any of Thom's handiwork, so we get to see the finished room at the same time they do. OK. Let's see the before. It's all kind of etched in our memory, actually, of Victor's bad bachelor pad. There it is one more time. So you live like this every day?
Victor: Yeah, every day.
Thom: He looks like a normal person, right? He's successful.
Oprah: Yeah. But, you know, the first thing I notice is this is a great space, isn't it, Thom? It's a wonderful space.
Thom: It is an amazing space. It's a very cool apartment. Great space. Good eye.
Lisa: I think so.
Oprah: OK, so are you ready? Are you ready? OK. Here's your all-new bachelor pad! [Reveals] Look at that!
Thom: It's good, right?
Oprah: That is so cool. That is great.
Victor: It's amazing.
Oprah: OK.
Thom: Do you love it? Do you love it?
Oprah: OK. OK. Oh, my goodness. OK. In only 24 hours, Thom transformed Victor's pad, and here is how he did it. This is how he did it. OK. First on Thom's list of fixes, the walls. He added a splash of fireball orange to better define the living areas. Remember that dorm room look of the old living room area? Thom ditched the futon, the beach chairs and the 1970s ottoman and hooked Victor up with a stylish sofa, club chair and congo coffee table from Crate & Barrel. The stripes of the old beach chairs gave Thom the inspiration for these colorful rugs that anchor the room. Very nice. Remember the blah bedroom? Well, Thom got rid of that nightmare of a nightstand and replaced it with this stunning dresser that will provide storage for his tools and toys. To separate the bedroom from the living room, Thom added these handsome glass bookshelves. Great idea. Remember the stained glass that Victor never got around to hanging? Thom found the perfect spot in front of the window. Now the sun will bring this piece to life. Gone is that skateboard of a TV stand and now it's on a beautiful Chinese-inspired storage box. And finally, Thom ripped down the old blinds and replaced them with these warm bamboo shades. No longer the dorm room of doom, this loft is now one killer pad. Great work, Thom. Really. Really well-done. It's amazing! Great. I know you can't wait to go home.
Lisa: Thank you so much.
Victor: I don't recognize it at all.
Oprah: I know. It's a great space.
Victor: I don't recognize it at all.
Lisa: Yeah. Thank you.
Oprah: I want to say thank you to Thom and our friends at Crate & Barrel for all of Victor's wonderful new furniture--I love Crate and Barrel--and accessories. Also special thanks to the hardworking group Case Handyman. They do a great job. Case is the place. Thanks, Victor and Lisa. I know--you want to go home now, don't you? Really great. Really great job.
Victor: Amazing.
Thom: Thank you.

Oprah: Coming up, this straight guy is dangerous. This straight guy is dangerous on the dance floor to himself and to others. Can the Fab Five save him? But first, here's what's going on backstage. We met Roland earlier. He hasn't shaved his face or cut his hair in over 20 years, and Gerald whose wife can't remember his last haircut, they're getting their first snip, snip, snip now. It's off. We'll be right back.

Oprah: You get a standing ovation every time we come out of a commercial. That's great. OK, guys. We're doing "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" makeovers - I know you've seen that show - on our viewers. You can see "Queer Eye" Tuesdays on Bravo at 10 PM Eastern. It is a great fun show. I hadn't seen it and my friend, Gayle, called me this summer and says, Gayle predicted you guys were going to be hot the first time. She goes, 'There's something about those guys.' She goes, 'and I got a little teary on the last makeover.' You know?
Jai: Sometimes--sometimes you do. Actually, we're there. We watch them. It's, it's kind of, it's fun for us, too. Because it--it shows a lot of heart. It's about the straight guy. He's the star.
Oprah: Now in the beginning, does, were the straight guys a little like trying to prove how straight they were?
Jai: A little bit. And then they really open up.
Carson: Sometimes.
Ted: A little bit.
Thom: Yeah.
Ted: A lot of them--a lot of them seem a little standoffish at the beginning.
Thom: Yeah.
Ted: And they start to warm up pretty quick.
Carson: Yeah, right. The free shoes really loosen them up, though. Yeah.
Thom: ...little crazy.
Oprah: Free shoes.
Thom: Free sofas, free shoes. They loosen up.

Oprah: Oh, gosh. OK. The Fab Five are helping frustrated wives with their helpless husbands. Patrice Nelson is turning in her husband, Jeff. Jeff, it has something to do with his nickname, Spastic. And a lot of you will recognize your husbands in Jeff. Take a look at this.
Patrice: He's spastic. He moves involuntarily. He convulses. He froths at the mouth. He's Jeff Nelson dancing, and he's turning 40.' These were the words I put on my husband's upcoming surprise birthday bash invitations. Jeff is always in the spotlight at parties we go to when he tries to shake his booty on the dance floor. When he moves, he has no rhythm and no timing. We've even nicknamed him Seizure Boy because of the crazy way he gyrates to the beat of the music. Oprah, all I want is a serious dance without risk of being injured. Can the Fab Five help my Seizure Boy learn some new moves in time for his 40th birthday bash?
Oprah: That's true. So Patrice is begging for Jeff to learn--she's begging for Jeff to learn just one move that won't embarrass her. Her dream is to swing dance with her man at his upcoming 40th birthday party. Jai Rodriguez is "Queer Eye's" culture expert, Jai is. Jai's also a talented Broadway actor, singer and dancer. And yesterday Jai spent hours, and we do mean hours, in a dance studio working with Jeff and Patrice.
Jeff: Yeah, appreciate it.
Oprah: The first lesson was just helping Jeff try to find the beat.
Jai: That took a while. That took a while.
Oprah: It took a while. That took a while. OK. So we're ready to see now if Jeff--Had you seen anybody this bad?
Jai: Not in a while. I actually had to go get some expert help at Fred Astaire Studios here because I couldn't do it on my own because he was so bad. But he's so great now--he's so great now.
Oprah: He was bad.
Jai: You know what? I love that he tries for his wife. I think that's great and...
Oprah: Now this is what's interesting to me. Because everybody's been in this situation where you're dancing at a wedding or something with somebody like Jeff. You know, that's happened to you.
Jai: Right. He's so lovable.
Oprah: Yeah, love--where that happened to you. And you're wondering 'What are you hearing in there?'
Jai: I don't know.
Oprah: No, what are you hearing, and what is so interesting to me is that guys who are like you, you're hearing--whatever you're hearing, you're hearing it so strongly.
Jai: Committed. He's committed.
Oprah: Committed. And where is that coming from? OK. So we're ready to see...
Jai: Oh, great.
Oprah: ...if Jeff is able to get his groove on.
Jai: Come on with me.
Oprah: We have a special dance floor just for Jeff and Patrice. Jeff and Patrice are going to go on up. OK. OK. Are we ready to see what you guys are going to do? OK. You're going to swing, right?
Jeff: Yes.
Jai: Yes. It's the beginner's swing.
Oprah: OK. OK. Beginner's swing. Beginner's swing. [Music plays. Jeff and Patrice dance] Where's Jai? OK, OK, OK, OK.
Jai: You know what? They're going to keep... they're going to keep it up. He made great strides.
Oprah: Really.
Jai: I'm proud. I'm so proud.
Oprah: Really.
Jai: He did a great job.
Oprah: Yeah, this is interesting.
Jai: Yes.
Oprah: How.. how, Jai, how do you teach someone to find the beat? How did you do that?
Jai: Well, you know what? We were just, actually, just going through it over and over. And we gave him simple counts. And I was there with a couple of great coaches from Fred Astaire, like I said. And he was a great learner. He was so eager to learn. That's a part of it. Being willing and open. He was great.
Oprah: Did you think you had a problem before?
Jeff: No.
Jai: You know what's funny? He dances really well with me. He really does.
Oprah: Yeah. Thank you so much, Jeff and Patrice. Coming up, this wife says her husband's cooking is a recipe for disaster. Help is on the way from the Fab Five. We'll be right back. Back in a moment.

Oprah: OK. Here's what we're doing today, making over men with the help of the "Queer Eye" experts. You can see "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" Tuesdays on Bravo at 10 PM Eastern. It's such a fun, great show, as you can see from the guys here. So Ted Allen--Ted is the Fab Five's food and wine connoisseur who has foolproof recipes for any cooking-challenged straight guy, like our next husband, who was turned in by his hungry wife. Take a look.
Latasha: Oprah, Oprah, Oprah, I need your help. My husband is the worst in the kitchen. When he cooks, it's like a natural disaster. There's grease everywhere. And get this. His favorite gourmet meal is Oodles of Noodles and beef chops. Then there's the greasy spaghetti. He doesn't even drain the beef and doesn't add seasoning to the sauce. He thinks the beef grease is the seasoning. Don't let me forget to tell you about his daily appetizer. Clam dip. It looks like a science project and smells like the ocean.
Howard: I take one package of cream cheese, put it in a bowl. Put it in the microwave for one minute. Open up the clams. And then I stir them together until it becomes very whipped.
Latasha: Every single day he sits in front of the television and eats that before dinner. He doesn't do any other cooking. God forbid if something would happen to me and I can't do the cooking. If I had to rely on Howard to cook, we could would die from clogged arteries or high blood pressure. Can you please, please, please help my husband? If not, I will have to start a new reality show called "Cooking Class for the Lazy Ass."
Oprah: Good idea.
Ted: Man, she's tough.
Oprah: OK. OK. What are you going to do?
Ted: Somebody might get hurt. We're going to do something a little bit more healthful. And Latasha and Howard are from Maryland, so I thought we'd go with crab cakes.
Oprah: Oh, wow, yeah, good, good, good.
Ted: Most crab cakes that we eat in restaurants have a lot of breading in them.
Oprah: Too much.
Ted: Too much. This, we're going...
Oprah: Yeah.
Ted: ...to have none at all. This is a really deluxe high-grade crab cake.
Oprah: That's the way they do them in Maryland, actually.
Ted: Yeah.
Oprah: Yeah. Nothing but the best.
Ted: So this is lump crabmeat. Fabulous stuff. We're going to start out with a little bit of mayo.
Oprah: Could you use low-fat mayo if you wanted to?
Ted: Absolutely.
Oprah: OK. Good.
Ted: And then so...
Oprah: We're looking for ways to cut back.
Ted: Yeah, absolutely. Oops, I'm making a mess.
Oprah: Yeah. OK. And a little egg.
Ted: But that's what's fun about it. A little egg.
Oprah: You put an egg in there. One whole egg raw.
Ted: Yeah, we're going to whisk that up, a little bit of seasoning. And let's see. My Dijon.
Oprah: Oh, that gives it a little kick.
Ted: Yeah.
Kyan: Yummy.
Ted: OK.
Howard: Can I... can I invite you to my house to cook?
Ted: Absolutely. Would you do me a favor and whisk that up?
Howard: OK.
Oprah: Whisk.
Ted: We got some Old Bay seasoning. There's the whisk. That's the whisk. Real hard.
Ted: Give it some muscle. Give it some muscle. Yeah. Got to get it all blended. All right. Now we take the crab.
Oprah: Lump crabmeat, too, right?
Ted: Lump crabmeat.
Oprah: Yeah.
Ted: Nothing but the best.
Oprah: Yeah.
Ted: And fold that in.
Howard: Stir this?
Ted: Not with the whisk, though. That's going to cause some kind of a fire alarm.
Thom: That's going to be a problem.
Ted: That's going to be a bit of a problem.
Oprah: Yeah.
Ted: And the egg is--is the binder that holds everything together. OK?
Oprah: I see.
Ted: And now we get to have some real fun. Stick your hands in here and make like you're making a little hamburger patty. Here, I'll do the first one, OK? Press it so it holds together. Go ahead. And right after we do this we're going to dredge it in, believe it or not, Corn Flakes that have been pulverized in a food processor.
Oprah: In Corn Flakes? Oh. Oh, this is really healthy. This is good.
Ted: This is a great campaign--it is good. We're not even going to fry this.
Oprah: Yeah.
Ted: It's fantastic if you're having a date or if you're having a romantic dinner, because we do it in the oven. And that way instead of sauteing, you can be gazing into Latasha's eyes. All right. I'm going to come over here.
Oprah: OK.
Ted: OK. Now once you get this formed, you--you put it in the Corn Flakes, dredge it, get it good and covered, and this makes for a crispy texture without frying.
Oprah: Oh, that is a great idea.
Ted: Yeah. OK. How are you doing there?
Oprah: Well, yours is OK.
Thom: It goes great with Ramen noodles.
Ted: Are you all right? You got to hold it together.
Kyan: You can do it.
Ted: You got it, Howard.
Kyan: Come on. There you go.
Oprah: You're right, it's kind of a crab ball, but OK.
Ted: It's kind of a ball. OK. And then this, this goes into the fridge for about an hour so it takes shape.
Oprah: OK.
Ted: And then we bake it for 12 minutes at 400.
Oprah: OK.
Ted: But through the magic...
Oprah: It goes into the fridge first.
Ted: Yeah, the fridge--it needs to sit in the fridge for about an hour so that they'll hold their shape.
Oprah: OK.
Ted: It sets it up nicely.
Oprah: OK.
Ted: But we are cheating a little bit. But we got some ready.
Oprah: Fridge for an hour. And then...
Ted: And then it comes out like this.
Oprah: Oh, look at how pretty those are.
Ted: Voila. You can do this.
Howard: I think I can do this.
Ted: You think so?
Howard: Yes.
Ted: All right. So what we do--all right.
Oprah: Yeah, the key is the lump crabmeat, though, to make it taste really good.
Ted: Abso--absolutely. And we got some really good stuff.
Oprah: Yeah. This is a good idea.
Carson: Oh, those look good.
Oprah: Yeah.
Ted: So here we are, sir. Why don't you take this over and serve your lovely wife.
Oprah: Oh, that is fantastic. Whoo. Whoo. OK. You want to know what that tastes like? The recipe for Thom's crab cakes are on oprah.com. Thanks, Howard and Latasha. Up next, Carson reveals his "Queer Eye" fashion makeovers, and we'll see our straight guys change from drab to fab when we come back. Crab cakes for everyone.

Carson: Dame Edna.
Oprah: Yes, really.
Carson: I said, 'Of course she knows what gay is.'
Oprah: Of course.
Carson: It's Dame Edna.
Oprah: OK. At the top of our show--the top of our show, if you missed it, three wives turned in their frumpy fashion husbands and put them in the hands of Carson, the "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" king of couture. So remember Chip and the golf shirts, and then there was Steve, whose wife was embarrassed by his sloppy weekend wear, and Heath, whose wife, Kelly, said he was a mits--mismatched mess, and she would like to see him dressed up for once in his life. OK, here they are. Come on out, guys. [Guys walk out on stage] OK, Carson. What did you do? What did you do?
Carson: OK. We took him out of that golf shirt palooza thing. His wife wanted him to look a little more dressed up, a little more sophisticated. He's a big guy. He's, you know, kind of built like a Volvo, sturdy but boxy.
Oprah: Yes.
Carson: So we wanted to put him all in charcoal and keep him tonal. And it makes--you know, he's very--he's actually very, like, you know, big up here.
Oprah: Yeah. Kind of like built like a Volvo.
Carson: Not overweight. Not overweight. It's a good thing. It's safe. Look at that.
Oprah: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Safe. Safe. Good, good, good.
Carson: It feels good. OK, then over here with Stevie, I love it, he was far too casual. I haven't seen that look since "Private Benjamin." OK. So what we did is just--just did him in a dress pant, but it's kind of worn with a casual belt, a vintage feel, a turtleneck and some denim just to keep it casual. Not too dressed up. But you can still be casual and be sophisticated at the same time.
Oprah: There you go.
Carson: It's not about looking like you just rolled out of the gutter.
Oprah: Right. Do you like?
Carson: OK. And this little--this little Heath bar right here, she wanted him in a suit. So we dressed him up. He's a mortgage adviser. And before I wouldn't have taken his advice about, you know, buying shoes, let alone a mortgage.
Oprah: Yeah.
Carson: So we put him in a suit. It's respectable, really great. He's handy take-home size, the little, little. But we used stripes here to bring the eye up and down. Makes him look a little taller. Not that you need to be. We paired the suit with a cas--kind of a fun casual unexpected suede boot.
Oprah: I love the boots.
Carson: He could take this jacket off if he wanted to, unbutton his shirt and he can wear this to dinner with his wife and he can also wear it to work. So it's--it's versatile and it's something he'll have forever. And he looks cute as a button, don't you think?
Oprah: Cute as a button. Do you like? OK.
Carson: ...boys.
Oprah: OK. Thanks to Zegna, Zegna, for Chip's outfit. Thanks to Saks for Steve's look. And thanks to Ralph Lauren for Heath's snazzy new suit. Ralph Lauren. Coming up, Kyan reveals his dramatic grooming transformations on these shaggy straight guys. You won't believe what's under there. I think it's going to be pretty dramatic. We'll be right back.

Oprah: So we're back with the Fab Five from the hit show "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." Earlier we met Gerald. Gerald, whose wife Reona, said her husband has looked like a total hippie, and Roland, whose wife, Kimberly, has never seen him with long--without long hair. It's also been 20 years since his daughters have seen him without a beard. OK. You're looking at their before pictures. Before, before, before. There they are.
Ted: Wow.
Oprah: And let's see how Kyan, who's "Queer Eye's" grooming guy, transformed this hairy duo. Come on out, guys.
Carson: Well, it's a ...(unintelligible).
Jai: Big. It's big up there.
Carson: It's cute.
Oprah: Oh, my goodness. Can you believe yourselves? Tell us what, OK, Kyan, tell us what you did.
Kyan: Before it was Ted Kaczynski mountain man scary. And now they've...
Oprah: Yes.
Kyan: ...they're both creative guys and they still have that sort of rugged edge to them. This is the beauty of an amazing haircut. Gina Derry, who is a global master for Aveda, cut Roland's hair. She lives down in Miami. She, she flew up and did his hair. It's textured, it's short.
Ted: It's amazing.
Oprah: Look at that.
Ted: Beautiful hair. Beautiful. He looks like a movie star.
Thom: He looks like a movie star.
Ted: Doesn't he look like a movie star?
Carson: Man, you look like a movie star.
Kyan: And then for--for Gerald--for Gerald, Early Perez, who's with Arrojo Studio in New York, flew up with me. And he again--they both did sort of fractured--it's a very strong shape with a fractured interior. They used straight razors to create the looks. And then these guys both have amazing, beautiful eyes. So we got rid of the facial hair.
Oprah: Yes.
Kyan: We--we groomed the eyebrows, and then we did a--the sh--the shape...
Oprah: I know. The unibrow is gone.
Gerald: You noticed that, eh?
Kyan: The shave is so key. These guys hadn't shaved in years. And shaving is all about preparation and about product. So e Shave, who makes the best shaving cream around sent products and have amazing razors and shaving cream brushes that we use to get a very close shave.
Oprah: This is stunning. Our mouths are all just open.
Kyan: Yeah.
Oprah: Now, so when you looked in the mirror when this was done was it like, were you taken aback by yourself?
Gerald: Well, there wasn't a lot of time to like think about it. But, yeah, it was amazing, like especially when I saw myself in the monitor there. I was pretty surprised.
Kyan: Look at his eyes. Absolutely gorgeous.
Oprah: Look at your eyes. Guys, what--what do you think? What do you think? What do you think?
Kyan: And--and he's the one looks like a movie star.
Oprah: I know.
Kyan: He looks like a movie star. They both do.
Oprah: It really is. What do you think of yourself?
Gerald: I feel like I'm alive again.
Oprah: Oh. That's so nice. Big group hug. Big group hug. Oh, my goodness. Thanks to Hugo Boss for Gerald's new outfit and Ralph Lauren for Roland's new outfit. That is so great. That is so great. OK. We will be right back.

Oprah: Whoo, hoo! What a great sport. Yes! Go, Roland. Roland. Go, Roland. Go, Roland. OK. Let's say--let's say thank you to the Fab Five from Bravo's "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." Their hit show that everybody's talking about airs Tuesday nights at 10 PM Eastern, 9 PM Central on Bravo network. Thanks, everybody.
Jai: You're welcome. Thanks, you guys.
Kyan: Thank you.
Ted: Thank you.
Carson: Thank you.
Oprah: Thanks to everybody. That was so fun.
Carson: Group hug!
Oprah: I love the group hug. I love the group hug. Fantastic. Not even you were expecting that.


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