• Missed Top Chef Masters last night because it was pre-empted by The Fashion Show? Don’t worry, it comes back next week!
• Your patron saint Gretchen Rossi was at a trunk show hosted by fellow reality star Khloe Kardashian. Oh, to be a fly on the wall of that party… [Guest of A Guest]
• Speaking of Bangs, The Dirty posted another photo of her. I’ll let you go ahead and google that one.
• Dina Manzo was spotted leaving the set of soap opera One Life To Live. Was she visiting a friend or was she following in Danielle Staub’s footsteps? [Soap Opera Networks]
• It looks like some of Bravo’s hardworking PR team for NYC Prep were working it in the comments of local blog SFIst . Why they were doing damage control there is beyond human understanding. Also, why haven’t your fake comments popped up here, Bravo PR team? [SFIst]
• Despite all the outfits being in the three-digit price range, The Fashion Show’s online store has been doing extremely well, with most of the winning looks close to selling out. The cache of having an outfit that was made by the show, which isn’t available at the mall, is probably too much for fashionistas to resist. [Fancast]
• Want to live in the original Top Chef house in San Francisco? It’s available for rent, for $12,500 a month. [Eater]

Okay, sort of. In this week’s Life & Style, Jacqueline tells the magazine this:

“I don’t think it was something as simple as giving a phone number out, but leave it to Danielle to try to downplay her whole dirty deed,” Jacqueline says. “She’s an angry, bitter person. She felt Dina rejected her, so she went out to destroy her!”

But then, Jezebel picked up that she also said this:

Danielle was trying to harm Dina by giving her ex-husband a phone number that might give him leverage in the custody of their daughter Lexi.

This contradicts a statement Dina recently put out about that all of the speculation she was seeing on the blogs wasn’t true. The women were also on the Regis & Kelly show this morning, (they’re pictured here leaving the show) sans Danielle, and then refused to say what it was. Caroline did say that it wasn’t that Danielle put a hit out on Dina.

Which is the truth?

On the following clip from Fox News, Real Housewife of New Jersey Danielle Staub’s first ex-husband, Kevin Maher, the subject of the infamous “Book” (aka Cop Without a Badge: The Extraordinary Undercover Life of Kevin Maher) is interviewed about Danielle’s past. He says that he doesn’t even know if he ever got legally divorced from her, since they did a very scientific study of all the “databases” and could never find that their marriage was actually annulled.

He then goes on to say that the “Colombians” who she put in jail as part of her plea agreement probably still remember what she did and that Danielle should be concerned for her safety. No word on how Kevin is contributing to keeping them safe by going on a major news network and continuing to discuss this story.

Since every one just loves Gwyneth Paltrow’s newsletter, GOOP, I’m sure we’ll also love Rachel Zoe’s upcoming e-mail list. Because that’s what you need in your life, someone else making you feel fat and poor. You can sign up to receive the “daily glamour” today at RachelZoe.com. I’m signed up, so you don’t have go through the pain. Why? Because I love you, that’s why. [Blackbook]

Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly asks this question, probably coming down from the non-stop drama of the Real Housewives franchise, or in Project Runway withdrawals. I think: too soon, man. It’s only the second episode and most Bravo shows simmer up to a spectacular finish. Give it time.

But, being the curious gal I am, I thought I’d see what Twitter thought of the show, since it made the trending topics last night. A sampling of what folks felt:

Skeeton Mischa wondered the same thing I did about Sebastian & Taylor’s date:

This lady doubted that PC’s “counselor” was even a real professional

And others wondered why these rich kids were all using Blackberrys instead of the far more “elite” iPhone:

This woman hated Jessie so much, she publicly made plans to talk trash about her on a message board:

Media analyst Jennifer Pozner broke down why this show is even on the air:

How are you liking NYC Prep so far? Or are you sitting this one out and just going to wait for Gossip Girl to return in the fall?

[Via EW]

Jezebel uncovered a non-alien looking Danielle Staub doing a guest stint on the soap opera “All My Children.”  She’s everywhere lately, even marching in the Gay Pride Parade this weekend in New York City. Here’s where she won’t be, however: on tomorrow morning’s Regis & Kelly Show; the 4 other housewives refused to do the show if Danielle was present. At last week’s Fashion Show finale at Cipriani, all the housewives sat next to each other in the front row, except for Danielle who had to sit apart.

[Thanks to Marie L. & the slackmistress for sending this one along!]

Having humiliated chefs, housewives, designers, hair-dressers, and a group of helpful gay men, it’s time for Bravo to turn its eye to aspiring artists. Announced last year, the “Untitled Art Project” (formerly known as American Artist) will be produced by Magical Elves and Sarah Jessica Parker’s production company, Pretty Matches. Magical Elves is the producer of Top Chef and formerly, Project Runway. The project is finally being cast through 4 open casting calls:

LOS ANGELES
Saturday, July 11 & Sunday, July 12, 10 AM – 2 PM
LAXART
www.laxart.org

MIAMI
Tuesday, July 14, 10 AM – 2 PM
Fredric Snitzer Gallery
www.Snitzer.com

CHICAGO
Thursday, July 16, 10 AM – 2 PM
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Sullivan Galleries, 33 State Street
www.saic.edu

NEW YORK
Saturday, July 18 & Sunday, July 19, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
White Columns
www.whitecolumns.org

Some interesting notes from the casting call:

“You must NOT be a candidate for public office and must agree not to become one until one (1) year after the initial exhibition of the episodes of the Program in which you appear, if selected as a contestant.”

“Please make sure your passport is valid and up to date. If you do not have one, please apply for one immediately.”

So, international travel is in this show’s future and no future politicos! Good luck.

[Image: Flynet]

Kathy Griffin’s My Life On The D-List has been quietly kicking ass this season. I was very worried her new format, “watch Kathy hang out with other celebrities,” would destroy the saucy bitch we know and love, it’s actually breathed a lot of new life into the show. I found myself, actually, uh, charmed watching her shop with Paris Hilton in LA in last night’s episode probably because that’s the first time I’ve seen Paris Hilton act like a human being and not seductively eating a cheeseburger on top of a car.

One of the finest parts of the show was watching Paris and Kathy run into Real Housewife of New York City, Jill Zarin, who naturally couldn’t stop talking about how she was trying to get Paris’s mom to re-do her new house courtesy of Zaaarin Fabrics. They even slowed down her voice!

The true comedic gold was watching as Kathy enlisted the help of her mom to be the manager of her Facebook account, or as Maggie called it, the “faceplace.” Clip below:

NYC Prep comes back tonight at it’s normal time at 9 p.m. While at first, I was looking forward to being slightly amused with the rich teenagers prancing around talking like they’re 40, now I think I’m going to end up drowning myself in an Upper East Side-approved martini every Tuesday night.

The following clip of the hair-flipping Sebastian taking the public schooled Taylor on a date to his favorite French restaurant is so stilted and so painful, my heart yearned to send Taylor to some kind of self esteem boosting seminar. Taylor (who is apparently a vegan?) orders a salad with no dressing to her saying she like, wants to be like, a philosopher when she gets older. Sebastian, because he is rich and from private school and only thinks of money asks her how philosophers get paid. Taylor giggles in response.

I was TOTALLY GOING TO DO THIS but it looks like a talented young fellow named Michael Creighton beat me to the punch. This is an epic dramatic reading of “The Book,” aka Cop Without A Badge. It turns out Michael did two other dramatic readings from the book, detailing Danielle’s past as “Beverly Merrill,” and then deleted Michael from her Facebook friends list when she got wind that this was happening. It’s awesome:

Thanks to Micheal for sending me these videos!