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Tyra Banks and 4 fabulous friends share tips on a ‘FABLife’
FRAZIER MOORE
AP Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — When
Tyra Banks starts getting
dressed, she finds trouble is
waiting.
“I’ve got so many clothes
and the most amazing
shoes in the world!” she
explains. “But when I look
in the closet I feel para-
lyzed. I’m stuck. So I tend
to reach for the same thing
over and over again.”
Whatever same-old-thing
condition is plaguing her
fashion-wise has surely es-
caped notice by any of
her fans. But if Banks truly
feels she’s in a rut, help is
now at hand: She need
only reach out to Joe Zee,
a fellow lifestyle expert on
the new syndicated “FA-
BLife,” premiering Monday
(check local listings).
“I think I’m gonna need
Joe to go in my closet and
put together outfits,” Banks
says.
Maybe he will.
But Zee, a celebrity stylist
and Yahoo’s style editor,
is primed to counsel “FA-
BLife” viewers as well: Such
as when he heaps the en-
tire contents of a viewer’s
closet on the studio floor
and reimagines a ward-
robe using what the viewer
already owns, plus a few
key additions.
Leah Ashley — a devotee
of flea markets, vintage
stores and all manner of
“upcycling” — will be full
of do-it-yourself projects for
spinning household clutter
into gold.
Lauren Makk is ready with
In this Tuesday, July 21, 2015, file photo, Republican presiden-
tial hopeful Donald Trump speaks at his South Carolina Cam-
paign Kickoff Rally in Bluffton, S.C. media company.
FRAZIER MOORE
AP Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Don-
ald Trump spokesman Mi-
In this Aug. 4, 2015 file photo, co-hosts, from left, Chrissy Teigen, Tyra Banks, Joe Zee, Leah Ashley
and Lauren Makk, from the lifestyle talk show “FABLife,” pose at the 2015 Television Critics Asso-
ciation Summer Press Tour in Beverly Hills, Calif.
interior and exterior home ture, when Banks will listen
transformations that won’t to aspiring entrepreneurs
turn viewers’ wallets inside as they pitch their new busi- so far.
out. (In a regular “Makk At- ness ideas to her in — you
tack,” she’ll make a house guessed it — an elevator.)
call to surprise a viewer “Watch our show and
with a room makeover.) you’ll know everything
Foodie-supermodel Chris- you need,” Banks sums
sy Teigen will be cooking up. “We’ll not only tell you
up culinary tips and tasty what’s hip, but our styl-
dishes (maybe including ists are at the vanguard
her recipe for osso bucco, of DECIDING what’s hip.
a favorite of her husband, We’re trying to change the
singer-songwriter John Leg- world!”
end). This band of fab-specialists
Meanwhile, chief stylist aims to learn along with
Banks reigns as the resident the audience, partaking
authority on beauty and of one another’s expertise
business matters of interest each weekday hour.
to viewers. (Such as with Zee, for example, doesn’t
her “Elevator Pitch” fea- know from a glue gun —
Donald Trump says he’s bought
100 percent of Miss Universe
verse Organization and set-
tled all lawsuits against the “The Celebrity Apprentice”
The move, which Trump
Associated Press announced via Twitter on
Friday morning, gives him
chael Cohen confirmed full ownership of the Miss
the Republican presiden- Universe and Miss USA pag-
tial hopeful has purchased eants and completes a di-
NBC’s half of the Miss Uni- vorce begun in June when
NBC announced it was
ending its business relation- Jimmy Fallon” for airing Fri-
ship with Trump, who had
starred on the network as
host of “The Celebrity Ap-
prentice.”
The network later said
Saturday 12 September
foam from a dry-cleaner
hanger and rub the foam
against that stain. And it
comes off!”
Associated Press “FABLife,” then, is a learn-
ing experience for all con-
not yet, anyway — nor is cerned. “Fashion should be
Ashley a whiz in the kitchen a reflection of you in a re-
ally fun, positive way,” says
And Teigen isn’t so swift Zee, who’s all set to show
with do-it-yourself projects, how. “No one should feel
as she readily concedes. intimidated by fashion.”
“I’m like a bulldozer on the Similarly, Ashley loves shar-
DIY segments with Leah. ing tips on how to repur-
Somehow I ruin everything. pose stuff you can’t use
But I love her craft projects and are tired of into “some-
and creating great gifts. thing that’s fabulous and
“We really do learn so much new. Doing that is great
from each other,” she says, for the planet, and it saves
“and we take these ideas you money, too.”
home and share them with Makk is just as budget-con-
friends.” scious with her design proj-
For instance, reports Tei- ects for turning your home
gen, “Joe taught me that into a castle. She advo-
any time you get a deodor- cates for resale, reuse and
ant stain on your shirt, you recombining elements to
can tear off the piece of unlock a whole new look.
“I’m never gonna say, ‘Get
rid of everything! Get new
stuff!”” she pledges.
Banks, who in the past host-
ed a daytime talk show
solo, says she loves the “FA-
BLife” camaraderie as well
as the wide exchange of
knowledge.
“I feel like the show is like
pop-art-candy-fun infor-
mation,” she says in her
rap-chatty way.
Sure, she says, you could
watch all those single-top-
ic TV shows that focus on
food or design or fashion or
makeovers. Banks shakes
her head and laughs at
such a notion.
“Like is too complicated,”
she declares. “Just watch
OUR show!”q
Trump would never be on June it was severing ties
with Trump because of
again. Since he jumped comments he made about
into the presidential race, Mexican immigrants during
Trump has rocketed to the his presidential campaign
top of the GOP pack in the kickoff speech. The fall-
polls. Trump’s announce- out reverberated far be-
ment came hours before yond the pageant: Macy’s
he was scheduled to tape stopped carrying a line of
a guest appearance on Trump menswear, a televi-
“The Tonight Show Starring sion company owned by
Mexican billionaire Car-
day night. los Slim ended a project
NBC confirmed it has sold with Trump and the PGA
its rights to the Miss Universe of America moved a golf
Organization to Trump. tournament off a Trump-
The had network said in owned course. q