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Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Monday, March 07, 2005 - 4:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
They certainly edited the show in a manner that virtually set Kimberley up to fail in the long term. It's really inexplicable how the judges / CBS came up with that result.

Lori
Member

04-18-2003

Monday, March 07, 2005 - 4:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I never thought about the editing process. They can't have been that stupid...I bet we saw the absolute very best of Kimberly...I would love to see what they had to cut!

Sunshyne4u
Member

06-17-2003

Monday, March 07, 2005 - 4:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I've always wondered since episode one why Candace was a judge
My family and I had this discussion! I think we were told in the first episode that Candace was put on the show because she throws lavish parties.

Unfortunately I dont see throwing parties as credentials to being a judge!! That is comparable to having a 'steady' boozer suddenly judging a vintage Wine Competition. Would never happen, it just isnt credible.

In other words, just because Candace throws parties doesnt mean that she has the ability to judge with an educated background ((not sure if that is making sense...my words are clumsy))

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Monday, March 07, 2005 - 5:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, if you throw a party but hire someone to do it, then no, you aren't that qualified.
But, if I may slightly brag about myself, I love to throw parties...intitmate dinner parties for 12 or cocktails for 100! I do all the cooking myself, flowers ect. So I feel qualified to voice my opinion. Maybe Candace is like me.

Alisons
Member

01-10-2003

Monday, March 07, 2005 - 5:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Texannie, I am sure you would be a better judge than Candace.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Monday, March 07, 2005 - 5:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL..i didn't mean to imply I might be, just that lots of times people who throw parties know what they are talking about, but thanks.......

Ddr
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08-19-2001

Monday, March 07, 2005 - 5:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think Annie should apply for WP2! Give us hope Annie!

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Monday, March 07, 2005 - 5:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ROFL!!!! lord no, I am not crafty! If I had to come up with something like they did for a screen test, it would have been even more lame than the tie snakes!!!
I can cook and plan parties, that's it. But I also love it.

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Monday, March 07, 2005 - 5:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i hope they don't subject us to another wickedly perfect.

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Monday, March 07, 2005 - 7:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I saw her on the Early Show, only because I had it on in the background and was playing a game that didn't allow me to grab the remote..

Her invitation ideas were pretty lame and when Hannah asked her questions.. un like what kind of printer can you use.. she said or any kind like inkjet.. and trailed off.

I was also surprised to see her in jeans!

And she did have a ribbon flower on something she showed, but mercifully it wasn't mentioned.

Auntiemike
Member

09-17-2001

Monday, March 07, 2005 - 7:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Texannie: You would do fine. Why, all you need to know in the "crafty" department is how to make ribbon roses. And, didn't Kimberly show you how to do that.....at least three times (dripping with sarcasm,)??!!???!!

You probably have more talent in your little finger than she does in her whole body. And, if her performance on the Morning Show is any example of the wonderful crafts to come, then you'd be GREAT!

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Monday, March 07, 2005 - 8:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
don't think so, I lived those ribbon flowers! LOL
I was impressed with all the crafts, i don't think that way so they were all wonderful to me.

Alisons
Member

01-10-2003

Monday, March 07, 2005 - 9:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, there were things about this show that were not explained, like what the contestants were told in advance that allowed them to bring along all those different materials that they had. I am guessing that they were told that they might have to put together projects based partly on what they were allowed to buy, what they were allowed to bring and what they could find. However none of this was really explained.

Anyway, my point is that if you knew in advance that you might have to do some individual projects, you would have a chance to browse through some craft books for ideas, etc.

Costacat
Member

07-15-2000

Monday, March 07, 2005 - 9:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Didn't they bring some of their own specialty things? Like recipes? (I remember Margo had some.) And Darlene had some sewing stuff. I'm sure they hadda list of do's and don't's.

Still... I never watch The Early Show, and now I'll never watch it. Even if I'm home sick, cable is out, and nothing else comes in without an antenna! Ick. Kimberly just doesn't have "it."

Alisons
Member

01-10-2003

Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 4:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Costa, that is just it, they never really explained what was going on with what they brought. Remember Mitch talked about that fabric that he brought that was $175 a yard, Kimberly talked about bringing staples or something, other times people talked about things that they had with them. But you never really knew what options people had or what they chose to bring.

If I were doing something like that I would want to bring the basic Betty Crocker cookbook - there were a lot of situations in that show where people were trying to figure out food.

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 12:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL.. like the eggs in the bed and breakfast episode?

(not that I would want to cook eggs.. I'm SO not a cook! But I also didn't try out for this show)

Rslover
Member

11-19-2002

Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 4:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
No, please don't say Betty Crocker - that is the WORST!! Joy of Cooking is a great basic cookbook!!!

Alisons
Member

01-10-2003

Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 5:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Really, you don't like Betty? I like that cookbook a lot. My ultimate cooking hero is Nigella Lawson - she has a really great brownie recipe in both Domestic Goddess and her most recent cookbook (same recipe.)

One of the nice things about the Betty Crocker cookbook that I like is that it explains where all the cuts of meat come from on the animal. The last time my parents visited, my dad asked kind of out of the blue where bacon came from and I was able to show him on the little diagram.

My mother has Joy of Cooking and when I was a teenager I made a few things out of there, but her copy does not have pictures in it of every dish, and I really prefer that in a cookbook. It may be that other editions do have the pictures (since that was ~30 years ago.)

Sunshyne4u
Member

06-17-2003

Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - 1:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have a old Betty Crocker cookbook from the 50s. (Older than ME!) It is the greatest book as everything is explained right from scratch. So many cookbooks dont give indepth instructions nowadays. THe book also has the wildest OLD fashioned recipes. Some from during the War when rationing was occuring. Like WAR Cake or WACKY Cake. No eggs, No milk

Where else can you find out how to make Homemade Marshmallows? LOL Anyways, if people knew how easy it is to make Chocolate Sauce I think they wouldnt buy that Nestle's Stuff for their kids.

Alisons
Member

01-10-2003

Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 7:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
From the St. Petersburg Times, a bit of good news wrt Darlene and Mitch:

New paths open after stint on show
By BARBARA L. FREDRICKSEN, Times Staff Writer
Published March 12, 2005

Sometimes losing turns out a lot better than winning.

That's how it's looking for New Port Richey resident Darlene Cahill, the home styling diva who was voted off the CBS TV show Wickedly Perfect in the seventh episode a couple of weeks ago.

The contestant who was, arguably, the least likable and least creative, Kimberly Kennedy, went on to win the show's top spot a week later, but in a bit of sweet irony, it looks as though Darlene and the show's runner up, Mitch Pennell, will be getting their own home styling TV show first. It's tentatively named Homestyle M.D., as "M" for Mitch and "D" for Darlene.

The two are meeting with executives of the developers of Wickely Perfect, LMNO Productions, this week "to tie up the loose ends," according to Darlene, who was in Cleveland on Wednesday filming promotional videos for Lion Brand Yarn, a gig she's had for more than a year.

Her new show's concept will have her and Mitch hosting other home-stylers and coming up with their own ideas for personal and home improvement. There will be segments on cooking, home improvement, flower growing and arrangement, home and room makeovers and other home projects.

CBS will have first dibs on the show, but if they don't pick it up, LMNO Productions will pitch it to other networks.

"It's overwhelming," Darlene said of the quickly developing show."It's mind-blowing."

Although some on Wickedly Perfect had conflicts with the sometimes overly confident Mitch, Darlene says she never had a problem with him.

"I see a wonderful working relationship," she said.

As for Wickedly Perfect, "I'm happy with the way it came out," she said.

Instead of getting the show's prizes and being tied to six appearances on The Early Show, writing a book and working with the network on its idea of a show, Darlene is free to pursue these other, much more exciting avenues.

Those who followed the show (or this column) know that Darlene got off to a rough start at Wickedly Perfect's beginning. One of the contestants, Tom Frank, went on the attack against Darlene in the first episode. The others, like a herd of sheep, followed his lead and treated her simply awful. Fortunately, Tom was voted off in the first segment.

"It took several episodes for me to overcome what he did," Darlene said. "By the fourth episode, I had won the respect from my peers that I should have had in the first episode."

She also won over the people who commented on the Internet and voted on show favorites in the CBS online weekly poll. At first, Web site writers were downright cruel about Darlene. By episode four, everyone was in love with her.

When former contestants were allowed to come back in episode seven - "a very unwelcome twist," Darlene says - and spitefully voted her off, Web writers were furious, many of them vowing to stop watching the show.

Even her old nemesis, Tom, smirked (as he helped vote her off the show) that she would probably succeed anyway, perhaps owning her own network some day.

Bet he didn't know it would happen so soon.

Darlene is mystified about the contestants' negative reaction against her.

"I guess my enthusiasm and energy aggravates some people," she said. "They didn't understand where it came from."

The show's film editors also did what they could to make her look foolish.

"In a 24-hour period, everyone has a lot of expressions and does a lot of things," she said. Editors can pick and choose what they want in order to create an impression, and that's what they did.

With her own show, Darlene will have more say in the editing, of course.

When I talked with her, she was on her way to New York to have show judge and makeover artist David Evangelista style her hair, then to Chicago to meet with Mitch about their new TV show and to attend the Home & Homewares Show there to "land a few endorsements."

If the show comes together as hoped, it will be filmed in Los Angeles. Darlene will maintain a home there, but will commute to New Port Richey "as much as I can." Her husband, George, will fly to L.A. in between.

Of course, Darlene is coming back March 18 and 19 to see the youngest Cahill, George III, play the lead in the Mitchell High School musical, Crazy for You. The Cahills - mother, father and son - were the opening act at the Angel "garden cafe" Theatre in May 1994, so the stage is nothing new for young George.

Darlene doesn't have any regrets about Wickedly Perfect and would go on it again if given the chance. And she would once more just be herself, as friendly as a pup.

"I would rather lose the contest and win the people's respect," she said. "I wasn't willing to win at any cost. I wouldn't want to be an embarrassment for my church or my real family."

Darlene is a part of the singing group Colors of Grace at the Grace Christian Fellowship in Largo, where she has been a member for 10 years. She's singing there on Sunday.

""Wickedly Perfect was the time of my life," she said. "It was emotionally challenging, but I discovered I'm an adrenaline junky."

Cousin_jake
Member

07-04-2002

Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 7:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Good news Alisons! Mitch and Darlene were way more talented and creative than Kimberly. I couldn't believe it when she got to come back and then she won. Those darn ribbon roses! Glad to hear Mitch and Darlene are getting a chance.

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 8:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yay Darlene! Always loved her! Yay to Mitch also, he was my second favorite.

Rslover
Member

11-19-2002

Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 8:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Great News! I figured they'd get a show.

Babyjaxmom
Member

10-20-2002

Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 9:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Now that's a show I would watch. I found them both entertaining. Mitch was kind of snarky, but I read that several contestants thought he was really funny and kept them all laughing. Thanks for sharing, Alisons!

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 9:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
AWESOME! i loved darlene and mitch. i also liked denise a lot. i hope she comes and joins them for some episodes. i think that darlene and mitch will make a great combination. and i will definitely watch!