2003 brought Carson Kressley his watershed moment: such was the year that the once-obscure fashion designer -- employed as an independent stylist for the Gotham-based Polo Ralph Lauren -- auditioned to star as a regular on the Bravo series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. An Allentown, PA, native and a graduate of Pennsylvania's Gettysburg College (with degrees in finance and art), Kressley was soon tapped to work for Lauren as an assistant to many of the company's top-tiered executives, then auditioned among several dozen candidates to star on the reality series, which featured himself and a cadre of other witty homosexual men offering advice to straight men on how best to improve their homes, apparel, and various other areas of lifestyle to qualify as truly chic (or "metrosexual," as the program typically put it). Kressley remained with the series for numerous seasons, and he and his co-stars soon graduated to the level of national celebrities, dubbed "The Fab Five."
Kressley expanded into other arenas by authoring the 2004 tome Off the Cuff: The Essential Style Guide for Men and the Women Who Love Them and the children's allegory You're Different and That's Super (2005). He next hosted the Lifetime reality series How to Look Good Naked, which involved putting women on the air who felt unhappy about their bodies, and then instilling them with confidence and a positive, enthusiastic outlook (sans the use of plastic surgery or other "artificial" enhancements). In 2008, Kressley hosted the CW reality series Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants, a televised competition that found several mother-daughter teams going head-to-head with one another in an elaborate beauty pageant.
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Dancing With the Stars: Season 13
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2011 | |||
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Making the Boys
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2009 | |||
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Eleven Minutes
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2008 | |||
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How to Look Good Naked [TV Series]
Actor, Co-Executive Producer |
2008 | |||
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Queer Eye: Season 05
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2007 | |||
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Queer Eye: Season 04
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2006 | |||
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Queer Eye: Season 03
Participant |
2005 | |||
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The Perfect Man
Actor |
2005 | |||
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Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: Season 02
Participant |
2004 | |||
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Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: Season 01
Participant |
2003 | |||
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When Ocean Meets Sky
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2003 |




























