Has anyone else noticed that all of the female dancers are attractive? I have not seen an unattractive female selected.

I was kind of saying this around the whole Susan Boyle hoopla, and I still believe it: To become a famous entertainer (and even more on a show like this than in real life), you have to have some combination of talent, looks, charisma, and luck. I'm going to say you need three of the four.

Watching Top Model, and noticing that Tyra didn't even replace Paulina!

I forgot to mention that the subtitles were very good in general, but Robuchon did not say the poussin was bland--he called it a bastard (I assume meaning a bastardized version).

ha! I love that.

I thought Chanel Iman was actually good, and said not-half-bad actual model type things. But I'm curious to see how the rest of the season goes.

I also am very curious what happened to crazy Jesus chick who didn't make it on to the actual show because of some "issue". Did she go full mental?? She seemed awful close. Or did she get MORE Jesus-y and decided He didn't want her on the show? Or what???

Why won't A&E let me play "Hoarders" on their website?? It keeps not working. Is it my browser? My mac-ness? A plot to make me not want to clean my house? Fie on them!!

I know you guys mentioned this but now Im wondering if Mattin is really "from France". When I was working for the State Dept in Rio, I talked to hundreds of people, some who wanted to pass as nTive English speakers. I would say that 99% of the time, I could sense when someone had studied hard but never really lived in the US.

Perhaps there was something in Robouchon s comment that I missed but I thought his reaction to Mattin was just odd.

do you think it is because he does French/Spanish cooking?

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I was going to ask - is he maybe actually Basque?

yes he is. That's the region where he grew up. Southwestern France.