'Runway' Loser Trashes Competitor - As Seen on TV

By Julie Zied, Fancast.com

Wednesday night’s season five premiere of Project Runway began with an oh-so-familiar challenge: the Gristede’s supermarket sweep from season one, which found the 15 designers dashing through the aisles in search of - what everyone hoped would be - the perfect haute cuisine to whip into haute couture. For eliminated designer Jerry Tam, his whole white tablecloth affair wound up being less than savory to the judges. Fancast caught up with Tam to find out his thoughts on being auf’ed and what exactly was going on with Stella's garbage bag creation.

How was it watching the whole show unfold on TV last night?
There was a little heartache, to be honest. I saw all the contestants, one’s gonna win, the others are gonna lose, but it was heartbreaking for me.

Who did you watch it with?
Fortunately or unfortunately I was in the NBC studios watching it with the producers at Bravo headquarters with all the hoopla and champagne, so that was the fortunate part about it, the unfortunate part was watching myself get kicked off Project Runway on national television.

Did you have to excuse yourself at any point during watching because it was too emotional?
Well truthfully I’m absolutely OK with it because I got to be on an Emmy Award-nominated show, and I made some nice friends out of the deal, and I got to take a break from the fashion world and have fun.

Do you feel like Stella deserved to go instead of you?
First and foremost Stella put a garbage sack on a girl, and she whipstitched it. We gave her the nickname “The Whipstitch Garbage Bag Girl.” I can’t believe my fully tailored trench coat, which was beautiful with a full dress underneath it, was outshined by a trash bag. She should have gone. She gave up during the competition and during the runway show. She told the judges ‘I don’t really want to be here, I just put this together in five minutes, I had other people help me,’ so it was kind of discouraging to hear that she didn’t want to have anything to do with the show.

*** Get the rest of the interview, including Jerry's claim that Stella gave up before the challenge was over, at Fancast.com!

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