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Project Runway 3 model leaves the hospital |
| July 28th, 2006 under Project Runway. [ Comments: none ]
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 Stunning "Project Runway" model Jia Santos – who was hit by a bus and dragged underneath it – is finally out of the hospital, with a puffy eye the only outward sign of her ordeal.The 18-year-old beauty was released from St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan Wednesday night after a six-week stay that included extensive surgery for a fractured skull and right eye socket.The horrific accident, which occurred as Santos was riding her bike to a taping of the Bravo program in mid-June, initially left her in critical condition.Santos, born Eliza Jakubek in Hungary, had reached the final three on the reality show, where fashion designers compete for $100,000 and other prizes and their models for a spread in Elle magazine. The show went on without her, and her accident reportedly is explained in the finale.Santos left the hospital wearing large sunglasses and accompanied by her boyfriend, artist Biagio Black, and two other friends."She’s still pretty tired from everything," Black told the Daily News yesterday. "She’s very happy to be out.""She seems to be healing well and we wish her the best of luck with her career," said one of her doctors, general internist Daniel Sulmasy.On Wednesday, Santos seemed reluctant at first to stop and pose for a News photographer, but after her friends cheered her on, she worked the sidewalk like a runway model.
NY Daily News
I am not sure who her designer is currently on the show, but since the designers can switch models there might be no way to know who she was with at the time of the accident.
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Project Runway’s Malan blogs about his way-to-early desparture |
| July 20th, 2006 under Project Runway. [ Comments: none ]
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It is hard for me to type right now, i have been so honoured with your amazing kindness, my tears unfortunately will not stop. i will be writing to each and every one of you to say thank you as soon as I can. Remember, no obstacle is so great that it should ever keep you from your dream. "Believe and in your heart you know, that no one can change the path that you must go."
I love you all, thank you, I have never known such love in my life. thank you.
malan
I will miss him and sexy accent. And Malan I would be your friend! He seems like such a cool guy, kind of reminds of Tim Curry circa Annie.
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Project Runway 3 model hit by a bus |
| July 13th, 2006 under Project Runway. [ Comments: none ]
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Season three of "Project Runway" premiered on Bravo last night, but a tragic accident marred the finale of the Heidi Klum show. Designers compete for $100,000, a car and other prizes, while their model wins a spread in Elle magazine. Hungarian model Jia Santos (whose real name is Eliza Jakubek), 18, became one of the three finalists. But near the end of taping, she was struck by a bus while riding her bike to the show’s location in the city.
"She was dragged underneath the bus," her agent, Avenue Models’ Javier Hernandez, told us yesterday. "She fractured her skull and her eye socket and was in critical condition for three days. Now she has been in intensive care for a month."Her first words upon waking up, Hernandez tells us, were: "Am I still on ‘Project Runway’?"Santos still appears in the show, and her accident is explained during the finale. Hernandez said she was modeling to support her parents in their Hungarian village.
"Everyone from the show has been really supportive and offered their help to get her parents a visa to visit her in the hospital and work on a benefit for her," he said.
Ben Widdicombe
This is so sad, I hope she gets well soon and makes it to fashion week.
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Santino is nuts. |
| June 26th, 2006 under Project Runway. [ Comments: none ]
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Santino Rice, one of the three finalists on Project Runway 2, insists that, although he lost the competition, he still won.
"And I did win. It’s obvious that I did win," he tells TV Guide. "I don’t need the big shiny crown of Project Runway to validate me as a designer. People ask me all the time, ‘What happened to whats-her-name?’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t know who you’re talking about.’" He’s talking, of course, about Chloe Dao, the winner of the show.
Although Santino may not yet have come to terms with his loss, he’s at least not yet delusional about his chance for ongoing fame as a TV star. He says that, while participating in a Details photo shoot with other reality stars, "I really felt out of place while I was there with them. I felt like everyone else was kind of jockeying for the next TV thing that they were going to do."
And while Santino says he "get[s] offers like that all the time," he won’t even consider doing another TV show unless "it involves fashion."
Reality Blurred
OMG if anything it was Daniel V who should’ve won. But Chloe brought it that night and deserved the win.
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Project Runway 3 Announcement |
| June 20th, 2006 under Project Runway. [ Comments: none ]
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Supermodel Heidi Klum and her husband, singer Seal, 43, are expecting their third child, a source close to the couple confirms to Us Weekly. The couple also have a son, Henry, 9 months, and a daughter, Leni, 2, from Klum’s previous relationship with race car driver Flavio Briatore.
“You’d never have known if you saw her at the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards [on June 5],” says the source. “She’s just starting to show.” Klum, 33 — along with her family — are currently in NYC finishing up the latest installment of Project Runway, which debuts July 12 on Bravo.
“She’s in a really good place,” says the source. “She loves her family. She loves being a mom.” A rep for Klum had no comment.
US Weekly
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