Fab four.WHEN TLC'S Trading Spaces
Making the house-swap with their neighbors Eduardo Alvarado and Bill Dispoto, handymen Arteaga and Verry hoped to get a new living room for their Spanish-style home in the Hancock Park
Hancock Park is a park in Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California which is the location of the La Brea Tar Pits, the George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries, and LACMA. neighborhood. Alvarado and his partner wanted to highlight the diversity of gay men. "I don't want people to see the show and think these guys are roommates," he says. "There's a subtlety sub·tle·ty n. pl. sub·tle·ties 1. The quality or state of being subtle. 2. Something subtle, especially a nicety of thought or a fine distinction. to the couples, but I didn't want there to be any mystery." No, the show's mystery is always what the designers--extravagant Hildi and sneaky Doug--would do to the rooms. We have inside word this show's worth recording in hopes of both a tender man-on-man kiss and a classic on-camera meltdown meltdown Occurrence in which a huge amount of thermal energy and radiation is released as a result of an uncontrolled chain reaction in a nuclear power reactor. The chain reaction that occurs in the reactor's core must be carefully regulated by control rods, which absorb . "We're happy with our room," Alvarado says. Arteaga, a Spaces fan--who should know better--wasn't so lucky. "We didn't like our room at all. We were like, 'What the ...'" he recalls. But he knows he'll get no sympathy from viewers, especially his fellow gays: "They'll say, 'Well, bitch, you shouldn't have gone on the show.'" |
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