A fictionalized version of window dresser Simon Doonan’s life will be on television this fall. (Photo by Kristie Bull/AP)
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Friday, March 28, 2008
As the witch in Hansel & Gretel knew, life inside the candy house is sweet. Pushing children into ovens and eating frosting and candy all day — oh, Dish dreams of it. But with today’s gossip, she comes pretty close to living her dreams, because today she actually gets to write about one of the few gay celebs that doesn’t make her stomach turn.
Barney’s window dresser is a smashingly witty British man and married to designer. So in short, Simon Doonan is Dish’s candy house, especially because the BBC is turning his adorable life into a television series.
Several years back, Doonan wrote a memoir, “Nasty: My Family and Other Glamorous Varmints,” which is getting the boob tube treatment by Jon Plowman, who also produced gay-favorite “Absolutely Fabulous” and “The Office.”
The show will be titled “Beautiful People” and will air on the BBC2 this fall in Britain.
“I am totally delirious and delighted, and bewitched, buggered and bewildered,” Doonan told Women’s Wear Daily. “It’s one of the most surprising, hilarious things to ever happen to me. It’s the real cherry on the cake.”
For a Brit, Doonan has an awfully Cinderella-esque story. He grew up working class in Reading, England, where he traipsed about before becoming a glamorous window dresser in New York.
“It’s a low-rent Madame Bovary,’” Doonan said about “Nasty.”
The New York Post’s Page Six also picked up on this story and discovered Doonan’s casting fantasies.
“I keep thinking Linda Hunt or somebody fabulous like that, “ Doonan said about potentials to play him. Hunt, who is 4’9” according to IMDB.com, won an Academy Award for once playing a male Chinese-Australian dwarf in “The Year of Living Dangerously.”
“Linda would be great — and she’s about my size. I’m just 5 foot 4 [and a] 1/2 on my passport and believe me, that half inch is very important,” Doonan said.
Of course it is, dear. Dish hears that all the time.
 Hold onto your spring bonnet. Ever since former * member and actor seemed awfully close to one another at the Oscars after parties, rumors have been swirling. The two have been spotted at nightclubs and airports together and sources have been suggesting for a while that the two are dating. Or at least mating.
Defamer.com featured a post about the two sharing a cabana in Los Angeles, and the Globe, which is of course an indisputable sort of tabloid that would never print anything untrue, is saying that the two have moved in together. Could it be true?
 Actress says what she wants. Recently she announced that her vagina was her best body part and then in a recent Allure interview she really let it all hang out.
Allure magazine asked: “You told an interviewer you’d rather eat a vagina than sushi. When stuff you say makes headlines, what’s the reaction of your publicity team?”
Beckinsale responded: “I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.
At least a vagina would be warm. [laughs] My publicist has literally turned a funny color and is going to go have a lie-down. He’s throwing up now, as well. I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what’s on my mind, and then get nine texts from all my friends going, ‘What’s the matter with you?’ But I haven’t ever made a big attempt to have any particular image. And I don’t really worry about it.”
She might just be Dish’s new hero.
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