Jonathan Antin (Blow Out) on Styling the Iconic Hair of Madonna, Courtney Love, Ricky Martin, Lisa Rinna & more!
Hot Takes & Deep Dives
Jess Rothschild
4.5 • 774 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Jess catches up with Jonathan Antin, once referred to as a "scissors-wielding lunatic," and star of Bravo's Blow Out which aired from 2004-2006. Jonathan chats about growing up in Beverly Hills with his sister Robin Antin (choreographer & creator of The Pussycat Dolls), to eventually become the world-renowned hair stylist with a wild personality. Jonathan shares stories of cutting & styling the iconic hair of Madonna, Courtney Love, Ricky Martin, Steven Tyler, Lisa Rinna, Brad Pitt and a lot more!
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| 0:18.8 | Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives. This is Jess and I am with a real LA legend, a real California icon right here. |
| 0:24.7 | I mean, he has been called a scissors-wielding lunatic. |
| 0:31.0 | He's been called the Donald Trump of hair. |
| 0:34.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, Mr. Jonathan Anton. |
| 0:39.0 | Hi, how are you? |
| 0:42.0 | How are you? What do you have to save yourself? I was really good until I heard that I've been called the Donald Trump of hair. My God. I mean I think because of you know the flamboyant personality and you're very outspoken you know in the day the Donald Trump you know the apprentice |
| 1:00.0 | right right right you are most remembered to my audience and to the listeners because you had your |
| 1:07.8 | own Bravo show for three seasons. Blowout was a huge show on Bravo in the early days of Bravo when it really was just |
| 1:16.4 | queer eye for the straight guy and inside the actor studio and you, you really were one of the first spin-offs you know what I |
| 1:24.5 | had interviewed a couple of the queer eye guys like Carson Cressley and he had |
| 1:29.2 | told me that those initial shows on Bravo like blowout work out those were all little spin-offs of the different niches within Queer Eye. |
| 1:39.4 | You know the first of us was really blow out the restaurant and then workout came with Jackie like two years later. You know, I was on Jackie was on my show. |
| 1:57.0 | Bravo and Andy asked me to put Jackie on my show because they were shooting a pilot with her and they wanted her |
| 2:06.8 | on my show as part of her pilot to sell her show. |
| 2:11.9 | It was a new style of television sort of revolutionary and |
| 2:17.0 | television. Actually let's start here I mean I know I want to get into like a bit of your |
| 2:21.7 | history and then we'll find out how |
| 2:23.2 | blowout came to be. I mean I know that you you grew up in Beverly Hills right in in |
| 2:27.8 | LA? I was born in the San Fernando Valley, we then moved to Point Doom Malibu. |
| 2:38.0 | And then by the time I was going into high school and moved to Beverly Hills. I went to Beverly Hills High School with you know you name them. |
| 2:49.2 | You know you name them who did you go to high school? I mean you know just a lot of a lot of the |
| 2:53.5 | a lot of the sort of my generation the Nicholas Cage and and uh... |
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