Tan France: Naturally Tan

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4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Queer Eye fashion expert Tan France discusses the responsibility of representation, embracing positivity in his new Netflix competition series Next in Fashion, and the secret behind his grandfather's clothing factory. Then, inspired by his upcoming stint on the Great Celebrity Bake-Off, France plays a game that puts his baking knowledge to the test. Plus, contestants face-off in a punk rock music parody game about not very punk fads.

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0:00.0	From NPR and WNYC coming to you from the Bellhouse in beautiful Brooklyn, New York, it's NPR's
0:10.3	hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia, ask me another.
0:14.3	I'm Jonathan Colton, now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.
0:18.8	Hi everybody.
0:25.9	Yeah, it's gonna be a nice show.
0:30.2	So exciting.
0:32.0	We have four brilliant contestants.
0:34.8	They are backstage right now, praying to the fashion gods that they never bring back
0:40.4	low-wasted jeans.
0:43.8	And they'll be up here to play our nerdy games and one of them will become our big winner
0:47.6	and our special guest from Queer Eye is Tan France.
0:57.7	And the expert's collectively are known as the Fab Five, a title they'd wrangle away from
1:02.0	my mother's book club.
1:05.8	Are you a, what's your grooming regime Jonathan?
1:10.9	Well it is extensive I can assure you.
1:12.9	Yeah, good, good, good.
1:13.9	I'm, you know, once a day whether I need it or not I put on my clothes.
1:22.6	I don't have much of a regimen to be honest, I might surprise you, given how put together
1:26.6	I am.
1:27.6	Yeah, you're good.
1:28.6	It just kind of falls into place.
1:29.9	I will say I'm a little self-conscious knowing that Tan France is here, I don't know.
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