7 photos in galleryEvery week, I clutch my imaginary pearls at what Julie Chen is wearing on Big Brother, and every week, I accidentally delete the episode before I can get a picture. EXCEPT FOR THIS WEEK. Maybe it’s because she’s married to the older Les Moonves, but for a 41-year old woman, Julie seems to want to dress as if she’s at least 58 — from hair to makeup to really odd and unflattering outfits, it’s like she’s stuck in a Talbot’s mailer — or in this case, some page of the Land’s End catalog where the woman is about to throw a tennis racket over her shoulder and go sit at lunch and giggle about denture creme with her doubles partner. It’s just… off, like milk left on the counter overnight. And that’s strange for a woman who’s only just gone forty and is on the summer’s top-rated show, on a network her husband owns, raking in a ton of dough. What is she DOING with all of it, if not buying herself the best stylist and a Demi-caliber cocktail frock for every week? Maybe Chenbot is stuffing it under the mattress. Maybe she knows something about CBS’s development slate that we don’t. In the meantime, let’s examine this, and the crown of hair perched atop it. Two words: whoa. Drop by the last slide for what it reminds me of most…
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Comments (48):
It’s a wig. It must be. It’s the only explanation.
Also, less makeup would help.
She ALWAYS wears whack-a-do outfits. And tons of body glitter. Maybe she’s been dumbified from having to watch so many years of BB. I feel like my IQ increased at least 50 points by refusing to watch it this season.
And also the makeup! The spider leg lashes complete with rhinestones! I marveled at the atrocities of this complete look all night!
That last picture almost made me spit coffee onto my keyboard. HILAR!
holy moly. i am 41, and she is pretty much styled in the exact way i’m trying to avoid. it’s as if she’s trying to look as old and outdated as possible. obviously, dressing too young is something we don’t want, but come on lady. don’t throw in the towel just yet. i haven’t, and i’m sure i don’t have an eighth of the resources you have.
Princess Bea’s Cranial Bog Seat of hairdos?? Followed by slide 7??? That, right there, is why I love the Fug Girls.
I know right??!! I had such a deep hatred for this outfit and hair!! I mean is she playing tennis at a super conservative christian charity event? In the 60′s? Pull it together Chen! You’re gorgeous let the world see you!
She looks like the Evil Queen’s mirror from Snow White in picture 7 … I’m just sayin’. And did a drag queen do her makeup?
I mistakenly let my hairdresser give me a helmet hairdo like that once. The hair terrified my then three year old son so much he hid behind the bed.
YES! I couldn’t stop talking about how ridiculous she looked the entire episode. That was awful. I’m so glad to see it showing up here!
LOL!!
Lovecraftian, eh? So are you saying there is a new Stephen King novel riding around on Chenbot’s head? intriguing…..
What’s going on with her right eye?
That last picture has me laughing so hard I’m crying. Literally crying. There are tears over here, people.
Believe it or not, I have never watched BB. Not one minute… .so I only know Ms Chen from what little I see on the interwebs.
With that said, ew. That dress is horrible and the hair, yikes!
Princess Bea’s Cranial Bog Seat of hairdos…. best line of the week!!!
That last photoshop is hilarious.
Picture #7 will be haunting my nightmares. YIKES.
She’s obviously being styled from Amy Tan’s Crazy Mothers of Modern Asian Fiction collection.
This makes me beyond giddy because I thought all of these things last night while watching the show. And my husband sat there, and “What? It isn’t that bad!” Crazy man!
Last night I was thinking her hair looks like something I might see on one of the poor children of “Toddlers and Tiaras.” Does she actually have half of her hair in a tiny, poufy ponytail? Ew.
Maybe she gives her money to poor New Jersey orphans in the hopes that one day they will learn to coif. Can I verb that? Anywhoo, I don’t really get not just wearing a simple button down and fitted pants for a hosting gig on a reality show. Styling oneself simply is the first rule of making one look like The Only Sane Person around on a reality series.
Hey. I’m 58! And I would never ever dress like this. Or in anything from Talbots. Must be the Les Moonves influence – you’re probably right.
omigod, ladyblahblah. SPOT ON.
2 things…
Is she cross-eyed? Her makeup is so awful I think it’s making her look cross-eyed.
Didn’t Julie Chen used to do serious (ie. real) news work? Wasn’t she a news presenter or something? Or am I thinking of someone else?
Sarah — I think you’re thinking about Christine Chen or Connie Chung.
I haven’t watched any BB this season but I remember a few seasons ago when Julie was pregnant, her wardrobe was SO TERRIBLE. And the girl wore eye glitter. EYE GLITTER. I wanted to buy a ticket to wherever the BB house is and save her because it was clear her stylist for the show hated her.
While watching the show last night I totally was wondering if you guys watched it too, and if so what did you think of her hair and clothes?! She was on Watch What Happens Live last week and seemed so fun and un-ChenBot like. I wonder why she appears so stiff in BB. Also, bedazzled eye lashes? Really Julie? I thought you were way too classy for those!!
You guys should totally do a slide show of each of the Real Housewives of everywhere. Some of them look like they have never seen a diamond before and thus wear all of their jewelery box at the same time. So humble….
She looks like she’s in an advertisement for a retirement home that features Lifestyle Activities! Like Tennis! Golf! This is bad enough from the neck down, but the head-suit takes the cake. It was styled in said retirement home’s hair salon.
Miz H–Ha, ha at your son hiding under the bed1
What hairstylist in their right mind would let her go out like that?!
Sally said” Princess Bea’s Cranial Bog Seat of hairdos?? Followed by slide 7??? That, right there, is why I love the Fug Girls.” You got it there!
I’ve been wondering when Fug Girls were going to take on Julie. For such a beautiful woman, …why? Last night was the worst hair she’s ever had. And i was thinking to myself “at least there’s no body glitter today” and then they did a close up and she had rhinestones on her eyelids! WHY?
This is AWESOME! Whoever designed that crap must apologize to the world and Julie Chen should apologize for wearing it in 2011! Her hair is atrocious and OMG, did you see the shoes? This whole thing is unforgivable, but HILARIOUS!!!
It’s the tv version of the women who wear baseball hats, cut off jeans, work out shoes, slouchy tanks and a full face of make up with piles of gold jewelry…. it. just. doesN’T. MAKE. SENSE…….
I’m sorry….. it is like the rubik’s cube of fashion… I don’t get it.
She is a beautiful woman and she loooks “so so”. I haven’t watched the show in a long time but I recall Julie Chen as looking classy and elegant. This isn’t her worst but I don’t think it is as terrible as you meanies are making out.
Correction: This isn’t her best but I don’t think it is as terrible as you meanies are making out.
Formal ballgown hair and makeup with a tennis dress and business suit pumps – what the fug??????????????????????????????????????????????????????
I told my husband I thought she looked like Shirley Temple.
I do love her spectator pumps. But then, my favorite movies are all from the ’30s and ’40s. So, it figures.
While we’re critiquing here, did you get a load of that set? Wow. Even I could do better than that, and I have no decorating sense at all. I think the same older woman who styled her, styled the set. Man.
Each week I lament over the wardrobe choices of Julie Chen. The exact words to my husband where, “Her husband is loaded; can’t she afford something that is more flattering?” His only comment was “What is wrong with her eyelashes?”
Oh that woman is FUGGGGGGLY!
Julie Chen looks ridiculous.
I have to step in and defend Talbots, though. Some of their stuff is bad, but they have many clothes that are fairly chic and very well-tailored — cardigans, winter suits, etc. They’re just not super-trendy and skin-revealing. I’m 32, and while I do dress conservatively, I also like to look chic and wear lots of designer labels. There are plenty of pieces from Talbots that fit nicely in my wardrobe. It kind of bothers me when people who don’t shop there regularly or aren’t familiar with their clothes make snide comments about those who do wear them.
Ahem. Stepping off my Talbot’s soapbox now.
she is summering on the pastel drenched shores of Imelda Marcos(land)
And the hat pic is an image that will never leave my head. Thanks, Heather, you’ve ruined my life…
Faye–gotta agree with you. Talbots has some great pieces for those of us who work in conservative offices.
Her thrice weekly outfits have been a source of anxiety for me for years! Seriously does CBS refuse to hire decent stylists or do they really just let her pick her own clothes? That all pink pantsuit was a disaster as well.
I’m thinking she’s pregnant again. The big hair is keeping us from noticing her face is puffing up a bit and the horrible outfits have all been stiff materials and seemingly a bit big.
I am sorry but I don’t watch her in anything. So I read she was on “Big Love” (I conflated the Big with the Lovecraft, I guess) and was completely confused by the problem. Now I see. Maybe she should be on Big Love in that outfit?
I’m getting a clear Samantha Stevens vibe here.