Fug File: People's Choice Awards

Golden Globes Fug Carpet/Better Played Carpet: Elisha Cuthbert


I enjoy Elisha Cuthbert. I used to see her at Kings games — she used to blog about being a hockey fan, which is very endearing to me (and she is currently dating Dion Phaneuf, who was one my favorites when he was a rookie on the Flames… so CRANKY-looking on the ice, I loved it; he once checked someone into the glass right in front of my face and I almost reached up to high-five him). But the big reason we here at GFY HQ like Elisha is that she once e-mailed us here after we’d written a string of stuff about not liking any of her outfits, and her e-mail was charming and cool in good humor, and she totally understood that what we do is really all in fun, and told us to keep on keepin’ on. We always like to tell that story because we feel like good sports deserve credit for it.

However:

Is that a belt, or a voodoo talisman bearing the eyebrows of every critic who still makes Kim Bauer And The Cougar jokes? Watch out for the Dark Arts, Elisha. You saw what it did to Voldemort. I don’t think the noseless life is for everyone.

However, part II:

the sequel is better than the original

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Fug and Fab the People’s Choice Awards Host: Kaley Cuoco


Apparently Queen Latifah usually hosts these, but now it’s Kaley’s turn to take the baton, and forge ahead into the breach, and step up to the plate, and other cliches. Obviously the first way to do that is through numerous wardrobe changes, because no self-respecting lady can possibly do one of these things wearing — gasp — the same outfit all night. Can you imagine? The horror! We live in a society, people.

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People’s Choice Awards’ Fine Carpet: Faith Hill


Something about Faith Hill singing that opening song to Sunday Night Football — every season for, what, the last three? — makes me take her slightly less seriously. It’s the crazy pants and the bowed legs and the crooning about Al Michaels and the NFL teams du jour… it’s an accidental comedy piece. So in turn it makes me feel affectionately toward her, and also less like she is Faith Hill: Megastar than Faith Hill: Teehee.

Faith may be similarly conflicted. Because while this is perfectly cute and serviceable for, say, an Academy Awards luncheon, or the Sunday Night Football production meeting at which they try to figure out what lyrics could rhyme with “Texans,” it isn’t as glam as I feel it could or should be when you are Faith Hill: Country Queen. Her hair looks like it’s falling out of the updo. I hope that’s because Tim McGraw is stashed in the limo and she keeps going back for a little naughty time.

Up on stage, she changed, and it may not surprise you what she chose:

it does not rhyme with

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People’s Choice Fug or Fab: Vanessa Hudgens


I expected to dislike this, because let’s face it, I expect to dislike most things. It’s been seven and a half years and 96oo posts, and the scales tip definitively toward the “stuff I don’t like” side.

However, this won me over: Yes, it’s a bit spidery, like she got caught in the spinnings of a creature bred by Joan Collins from a Faberge egg and a copy of Charlotte’s Web, but… that also might not be a bad thing. I would read that book, for sure. And I think it’s also possible Hudgens is a master strategist, because this comes after a holiday deluge of terrible boots and a parade of tragical pants (yikes), so at this point I am primed to look at her in anything that does not scream “Dumpster” and applaud it as understated genius. I need your gimlet eyes. And possibly a gimlet.

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People’s Choice Awards Well Played: Kristen Bell


Kristien Bell was busy — on the same night she hit up both to the premiere of The Grey and the People’s Choice Awards, both in this:

I am as lukewarm on the hair as I am on her new show, Hou$e of Lie$, which seems to have been written by a Ke$ha superfan. But the dress is pretty cute, no? I like the leather and lace together. Sure, it has an aura of a Valentine’s Day gift basket, but not one I would turn down — and certainly not if it also came with a couple chocolates. Maybe she left those in the car.

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People’s Choice Awards Fug Carpet: Ashley Greene


Look, Ashley, this may not even be your fault.

I have no idea what fabric that is (although I do know I ought not be able to see your navel with such stark definition). But it looks rubbery in the light. And aside from thinking this entire head-to-toe look is heavy and dull and dreary, I have also watched way too much American Horror Story (spoilers forthcoming) not to immediately associate “looks rubbery in the light” with “Hey, look, that’s Rubber Man murdering someone/impregnating someone with a rage baby.” You definitely do not want to look like the girl running a fundraising car wash for that guy so he can get the suit cleaned of criminal effluvia.

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