Been down this runway before

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Perhaps The Apprentice has morphed our perception of reality shows. But we tuned into Heidi Klum‘s new reality show, Runway, on Bravo last week, and all we kept thinking about was the Donald—right down to the moment where one of the wannabe fashion designers, having settled on a model to wear his design, shouted, "You’re hired," and did that funky little Donald hand gesture.

The Apprentice-like premise of the show—no doubt like a dozen other reality shows we haven’t seen—is to put 12 aspiring designers in a swank New York apartment and make them sweat it out (hope the armpit stains don’t show) week after week in design competitions, until only one remains.

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