Add Keith Bryce to the swelling ranks of Utahns on TV reality shows.

Bryce (at left), a 26-year-old Salt Laker, is one of the 16 contestants who will show off their fashion-design skills on Bravo's "Project Runway," which starts its fifth season Wednesday (at 10 p.m. on Salt Lake City's cable systems).

Bryce studied at Salt Lake Community College, but calls himself a "self-taught designer" with a background in marketing and advertising. He is executive director of Filthy Gorgeous, a fashion collective with a boutique (pictured at right) in downtown Salt Lake City that really needs to fix its web site.

For those of you keeping score at home, Bryce is the fifth Utahn now competing on a reality show. (That's not counting the recently eliminated Kelsey Nixon from "The Next Food Network Star" and "So You Think You Can Dance" outcasts Thayne Jasperson and Matt Dorame.) The others still in competition are:

• Marcus, the much-tattooed West Jordan comedian on NBC's "Last Comic Standing."
• Rhiannon, the 19-year-old Logan native who's on MTV's "Legally Blonde: The Search for Elle Woods."
• Gev Manoukian, the 21-year-old Salt Laker on Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance."
• Chelsie Hightower, the 18-year-old from Pleasant Grove who's on Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance."

(Thayne Jasperson, by the way, will be back in Utah this week - teaching in Odyssey Dance Theatre's Dance Utah! workshop, which starts Wednesday at Utah Valley University in Orem.)

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