Salt Lake City designer Keith Bryce got the "auf Wiedersehen" on last night's episode of Bravo's "Project Runway" - and if you watched the episode, you could see the car crash coming.

The challenge was to make an outfit out of recycled parts from a Saturn Vue Hybrid (cha-ching - product placement!). Bryce turned leather car seats into a mini-skirt. The skirt came apart at the seams when his model sat down, and the cargo netting that held the top together was - to paraphrase Christian, last season's catchphrase-spouting winner - a hot transmission mess.

As he was making the dress (pictured at right), Bryce complained that it wasn't the style he liked - and that he made a tailored dress only to please the judges, who had ridiculed his fringe-dripping designs in previous episodes. (He had been in the Bottom 3 twice, though he won the "Lipstick Jungle" challenge two weeks ago.)

It didn't help that Bryce, in front of the judges, dissed his model for sitting down and complained that judge Michael Kors' criticisms were insulting. (There's more complaining, and some introspection, on Bryce's exit interview, here - which begins with "I feel like I'm leaving too soon.")

Also Wednesday, Salt Lake City's own Slippery Kittens Burlesque had their turn in the semi-final round of NBC's "America's Got Talent" - and their patriotic striptease, going from military-khaki dresses to star-spangled bras and panties (to the tune of "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy"), didn't exactly win over the judges.

Judge Piers Morgan was the toughest, hitting the "X" buzzer (this show's version of "The Gong Show's" gong) and declaring that, "when you started taking the clothes off, I wanted you to put them back on." Ouch!

But the judges are not the decision-makers here - the viewing public is. Watch for yourself.

Labels: Keith Bryce, Reality show, Slippery Kittens