Santino Rice

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Santino Rice
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Rice in 2004
Born
Santino Quinto Rice [1]

20 August 1974 (1974-08-20) (age 50)[ citation needed ]
Education Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising
Occupation(s)Television personality, fashion designer

Santino Quinto Rice (born August 20, 1974) is an American fashion designer and television personality. He is best known for his appearances on the reality television programs Project Runway , RuPaul's Drag Race and On the Road with Austin and Santino .

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Early life and education

Santino Rice attended classes at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles. [2] Rice worked under Pegah Anvarian and Tony Duquette, prior to his involvement with the television series Project Runway . [2]

Career

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Rice in 2010 in makeup for L.A. Zombie

In 2005, Santino participated as a contestant on the second season of the Bravo reality show Project Runway, producing mixed results on the show. He won two challenges and was among the top three designs three more times. However, Rice was among the bottom two scores for four challenges. Ultimately, he lasted throughout the season and was one of three finalists selected to show at Olympus Fashion Week in New York City. He finished in third place, behind Daniel Vosovic and Chloe Dao. [3]

Rice became known for the abrasive persona that he presented on Project Runway, and he was often cited as the "villain" of the show.

After Project Runway, Rice was selected to be one of the judges of the Miss Universe 2006 pageant. He was also asked by MTV VJ SuChin Pak to design her dress for the 2006 MTV Movie Awards. The following year, Rice made a guest appearance in the sixth episode of America's Most Smartest Model , in which he taught the contestants about fashion design. [4] As of 2008, he was creating a new cigarette pack design for Camel, dressing a handful of elite private clients, and working on building his own clothing company. [5]

More recently, Rice has been cast in two main roles in reality television. From 2009 to 2014, he was a judge on the Logo reality program RuPaul's Drag Race . Rice also starred in the Lifetime show On the Road with Austin and Santino , alongside fellow Project Runway alumnus Austin Scarlett. [6] The show premiered in 2010, following Rice and Scarlett as they visited various American small towns, designing clothing for women who have upcoming special occasions. Rice also played a minor role as a homeless man in the 2010 independent queer cinema thriller L.A. Zombie.[ citation needed ]

In 2017, Rice appeared on an episode of The Doctors to talk about his controversial diet, the "111 Day Fast". [7]

Personal life

Rice has been referred to in the press as bisexual, but has said of his own sexual orientation, "You can just call me gay but I like men and I am attracted to beautiful women. I didn't like the negativity that was attached to being gay growing up so that is why I have problems with the label."

He has posted claims about the COVID-19 virus and vaccines on Twitter. [8] Rice has asserted that COVID-19 is a "man-made virus" that was "designed by European and American scientists" and that "what they are selling people isn't even a vaccine." [9] [ better source needed ] He also tweeted that "there is really no difference between injecting disinfectant or injecting a random vaccine" [10] and that "the virus was designed to kill and its 'v@ccine' is equally deadly." [11] [12] [13] [14] In 2022, he was temporarily suspended from Twitter but since being re-instated still regularly tweets about government conspiracies. [15]

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References

  1. ↑ "Santino Quinto Rice". Ancestry Institute. Ancestry. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  2. 1 2 Moore, Booth (26 July 2006). "Life After Project Runway" . Newspapers.com. The Palm Beach Post, and Los Angeles Times. p. 1E, 8E. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  3. ↑ "Chloe Dao wins Project Runway" ~ Advocate.com Archived 3 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine 10 March 2006
  4. ↑ "Are You Ready to Rhombus? Recap". tv.com. 11 November 2007
  5. ↑ "Where Are They Now?" tvguide.com. 22 July 2008
  6. ↑ About "On the Road". mylifetime.com
  7. ↑ Guzzo, Bianca (28 July 2023). "What Ever Happened To Santino Rice?". IN Magazine. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  8. ↑ "Santino Rice, Noted Anti-Vaxxer, is Getting Moderated for Wild Tweets". 15 August 2021.
  9. ↑ Rice, Santino [@SANTINORICE] (14 May 2021). "What they are selling people isn't even a vaccine! They are calling it a "vaccine" but it is not really a proper vaccine. Call me crazy... Keep informing yourself on what this "vaccine" is! Keep questioning EVERYTHING!" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 19 August 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2021– via Twitter.
  10. ↑ "Santino Rice Gets Push Back for Anti-Vaccination Tweets".
  11. ↑ Rice, Santino [@SANTINORICE] (6 June 2021). "The virus was designed to kill and its "v@ccine" is equally deadly" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 1 July 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2021– via Twitter.
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