If even the gays are complaining about how dull Bravo's new "Top Design" is, imagine how its heterosexualist male audience must feel (assuming one exists). We're not sure whether knowing that judge and high profile LA interior designer Kelly Wearstler had a former career as a Playboy centerfold will make things more interesting for them, but it may help: she appeared as Kelly Gallagher as Playmate of the Month in the magazine's September 1994 issue, where she also proclaimed her ambition to "own my own marvelous design and furnishings business" someday. While we're glad that Kelly attained the goal she set out to achieve, we're also afriad that unless she strips down to her bra in the White Room at the end of an episode this season there's little her spectacular rack can do to make the show more exciting ... no matter which side of the doors of the Pacific Design Center you happen to be on.

· "Kelly Wearstler Née Gallagher Shows You How It's Done in St. Tropez, Takes Roof Off Her NSFW Cabana" (pinknavy.blogspot.com)
· Kelly Wearstler/Kelly Gallagher (Wikipedia)
· Kelly Gallagher - Miss September 1994 (centerfold profile @ playboy.com)
· Kelly Gallagher in Playboy (gallery @ megapolis.com.ar)

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We're as stunned as everyone else is today about the untimely death of Anna Nicole Smith, and while we can all expect to see endless media tributes ("tributes") over the coming weeks about her various reality show moments, memorable public appearances, weight issues and legal squabbles, let's not forget the reasons why she was famous to begin with: exactly fifteen years after her first Playboy cover appearance (and subsequent crowning as 1993's Playmate of the Year) she remains one of the magazine's most iconic models in its history, and those Guess ads she did are still a lot more sexy than most of what you'll see in the glossy magazines of today. Our thoughts will be with her not-quite-husband and infant daughter this weekend as we dust off our old copies of "The Hudsucker Proxy" and "Naked Gun 33/3" for a memorial film festival in her honor. Rest in peace, Anna Nicole—you were a true original.

· "Anna Nicole Smith Dies" (CNN)
· "Breaking: Anna Nicole Smith Dead" (Defamer)
· "And Now She's Dead: Anna Nicole Smith" (Gawker)
· Anna Nicole Smith (Playmate profile @ playboy.com)
· Anna Nicole Smith (Wikipedia entry)

More of what we'll be remembering Anna Nicole for after the jump.

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· Anna Nicole Smith Photo Directory (torontopics.com)
· Anna Nicole Smith Galleries: heffshappyhouse.blogspot.com + normsfoxes.blogspot.com + centerfoldbabez.com + celebrity-video-post.com; more @ kellyfind.com + askjolene.com

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· Fleshbot's Anna Nicole Smith Archive