Reality TV: Joan Replaces Melissa's Furniture With Help of Famed Designer

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Wednesday, February 2, 2011, by Curbed Staff

Last night's episode of Joan and Melissa: Joan Knows Best? included a guest appearance by Sarah Jessica Parker's decorator, Timothy Corrigan—or at the very least his young female associate Julie. (Apparently Corrigan was "out of the country.") Rivers Sr. is outwardly unhappy about this: "When you look up the word 'decorator' in the dictionary," she claims, "you see 'homosexual.'"

Turns out, however, Julie is Julie Fullman, Corrigan's lead interior designer who was part of HGTV's reDesign series as an assistant designer. Guess the pedigree isn't too shabby!

Despite the substitute, Joan agrees to let Julie to take out Melissa's shabby beige California look and replace it with some color and formal pieces (a la her own NYC apartment). While Melissa's away for the night, Joan stages a design coup on the unassuming space, overhauling it completely and giving away all of her daughter's furniture to charity.

JOAN PERFORMS COSMETIC SURGERY ON MEL'S LIVING ROOM

JOAN REVEALS THE NEW LOOK

—Elana Frankel

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Reality TV: Joan Rivers Adjusts to Life at Melissa's Like a Fish Out of Water

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Wednesday, January 26, 2011, by Sarah

Last night, Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? premiered on WE and we watched as Rivers the Elder leaves her formal, antiques-filled Manhattan apartment and coiffed Connecticut country house for daughter Melissa's house in Malibu, Calif. She brought along piece after piece of luggage; a nervous peeing dog named Lola; the ashes of her dead husband, uncle and, just maybe, Vincent Price; as well as every piece of jewelry she ever designed for QVC.

Joan arrives in California to a cast that includes a delightful surfer grandson as well as Mel's secret live-in boyfriend, gay live-in friend, best live-in friend, live-in assistant and hot live-in Swedish nanny. There's absurdity for sure—particularly during the scene where Joan puts suntan lotion on the nanny's topless back—but even more phenomenal, for our purposes, was watching Joan acclimate to her daughter's relaxed Malibu digs, with its small guest room and an even smaller bathroom where she can't use the toilet and close the door at the same time. At some glorious point this season, Joan will sell all of Mel's furniture without her permission. Consider the video clip below a teaser.

VIDEO: MELISSA'S MALIBU HOUSE SHOCKS JOAN

— Elana Frankel

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