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I just think the Kardashians have an absence of taste and I don’t think that that should be perpetuated. I’m sorry I’m sounding like an old farty, snob, but it bothers me.

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Tim Gunn
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 29
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University Teacher
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Washington
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Timothy MacKenzie Gunn
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