The Project Runway Season 5 Finale Fashion Show took place in Bryant Park this morning to close out New York Fashion Week and Heidi Klum made a stunning announcement at the start of the show. Apparently, due to a foot injury, the celebrity guest judge (whose identity we found out HERE) for this season’s Finale Fashion Show had to pull out of doing their duties:

The horror, you say … right? I know! After the jump, find out exactly what Heidi said when she made the announcement this morning and find out who they got to fill in …

As y’all know from THIS post, Jennifer Lopez was reported to be the celeb guest judge for today’s Finale Show but apparently had to pull out and be replaced by the amazing and dependable go-to guy Tim Gunn:

Jennifer Lopez has said “auf Wiedersehen” to Project Runway. After agreeing to judge the Bravo hit’s upcoming finale, she has dropped out due to a foot injury, Heidi Klum announced at Friday’s Project Runway fashion show in New York City. Mentor Tim Gunn will fill in and vowed to be unbiased.

Boo! As if this last Bravo season of Project Runway needed another nail in its coffin, this has to go and happen. I smell a rat. I mean, how bad can J. Lo‘s injury be if she was out partying all night last night? She don’t need to stand in order to judge a runway show. Seems shady to me … mebbe, perhaps, Lifetime had Tonya Harding whack her in the ankle with a metal pipe to sabotage the Finale Show taping? In any event, I fully trust that Tim Gunn will do an impeccable job judging … this, I believe, will be the first time he has ever acted as judge rather than mentor. He will, no doubt, bring a very unique voice to the final judging as he is the only person from Project Runway to see the collections as they were being created in the past few weeks. Interesting. He’ll do an amazing job, I have no doubt.

BTW: I do not know for sure who the finalists are … and I’m gonna do my best to stay unspoiled as long as possible, please refrain from talking about who showed at Bryant Park this week if you choose to comment below. Thanks :)

UPDATE: OK! magazine reports that J. Lo‘s trainer is denying that she suffered a food injury:

At the opening of the Project Runway finalists’ show in Bryant Park during Fashion Week in NYC Friday morning, Heidi Klum announced that the much buzzed about appearance by Jennifer Lopez as a guest judge on the season finale will not be happening. “Jennifer Lopez was going to be our guest judge, [but she] cancelled yesterday due to a foot injury,” Heidi told the audience. Despite Heidi’s comments, Gunnar Petersen, Jennifer’s trainer, denies any mishap, telling OK! “No injuries, all good.”

HMMMMM. Shady, shady … I wonder if we’ll actually find out what the real deal is. It’s cool, Tim rules … holla atcha boy!

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