Stacy London and Clinton Kelly are back, as they re-team for “Wear Whatever the F You Want”

Kelly jokingly refers to What Not to Wear as “10 years of cringe,” but “we are products of our time,” he acknowledges. “We both came from the women's magazine industry and we were brainwashed into believing that every woman wanted to look four inches taller and to look 10 pounds thinner. I joke that for 10 years I taught women how to make their butts look smaller, and now every woman wants their butt to look bigger.”

So now, on Wear Whatever the F You Want, Kelly and London aim to work with clients to help them achieve their personal style goals, rather than those of the hosts. “We don't have to love the outfits that they wind up in,” London says. “We wanted to get people on the right road, but there are outfits that we signed off on that I wouldn't be like, ‘I would wear that.’ But it's not about us.”

London describes Wear Whatever the F You Want as “more meaningful” than What Not to Wear since “people are not superficial about fashion” today.

“There was a different time when television reigned supreme before social media took off where we were truly considered experts on television. You don't need experts anymore,” she says. “So what are you doing on TV, where it's such a visual medium and you can really show so much about what to do and how to make an outfit? We take it to heart.”

Kelly says his and London’s current approach comes down to “respecting other people's history” and “where they're coming from.”

“If this particular outfit makes you happy, that's because everything in your life has brought you to this place where this outfit is going to make you happy, and you've had a different life experience than I've had, so that might not be making me happy,” he continues. “It's realizing that not everybody's cut from the same cloth, and it's kind of great.”

The stylists feel like they’ve changed over the years, too. “We joke around that we're grayer and gayer — he's grayer, I'm gayer,” says London, who revealed her relationship with musician Cat Yezbak in 2019. “We're middle-aged now, dare I say, and wisdom and age really grow together. There are a lot of things that I think we had blind spots about when we were in our young 30s that we had to learn. We learned a lot in between What Not to Wear and this show, and it really reflects our philosophy the way that we would want to work with clients now.”

Wear Whatever the F You Want premieres Tuesday, April 29, on Prime Video.

Do we really need a show to tell people that?

Trinny and Susannah were the first and the best.

Oh! Please! There are items of clothing all of us should not be caught dead wearing out in public. These include:

Sweats

Tights and midriff cropped tops on overweight women

Cargo shorts on men

Board shorts on any man who is not lanky and tall

Baseball caps on me over 21

R4 = Sitting at hone alone in an ascot dressed like Mr. Peanut.

Wow, I thought they were both in their mid-fifties during the original run.

R5, LOL...Just as we should be treating this...an occasion for witty repartee!

I'm actually wearing sweats.

r5, you made me chuckle. Thank you.

I'm with you R4. The way people dress is appalling.

I'll add Crocs and pajamas and slippers as street wear.

I loved 'What Not to Wear', as formulaic as the fashion was that they would prescribe. I would definitely watch a reboot of it, just for their personalities and chemistry. I clocked Stacy London as a lez 25 years ago. Glad to see she's finally out.

The pair, with lots of history, answer questions like dance partners rarely out of step.

“From the second I sat next to Stacy during my audition (for 'What Not to Wear,') we had an instant chemistry,” Kelly says. “We were finishing each other's sentences. We were laughing at each other’s jokes. It was like that for 10 years of ‘What Not to Wear.’ And it was like that for eight episodes of ‘Wear Whatever the F You Want.’ When we got back into the studio together, it was laughter, camaraderie supporting each other and our client.”

It’s hard to believe the two ever had a falling out. London blocked Kelly on Twitter, now known as X, after he published a collection of essays in 2017. “Why did I love and loathe Stacy?” Kelly wrote in “I Hate Everyone, Except You.” “I loved her, I think, because she’s charming as hell. I’ve met few people so good as she at making others feel decidedly special. … I loathed Stacy because … well … maybe there was some jealousy on my part. She really seemed to enjoy, nay, need the attention of others, and I felt that she was almost constantly jockeying for it.”

From 2011–18, Kelly served as a cohost on ABC’s daytime show, “The Chew,” a food-focused play on the network’s long-running “The View,” where London appeared as a guest host. She launched her podcast “Hello Menopause!” in 2022, and in August 2024, she debuted a clothing collection for QVC.

The hosts credit their new show with bringing them together.

“Clinton talks about the fact that we really challenge anybody to sit next to somebody for 10 years every day, day in and day out and get along just fine,” London says. “When we describe our relationship, really, it's like a brother and sister on a long car trip.”

Sometimes it’s like, “Don't touch me. Don't touch me,” Kelly jokes. “We love each other. The thing is, my husband, who's a psychologist, says you can't have love without hate. And a lot of people don't like to hear that, but it’s the truth. Because when you have strong feelings in the positive towards somebody, you're going to have some negative feelings about them as well. That's just the way we are as human beings. We love hanging out with each other, and sometimes ..."

“We want to kill each other,” London says, finishing the sentiment.

“This is being a human being,” Kelly says.

“But it is much more fun to work together than not work together,” London adds. “I will tell you that.”

Post Covid the fashion world has really changed. We no longer need office wear the we can wear out at night. We need sweats that will hide our gunts

I've watched two episodes so far and love it. Clinton and Stacey always had a lot of heart and that's why I enjoyed watching them on What Not To Wear. They've still got it and the new show is entertaining.

R13 I'm a little confused about what they actually do on the show. (I haven't seen it yet)

If it's called "Wear Whatever the Fuck You Want," then what is their role?

Jesus, just what the world needs... Stacy, "No, no, no, you really do look fabulous in your pajama bottoms, crocs and sweatshirt that says, Bold, Brassy, Bitch!" Added Clinton, "It's an injustice that Neiman wouldn't hire you!"

[quote] Trinny and Susannah were the first and the best

Uhh, no. Shoving women with breasts fuller than a large B-cup into v-neck tops was a disaster. As were their statement coats. The hot pink satin trenches live in infamy.

“Maybe skip the blue hair, and go for an auburn instead!”

What Not to Wear was never about telling people what they should and shouldn't wear, per se.

It was about updating someone look and creating some sort of personal style from stylelessness, as well as focusing on things like tailoring and fit.

I don't really see the point of a show that endorses having no fashion sense and wearing whatever you want.

[Quote]From 2011–18, Kelly served as a cohost on ABC’s daytime show, “The Chew,” a food-focused play on the network’s long-running “The View,” where London appeared as a guest host. She launched her podcast “Hello Menopause!” in 2022, and in August 2024, she debuted a clothing collection for QVC.

For a sassy, skunk-haired snatch-eater, that's one aggressively frau CV.