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HAPPILY EVER AFTER?

The four-day makeovers (or ''make-betters,'' as Collins calls them) seem to be having long-term effects. Brian ''Butch'' Schepel, the Manhattan artist who received his first haircut in nine years on the show's premiere, has been inundated by e-mails from female suitors. And Adam Zalta, the hirsute Great Neck hubby whose most prominent feature was one long, bushy eyebrow? ''He was at our premiere party, running around and telling everyone, 'Look, look! I got my monobrow waxed again!''' says Collins.

And the Fab 5 get something out of the experience too: Thom, the founder of a successful high-end interior-design firm, says, ''In my world, I can spend millions of dollars on somebody's living room, and they'll still ask me why the light switch in the corner by the piano isn't perfectly straight... And now, all of a sudden, these people with a living room full of Pottery Barn objects can't thank me enough.''

(This is an online-only excerpt from the cover story of Entertainment Weekly's Aug. 8, 2003, issue.)

Originally posted Jul 30, 2003 Published in issue #722 Aug 08, 2003 Order article reprints
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