Tim Gunn is fast becoming my favorite gay.  Don’t cross him, he’ll cut a bitch with his sharp tongue.  The latest subject of his bitchy asides is totally hardcore actress, singer, and current petulant brat – future diva in training Taylor Momsen.

Tim complained to E! that while he was filming a walk on scene for the fourth episode of this season’s Gossip Girl, Taylor was a pain to work with.  “She was pathetic, she couldn’t remember her lines, and she didn’t even have that many. I thought to myself  ’why are we all being held hostage by this brat?’  I wanted to tell her, ‘If you weren’t on your Blackberry, you can retain this stuff’.”

It gets better.  Tim recalled, “At one point the director leaned in and whispered to me, ‘this is day in, day out, my life.’ She annoyed the entire crew.  I wanted to ask her – Why are you acting like this show is a huge burden on you?”

Well Tim, that Taylor’s schtick.  She’s so over everything at the ripe old age of 17, because didn’t you hear?  Taylor. Is. Hard. Core.

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I love dish, especially from a bitchy, aging, queen who isn’t afraid to name names and throw down (and I mean that as a  compliment).

Part guide to good etiquette, part dishy memoir, in Gunn’s Golden Rules: Life’s Little Lessons for Making It Work, the Project Runway host writes about dealing with the likes of Padma Lakshmi, Martha Stewart’s daughter Alexis (“the angriest person I ever met”), Issac Mizrahi (“..I wouldn’t have the words to describe some of the more abhorrent behavior. He really is a terrible, terrible, terrible person.”) and Vogue overlord herself, Anna Wintour.

“It’s insane that people don’t call her out on the things she does. Is it fear? I was certainly afraid of her. When her office called me, I thought I’d have to go into the witness protection program.” He tells the NYDN.

Uh-oh.  Anna is not going to be amused.  Also?  HA!  (Do I need to mention I’ll be picking this up next week when it’s released on Tuesday?  I didn’t think so.)

Tim also goes into details about his own life, family (distant mother, homophobic father) and his interesting decision to remain celibate after a horrible relationship which ended years ago.

As for good manners in a post reality TV world that now seems to reward bad behavior with little or no consequences, Tim says, “Take the high road, you’ll never regret it.”

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