:Jonathan Antin
{{Short description|American businessman}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Jonathan Antin
| birth_place = Beverly Hills
| occupation = Hair stylist
| relatives = {{ubl
|Robin Antin (sister)
|Steve Antin (brother)
}}
}}
Jonathan Antin is the former owner of two Los Angeles hair salons, Jonathan Salon West Hollywood and Jonathan Salon Beverly Hills. His life as an entrepreneur and a celebrity hair stylist was the basis for a reality television series, Blow Out. He was a judge on the third season of Shear Genius and has appeared on other television shows. He was a judge for the 2007 Miss USA pageant. He developed a hair care product line, which broke QVC's record for the top hair care launch in 2005.
Personal life
Antin grew up in Beverly Hills, California. His mother is an interior designer and his father, Michael, is an artist.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/11/style/a-night-out-with-jonathan-antin-reality-shampoo.html| title=A Night Out With — Jonathan Antin; Reality 'Shampoo'|first=Strawberry|last=Saroyan|date=July 11, 2004 | website=The New York Times|accessdate=December 16, 2016}} He is the brother of writer and producer Steve Antin and Robin Antin, who is the founder of The Pussycat Dolls, a burlesque and dance troupe.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-115276011.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125094124/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-115276011.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 25, 2018|title=Hollywood head case|magazine=WWD|date=April 12, 2004 | first=Marcy| last=Medina|accessdate=December 16, 2016 |url-access= }} As a young boy, he was inspired by the movie Shampoo to become a hair stylist.{{cite news | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-jun-06-ca-rosen6-story.html | title=A 'Shampoo' and set|website=Los Angeles Times|date=June 6, 2004|first=Lisa |last=Rosen|access-date=December 16, 2016}} He says that he was a bit of a ruffian with tattoos and "always the black sheep at Beverly Hills High (School)." He dropped out of high school to attend a beauty school.{{cite magazine | url=https://variety.com/2007/dirt/real-estalker/jonathan-antins-bird-street-blow-out-1201225869/ | title=Jonathan Antin's Bird Street Blow Out|magazine=Variety|date=March 27, 2016|accessdate=December 16, 2016}}
Jonathan Antin married Sescie Karabuykov, a boutique owner, about 2006.{{cite news |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1N1-139973148FDF0CA0.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171031071626/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1N1-139973148FDF0CA0.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 31, 2017 | title=Finally over | newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times | date=September 6, 2011|accessdate=December 16, 2016 |url-access= }} They have a son, Asher, who was born about November 2005{{cite web | url=http://people.com/archive/the-hair-heir-vol-65-no-16/| title=The Hair Heir|author=People staff |website=People| date=April 24, 2006|accessdate=December 16, 2016}} and a daughter, Jocie, born in 2007. He is a basketball coach for his son's team. He is of British-Jewish descent.{{Cite news|last=Yamato|first=Jen|title=Steven Antin On Burlesque, Wooing Cher, and Discovering Ian Somerhalder|publisher=MovieLine|date=2010-11-23|url=http://www.movieline.com/2010/11/steven-antin-talks-burlesque-cher-and-discovering-ian-somerhalder.php|accessdate=2010-12-22}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.muaythaionline.org/news/fightchannel.html|title=Muay Thai Online – Muay Thai News and Videos|access-date=2020-09-10|archive-date=2011-10-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002150401/http://www.muaythaionline.org/news/fightchannel.html|url-status=dead}}
Career
=Hair salons=
Antin was a student at the Fairfax Beauty Academy, and then worked at a salon in the Beverly Center in West Hollywood. He opened a salon when he was 23 years old. By 1999, he was considered one of Hollywood's top stylists and has made hairstyle changes needed by a client to suit a part, such as hair styles from different periods.{{cite magazine| url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-55241313.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171030035806/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-55241313.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 30, 2017 | title=Character Development. Hollywood's top hairstylists | magazine=Los Angeles Magazine | date=August 1, 1999|accessdate=December 17, 2016 |url-access= }} His clients have included Madonna, Tiger Woods, Steven Tyler, k.d. lang, Ricky Martin, and Tobey Maguire. He created a hair care line, Jonathan Product, which broke a record at QVC in 2005 for the most successful hair care launch, having sold 35,000 units in one hour.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-134412023.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171030035806/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-134412023.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=October 30, 2017|title=Jonathan Product Breaks QVC Record|magazine=WWD|date=July 22, 2005|accessdate=December 17, 2016 |url-access= }} Also sold in retail stores, the line became a multi-million dollar business.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-142579960.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125094132/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-142579960.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=January 25, 2018|title=Warren-Tricomi's Film Ambitions|magazine=WWD|date=February 17, 2006|accessdate=December 17, 2016 |url-access= }} In 2010, he sold his shares of the company.{{cite magazine|url=http://nymag.com/thecut/2010/04/hair_hayden_panettiere_arrived.html | title=Beauty Marks - Hair | magazine=New York Magazine | date=April 23, 2010 |accessdate=December 17, 2016 }}
After Jonathan West Hollywood, he opened Jonathan Salon Beverly Hills. He later sold both salons and for a few years made high-priced house calls for his clients including He returned to Beverly Hills with a salon, Jonathan Antin Salon. He is a spokesman for Mindbody Salon, a salon business software company, for which he hosts hair-advice Q&As on Twitter for an hour each month.
=Television=
The first season of the reality series Blow Out, which follows Antin's life, was filmed in 2004. It takes place in Jonathan Salon Beverly Hills, opened for the show and staffed by 12 stylists and assistants. The show was not received well by the press, who were critical of his management style, hairdo, and speech patterns.
Christopher Kelly said, "Antin's droning, cooler-than-thou voice drips with disdain. He glowers at his employees, berates them for giving bad haircuts, complains that they aren't bringing in enough new clients. Before every commercial break, someone is on the verge of tears and/or about to be fired."{{cite news | url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-119542371.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926092430/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-119542371.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=September 26, 2018 | title=Haute coiffeur: 'Blow Out' braids gripping hair-salon melodrama with raw ambition|agency=Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service|first=Christopher |last=Kelly |date=July 21, 2004|accessdate=December 16, 2016 |url-access= }} Antin acknowledged his outbursts, and said that he was apologetic at the time.{{cite news | title=Jonathan Antin survives a 'Blow Out' | url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-118520313.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926092424/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-118520313.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=September 26, 2018|agency=Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | date=June 24, 2004|accessdate=December 16, 2016 |url-access= }} On the show, Antin tells his employees that it's because he respects them so much that he rides them (so much), and he really does love them. In the first season Jay Leno and Kirsten Dunst made appearances on the show.
Antin was a judge in 2010 on the third season of the reality-series Shear Genius.{{cite magazine | url=http://nymag.com/thecut/2010/04/jonathan_lord_of_the_hair_anti.html|title=Jonathan 'Lord of the Hair' Antin Reinvents Self With New Show!|date=April 7, 2010|accessdate=December 16, 2016 |website=New York Magazine}} He joined the cast of L.A. Hair in 2015.{{cite news | url=http://magazine.foxnews.com/celebrity/kim-kimble-la-hair-remembers-pranking-jonathan-antin-after-wack-deal-it-was-funny-watch | title=FNM Exclusive: Kim Kimble of 'L.A. Hair' Recalls Funny Prank on Jonathan Antin After His 'Wack' Proposal | website=Fox News Magazine | date=October 22, 2015 |accessdate=December 17, 2016 }} Since 2004, he appeared on an episode of Bravo's makeover show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,{{cite news |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-117788804.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171029083054/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-117788804.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 29, 2017 | title=Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' is back for another season|agency=Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service|date=June 1, 2004 |first=Kathleen|last=Sheridan|accessdate=December 17, 2016 |url-access= }} in American Express television commercials, and in 2010 on the tenth season of The Biggest Loser, giving makeovers to the show's final six contestants.{{cite web | url=http://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/what-ever-happened-to-jonathan-antin|title=What Ever Happened to Jonathan Antin? | date=March 19, 2015|first=Marisa|last=Laudadio|accessdate=December 16, 2016}} With hairstylist Amanda George he opened the Jonathan and George salon in January 2013. The salon's clients include Victoria Beckham, Kristen Stewart, Jennifer Garner, Patrick Dempsey, Kate Hudson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Zooey Deschanel, and Rita Ora. Antin appeared on The Millionaire Matchmaker in 2015. He was a judge for the Miss USA 2007 Pageant.{{cite news|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1Y1-104599807.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114024839/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1Y1-104599807.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 14, 2018 | title=Miss USA Set to Crown New Queen|agency=AP Online|date=March 24, 2007|accessdate=December 17, 2016 |url-access= }}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060313002122/http://www.bravotv.com/Blow_Out/ Blow Out official homepage]
- [http://www.dhadm.com/index.php/dhadm/blow_out_on_bravo_blow_up-in_design/ A video clip from Season 2]
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