He's the reason I can't watch American Idol in HD.

easy.

in the first picture he only thinks he knows what i think of him...

My god, that magazine cover doesn't even look like Ryan Seacrest's body double.

It's more like a waxy Michael Biehn head prop from the set of the original Terminator.

7. apple box and hedge to 'tower' over arriving stars on the red carpet

Better w/out the caked-on makeup but... yep, still a fame whore.

Have I gone mad from too many years of obsessively checking awfulplasticsurgery.com? Does no one else see the cheekbone implants?

Details, huh? Well, I'm convinced--he's straight.

he's not interesting enough to be gay

This doesn't look a thing like him, not that I give a crap, but it looks like they blended his features with someone else, like a mid-80s photo of Ray Liotta or something.

His eyes look darker, too. is that supposed to be more butch?

I have never once wondered how old Ryan Seacrest was but I was surprised to read that he's only 33. I easily would've added another 10 years to his age.

Somehow they narrowed his head width too. Do they do that with a big vise or something?

gingervitis, you have got it, doll! his kinda caved-in gumming his supper low-country swamp-killer look is gone, and for only that reason - chipmunk cheeks implanted. damn - tweedle-dee ry looks GOOD! who's his surgeon?

The most noticeable difference is something no one has commented on yet: his 'marionette lines'--those lines that run from the outside corners of the mouth to the edges of the nose--have been smoothed out, whether through Photoshop or modern dermatology. My money is on injections of Jevederm.

@NoGrumpys: true... but if he actually looked like his Details photo, that wouldn't matter.

@Sweet Panda Love:
(Well, technically, Terminator 2.) But you're right that it isn't even a close approximation of a poorly resembling body-double. Weird.

8) ballsack ironing.
9) Seacrest 2.0 is straight.

they also changed the shape of his skull from triangular to square. i don't know of any nip/tuck that can do that!

@GingerVitis: Oh my god, I love awfulplasticsurgery.com too.

He's closing his gigantic mouth. Makes him look sooooooo much better.

You forgot use of product.

left: 4 days stubble.
right: 4 weeks stubble.

11. They dimpled his chin.

What you can't see in the second picture is that his tongue was removed from Merv Griffin's ass.

They appear to have shaved down the supraorbital ridge above his eyebrows, making him look much less simian.

I think it's a combination of excessive airbrushing, a silly allusion to the nature of Ryan's reaction to "knowing what [we] think of him" and Seacrest's self-indulgent showcasing of his ability to have expressions other than that of "constipated-smiling-egomaniac-tool-who-hopes-his-lack-of-wit-comes-across-as-repression-of-wit-that-could-destroy-mankind."

I don't see surgery. It looks like he just gained a few pounds, got his hair and make up done, and the more recent picture is taken at a slightly different angle with his chin down.

@NoGrumpys: That's actually the best Seacrest-isn't-gay evidence I have ever heard.

That said, GAY.

It certainly couldn't be the case of Details photoshopping their cover to hell... could it???

Details = Gay. But seriously, could you be too wimpy and just-plain-dumb to be gay? don't you have to have some snappy-sense, and quick-wit to join the team? just asking.

Ryan Secrest knows what you think of him so "we retouched his picture and "butched him up". Give me aa fuckin break, that doesn't even look like him. Plulezzeee.

He's not butch, he'll never be butch and it's time they learn how to deal with it....

sign me,
Not Buying It

Looks to me like the photoshop "artist" (and I use that term loosely) comped together the faces of Ryan Seacrest and Matthew McConaughey.