The past week has been pretty damn busy but I had many an opportunity to sit down and write a small snippet...thing is...nothing particularly life changing has happened that I felt the need to write about nor have I seen anything on the news (or tube) that I felt the need to use this, my little space on the web, to voice my feelings on so I kept quiet.
That is until tonight...Jo and I sat down to watch the launch of the new cycle of ANTM (that's America's Next Top Model to those not in the know!) I have a feeling it's going to be a good'un!
I guess I should set the scene for those of you who have never seen it. It's a programme hosted by the fabulous Tyra Banks.
Tyra shares my love of windmachines
Tyra (a model herself) along with Miss Jay (who is actually a man who teaches catwalk) and Mr.Jay (who is a creative director, a man but doesn't really act like one) choose a group of girls who are competing to be...America's...Next...Top...Model. The girls go through various challenges and have a photo shoot each episode. Each week the judging panel deliberate and eliminate one of them...The winner, signs a modeling contract, has a front cover photo shoot for some crap magazine and gets the title of "America's Top Model" that is until the next series when it starts over again.
The usual suspects rocked up, a mormon girl who was entering to break free from the shackles of her religion, the uber pretty but uber bitchy girl, the token plus size girl, the slightly butch one and then the NYC Brooklyn "Yeah-that's right girlfriend...I'm black, beautiful and you b*tches might as well leave as I am the next America's Next Top Model - hey!" girl, very predictable.
However, this year also something a bit different Isis, a model who was born a man but lives her life as a woman and is waiting to have the snip. She was spotted last year when she was an extra in the "homeless" shoot, not sure if she was actually homeless or not but that's where she came from. You just couldn't make this stuff up!
I've already got a favourite..Hannah from Alaska! They "don't even have billboards" where she's from so she's pretty excited to get through! A highlight of the show was this random girl, I've forgotten her name already, who was nothing but a cow...she really had an issue with Isis and was saying how everyone tells her that she should be a model and she is willing to stomp out anyone who gets in her way and that Isis shouldn't be in the competition because this was a competition for girls...blah blah....she didn't get through the first round! She broke down in tears...haha great TV!
If you've not watched it...you must! It's on Mondays at 9 o'clock on Living, or 10 o'clock on Living +1 (for obvious reasons). Its got something for everyone, the comedy of Tyra, mixed with the seriousness of the business (it's cut throat I tell thee) and then the fantastic back-stabbing bitchy girls - amazing! Now, I'm going to go to bed now as I need to get my beauty sleep but before I go I have two words of advice for you...firstly never google ANTM as America is a season ahead and you'll ruin the surprise and secondly in the words of Tyra...Keep the face pretty!!
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