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Controversy On Season Premiere of America’s Next Top Model

andPOP Staff — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:48:15 +0000

America’s Next Top Model had its season seven premiere last night and it was met with plenty of controversy.

Host Tyra Banks had the top 13 models recreate popular model stereotypes, ranging from anorexia to crazy bitchiness.

The anorexia and bulimia photos done by twins Amanda and Michelle have received backlash, however, from the public who say they have gone too far.

Activists have spoken out saying these are real diseases that kill young girls everyday and shouldn’t have been glamorized on a TV show.

Whitby Cashier is Canada’s Next Top Model

andPOP Staff — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:51:27 +0000

Andrea Muizelaar, a cashier from Whitby, ON, was crowned as the first winner on “Canada’s Next Top Model” last night.

Muizelaar beat out nine other candidates to win the $100,000 contract with Proctor and Gamble, a modeling contract with Sutherland Models and a spread in a fashion magazine.

“It’s been hard not being able to say anything to friends and family,” she said to the Toronto Star about her win (the final episode was taped back in March).

Muizelaar was blasted throughout the series for her weight, and that she was too skinny to win the show. The Star reports that the judges deliberated for over five hours trying to decide who should win.

“Canada’s Next Top Model” was the Canadian version of the U.S. smash reality show “America’s next Top Model,” which was hosted by Tyra Banks. The Canadian version was hosted by model Tricia Helfer and aired on City TV.

Nicole The Winner of America’s Next Top Model

andPOP Staff — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:19:36 +0000

Nicole Linkletter was named the top model of America’s Next Top Model’s fifth cycle in the season finale Wednesday night.

As the Top Model, Linkletter takes home a $100,000 contract with CoverGirl cosmetics, an ElleGirl cover with Top Model host and producer Tyra Banks and a photo spread inside the magazine, and a contract with Ford Models.

In the season finale, the top three — Linkletter, 19, Nik Rhodesea, 21, and Bre Howard, 19 — shot a CoverGirl commercial and a national print ad. Though Linkletter stumbled over her lines (and then blamed it on the lighting) it was Harlem native Howard who was sent packing.

Linkletter and Rhodesea were then each photographed with Banks for an ElleGirl cover by photographer Gilles Bensimon. Linkletter’s winning photo will be on ElleGirl’s February 2006 issue.

The final two models took to the runway with past Top Model winners Naima Mora and Eva Pigford in one last fashion show for London designers Vanya Strok and Nargess Gharani.

The judges felt Linkletter was a stronger competitor than Rhodesea, who was criticized for having a bland personality and just one pose.