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Tyra Recruits More "Top Model" Wannabes
Call it the ultimate battle of style over substance.
As several of its writers continue to strike for union-level wages and benefits, the powers that be at America's Next Top Model have revealed the latest batch of catwalk hopefuls looking to out-fierce each other on the upcoming seventh season of the reality competition.
Who needs a cohesive plot when there are pretty faces to look at?
The CW announced that the 13 amateur strutters vying for the chance to be Tyra Banks' newest protégé include the requisite students, sales clerks, a bartender and, for the first time, a fashion designer, who apparently got lost on her way to Project Runway. Here's a quick look at this year's contenders:
AJ, 20, student, Sacramento; Amanda, 18, bookstore sales associate, Anaheim, California; Anchal, 19, sales clerk, Homestead, Florida; Brooke, 18, student, Keller, Texas; CariDee, 21, photographer, Fargo, North Dakota; Christian, 19, bank teller, Columbia, South Carolina; Eugena, 21, customer service representative, Palmdale, California; Jaeda, 18, student, Parkersburg, Iowa; Megg, 18, retail clerk, Los Angeles; Megan, 23, bartender, San Francisco; Melrose, 23, fashion designer, San Francisco; Monique, 19, marketing representative, Chicago.
This season, like the previous two, will be based in Los Angeles instead of New York.The baker's dozen worth of posers will, as always, compete in a series of challenges supposedly taken directly from Banks' experiences as a fledgling model.
The producers have teased an all-new prize package for the winner, though they have yet to announce what bountiful career-boosting gifts the champ will take home. Previous winners have seen some combination of a $100,000 contract for a makeup company, a modeling contract with a top agency and a magazine fashion spread with Gilles Bensimon, whom Banks tirelessly refers to as a "noted fashion photographer."
This season (or per ANTM speak, "cycle") again sees Jay Manuel return as the shoots' art director, J. Alexander as the girls' runway guru, as well as Nigel Barker and supermodel Twiggy as regular judges.
What it doesn't see, at least as it stands now, is the return of the supposedly unscripted show's writers, who, despite the oxymoronic nature of their duties, are an integral part of the show.
The Top Model scribes have been the most aggressive contingent attempting to unionize reality TV, launching a strike last month to have their tasks as "storytellers" classified as writing, which would earn them the union pay and benefits afforded to writers of other TV genres.
When their request to join the Writer's Guild of America, West, was denied by producers, 12 of the show's staff walked out of production three weeks ago, and continues to picket the series' Los Angeles offices.
In what's shaping up to be a potentially high-stakes cat(walk)-and-mouse game, the CW has tapped Top Model to launch the network with a two-hour premiere on Sept. 20.
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