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America’s Next Top Model All Stars Recap: A Winner Is Crowned, Sorta
Here’s the thing about reality competitions: as much fun as they are most of the way through, they always kind of bore me by the end. Sometimes I don’t even watch Top Model season finales. (I know. But I feel like this is a safe space.) Anyway, the finale of Top Model’s first All Stars cycle was reasonably entertaining, although the biggest twist happened off-screen. I mean, Tyra had Angelea killed, right? Just want to make sure we’re all on the same page. But more on that in a bit. More »
America’s Next Top Model All Stars Recap: Thumb Sucker
In Wednesday night’s thrilling penultimate episode of America’s Next Top Model All Stars, we learned what vengeful goddess Tyra’s endgame really was—why she assembled these familiar faces and spirited them away to the enchanted island of Crete. If you’d guessed it had something to do with filming a glorified commercial for her bestselling novel Modelland, you’d be Tiresias, the blind soothsayer. But let’s backtrack a bit. More »
America’s Next Top Model All Stars Recap: Greek Salad Tragedy
When an episode of Top Model begins with one of the contestants talking about how she’s never gotten best photo but how she takes comfort in all her adoring fans, you know she’s not long for this competition. And let’s be real, Shannon—your refusal to pose in underwear was never the noblest of causes. Changing lives, one fully-clothed photo at a time. But hey, I’m probably just bitter that I don’t get thousands of emails from girls calling me a role model. I get a couple emails a week telling me I’m an asshole, though, so I kind of know how it feels? More »
America’s Next Top Model All Stars Recap: Honey Blood
Some pretty amazing things happened on Wednesday night’s episode of America’s Next Top Model All Stars: Allison gave us Honey Blood, Lisa learned to challenge her inner NeNe, and Bianca fellated a pickle. Oh, and two contestants went home. All that and a visit from Kathy Griffin? My Top Model cup runneth over with fierceness. And you know that shit is hard to get out of the carpet. More »
America’s Next Top Model All Stars Recap: Coco Rocha Angles
At some point while they were planning this season of America’s Next Top Model, the producers must have decided that by this point in the cycle, several of the contestants would be at each other’s throats. And so we got a perfectly timed episode built around aggression, with the models playing flag football and then participating in a bitch fight-themed photo shoot. How did they know these volatile personalities would erupt when forced into competition with one another?! More »
America’s Next Top Model All Stars Recap: The Biggest, Hottest Thing
It’s not even Halloween yet, and America’s Next Top Model already received an otherworldly visitor when the ghost of Michael Jackson showed up at this week’s photo shoot. OK, I can’t confirm that, but I’m pretty sure La Toya is possessed by something. Also, is it Christmas, too? These contestants’ incessant bickering is the gift that keeps on giving. More »
American’s Next Top Model All Stars Recap: We’ll Always Have Haters
In case you missed last week’s episode of America’s Next Top Model All Stars, Isis is here to remind you that this is a competition. “It’s not safe for anybody,” she explained. “This time around I’m here to win it.” I have this theory that reality contestants are just given a list of clichés to read through, so that producers can later sprinkle them throughout the season. I don’t need to hear that the models want to win, because that is the basic premise of the show. What I need is to hear Allison say, “I know I’m very strange” while wearing a Muppet-y bear hat. Once again, Top Model delivers. More »
Crush Links: Ashton Kutcher And Demi Moore Call It Quits?
•Dr. Conrad Murray tried to go back to Michael Jackson’s house post death. (Celeb Dirty Laundry)
• Kelly Cutrone joining America’s Next Top Model. (Hollywood Hiccups)
• LeAnn Rimes treats Eddie Cirbrian’s kids like her own. (Have U Heard)
• Tom Sizemore talks Hollywood and addiction. (Celeb Dirty Laundry)
• Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore getting a divorce? (Hollywood Hiccups)
• Jeremy Renner looking good on set of The Bourne Legacy. (Lainey Gossip)
• Blake Lively wants privacy for her relationship. (Have U Heard)
American’s Next Top Model All-Stars Recap: Pretty In Pink’s
Here’s the thing about an “All Stars” season of America’s Next Top Model: it implies a level of self-awareness that this show and its contestants lack. I mean, by now Tyra Banks and her models should be conscious of the reality show tropes—and yet they continue to talk as though they’ve never been humiliated on national television before. Wednesday night’s episode began with all the women talking about how they deserve to win and this is a competition and they’re not here to make friends. (OK, no one actually said that last bit, but it was implied.) “Brittany going home let me know that this is seriously a competition,” Dominique intoned. Yes, one model will go home every week. My head exploded, too. More »
In the America’s Next Top Model: All Stars Preview, It Continues to Be All About Tyra Banks
In the most fake-looking scary house ever, Tyra Banks has a nightmare that the most dramatic, troublesome, annoying contestants from the past sixteen cycles of America’s Next Top Model are hounding her to be on the new “All-Stars” season. But that’s not even the scariest part — it’s Tyra who’s playing all of the models! More »
The Canadian ‘Cash Cab’ Fatality Is One of the First Reality Show Accidents Involving an Innocent Bystander
When it comes to reality TV, it’s usually the contestants who report injuries, like when Michael Skupin fell into the fire on Survivor: The Australian Outback, or Dancing with the Stars contestants regularly blowing out ankles and other body parts. Barring a really gruesome accident, we figure that it’s part and parcel with signing up to live with strangers or compete for a cash prize. Rare is it that an innocent bystander becomes a victim due to whatever’s shooting in the area.
Last Friday, one of the cars disguised as a taxi for the Canadian edition of Cash Cab ran down a 61-year-old man in Vancouver. More »
Janice Dickinson Is Probably 56 Today. Here Are Some Of Her Best One-Liners
Happy Birthday, Janice Dickinson! 56 years ago today, the “world’s first supermodel” (her words) was born. Or so I thought. At various times, her date of birth has been listed as February 15, 17, and 28, and her year of birth as 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955, and 1960. However, February 15, 1955 seems to be the general consensus, and makes sense, given her date of graduation from high school, so we’ll just go with that.
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A Model Life: Starting Out On The Runway
On Friday, Crushable went down to the Ugg Australia Model Lounge in Union Square for a pre-fashion week chat with some of the young girls who actually live out the fantasies you hear about on America’s Next Top Model. Do you have what it takes to become a real life model? Listen to the stories of models Mey Bun and Leomie Anderson to find out! More »
Paulina Poreskova Hates ‘America’s Next Top Model.’
ur friends at The Gloss have a chat with supermodel Paulina Poreskova up today. Our favorite? When they ask Paulina why her stint on America’s Next Top Model isn’t on her resume and Paulina basically outs Tyra Banks as a sham:
“Top Model has nothing to do with modeling. It’s a reality show that is not reality. Top Model is about finding people who will be good on TV, not people who will be good top models. Why do you think none of them are successful?“
Britain’s Next Top Model Is Way Better Than Its American Counterpart
Two things that make Britain’s Next Top Model better than the Tyra Banks version: a) Male models in their underwear and b) No Tyra Banks. More »
Cassandra Whitehead Moves From ‘ANTM’ To ‘Mad Men’
Last night on the finale of Mad Men, it was hard to ignore the pretty lady Rich Sommer‘s character Harry Crane couldn’t stop drooling over. If she looked familiar to you, there’s a reason. She’s Cassandra Whitehead from America’s Next Top Model.
Before last night, Cassandra’s biggest claim to fame was being the one and only contestant to walk off Tyra Banks‘ modeling contest. More »
Kayla From ‘America’s Next Top Model’ and Budnick: Seperated At Birth? (Not Really)
Yesterday was the makeover episode of America’s Next Top Model: That special time of the year when Miss Tyra Banks gets to take out her rage-gasms on poor, young women who didn’t know any better when the producers took their long, beautiful hair in hand and said “Yeah, we’re going to need to chop this all off…and make it red.”
Now, Kate Ward from Entertainment Weekly has posited that the poor recipient of this hairdo, Kayla, now looks like Budnick from… More »
Gallery And Fashion Show Report: Fashion Week’s First Plus-Size Event
I attended Fashion Week’s first-ever plus-size runway show on Wednesday, for the label OneStopPlus. Yesterday, I posted about the body-image insensitive Pretzel Crisps incident — and unfortunately that was not the event’s only weight-insensitive gaffe.
But first the celebs! Nikki Blonsky and Gabourey Sidibe were in attendance, along with Jersey Housewife Caroline Manzo and America’s Next Top Model winner Whitney Thompson. I was most excited to see Richard Schiff, who played White House staffer Toby Ziegler on The West Wing – so maybe that says something about my qualifications for covering a fashion show. More »
Demi Lovato to America’s Next Top Model Cast: Stop Bullying! – In today’s “WTF” news, Disney star Demi Lovato went backstage of ANTM to give the cast a stern message about the importance of being nice to each other. This from the chick with the notorious Selena Gomez feud? (Cambio)
Stop Piling On ‘Smallest Waist In The World’ Model Ann
People love to hate Tyra Banks and they also love to hate skinny models; put the two together, and you get the growing public outrage over Tyra’s latest blunder, courtesy of a new trailer for America’s Next Top Model: So this model named Ann stands 6 feet 2 inches tall, and has an alarmingly, freakishly tiny waist. When she came before Tyra and the rest of the Top Model panel, Tyra freaked out. Cue the outcry. More »