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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: Viral Videos
Every once in a while, America’s Next Top Model is so batshit, I have very little to say about it. What can I add to an episode in which the contestants were forced to make “viral” videos? (I put “viral” in quotes, because they didn’t actually make viral videos. Relatedly, Tyra Banks doesn’t know what “viral” means.) The entire conceit was absurd, and I love how this was presented as a reasonable challenge and not something insane Tyra cooked up while smoking the finest “pot ledom.” More »
Can Entertainment Tonight Stop Pretending The ‘Melissa Gorga In A Fat Suit’ Story Is Anything But A Ratings Stunt?
Dear Entertainment Tonight: The gig is up. You don’t need to hide behind a sociological study and say that Melissa Gorga donned a fat suit in order to find out if overweight people get discriminated against. This is stupid because a) of course they do, and b) we all know it and shouldn’t have to go through the motions.
Nope–it’s much more likely that Melissa’s people are trying to humanize her. 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 »
Gallery: Melissa Gorga And 8 Other Female Celebrities In Fat Suits
For reasons not yet known to us, RHONJ star Melissa Gorga put on a 300-pound fat suit for an Entertainment Tonight segment. And she’s not alone. Here are 8 other actresses or TV personalities who have donned the fake poundage for movies or social experiments–usually with really negative results. 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 »
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 »
Gallery: It was Either Black and White or Super Colorful at the VH1 Do Something Awards
What are the Do Something Awards? VH1′s way of honoring young people who have been involved in social change. Who attended them? So many celebrities, you guys. The show will air this Thursday, but for now here’s a look a the red carpet, where everyone arrived in either ultra-muted or bright and flashy attire. More »
Gallery: Solids and Neutrals Take Over at the Teen Choice Awards
What are teens choosing these days? Celebrities who walk the red carpet in ultra-subdued neutral outfits, it seems. Last night’s fashion spectacle was chock-full of whites, grays and tans. Boring or just subtle? You be the judge. More »
Snap This: We’ve Found Tyra Banks’ Feather-Masked Comic-Con Doppelganger
We get it now: Tyra meant to head over to the Comic-Con line, but instead ended up outside Good Morning America in New York — and she lost half her mask on the way! She was trying to meet up with this lovely lady, who was spotted outside the San Diego Convention Center sporting a feminine take on the Captain America mask.
Wonder Twins activate! Form of… Geeks! More »
Questionable Choices: Tyra Banks’ Lightning Bolt Eyebrow Patch
You guys, I think Tyra Banks just now found out about Harry Potter and is trying to get in on the trend at the last possible second. I mean, the tie, the lightning bolt eyepatch scar sparkle thing … it all fits. And she has been so busy being a Serious Business Lady over at Harvard and only taking brief study breaks for Businesswomen’s Specials at the diner – how was she supposed to find time for a bunch of silly kids’ books? I mean, she’s a mogul, not a muggle. More »
James Franco, Tyra Banks, and 10 More Celebrities Who Pursued Higher Education
With the news that Tyra Banks will be attending Harvard Business School we got to thinking about a couple of well known faces getting their further education on! We are not talking college, we are talking masters and grad school, the really committed superstars! Here are some of our favorites. 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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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 »