Tyra Banks' Richard Branson Costume Is Unsettling
Tyra Banks just became infinitely more interesting.
Australia's Next Top Model Host Admits She Just Guessed Who the Winner Was
Sarah Murdoch—daughter-in-law of Rupert and host of Australia's Next Top Model—has a very good explanation for why she announced the wrong winner on live TV: At the moment of truth, nobody told her who won, so she guessed.
Australia's Next Top Model Crowns Wrong Winner on Live TV
The most awkward thing that can happen on a live reality TV finale happened today: Sarah Murdoch, daughter-in-law of Rupert and host of Australia's Next Top Model, crowned the wrong winner. Two minutes of cheering later, she realized her error.
Top Model's Makeover Episode Begs The Question: "So You Fancy, Huh?"
Unbe-weave-able as every cycle of America's Next Top Model's makeover episode is, this season's really took the cake. Why? Four words: hair today, gone... today. Here is all of last night's hair-raising drama presented in three parts.
Erin Wagner Crashes and Burns on Americas Next Top Model
Erin Wagner broke down tonight. She started off strong and sure of herself, but when it was time to prove herself worthy of a Covergirl commercial campaign she buckled, failed, and played the pity card by weeping openly.
Top Models Stampede!
The likely answer is that there was little rhyme or reason to their stampede. Often when a group of anxious nervous and excitable models get together they tend to panic. This is because hopes of fame, ponies, and combine with aggression, uncertainty and self-delusion to combust into a fireball, sometimes called a…
All of this strike-provided idle time seems like a perfect opportunity for reflection on the WGA protests of the past; while Var revisited The Big One of '88 today, the LAT invites one of the America's Next Top Model story editors who found himself without a job following last year's Guild-orchestrated walkout to…
Top Models Slut It Up For Tyson
· We haven't watched a single minute of this cycle of ANTM, so we'll need you to answer this question for us: does every episode feature a C-list master-of-ceremonies for a half-assed slut-off? (Before you answer that, Tyra's definitely at least a B.)
· The best time to pass the hat for a political campaign is always…
Yalie and "Top Model" reject Victoria Marshman came off so evil on the show, but an IvyGate interview paints a different picture. She reveals the behind-the-scenes secrets of the show—sleep and nicotine deprivation are key—and talks about how Tyra "sicced her bodyguards" on her for taking off her high heeled shoes…
Heidi Montag Was Willing To Die For Those Fake Boobs
This comprehensive, visually stimulating collection of FourFour's animated Tyra Bank gifs is sure to incapiciate any ANTM fan with seizures of delight. But click though with caution: we're actually not kidding about the potential of the post to induce a grand mal episode. [FourFour]
Trade Round-Up: WGA And Studios Bicker Over Who's The Louder Saber-Rattler
WGA West President Patric Verrone defends the organization's decision to delay contract renewal talks with studios, deflecting accusations of saber-rattling with counter-saber-rattling-accusations about the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers' threats to accelerate production and stockpile scripts if…
Trade Round-Up: Scorsese Gives Next Four Years Of His Life To Paramount
Smelling money all over him in the aftermath of The Departed's success, Brad Grey lures Martin Scorcese into a four-year deal with Paramount, which includes the unique provision that the 'Mount can own half of any movie the director does for another studio while still retaining 100 percent of his soul. [Variety]
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Trade Round-Up: Brian Grazer To Spend Next Six Months Parading Around In A Windbreaker With 'FBI' On The Back
SAG looks to increase dues for the first time in seven years, a move that could put an unwelcome financial burden on your favorite bartender, valet parking attendant, or Starbucks barista in between slow-arriving residual checks. [Variety]
· On fledgling network The CW's premiere night, America's Next Top Model…
Hollywood ProtestWatch: Top Model Strikers Ready To Escalate The Conflict
An operative sent over this photo from today's WGA rally at Pan Pacific Park, where Guild members gathered to renew their commitment to unionizing reality show writers and establishing fair residuals for use of their work on digital platforms. At the rally, WGA officials admitted that they were ready to try a more…
Trade Round-Up: Hollywood Still Making Peace WIth Possible Loss Of Gift Bags
Sundance organizers are "thrilled" that the IRS is cracking down on gift bags, while recently re-elected AMPAS president Sid Ganis is sweetly naive about how the crackdown might affect A-list actors' desire to show up at the Oscars and read bad awards presentation Telepromtper copy: "Presenters appear on our show…
Hollywood ProtestWatch: Top Model Striker Ejected From Nordstrom
America's Next Top Model's striking writers are still picketing outside the show's offices, but one protesting scribe found that the acrimony persists even in the neutral zone represented by The Grove, our fair city's leading, artificially sweetened retail fantasyland. One might hope that host Tyra Banks and the…
Hollywood ProtestWatch: Striking Writers Enlist Ringer Model Picketer
The Defamer Special Correspondent On Sneaky Protest Tactics has filed this brief report on the ongoing writers' strike at America's Next Top Model, complete with photographs documenting how the picketers have resorted to enlisting some ringer T&A to draw some attention to their cause:
Hollywood ProtestWatch: Writers Vs. Top Models
Our request for photos of the WGA protest outside the America's Next Top Model offices did not go unheeded, as a faithful operative in the area supplied us with this picture of the red army of reality show writers stirring up attention for their attempts to unionize. We're a little disappointed that no one's yet…
Reality Writers Protesting Tyra Banks' 'Top Model' Sweatshop
Today's LAT reports on yesterday's brief writer walk-out over at the offices of American's Next Top Model, a protest over the show's refusal to allow the people who coax coherent storylines out of Tyra Banks' sassy eye-rolls and Janice Dickinson's batshit ramblings to join the Writers Guild:
