ANTM's Back…For the Tenth Time / Stereohyped

ANTM's Back…For the Tenth Time

Really? Already? Tyra, the CW, and all of us who are unfortunately compelled to watch America's Next Top Model are already gearing up for Cycle 10 of the best/worst competition show on television.

I started watching Bravo's Tyson Beckford and Nikki Taylor-hosted Make Me A Supermodel recently, and it's crazy how the caliber of contestants on that brand new show is already so much higher than ANTM's mediocre wannabes. It looks like there could be some winners in this cycle's crop, though. Check 'em out after the jump.

[ONTD]

Jan 18, 2008 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 8 Responses

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Tagged: America's Next Top Model, Make Me A Supermodel, Reality TV, Tyra Banks, Tyson Beckford

Comments (8)

No. 1 · daria of Gorgeous Black Women

No token "plus sized" model? Your big girl (tunic and light jeans) cannot be a size 6-8.

Posted: Jan 18, 2008 at 2:03 pm

No. 2 · summer

I will say this for Tyra — and I never say much for Tyra — in comparison to the Bravo show, Tyra consistently includes brown girls among the contestants, and that's just nice to see.

Posted: Jan 18, 2008 at 4:04 pm

No. 3 · solitaire

Lauren you must be smoking something if you think the caliber of models on that god awful "make me a supermodel is higher than ANTM. The show is a dumbed down version all the way. I know this site is anti Tyra on principle, but please.

People bitch and complain about ANTM season after season (myself included), but at the end of the day it's the Rolls Royce of all of these model shows. Often imitated, never duplicated.

Posted: Jan 18, 2008 at 6:51 pm

No. 4 · Lauren Williams, Stereohyped

Nope, not smoking anything! I didn't say the show was more entertaining, but I see more actual models in that show's cast than in an average ANTM cast, no doubt. And I think I would call this site more love-to-hate-Tyra than anti!

Posted: Jan 18, 2008 at 7:00 pm

No. 5 · solitaire

Sorry, but but most of that "Supermodel" cast is beyond FUG. The best part of that show was Tyson stepping out in a speedo.

Posted: Jan 18, 2008 at 7:39 pm

No. 6 · JD

I have to agree with Lauren, Tyra casts "characters" not potential models. I thought Heather was a hot mess when she wasnt in front of the camera. Make me a supermodel's potentials are real models, they not characters and they dont edit the show in a way to put people against each other when there isnt any real beef. And I like the boys!

Posted: Jan 19, 2008 at 5:46 pm

No. 7 · Erndale

I'm glad to see Marvita in the mix. Does anybody remember her? Last "cycle" Tyra had the girl sniffling, snotting, and crying about being raped and homeless and then didn't pick her for the house. I hate when she tries to psychoanalyze people, get the most painful and personal details of their life, and then summarily dismisses them.

Anyway, about the potential of the contestants as models, I thought the point of ANTM was to give a chance to the "not-your-typical-model" girls who might not otherwise have a chance.

@JD - awwww, I LOVED Heather!

Posted: Jan 20, 2008 at 5:49 pm

No. 8 · Jerry

@Erndale:

None of these girls end up representing much more than Tyra's brand, really. Danielle Evans ended up getting a renewal on her Cover Girl contract (the only ANTM winner to get one, in fact), but really, these girls work on the fringes of the industry, and really never amount to much more than being reality show winners.

Having tried to make a go of it as a model myself (some 100 pounds ago), I can safely say — especially in light of Tyra's own career — that the girls on Top Model are already too old to be particularly successful as high-fashion models. By the time they're actually old enough to be on reality shows without concern for child labor laws, they've been passed by girls that are four and five years younger than they are (Tyra was sixteen or so when she first started in Paris)…

Posted: Jan 21, 2008 at 10:12 pm

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