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Biography
America's Next Top Model puts contestants against each other in a variety of competitions to determine who will win a $100,000 modeling contract with makeup manufacturer CoverGirl. Most cycles' prizes have also included a photo spread in Elle, and representation by Ford Models; the seventh cycle prize includes coverage in Seventeen and representation by Elite Models.
For the premiere season, the show was hosted by Tyra Banks, who also served as one of the four judges with Kimora Lee Simmons, Beau Quillian, and Janice Dickinson, who often proclaimed herself as one of the world's first supermodels. By the second season, only Tyra and Janice remained judges. Subsequent seasons' judges have included former fashion model and fashion photographer Nigel Barker and fashion editor and stylist Nole Marin. After season four, Janice (amid rumors of personality conflicts with some other judges) and Marin were replaced by Twiggy, who had attained modeling fame in the 1960s, and Miss J. Alexander, who had been the show's runway coach since the first cycle; Dickinson has continued to make intermittent guest appearances on the show after leaving the judging panel, giving advice to the contestants. The contestants are also coached through photo-shoots by Jay Manuel, a photo stylist. Jay is known as the Mr. J to J. Alexander's Miss J.
Each season of America's Next Top Model has from ten to fourteen episodes and starts with ten to fourteen contestants. Generally, one contestant is eliminated per episode (though there have been cases of a double elimination or no elimination) by consensus of the judging panel. Makeovers are administered to contestants early in the season (usually after the first elimination in finals), and a trip to an international destination is scheduled at about two-thirds' way through the season.
Each episode of Top Model, covering the events of roughly a week of real time, features a fashion challenge, photoshoot or commercial, judging, and critique of each contestant and her performance by the panel led by Tyra Banks, and the elimination of one or more contestants. Each episode is usually associated with a theme in the world of modeling, such as dealing with the press in interviews, selling a commercial product, or appearing in a runway show.
An episode usually begins with the contestants receiving training in an area concurrent with the week's theme. For example, contestants may get coached in runway walking, improvisational acting, or applying make-up to suit various occasions. A related challenge soon follows, such as a mock runway show or interview, and a winner is chosen by a judge. She receives some prize, such as clothing, a night out, or an advantage at the next photoshoot, and she is usually allowed to share the benefits with a certain number of other contestants of her choice.
The next segment is a photoshoot, and each contestant's performance will reflect heavily on her judging for that week. Each season features photoshoots such as bikini or lingerie shots, beauty shots, posing nude or semi-nude, posing with a male model, and posing with an animal. Usually one photoshoot per season is replaced with a commercial shoot, though in one episode of Cycle 2, the remaining contestants appeared in Tyra's music video for "Shake Ya Body" in lieu of a photoshoot.
The final segment of each episode is judging. During judging, contestants are often given a challenge in some area such as posing, selling a product, runway walking, or choosing a representative outfit or make-up look to satisfy a given prompt. Then each contestant's photo is shown and evaluated by the judging panel. After all photos have been evaluated, the contestants leave the room as the judges deliberate. The elimination process is ceremonious, as Tyra reveals and hands out the photos of the contestants that have not been eliminated one-by-one, each time saying, "You are still in the running towards becoming America's Next Top Model." The last two contestants who have not received their photos are brought up as "the bottom two," and Tyra critiques each one before revealing which of the two has been eliminated. However, there have been two exceptions, as Cycle 4 had a double elimination, and in Cycle 5, both of the bottom two were spared.
The format varies slightly when only three contestants remain. In the series finale, the three remaining aspiring models compete in one last photoshoot or commercial, followed by a judging session in which the judges eliminate the contestant they feel to be the weakest. The final two then compete in a runway show in front of the judges, and both their performance there and during the entire competition is considered when the judges declare a winner.
Cycle 3, Cycle 4, Cycle 5, Cycle 6 and Cycle 7 have provided guest starring opportunities for contestants winning acting challenges and for the champions.
In Cycle 3, Yaya Da Costa was the acting challenge winner. Her prize was to be in first class while the remaining girl flew to Tokyo. But it was Eva Pigford who got to guest star on Kevin Hill. She got this privilege because she won America's Next Top Model, Cycle 3.
The series served as the lead-in to Veronica Mars, on which three ANTM contestants — Naima Mora (Cycle 4), Kim Stolz (Cycle 5) and Furonda Brasfield (Cycle 6) — had guest roles. Naima, who won the acting challenge in Cycle 4, Episode 7, was entitled to pick out $10,000 worth of diamonds (which she got to share with two friends) instead of a role on Kevin Hill which she declined for some personal reasons.[citation needed] Naima eventually got a small guest-starring role on the second season premiere episode of Veronica Mars — a privilege given to her after winning.
CariDee English (Cycle 7), who won the acting challenge in Cycle 7, Episode 9, guest starred in an episode of the series immediately following ANTM — One Three Hill, since UPN's merge into The CW. Unlike past challenge winners, it is known that CariDee had a big part in that episode which she had to complete filming for a couple of hours right before rushing to the airport, leaving for Barcelona, Spain.
It was announced on January 24, 2006, that Top Model would be part of the new The CW network, a merger between UPN and The WB, when the next cycle started. Prior to the announcement of merging with The CW, UPN had committed to renewing the series through its ninth cycle on January 20, 2006. For which casting was conducted throughout mid-2006.
On July 21, 2006, the writers of America's Next Top Model went on strike while working on Cycle 7, set to premiere on the new CW Network in September 2006. The writers sought representation through the Writers Guild of America, west, which would allow them regulated wages, access to portable health insurance, and pension benefits. These benefits would be similar to those given to writers on scripted shows. The strike was the focus of a large rally of Hollywood writers coinciding with the premier of the new network on September 20, 2006. The dispute was chronicled in a July 24 interview on the website Television Without Pity with former TWoP recapper and current ANTM show producer Daniel J. Blau. As of November 2006, the dispute has not been resolved.
America's Next Top Model is criticized because of the contestant choices and their lack of modeling potential. Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld comments on ANTM and rival Project Runway in the September 2006 issue of Harper's Bazaar. Lagerfeld says, "Trash that is funny for five minutes if you're with other people. If you're alone, it's not funny. Those girls will NEVER be the next Gemma Ward. There is no justice in the fashion business."
America's Next Top Model also is criticised by Allure magazine in the October 2006 issue. The magazine says ANTM "hasn't exactly produced any actual supermodels". It also states that the real supermodel of today is Gemma Ward.
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