Canada's Next Top Model: Getting Naked At Club Schmooze
By Brandon Hersey
May 31, 2007
All right guys, it's the moment I've been waiting for all day, the premiere of Canada's Next Top Model: Cycle 2. I'm hoping that this season will produce a great winner who will make a name for herself. Let's get on with the show.
We start off with the boring introduction of the host, who of course is Jay Manuel, creative director throughout the successful run of America's Next Top Model. He has worked with people like J. Lo, David Bowie, and of course, Tyra Banks. In voiceover, we are told that "he understands what makes a model", which hopefully means the best girl will win.
This season is being filmed in the lovely T-Dot, Toronto, for those who don't live there. We see ten ladies get out of two cars and enter the CHUM building. Jay comes out and tells them that we went through thousands and thousands of applications. He's so proud of Canada and says it was hard to choose. He asks the ladies who their biggest competition was, and I believe most people pointed out Steff. He then reveals quite a shocker: ten more girls are there and they'll be whittled down to ten. Gina tells us that it's competition time.
I'm not going to go too in-depth with the ladies who we know don't make it, because there's no point of even introducing them if they're only there for 10 minutes. Jay brings out Nole Marin, you might remember him as a judge in the earlier seasons of ANTM, and Stacey Mackenzie, who served as a judge during CNTM's first season. I was surprised to see her back since she isn't listed as a judge. He tells the 20 ladies that they're going to have to tell the judges why they want to be in the competition. We catch a glimpse of Tara and, shocker of the night, her hair doesn't look like an electrocuted poodle! Thank goodness!
Mika's attitude will cost her.
We enter the judging room and the first finalist we see is Cori. She tells us a sap story of how her boyfriend died in a car accident, then her dog died, then he grandmother died. I do feel bad for her, really, but this isn't the place. Jacqueline goes in and she looks great, she thinks it went well. Rebecca loves fashion.
Now, Steff comes in. Steff is ranked #10 on my scoreboard this week. She tells the judges that she has been doing volunteer modeling since she was 8. She explains that this is like a fashion show in the mall and they ask you if you'd like to volunteer. Jay tells her to just call it modeling, since it sounds like she was working for the
Red Cross. Tara comes in and tells the judges that she can dance.
Tia comes in and says she loves fashion and photography. She's asked who her favourite photographer is and she pulls a major blank. She first says "I don't know", which I hope was just a slip of the tongue, but she pulls herself together and says she's thinking, but still no answer is given. All I can say about Mo is that I love her accent.
Time for the judges to deliberate. Once again, I'll only be covering our finalists. Mo is called short. Sinead, pronounced Shin-ade, would benefit from a makeover. Steff has an exotic face. They call Jacqueline gorgeous, but not high in fashion. They call Gina a Maxim girl. Once Tara gets a makeover, they say she'll be 'so in'. Cori is called a diamond in the rough. Mika exuded a lot of confidence to the judges. Rebecca has a lot of high fashion potential, and Tia is just beautiful.
Jay then goes to tell the girls who is in, and who is out.
The girlies come in and tell Jay they feel good, but most of them sound nervous. Tara is called first, then Steff, Jacqueline, Mo, Cori, Gina, Rebecca, Tia, Sinead, and finally Mika in that order. I'm not sure if this call-out order represents their 'current placement' as the photo shoot call-outs do. So there you have it: the top 10!
As they get to the house they'll be living in, Cori tells us that she thought it was gorgeous. And it was. The only problem was that Jay Manuel was all over the house. It was kind of scary, actually. There are two rooms for the ladies, a four-bed bedroom and a six-bed bedroom. They scramble to get the good beds, although they all look the same. Little gift packages are on the beds for the ladies. Downstairs, there's alcohol and pizza for the ladies to have a good time, and so they do. Steff tells us she and Tia are already good buddies and that Mika is feeling crummy.
I was right about Mika: she's the bitch. She tells us that she doesn't like sharing the rooms. Her father cut her off from her family. Oh, boo-hoo.
Time for JayMail! Or is it JMail? I dunno.....
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