Monday, 22 October 2007

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Death becomes her

The girls on America's Next Top Model give their lives for fashion, darling...

I like America's Next Top Model and I don't care. Last week was my favourite episode - the makover one where they all cry and get upset at their new 'bangs' and 'weaves'.

This week's episode started well with a very strange man called Benny Ninja [I have a sneaking suspicion this may not be his real name] teaching them how to vogue. Only on ANTM would you ever see a vogue-off and I salute them for that.

However, it started to go downhill with a sick photoshoot [and by sick I mean nasty, I'm sadly not cool enough for sick to mean good]. The girls had to pose as murder victims in a variety of macabre scenes.

It's not often you hear someone shriek: 'I love it because your ankle looks broken!' or exclaim: 'You look very beautiful. And Dead. Well done.'

However, it did seem a bit wrong when they got Jael to pose ‘strangled like a model’ when her friend died of an overdose only a week ago.

When questioned on what she was thinking about while posing and she admitted that it was her dead friend the advice she was given was: 'You got into a place that's really heavy and it allowed you to focus on a place that is overwhelming.'

They might as well have told her: 'Bottle it up and blank it out, this is fashion darling!'

I mean come on, models have bigger problems and that don't they? I hear it's very difficult to turn left on the end of a runway you know.