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Australia’s Next Top Model 4 Round-Up: Brief Thoughts On Episode Five, Aka Wake Me When It’s Over

9:11AM Clem Bastow | Okay so I was totally slack in updating the Next Top Model round-up this past week, mainly because Episode Five was SO. BORING. Seriously, I know they have sponsor tie-ins and all that, but what was the point of the ‘U’ tampons/pads ad, really? If models end up in ads (rarely), they either don’t speak (á la Miranda Kerr in the shopping trolley for Veet Warm Wax Strips), or they’re actually half decent at reading a script (the omnipresent Melanie Jade Nethercliffe). In any case, dear, batty old Alamela was booted after her U ad ended up sounding more like a bit for Australian Pensioner’s Insurance than a sassy feminine products ad. However, in her final goodbye interview, I finally realised just what had been niggling at me about her voice and manner. Hop over the jump to compare and contrast… More »

Australia’s Next Top Model 4 Round-Up: “Living Hell”

8:49AM Clem Bastow | I’m popping my head in briefly from my secret holiday bunker to discuss this week’s AusNTM episode. I actually watched it a week or so ago and was quite shaken by it. By now if you aren’t aware, the bulk of the episode depicted – in excruciating detail – the reign of terror inflicted upon poor Alamela by a pack of bullies led by Demelza (who, in a delicious basket of ironing, once had to move schools as she was the victim of intense bullying). At the time of watching the episode I was pleased to see Charlotte Dawson fly off the handle at them come elimination time (her calling them the “Dapto dogs” was particularly thrilling), but it seems I am not the only one now wondering if there shouldn’t have been further action taken, with this week’s evictee (and Alamela ally) Belinda Hodge speaking out: Hodge claimed Rowan had come close to a nervous breakdown over the bullying and was “honed in on from day one” by a few of the contestants who called themselves the “bitch-keteers”. More »