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Vogue Editor To Demelza: ‘Alice Was Better’
11:15AM Clem Bastow | If Australia’s Next Top Model Cycle 3 winner Alice Burdeu’s post-show career boom was like a steaming hot dish served on a sparkling silver platter, then Cycle 4 winner and professional bully Demelza Reveley’s desserts are served cold, coagulated and with a hair on top – in a polystyrene container.
After already damning the teenage wannabe with faint praise, Vogue Editor In Chief and AusNTM judge Kirstie Clements has once more stuck her Louboutin boot into Reveley.
Branding the Reveley feature with a non-committal “You be the Judge” caption, Clements yesterday conceded the Foxtel face had received “a big leg up” in achieving the polished and professional look, The Daily Telegraph’s Sydney Confidential reports.
“Look, Demelza scrubbed up all right but she’s got a bit of a way to go – she’s very young and she’s no Alice Burdeu,” Clements said.
“I felt like I’d said enough about Demelza’s behaviour on the show, so I opened up the forum to the readers to let them have their say.”
As for the shots themselves, Vogue released a sample to the press and, well…
If the series was titled Australia’s Next Top Impersonator Of The Alien From Close Encounters After It Had Had A Go In Amy Winehouse’s Makeup Case, then I would applaud it. However, since it isn’t, I say underwhelming. More » 
Right After Alice Burdeu Finishes Shooting This Mega-Bucks Campaign, She’ll Turn Her Attention To Defamer Australia
2:42PM Clem Bastow | We know that Defamer Australia’s model-mad and fashion-fanatic readers have been hanging to read Alice’s responses to your questions, however we’re quite sure her excuse for tardiness will wash with you: she’s been busy shooting the Dolce & Gabbana diffusion line D&G’s latest campaign, with superstar lensman Mario Testino. If that isn’t the definition of “top” modeldom, our years of reading the Vogue Forums have taught us nothing.
(Incidentally you can check out her ever-expanding book of amazing editorial shots here.)
However, the lovely Alice took a moment from her ridiculously busy schedule this afternoon to let us know she is completing her answers as we speak, so tune in on Monday for the thoughts from Australia’s reigning Next Top Model before we begin the search for the next one! More » 
Spare A Thought For Australia’s Last Top Model
9:42AM Clem Bastow | While Defamer Australia are huge fans of Australia’s Next Top Model Cycle 3 winner Alice Burdeu, we were also gunning big-time for Cycle 2 winner, Eboni Stocks.
She was funny, bitchy and gorgeous, and we were sure she’d do great things if her photoshoots on the show were anything to go by. Sadly for Eboni and for our hopes and dreams for her, things didn’t really go as planned – bar brawls, belligerent interviews, modelling gigs focusing only on her legs – and while Burdeu jets around the world booking editorials, it pays to take pause to check in with Eboni:
Confidential stumbled across the trouble-plagued Stocks ferrying plates of food to customers at Waterloo restaurant Pavarotti – marking the second time the 22-year-old has resorted to working in the service industry since she was crowned Australia’s next top model in 2006.
Stocks, whose public profile is dotted with controversial incidents – including charges of obstructing police – started working at the eatery last week.
Pavarotti manager Frank Purcell admitted he had given the leggy brunette a job because he felt sorry for the failed catwalker.
“She’s a good girl and she’s had a tough time,” Purcell told Confidential.
“She asked me for some casual work and so far she’s turned out to be a great waitress.”
Such is the reality of reality TV!
Likewise, fashion and modelling is as fickle as the wind, unfortunately, and nothing sums it up like this unfortunate little alert that popped up when we were browsing for Eboni this morning:
We feel your pain, Eboni – we were voted ‘Most Likely To Be A Movie Star’ in our Year 12 yearbook, and did it happen? No it didn’t. More »
Where In The World Is Alice Burdeu?
12:44PM Clem Bastow | We realise that those of you who left your questions for Australia’s Next Top Model and all-round champ Alice Burdeu might now be feeling like you were shouting into a well – fear not!
Alice has been unable to spend more than a few seconds online over the past two weeks, simply because she is busy KICKING GOALS!
You can check out a Style.com gallery of her recent European show appearances (including exciting bookings like Alexander McQueen, Celine, Dries Van Noten and Dolce & Gabbana) here, but Alice has assured us that top of her ‘to do’ list once she returns to New York will be to respond to her public, i.e. YOU. More »
Australia’s Next Top Model Actually On Her Way To Being Top Model; World In Shock
9:17AM Clem Bastow | Looks as though Alice Burdeu is the first winner of the Next Top Model franchise (both Australian and internationally) to really be proving she was a deserving winner – to wit, she looks set to actually become just that, a top model! No doubt the contestants in the upcoming fourth cycle of AusNTM are feeling the bar set just a little too high for them.
She has already shot a Vogue Australia cover, and the Napoleon Perdis campaign, not to mention a successful few months modelling in Singapore – now she is installed in New York City, where she (and her agency, Elite) had hoped she’d book a couple of Fashion Week gigs. Well, she got more than a few – including Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler and Marchesa – and the fashion world has sat up and taken notice.
Alice has been featured on the front page of Style.com (Vogue’s online incarnation), is still New York Magazine’s front page Fashion Week image (walking for Marc Jacobs), and – most excitingly (though it may not so much as raise an eyebrow in those who don’t follow the fashion world obsessively) touted as a Top 10 Newcomer on Models.com, which has rightly been described as “the NASDAQ of modelling”. Former MDC newcomers include current mega models Agyness Deyn and Coco Rocha – so to say they know how to pick the stars would be an understatement.
Go Alice!
Defamer Australia public service announcement: we will be interviewing Alice this week and want YOU, the Defamer family, to be a part of it all. Leave your questions for the leggy stunner in the comments and tune back in later to read her responses!
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Australia’s Next Top Model’s Latest Photo Call Perhaps Less Glamorous Than Vogue
10:31AM Clem Bastow | We once read a great piece about an all-female gang in the UK called The Chubsters, who formed out of rage when one of them was used as a “headless fatty” on a current affairs show bit on obesity. A headless fatty is one of those montages of random overweight people walking around the city centre, either shot from the neck down or from behind.
Well, we wonder how Australia’s Next Top Model winner Alice Burdeu would feel about being News Ltd’s “headless skinny” in this image accompanying a story about youth body image?
The pic they’ve decapitated is a runway shot from her appearance in Fashion Assassin’s Rosemount Australian Fashion Week last year.
Given that a nutritionist said Alice’s BMI was reasonable considering her height, and that she doesn’t seem to have any body image issues, perhaps News Ltd should think twice next time and, like, employ an illustrator or a graph or something? More » 
Alice Joins The Fashion Elite
2:41PM Clem Bastow | Australia’s Next Top Model Cycle 3 winner Alice Burdeu has capped off her winner’s trip to New York by signing with Elite Model Management.
Not sure what that means in the world of catwalk glamazons? Do the names Naomi, Gisele and Heidi mean anything to you?
*snaps fingers and bobs head like Miss Jay*
Her Australian agency Priscilla’s confirmed the signing and revealed the Vogue covergirl had attracted interest from five agencies during her meet-and-greet trip.
“They were all very interested in signing her but Alice felt the best about Elite and her career will be in fantastic hands there,” Priscilla Leighton-Clark told Confidential yesterday.
“It’s a testament to the kind of show Australia’s Next Top Model has become because Alice is of an international standard and she’s really proved that now – she’s amazing.”
Alice will “commute” for the next month before moving to New York for good. She’s come a long way since the day we sat next to her at a pub lunch and made starstruck dicks out of ourselves, so Defamer Australia sends it heartiest congratulations to the leggy stunner! More »
Next Top Alice Off To NYC; Steph Books Compensatory Ticket To “Morocca”
9:48AM Clem Bastow | Having been gifted with the cover of Vogue Australia and relocating to Sydney, Alice Burdeu – winner of Australia’s Next Top Model Series 3 – is finally jetting off to claim another of her prizes: meeting with model agents in New York City.
Previous winners were given meetings with specific agencies, but Alice will be ‘up for grabs’, meaning she could end up on the books of “power agencies” like Next, IMG or Supreme, rather than contractually fobbed off to nobodies – and word has it said agencies are already keenly awaiting her arrival.
“I’m really excited – I can’t wait. To be honest I’m pretty nervous but it’s an amazing opportunity,” Burdeu told Confidential.
Fox8 will announce a fourth series today, with Meares returning as host.
Meanwhile, in news that will not shock anyone who had their stomach churned by AusNTM host Johdi Meares’ blind devotion to runner-up Steph Hart, the girl who didn’t know that Moroccan food comes from “Morocca”, Steph has been booked as the new “face” (and body) of Meares’ Tigerlily label.
She looks much better than she did while the judges were fawning over her, but we still don’t “get” the Steph thing. But then maybe we just need to visit Morocca and find ourselves. More » 
