demelza reveley
Demelza’s Fainting Fit Acquaints Her With New Friend, Karma
9:23AM Clem Bastow | After the announcement of teen bully and sook-face Demelza Reveley left Australia’s Next Top Model viewers throwing their Foxtel remotes at the television in disgust, those on Team Tiny Mouth were at least able to be safe in the knowledge that none of the industry big wigs were really thrilled that Demelza was their new charge; Vogue Australia’s Kirstie Clements even devoting an entire page of letters (from herself and readers) in the current issue, which features Demelza’s winning shoot, to set the record straight. Said Team Tiny Mouth members will no doubt be supping on the sweet, sweet schadenfreude this morning, then:
Controversial Australia’s Next Top Model winner Demelza Reveley was recently rushed to hospital after she fainted.
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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 »
Demelza’s Modelling Career Off To A Flying Start
9:08AM Clem Bastow | Taking time out from her busy schedule packed full of water balloon lobbing and screaming “why can’t I make her break?!” at the full moon, Australia’s Next Top Model “winner” Demelza Reveley has begun her modelling career in earnest.
This involved doing a trade show to launch Saba’s latest collection – not much news there, but I do like this vaguely damning faint praise that her agent (and AusNTM judge) Priscilla Leighton Clarke whipped up for the bullying teenager:
“I’m not going to throw her in the deep end because she’s only 16 – Alice Burdeu was 20 and there’s a big difference in what she was able to take on,” she said.
Reveley is set to make a chaperoned step on to the international stage next month, visiting casting agents in New York.
The translation there is, “I’m not going to throw her in the deep end because unlike Alice, she does not have what it takes to be an actual top model. We’ve got some great Big W catalogue jobs that will look just darling on her.”
Or so I’m told. More » ANTM Third-Placegetter Sam Would Like To Let Demelza Know That She Has Been Beaten To The ‘I Got A Modelling Campaign’ Crown
12:01PM Clem Bastow | Briefly in the last flurry of post-show Australia’s Next Top Model news, Melbourne girl and second runner-up Samantha Downie, who many were surprised to see booted in favour of Demelza, has already signed to Priscillas (i.e. the agency that takes on the winner) and booked her first campaign, presumably before Demelza has even had her post-party Berocca.
From the Herald Sun:
The Melbourne Uni student emerged yesterday as the dark horse of the contest after it was revealed model agent Priscilla Leighton Clarke signed her weeks before the program ended. Downie is the face of designer Gail Elliott’s brand, Little Joe.
Elliott, who befriended Cindy Crawford, knows what makes a top model.
“She told me I was her favourite, and not to worry about coming third because my career was going to go just as far,” Downie cooed.
Well, just as far as what – a hurried Vogue shoot, maybe a Just Jeans catalogue, and then a spot on Where Are They Now? in ten years time? Don’t sell yourself so short, Sam. More » Australia’s Next Top Model 4 Round-Up – Update!
11:50AM Clem Bastow | The infamous Vogue Forums have been ablaze (320 pages and counting!) with rants about Demelza Reveley’s AusNTM win last night, with Voguettes threatening to cancel their Vogue subscriptions because of the 16-year-old’s bullying behaviour during this Cycle of the show.
As was mentioned previously, Vogue Editor In Chief Kirstie Clements did not vote for Demelza – and to calm the forums down (or likely inspire exactly the opposite), she has posted an official announcement on the topic:
Part of Reveley’s prize is a shoot in Vogue Australia’s September issue, with the magazine under a contractual agreement with Australia’s Next Top Model to feature the winner on eight pages, but don’t expect the amateur model to appear on the cover like last year’s winner Alice Burdeu. “Alice was such an exceptional case,” Clements says. “It was clear from the very beginning that she had the makings of an international model.”
BIZZAM! “Amateur model”! “Contractual agreement”! Drawing impossible comparisons with the Divine Miss Burdeu!
Demelza, you might have won on a technicality (that “general public” vote, pfft), but you just got served. More » Australia’s Next Top Model 4 Round-Up: Demelza Takes Line Honours
11:03AM Clem Bastow | Evidently our “C’mon Tiny Mouth!” campaign to get Alex across the line in the Australia’s Next Top Model finale fell on deaf ears, because – thanks to the public vote after a split judges’ vote – Demelza Reveley is the Cycle 4 winner.
She did not have Kirstie Clements’ (Editor In Chief of Vogue Australia) vote, which means we can all look forward to finding Demelza in an advertorial shoot stuffed up the back of the magazine near the stockists’ list. No cover for you, Demelza!
And, hmm, I wonder what the press thinks about the result? A sampling of headlines:
Teen bully Demelza Reveley wins Next Top Model
‘Bully’ 16-year-old takes out Next Top Model final
‘Bitchketeer’ Demelza Reveley wins Australia’s Next Top Model
And so on. They make a good point – with the focus on bullying, cyber bullying and harassment in the media currently, what message does it send to young girls? That you can bully your way to the top? That it’s okay to be a bully if you have a pretty face?
Unfortunately I can offer no thoughts on the finale as I wasn’t even within a 10km radius of anyone with a) Foxtel or b) a VCR and b.i) a courier helicopter, so can only go on what is reported in the papers and what was relayed to me via SMS.
And on the latter topic, the bulk of the SMSes were along the lines of “OMG WTF no Jodhi?” – evidently Ms Meares has a fear of live television (and sent well wishes to the finalists via video link). So, er, doesn’t that mean she’s a pointless choice as a host, if the “Live Finale” is the glittering jewel in the AusNTM crown?
Give the gig to Charlotte Dawson!
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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”.
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