sugarrhill wrote:
I don't understand why the prize package for this damn show includes a fucking spread and cover in "Seventeen" magazine and a goddamn Cover Girl contract. Last I checked, Seventeen and Cover Girl did not add up to top model status. Whatever happened to the six-page spread in Elle magazine shot by world-renowned photographer Gilles Bensimon? The contract with Sephora? Elle and Sephora seem more high class than Seventeen and Cover Girl. If I were in charge of this show (Goddess help me if that ever happens), I would make sure that the prize package consisted of the FOLLOWING: the requisite contract with a high-profile agency, the cover and a ten-page spread in VOGUE magazine (THE fashion magazine of record), a cash prize of $250,000 or more, and a contract with a real, high-class makeup company. Oh, and NO autograph signing sessions at fucking Walmart. Trader Joe's perhaps, or even Popeye's Chicken, but Walmart? Hell no. Of course, that'll never happen, not even if Tyra remains on board. Bitch is too cheap to give the winner a prize package that's worth it. If they can give the winnner of American Idol a plum contract and prize package, why can't ANTM?You have no clue what you're talking about. Seventeen is a magazine with high circulation numbers, sure it's no Elle or Vogue but the people that buy those magazines don't watch ANTM. Teenage girls watch ANTM. Teenage girls buy Seventeen. Do you follow? And landing cosmetics campaigns makes one a top model. Cosmetics campaigns are very lucrative, yes, even CoverGirl. Ask Queen Latifah. Most working models don't land cosmetics campaigns and if they landed CoverGirl they'd be overjoyed because it means they are getting PAID. Anna Wintour hardly even acknowledges the existence of Project Runway, a reality competition where contestants are actually judged on their talents, so if you think she'd put an ANTM winner on the cover I'd like to know where you buy your crack. The fact that the Queen of all media, Oprah, had to subject herself to Anna Wintour's very strict edicts should tell you that she's more selective about who she puts on the cover than who gets awarded Nobel Prizes. And Tyra doesn't select the prize package, CoverGirl does. They are the ones paying it. It would also not be cost effective for the show to substantially increase the cash amount. The reason why Reality TV is cheaper to produce is because they keep costs down. And ANTM doesn't have the same size audience as AI or Survivior so the cash prize is compensatory with the size of its viewing audience and the network it's on. And world-renowned photographer Gilles Bensimon is no longer a creative director at Elle so that should give you an indication as to why the winner no longer gets a fashion spread in Elle. But you could've been joking so apologize for the tone if you were.
As for Tyra quitting the show, I get it. She makes way more moeny as a talk show diva than head judge on ANTM. Uhm, hello- Oprah is a billionaire in thanks to her talk show. Plus, Tyra also owns at least a small percentage of the show and all its incarnations. So if she were to leave and show continues without her she'd still get a cut. ANTM may be the most watched show on the CW, but who knows how long the CW will be on the air. If the network doesn't turn itself around in the next year or two it might disappear completely. All their hits shows are showing bad signs of aging and their new shows aren't pulling in the numbers that they should. Tyra understands that if she can tap into the next generation of talk show viewers she can become the next Oprah. She also realizes that the lifespan of a talk show is way longer than that of a primetime show. So I get why she's placing her bets on the talk show.
It is like you are my brain.
Totally agree.
I can't believe you actually
think she sorts through photos.
