Lara Bingle if the Sunday Telegraph is to be believed is being spruiked around as a potential reality TV star ala Paris Hilton. Emails sent around to TV Stations are asking $1 million for where she would allow  ”The network, or its nominated production company, (would be) provided exclusive access to Lara’s day-to-day life to be used for a possible reality television series,”

Would her life be that interesting? Maybe I think it is time she went and did some further study.

Someone else who may consider getting a day job is Cassi Van Den Dungen.  Cassi Van Den Dungen who was last year’s Australia’s Next Top Model runner up but the one deemed to have the most modelling potential has managed to insult a huge international modelling agency according to the Sunday Telegraph.

The article says:

After finally landing a much sought-after trip to Paris for Fashion Week, the controversial Australia’s Next Top Model runner-up almost caught the first plane home with her builder boyfriend, virtually as soon as someone said “Bonjour” to her.

According to some outrageous posts on her Facebook page, she insulted the French and her international heavyweight agent, IMG.

Van Den Dungen, who arrived back in town on Wednesday, labelled the French “frog eaters” and “snail slurpers”. The immature posts were also scathing about “Frasians” (French Asians), labelling them as “idiots”.

As for IMG, well, “all these people are f***** in the head: the agency is trying to run me, not the other way around”.

Her long-suffering Sydney agent, Helena Vitolins, of Work Agency, said she just “wasn’t emotionally ready for Paris”. Clearly, she’s not prepared for other cultures.

For the full story on the Cassi Van Den Dungen Paris debacle go to the excellent fashion blog Frockwriter.

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Australia’s Next Top Model judge reveals to the Herald Sun that plastic surgery is not all it is cracked up to be.

The article states:

Dawson, an outspoken judge on Australia’s Next Top Model, freely admits she has had a number of surgical procedures over the years, including liposuction, fat injections, breast implants, Aptos threading, Botox injections, dermal fillers and an eye lift.

However, the 44-year-old has confessed to Who magazine she regrets some of the work she has had done.

“Anyone thinking plastic surgery will make them happier is wrong,” Dawson has told the magazine.

The thing I would like to know is why would you have fat injected into your face?

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Australia’s Next Top Model judge Charlotte Dawson has kyboshed any hope for a plus sized model contestant to be part of the show this year.

At Westfield Chadstone yesterday Ms Dawson said to Nine MSN ” There is no market for plus-size models in Australia…. it would be tokenism to put a plus-size girl through just for the sake of it”.

She also said:

“I would like someone to name a plus-size model in Australia because I can’t,” she said.

“We could have a plus-size model win the competition and she would end up doing catalogues for Target.”

She makes it sound like modelling in a catalogue is a negative thing, something I am sure most of the previous ANTM contestant’s would love to, considering a lot of their modelling careers have come to a screeching halt, and they are working in retail.

In the US version regularly a “plus size” model (ie a size 12-14) will be included in the series and in fact Whitney Thompson won a series.

Personally I think a plus sized model should be included if they are pretty enough, but not if it is tokenism.

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With auditions for the sixth series of Australia’s Next Top Modelabout to start the question is whether host Sarah Murdoch going to do a Heidi Klum? Heidi Klum the host of the US version of Project Runway has made it an art form of popping out a baby and looking super slim hosting the TV show just minutes later. Sarah is pregnant with her third child which is due in April around the time of the live finale. Expect Sarah Murdoch, to look fabulous and give all new mums self esteem problems (unintentionally) in May as she announces the upcoming seasons winner. 

Anyway if you are interested in auditioning this is what you need to know – entrants must be Australian females aged over 16 years of age and 172cm tall and over. 

 Auditions will be held in around the country on the following dates:

SYDNEY

Saturday January 16, 11am-3pm – Westfield Parramatta

Sunday January 17, 11am-3pm – Westfield Miranda

BRISBANE

Tuesday January 19, 11am-3pm – Queen Street Mall

MELBOURNE

Wednesday January 20, 11am-3pm – Chadstone Shopping Centre

BENDIGO

Thursday January 21, 11am-3pm Hargreaves Mall

ADELAIDE

Saturday January 23, 10am-2pm – Rundle Mall

PERTH

Sunday January 24, 11am-3pm – Enex100 Hay Street Mall

No news on a screening date from Foxtel yet.

For further information go to the official site – http://www.fox8.foxtel.com.au/

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Apparently there were rumours circulating that Australia’s Next Top Model winner was gay, I obviously  must have missed THAT article. However now it has been revealed she is dating photographer Christian Blanchard. However the Daily Telegraph reveals there are gay rumours circulating about him.

Personally I could not careless, but they do look like a very cute couple.

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The Herald Sun has an article where Australia’s Next Top Model runner up Cassi Van Den Dungen gives her reasons for not taking up a modelling contract in New York.

She said it would have meant she would have had to lose weight something her manager Candy Powell backs her up on. However Ms Powell also says she is sure Cassi could be a success in New York when she is ready for it. So won’t that mean she would have to ‘lose weight’ then?

Anyway the article said:

I know the international market would want me to lose more weight,” Van Den Dungen said.

“I don’t want to lose any more weight. I’m happy with the way I am and I actually want to put the weight I lost from the stress of the show back on,” she said.

“I am already in between a size six and eight but I would like to be a more average size, say between eight and 10.”

She said it was worrying to see the lengths some models went to to reach industry standards.

“It freaks you out to see how skinny these girls can get. They have got to be unhealthy and not eating properly and if they are eating properly then they are not eating enough.”

Van Den Dungen’s Melbourne modelling agent Candy Powell believes her teenage model made the right choice.

“The international market would want Cassi to lose weight,” Powell said.

“I wouldn’t feel comfortable trying to press a 17-year-old girl to slim down from size six or eight to size four,” she said.

She felt the Australian modelling industry was more flexible about models’ weight.

“It’s one of the good things about working with local designers, they want to show clothes in more realistic sizes.

“I’m sure when she feels ready, Cassi can make it in New York.”

I am still trying to work out whether ‘losing weight’ is code for ‘I am not leaving my boyfriend Brad’.

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Cassi modelling for Portmans

Frockwriter  has this excellent blog on how Alex Perry and Charlotte Dawson were caught out bitching about Cassi Van Den Dungen, the “bogan” who was runner-up on the latest Australia’s Next Top Model.

Apparently on Alex Perry’s Facebook page he said this amongst other things:
“YES ITS TRUE, SHE WONT SIGN ELITE CONTRACT… WE’RE TALKING ABOUT A GIRL WITH LOW INTELLIGENCE, GOING OUT WITH A MAN TEN YEARS OLDER OF A SIMILAR IQ…THE COMBINATION IS POWERFULLY STUPID … THE ICING ON THE IDIOT CAKE IS THAT SHE WANTS HIM TO BE HER MANAGER SO SHE DOESNT HAVE TO PAY AGENCY COMISSION (IM ASSUMING THEY WOULD ALSO HAVE AN ISSUE WITH PAYING TAX!!!) BUT CONSIDERING THAT HE DOESNT WORK, AND SHE’S TO STUPID TO, EVERYTHING MUST BE PEACHY KEEN IN SUNBURY!!!”

Charlotte Dawson also wrote stuff including “too true. Enough about the bogan … she’s someone elses nightmare now.”

When the Dawson was asked by Frockwriter author Patty Huntington whether these comments were true she said:

 ”Absolutely. I could not give a rat’s ass. They’re the sort of things I would say on the show. What’s wrong with them being on a Facebook page? That’s what I’m paid to do. I’m paid to call it as I see it.

“They’re not defamatory, they’re said with humour, not vitriol, and honesty. It was a situation that I was very much involved with.

“Her boyfriend, during the live finale, was grabbing his crotch and sticking his tongue out at me. You don’t know what this girl has gone and done to evoke the ire of a lot of people.

“We don’t give a shit. We’re coming from a place of personal experience and Cassi has very much frustrated and angered and disappointed a lot of people…. She’s upset her family terribly, she’s been a real nightmare and spat in the faces of people who supported her”.

Christ if the crotch grabbing is true that Brad Saul must be a huge tool. What is the story about making his own business, he does not even have his own job! I thought the whole point of her not going overseas was because he was building his own business.

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Cassi, Sarah Murdoch, and THE FIANCEE...

In today’s Daily Telegraph there is an article that shows why Cassi Van Den Dungen should not have won the the title of Australia’s Next Top Model.

Apparently Elite Models New York are keen to sign Cassi and get her across for New York Fashion Week. However she feels it is more important for 25 year old fiancee Brad Saul’s bricklayer business gets going.

Here is what Cassi said about her priorities:

Elite are obsessed with Cassi,” said model agent Priscilla Leighton-Clark, who was also one of the judges. “If she makes the decision to do this – this could change her life,” Leighton-Clark said adding the agency was eager to see her in New York for the Fashion Week in September.

The 17-year-old stunned the industry this week when she said her priority was her 25-year-old brickie fiancee Brad Saul.

“Brad has just started up his career down here and I want to wait until we are both ready if we are going to go overseas,” she said. “I want to have a bit of money backed up behind us so we can get a house or something but setting up the bricklaying business is our priority.”

If Brad has any regard for Cassi he would tell her to go, and if the relationship survives then they can go for it. Clearly he is immature as he is going out with a 16 year old, and a pretty emotionally immature one at that.

I hope Cassi’s mother steps in and gets her to go to at least investigate her opportunities, or at the bare minimum refuses to give the permission to marry, which is required by law if she marries before she is 18.

Brad proposed to try and keep her, or use her a meal ticket. Harsh I know and flame me if you think I am wrong.

I just hope we will not see a story in Woman’s Day in four years time of Cassi with two kids talking about lost opportunities.

Just found her interview on http://tvweek.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=835521 when asked what her next step is she says this:

The next step is working in Melbourne and maybe coming up to Sydney but hopefully not too much. I don’t like travelling too much. After that, when I’m ready, I’m not in the headspace right now but in six months or so, I want to go international.

Fingers crossed she goes.

Also here is Tahnee’s TV Week interview.

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Fox 8 and Foxtel came into its own last night with the highest ever ratings for a television series with the Australian Next Top Model Final. 680,000 subscriber viewed the show hosted with aplomb by the fabulous Sarah Murdoch.

Tahnee Atkinson took out the title by gaining most of the viewing publics vote. She wins a multitude of prizes including a year’s contract with modelling agency Priscillas.

Considering the main show’s sponsors Priscillas’ and Harpers Bazaar cast their vote for Cassi Van Den Dungen and they are not lumbered with the other girl, I wonder if they will be so keen to sign up next year.

Article from News.com.au where Tahnee talks about her nose bleed.

Still searching for interviews with Cassi and Tahnee, hopefully they will  be on line later today.

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The best bit about tonight’s final of Australia’s Next Top Modelfinal was when Charlotte Dawson was about to cast her vote, gave Cassi Van Den Dungen a lecture about how so many girls had stuffed their careers up for a bloke.

She said “You appear to want to just get married with you man and live in Sunbury,” I hope Cassi realises that getting married at 17 would be the worse thing to do, and that also the semi-ped (as CG one of my readers calls him) proposed probably to try and keep her from moving away.

Did anyone notice him in the audience? There was one camera shot to a guy when Cassi came on early in the show but I saw no others. Also Grazia Mag are tweeting that all the model’s are at the after party except Cassi. Has she had a dummy spit about not winning.

I felt it was kind of predictable that Tahnee this year’s Australia’s Next Top Model. Sarah was pushing the healthy body all season and Tahnee was the poster girl. The vote came down to the viewers, and since we had been given such a negative slant of Cassi of course the majority were going to vote for Tahnee.

As Alex Perry has said it is not Australia’s Next Top Role Model, the best model should win. In that case Cassi or Clare should have won. I note the people you need to impress voted for Cassi – the model agent, the magazine editor, and the designer. All the ones that hire.

Also the smoking thing is a furphy, most model’s smoke.

It was great Clare won fan favourite, as she certainly deserved the $5,000 prize. 

Sarah O’Hare was fantastic as host, she did not show any nerves, and did appear to adlib throughout.

Lastly poor Tahnee for having a bleeding nose at the end of the show, that must have been highly embarassing, Alex Perry was probably wondering if he could get the stains out.

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