Tyra Banks was back last night on Living - with a bang! And 13 new models all hoping to strut their stuff on the way to becoming America's Next Top Model... "Smize God damn you, SMIZE!"
No sooner have Elle McPherson's British lot left the screen than the glitzier, prettier(?), bigger budgeted stateside behemoth is back on our screens. Definitely the big momma original when it comes to the Next Top Model franchise, created by Ms. Banks, though without a true big momma in sight. That said, there's always the token plus-sized model dropped in to keep the politically correct brigade happy, thanks to the format's pretty much rigid standard. In fact, the only real change from the rigid format that's left us wondering about this season's show is why Miss J had to go, to make room for new judge Andre Leon Talley of Vogue? Boo hiss!
You'll be please to know that the swoonsome Nigel Barker is back again though!
The one to watch? Undoubtedly, it's Ren. The late-comer, picked by Tara, who made a surprise appearance as celeb-parasite Perez Hilton took the girls along to Madame Tussaud's in New York. And then her armpit hair, which made a surprise appearance at the model-makeover!
Next week, she pees on the bonfire of girl solidarity when she tells rent-a-mouth Alasia to "shut the f**k up". You just don't get that on Britain's Next Top Model now, do you?
Is Ren the best looking of this season's crop? Probably not. But she's definitely the most interesting. Our money's on mono-browed Raina to come up trumps for now... hotly followed by Naduah's baldy pate and Anslee's blondey-bob look. How about yours?