The conflict that resulted in a Top Model cycle one contestant and her Shins’ band member ex-boyfriend being arrested and thrown in jail this weekend has resulted in no charges being filed. “The Sacramento, California, district attorney’s office ruled Tuesday (January 8) that there was insufficient evidence to pursue domestic-violence charges against Shins multi-instrumentalist Marty …
America’s Next Top Model‘s first third-place contestant, Elyse Sewell, was jailed along with her boyfriend, a member of the Shins, after what she describes as “domestic violence against me.” On her Livejournal blog, in a post reproduced by The Stranger, Elyse wrote that her “ex-boyfriend got shitfaced and roughed me up in a Sacramento hotel. …
Adrianne Curry, the original America’s Next Top Model winner and subsequent star of The Surreal Life and a spin-off series, says that Tyra Banks and the show “try to act like the first winner of their show never existed.” She points out in her MySpace blog, which is always crazy fun with emphasis on the …
Inspired by Jennifer Hudson’s criticism of American Idol, America’s first Top Model, Adrianne Curry, is once again openly criticizing the show and its host. (Two years ago, she said she was “screwed over” by Tyra.) First, about the show itself, Adrianne writes on her MySpace blog that its producers “had no money…no clue what they …
Project Runway host and executive producer Heidi Klum is making an unusual move: she’ll be hosting a version of a competing show. Klum will front the German version of America’s Next Top Model, which is hosted stateside by Tyra Banks. Variety has few details about her new gig, but notes that “Germany joins Australia, France, …
More cable networks are getting into the reality repeat game, as VH1 has purchased the exclusive rights to air all six seasons of UPN’s America’s Next Top Model. Four seasons have already aired on UPN; the fifth debuts in the fall, and the sixth has been announced. Variety reports that VH1 “is said to be …
Adrianne says she was “screwed over” by Tyra, never received her modeling contract. The first America’s Next Top Model says in Steppin’ Out magazine that she never received her promised modeling contract. Adrianne Curry blames this entirely on host and executive producer Tyra Banks: “Tyra really didn’t help us out and the show didn’t put …