Britian's Next Top Model And QVC

So sitting watching BNTM last night and filming in Boots Oxford Street ad for Head and Shoulders.

Then we really went up market next day, a filmed ad for QVC's jewellery!!!

Each model given a brand sold on QVC.

Bethann, "Who are QVC?":mysmilie_15: Explained by producer a worldwide company.

So out came Diamonique, model liked it all sparkle.

Butler and Wilson, who are they?

Other models happy with other brands until....................

I believe it was Billie who got Lola Rose, she was totally unimpressed by the brand. You could see her nose turning up at the idea of having to film an ad for the boring looking jewellery. She did get kicked off as her ad was so boring and she was still making faces at having to film an ad for it.:mysmilie_17:

one mans meat is anather mans poison

Oh my word, not a very good advert for QVC, if I was them I certainly wouldn't be bragging about it, after all it's not exactly Americas Next Top Model with Tyra Banks. I didn't even know Britains Next Top Model was back on, it must be hidden away somewhere on one of my obscure Sky channels.

I`ve never watched BNTM but I should imagine all the contestants are in their late teens or very early 20`s. That`s probably why they`d never heard of QVC or the jewellery brands. Let`s face it, even some of us oldies find it difficult to like what they try to sell at times and not many teenagers are going to wear Clarks shoes, Quacker tops, Basso coats or spend their Friday night with a cup of cocoa and cuddling a Charlie Bear.

I don't watch but everything Donna says sounds 100%.

Funnily Chuntley must have been watching a different show going by her simpering about the "Welsh" model and her luvvvvv of Eek. People talk about rose tinted glasses but in regards to Q Chuntley's are completely blacked out the woman is so obsessed with all things Q. With DBF you know it is only a sales ploy but I think Chintley honestly believes all she spouts. Which is worse- hard sell or self delusional?

BNTM was relaunched this year on Lifetime. The UK version the models all in their 20s, the Oz version 18 it the oldest.

Like I said, I`ve never watched it but I wonder how near to the truth the search for the next top model actually is ? My great niece was once stopped by a modelling scout in Manchester city centre whilst shopping with her Mum. She`s a stunningly beautiful girl, aged 14, 5ft 10", naturally blonde wavy hair and has what I`d call a true English rose complexion and (as yet) has a long, lean, almost boyish figure, roughly a size 8 I`d say and very very slim for her height.
To cut a long story short, she persuaded her Mum to contact the agency which was based in London and off they went to have an interview and some test photos done. In a nutshell the agency said she was too big, she needed to be a size 6 or less and if she lost the weight they`d consider adding her to their books because her test photos showed she has potential.
Naturally her wise Mum, gathered her daughter and more or less told the agency that if they wanted anorexic teenagers then they were bang out of order and no Mother would encourage her healthy child to starve themselves slim.
I`ve attached a photo which I`ll later delete and you tell me this child ( and she is a child ) is too big ? Consequently what these programmes portray and what is actually the truth, could be poles apart.

Lovely young lady.

If that is too big I am a ****** . Thank goodness for sensible mothers, unfortunately a lot of mothers are even more star struck than their offspring. Sometimes I think they would even sell them for the fame.

Someone really needs to regulate this industry. Unfortunately all the people, often females, who run these agencies live on "non food " items which keep them unnaturally thin and like the music industry the hopefuls are coerced into this way of life just to keep up.

It's a bit like designers who produce ludicrous clothes but dress in plain black head to foot themselves.

loveallthingsitalian said:

Lovely young lady.

If that is too big I am a ****** . Thank goodness for sensible mothers, unfortunately a lot of mothers are even more star struck than their offspring. Sometimes I think they would even sell them for the fame.

Someone really needs to regulate this industry. Unfortunately all the people, often females, who run these agencies live on "non food " items which keep them unnaturally thin and like the music industry the hopefuls are coerced into this way of life just to keep up.

It's a bit like designers who produce ludicrous clothes but dress in plain black head to foot themselves.

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A while ago I read an interview with a top fashion photographer ( can`t recall his name ) and he said the current top fashion models are all young teens from Eastern Block countries such as Polish or Czechs because and I more or less quote his words " they don`t mind starving themselves into the clothes" and are already from very poor backgrounds so are prepared to go the extra mile to get out of poverty.
What next ? When puberty hits and busoms, hips etc begin to become more rounded. Chain smoking, heroin, anorexia ? All to keep the weight off.

Most young ladies I see who are from Eastern European countries are very slim and smoke very heavily and seem to eat very little. I'm not sure if many years in UK changes this if they pick up our bad eating habits.

Appalling that the agency would expect a child in her formative years to starve herself, Vienna, she's a lovely slim girl - especially bearing in mind that the camera adds weight. Apparently the diets and lifestyles of females have long term repercussions for their families... not just their children but, if they have female children, their grandchildren can have health issues directly attributable to periods of starvation endured by their grandmother. I can't find the article where I read about the research that arrived at this conclusion... but here's a thought. Women are born with their eggs, so when grandma gives birth to her daughter, she is essentially carrying her grandchildren as well.

Grossly irresponsible and exploitative behaviour like this does nobody any credit. Thank heavens your niece didn't have her head turned by thoughts of the glamour of it all, and instead put her daughter's health and wellbeing first.

The fashion modelling industry enshrines unhealthy attitudes to health and body weight. I've seen it first hand, having shared flats as a student with models with either anorexia or bulimia. The fact that the people perpetuating this experienced it themselves and do not question it or learn from their own experience. Then they peddle completely unrealistic, unachievable images of what is "normal". It's been bad for years for girls and women, and unfortunately it is now becoming as bad for boys and men. If it's not fashion perpetuating a warped ideal of "normal" it's porn.

Of course QVC is trumpeting this wider media exposure, and have no thought of being at all responsible, with their wide female viewership (in a completely different demographic, of course). I dare say back in the day when they used to feature as one of the challenges on the original format the Apprentice they would have done the same... and I would have given them more kudos for that, to be honest.

Sorry - rant over.

Vienna said:

Like I said, I`ve never watched it but I wonder how near to the truth the search for the next top model actually is ? My great niece was once stopped by a modelling scout in Manchester city centre whilst shopping with her Mum. She`s a stunningly beautiful girl, aged 14, 5ft 10", naturally blonde wavy hair and has what I`d call a true English rose complexion and (as yet) has a long, lean, almost boyish figure, roughly a size 8 I`d say and very very slim for her height.
To cut a long story short, she persuaded her Mum to contact the agency which was based in London and off they went to have an interview and some test photos done. In a nutshell the agency said she was too big, she needed to be a size 6 or less and if she lost the weight they`d consider adding her to their books because her test photos showed she has potential.
Naturally her wise Mum, gathered her daughter and more or less told the agency that if they wanted anorexic teenagers then they were bang out of order and no Mother would encourage her healthy child to starve themselves slim.
I`ve attached a photo which I`ll later delete and you tell me this child ( and she is a child ) is too big ? Consequently what these programmes portray and what is actually the truth, could be poles apart.
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She looks fine to me she would look terrible if she lost weight
Is it any wonder theses poor young girls make themselves ill trying to get to what
For them is an unrealistic body size
And do these agency's realise the long term damage it does to their bodies
Or even care
I know a beautiful young girl who had a more curvy but not overweight figure ,her cloths looked lovey on yet she was bullied so much she almost starved herself to death to look like these ghostly gaunt models
She ended up with lots of health issues some which are perminant but she has now put the weight back on and with help from her true friends is learning to love herself again

Stick thin young teens modelling clothes to the rest of the adult population is ridiculous. They may have the genetics to be unusually tall and thin, but they are encouraged to starve themselves to unhealthy levels. Can't understand why the fashion industry is still like this. At least QVC models are of a more average age and weight, even if they often seem to be very tall and probably thinner than most of us!

I once read that as most male fashion designers are gay. They actually design their clothes for thin males. Trouble is when girls reach mid teens they get more shape. Very very very few stay that thin and are really freaks of nature. Look at Kate Moss when she started she was 14-16 and tiny, in her twenties she was heavier say a 6-8 but still in demand because she was and is Kate Moss. If she had been a normal woman her career would have been long over.

There was an actress at the Golden Globe awards recently who had to go and buy a dress, as at a size 8 she was too big to fit into any of the designer dresses lent to actresses as they are usually a size 4 or smaller.

It`s criminal when a size 8, almost 6ft tall teenager is made to feel fat !
As Donna says, many gay designers only find male not female physiques attractive and so they design for the androgynous looking female.

One of my work colleagues has a daughter who is a successful model. She signed with Elite and works all over the world, she appears at all the big runway shows and has appeared in many magazines which her proud mum is always showing us! http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f52/rea-triggs-123235.html. Think she's one of those lucky girls that is able to stay very slim without starving herself. She enjoys her life and is doing what she loves but makes almost no money out of it once her living and travel expenses are deducted. The agency don't pay any of the girls' costs so unless you're one of the very few top models who get the big contracts it does not pay that well, certainly for a short career it would not set you up for life.

Gee they are flogging that BNTM thing to death. Julia is on it now.

I must say the music playing during the trailer is lovely. Anyone know it?

shopperholic said:

Oh my word, not a very good advert for QVC, if I was them I certainly wouldn't be bragging about it, after all it's not exactly Americas Next Top Model with Tyra Banks. I didn't even know Britains Next Top Model was back on, it must be hidden away somewhere on one of my obscure Sky channels.

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I believe it is on TLC or as we call it Total Load of C..p and it is.

loveallthingsitalian said:

Gee they are flogging that BNTM thing to death. Julia is on it now.

I must say the music playing during the trailer is lovely. Anyone know it?

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Trailer for what?

maymorganlondon said:

Trailer for what?

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The trailer showing on Q which is shown every time they mention BNTM which I assume to be the shoot they had to do for the show.