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Tyra Banks One-Upped By BBC

posted by: Amelie Gillette
June 27, 2008 - 11:32am

Throughout America's Next Top Model's 10-cycle/season reign of stupidity, Emmy Award Winnerâ„¢ Tyra Banks has heavily relied on stunt disability casting to spice up the contestant pool. Over the years the show has had a legally blind contestant, a contestant with Asperger's Syndrome, multiple plus size or "real size" contestants (definitely a disability when it comes to modeling), a contestant who clearly has some kind of undiagnosed shout-speech disorder (Jaslene), a contestant who underwent female circumcision, and a Russian mail order bride contestant (not a physical, mental, or developmental disability, but definitely a lifestyle disability). Still, Tyra has yet to find an aspiring model in a wheelchair, or that holy grail of stunt disability casting: the aspiring model who happens to be an amputee--which means that when Tyra finds out about BBC 3's upcoming Britain's Missing Top Model, she's no doubt going to salivate (with her eyes!), and keel over in a fit of pure envy.

Even though Britain's Missing Top Model makes the show sound like an episode of 48 Hours: Mystery, instead of what it is, Britain's Next Top Heather Mills, somewhere Tyra Banks is very, very angry she didn't make this happen first. How can the next cycle/season of ANTM even hope to top an show made up entirely of disabled contestants? I bet Tyra is personally scouring Tourette's support groups and little people conventions as we speak like some kind of bewigged, eye-smiling P.T. Barnum, trying to convince the prettiest girls she can find there that, "No, shouting obscenities and uncontrollable facial tics won't affect your ability to get a good beauty shot," and "Of course 4'6" is tall enough for runway!"

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