Commentary on ‘Britain’s Missing Top Model’
July 9th, 2008- In the [UK] Times, TV reviewer Andrew Billen says the judges prompted controversy by tossing out a deaf contestant because she didn’t look “disabled enough.” In the end, he said, “one-legged Rebecca was eliminated instead, on the old fashioned grounds that she took a terrible picture.”
- In the UK] Guardian, Helienne Lindvall applauds the effort to expand the public concept of beauty, but doesn’t like all the sensationalism.
Last night’s episode of the BBC3 show featured the girls modeling lingerie in a shop window, and another episode will have them on the catwalk. Though I haven’t seen all of them, I fear that this competition seems to be highlighting what the girls can’t do, rather than all the things they can. Couldn’t they have picked a different profession for them to aspire to than one that has such an aversion to the slightest imperfection?… Sadly, though, if it wasn’t sensationalist, would half as many people tune in?
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