Australia's Next Top Model is Demelza!

Demelza beat Alex this past Monday in Australia's Next Top Model. I'm a bit disappointed as Alex was much more edgy and hard working. Demelza's past behaviour is real big turn off too, her bullying of Alamela is unforgivable (I hear she is still denying she bullied Alamela hours after winning... so all that video of her doing it is fake!?!?). Unlike most of Australia, I'm not buying her new found maturity! She'll always be that catty beeyatch we saw thru most of the series.

Alex on the right and Demelza on the left

Australia's Next Top Model is a strange version of Next Top Model franchise. I've watched all the previous seasons and they tend to position the show and it's contestants to fight with each other. Focusing more on the relationships in the model house than the fashion. There's not much of focus on the catwalk (until this finale) and as you would expect there's a lot of photo shoots with lots of sun influence. So I find it amazing that despite all that, they can still have 2 finalists as strong as they have. Demelza will likely be very successful if she can work hard and avoid self destructing in her own hubris. Go Alex, I'm rooting for you! You aussies stop snickering, I know what rooting means for you down under!

Look Tyra! If a country of 21 million can come up with 2 decent finalists for their version of NTM, why can't the American version produce ONE top model? America's had 10 seasons and Australia 4. The math is against you!

The lovely Alice Burdeu.

I'm not even counting Australia's last year's winner Alice Burdeu who is probably NTM (any version) most successful winner. Working for Louis Vuiton, Alexander McQueen and Dolce & Gabana and doing it in fashion's holy trinity of NYC, Milan and Paris certainly puts any of America's winners to shame. Only Britain's NTM is as laughable (I do love Catherine though). However, I'll still watch them all... for purely research reasons of course!