Six-foot-tall Australian beauty Elle Macpherson, has had a 30-year career as one of the first - and arguably only - generation of "supermodels", alongside names like Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista. It's this knowledge which qualifies her to be on the hunt for new talent in Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model, to which she returns as judge, host and executive producer for a second year in a row. As with every cycle, the teeth and claws came out early in the season premiere, and it is apparent there will be plenty of conflicts and catfights to go around.
."There's a lot of tension,'' she tells the Evening Times newspaper in a recent interview."It means a lot to these girls so that release of emotion is quite normal, and I think it's quite genuine a lot of the time."But we have to have a bit of a thick skin about it, ROLE and to have a sense of humour, and some of the things we say are more to break the tension than to be hyper-critical because it gets really tense,'' she adds.
This is the first year in which the judges take to the road to audition candidates themselves. Arriving first in Glasgow, the judges move on to London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Manchester and, for the first time, Dublin."We have a lot of fans in Ireland and I just felt that we needed to include them. Why not? There are beautiful girls there,'' says Macpherson, who was born in Sydney but now lives in the UK.
This year there are lots of "pale and interesting girls" apparently. But no redheads. The team spent hours scouring for gingers when they went to Dublin but judge, X Factor stylist Grace Woodward, revealed they came back without a sausage.As the next season of the show begins, expect plenty of 'challenges' (read: pretty girls doing less than dignified things), bikini shots and crestfallen faces when girls get told that their eyes are just too close together. Oh, and Yvonne Keating as a guest judge. It's the televisual gift that keeps on giving.
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