America’s Next Top Model Fans Sick of Melrose Already

America’s Next Top Model Fans Sick of Melrose Already by Roxanne McDonald

Melrose is letting reality TV stardom and ANTM opportunities go to her head…which is far too large for her body only four weeks in to the competition.

I am so bloody fed up with know-it-alls and bitches on reality TV. When they get their come-uppance, when they get voted off the island or booted from a competition, so be it: they deserve the humility check. But when they harass and harangue in the meantime, I and many other devoted viewers get mad enough to want to boycott the show the crank is featured on.

The example today is Melrose, on America’s Next Top Model. She is waaay out of control with the self-aggrandizing, the hypocrisy, the plain old obnoxious yapping.

On the fourth episode, cheekily titled “The Girl Who Joined the Circus,” Melrose righteously celebrates the elimination of her arch rival, Monique, then takes off for rest while the others play “how many can fit in a shower.” Of course, being left out of the togetherness, Melrose comes out to command they keep it down for her.

Okay, so this is partially justified. They do have only a few hours to sleep before the next America’s Next Top Model task, and she does deserve the respect she has asked for. Except…she is so mean and bitchy that the others do not respect her.

Further, she deserves less: she verbally abuses the beautiful but insecure Anchal, starting by shaming her, saying how she (Melrose) is surprised by Anchal’s flexibility (at the contortionist photo shoot practice). What she implies is that Anchal is fat, a conversation-starter that in the model world is as good as the kiss of death.

Melrose bestows upon the innocent Anchal the lecture about having to do cardio exercises to burn fat, and adds that since she doesn’t see Anchal doing any such exercise it is understandable why she looks the way she does. Properly put out, Anchal does retort, saying how Melrose isn’t with her every minute of the day and doesn’t really know for sure what Anchal does and does not do.

Then Melrose makes a more insulting move. She feigns caring, and offers her sagacious advice on eating, overeating, and burning calories. And the absolutely right Anchal comments that it is odd that Melrose is so concerned with Anchal’s body. Good one, Anch.

But the wicked queen of delusions of grandeur gets even cockier, and the friendly hand of advice turns into a fist that punches Anchal in the gut: in the hot tub with other contestants, Melrose is overheard—by Anchal—attacking how, she believes,

Anchal really does know she is the most beautiful and is just faking insecurity, etc.. The tirade goes on, until it brings our beautiful Anchal to tears.

Bitches have no place on America’s Next Top Model. Or, well, okay, they do, just long enough to make for exciting tension-filled TV episodes. Then she needs to go. That is, she will never earn the right to be the bitch of the ballroom, so she had better take her poison apples with her and leave the castle to the real Snow Whites and Rose Reds…who truly deserve those prizes and contracts and model exposure gigs.

Buh byeee, Melrose.
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