Australia’s Next Top Model Host Erika Heynatz Guest on America’s Next Top Model

Australia’s Next Top Model Host Erika Heynatz Guest on America’s Next Top Model by Roxanne McDonald

With the final six on a trip to Australia, we finally get to see both “Top Model” hosts in action.

I had become entranced by the similar but different procedures and format of the sister show, “Australia’s Next Top Model”…then it went off the air (at my place, anyway). So I was delighted when the final six were flown to Australia and introduced to Erika Heynatz, who met them at the airport before Tyra actually introduces her to them.

Erika is, remember, harder, tougher, and more demanding in her delivery and judging style than Tyra, and to add to that, the competition challenges are all about being a

correspondent as well as a model, and add to that—whew—that the girls will have to adopt Aussie accents and use Aussie slang…and you have one mess of a week, as entertaining as it is.
At the airport, for starters, Erika introduces herself and then launches, in her Aussie tongue, into how the girls must be “absolutely nekked” after such a long flight and all, but how they “must be ready to get straight into the hard yakker…straight into chewing the fat with the locals.”

Yes, they will have to use slang as many times as they can to win the first challenge.

Brit was run over by a car a few years back and has no short term memory to speak of, so she bombs, using 0 slang terms. Dionne is recalcitrant, saying how they have had no sleep and now are expected to do this, and also tanks with 0 slang words.

Jael slips in 2, Jaslene also gets in 2, and Natasha yacks up a native with 4. Renee, however, manages a good 5 or more slang words, and wins.

Renee also does better (or is the best of the worst) at the Aussie accent television ad for Cover Girl, wherein the girls are to be beautiful distractions for a photographer who intended to take pics of the kangaroos.

Jaslene is whack, Jael is bug-eyed and stilted, and Dionne doesn’t sound at all Australian, while Natasha at least has this positive attitude when tackling what is for her a triple challenge—being Russian, understanding and speaking English, and adding the Australian accent.
Erika had given the girls Aussie slang “bibles”, had given them a key (a giant key) to an ANTM apartment, and had told them they would learn eho was the winner when they got back home.

I was bummed, then, or “cheesed off,” that Heynatz wasn’t to be on the judges’ panel, yarning with Tyra, or breaking up a barney between the girls (who were actually quite lovey dovey this week, even and especially after Jael got cut), but was glad to see and hear her in all her Aussie gab and g’day.

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