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
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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.
For Those of Us Who Can’t Get Enough ANTM
For Those of Us Who Can’t Get Enough ANTM, There’s Australia’s Next Top Model by Roxanne McDonald
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It’s ANTM down under, too, but that stands for “Australia’s Next Top Model.” And it is just as engaging a reality show as its sister program is. |
It’s ANTM down under, too, but that stands for “Australia’s Next Top Model.” And it is just as engaging a reality show as its sister program is.
Maybe it’s no surprise, considering there are twelve other international versions of “America’s Next Top Model,” but I find “Australia’s Next Top Model” fascinating enough that it is now on my personal reality TV line-up. (Now that there’s bragging rights!)
Of course I adore all things (or shows) Aussie, so it is really no surprise to me, who has seen Muriel’s Wedding, Once Were Warriors and Mad Max a combined total of, oh, fifty or sixty times.
Anyway, is this article about my viewing habits or about A2NTM?
“Australia’s Next Top Model” has some interesting differences, a curiously different shape or style:
Erika Heynatz is the professional model and presenter who hosts “Australia’s Next Top Model. She’s a bit more severe than Tyra: “You may be in a dance studio, but you can forget about dancing. You’ve got to learn how to walk first.” In training sessions, too, the girls are seemingly thicker-skinned than ANTM hopefuls, nonplussed, usually by the blunt “Change this” or the brusque “Quit doing that.”
They don’t seem to freak out when Erika tells them their “posture is shocking” or they need to knock off the holding of the mouth that way, or that they are “expect[ed] to be as quick and professional as [they] can backstage…and when [they] come out on the runway, there’s no room for messing up.”
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