Canada's Next Top Model season 2
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| Canada's Next Top Model season 2 | |
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| Created by | Tyra Banks |
| Starring | Jay Manuel Jeanne Beker Yasmin Warsame Paul Alexander Nolé Marin Stacey McKenzie |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
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| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | Citytv/A Channel |
| Release | May 30 2007 – July 18, 2007 |
Canada's Next Top Model, Cycle 2 began airing on May 30, 2007. Jay Manuel serves as the host after season 1 host Tricia Helfer left to pursue her acting career. Serving as judges are Jeanne Beker, who is the only returning judge from last season, Paul Alexander, and Yasmin Warsame.
About The Show
The popular Canadian reality series, based on the successful America's Next Top Model franchise, premiered on Wednesday, May 30th at 8:00pm on Citytv.
Hosted by Jay Manuel (America's Next Top Model, Style Her Famous, Fashion Police), each one-hour episode is built around a different aspect of the modelling profession. In Toronto, participants must demonstrate both inner and outer beauty as they learn to master the catwalk, fashion photo shoots and dealing with the glare of the media, all under the watchful eye of television cameras that chronicle every move. One cast member is eliminated each week and the last model standing will win the coveted title of Canada's Next Top Model.
Episode Summaries
The First Cut Is The Deepest!
The top 20 girls arrive in Toronto to audition for the panel of Jay Manuel, Stacey McKenzie, and Nolé Marin. Only ten girls can be chosen to compete to become Canada's Next Top Model. While some of the girls impress the panel with their walk, most walks, according to Jay, was a "Mall Fashion Show Teeter Totter."
The ten girls are chosen, and move into the house they will be calling home for the next several weeks. The girls quickly make friends, and all join in for an impromptu runway show; that is, everyone except for Mika. She quickly isolates herself from the other girls, saying that she doesn't need friends, because it's a competition, not a get-together.
The next day, the girls receive Jay Mail. Like Tyra Banks, Jay uses a riddle to reveal what will happen on the photo shoot. He says for them to bring their best game, and nothing else. It is revealed by creative director Nolé that the girls will be posing with male models -- in the nude. While most of the girls stand out as amazing, a handful disappoint Nolé.
At judging, the judges praise Cori and Tara for their excellent photos, but chastise Mo for her smiling in her shot, as smiling is discouraged in modelling, especially when it is out of tune with everyone else's shots. Steff is also criticized for looking like "a man in drag." Mika gets criticism from Jay for her shot, which seemed to blur the lines between sensuality and pornography, and not having a true connection or enthusiasm.
At elimination, Steff and Mika find themselves in the bottom 2. Mika is eliminated, as the judges don't see something in her photo that stands out. Mika isn't surprised, as she wanted to go home the first day. However, she wishes to pursue modelling, just without people controlling her.
- Bottom two: Mika Lim Ho Fung & Steff Groulx
- Eliminated: Mika Lim Ho Fung
- Featured photographer: Paul Alexander
- Special guests: Stacey McKenzie
Tantrums, Tresses And Tears!
The episode begins with the girls getting Jay mail telling them to look in the mirror and say goodbye. Makeover time! Most of the girls are happy with their makeovers with the exception of Gina who resists at first and Rebecca who now feels she looks more like a freak than a high fashion model. Sinead, who gets her hair chopped really short, is in tears but claims it is because she is thinking of her sister who once had a tumor in her head, and wants to donate her hair. She then rocks her post makeover photo shoot and wins a $5000.00 credit card from Visa for having the best attitude about the makeover, thus winning the challenge.
Upon arriving back at the house the girls are excited to find a hot tub has been delivered in their absence. Gina wants to get in but says she needs to spend time away from the girls who are annoying her. Tara asserts her personality over the rest of the girls who are afraid she might beat them up. The next day the girls are taken to a Toronto photo studio to do a beauty shot posing with dead sea life on their heads. Steff, whose biggest fear in life is a dead baby octopus, dissolves into tears upon learning she will be wearing just that. Her tantrum forces the hair and makeup team to instead give Sinead the octopus and glue snail shells on Steff's head to calm her down.
Following her photo session Sinead leaves the set with stylist Gisela Castillo to do some shopping at Holt Renfrew, and returns with some fashionable items and a gift of a bracelet for each girl. Tara reveals she was jealous of Sinead's good fortune. Once the girls are back at the house they find identical little black dresses which they can customize to portray their sense of individual style at the next day's elimination. The challenge at panel is to compliment their dress from a selection of accessories. Rebecca stands out to the judges as the girl whose personal sense of style far outshines the rest. During Steff's feedback Sinead falls to the ground from dehydration but is soon back up on her feet. With the exceptions of Steff, Mo and Gina, the judges are very happy with the girls' photos, and soon place Steff and Jacqueline, whose photo was well received, in the bottom two because she was thought to be "forgettable". Even more surprising to all is when Jacqueline and not Steff, whom the judges feel photographs like a man, and not a pretty one at that, is eliminated. Amidst a flury of tears Jacqueline departs the set, the house, and the running towards becoming Canada's Next Top Model.
- Bottom two: Steff Groulx & Jacqueline Blackman
- Eliminated: Jacqueline Blackman
- Featured photographer: Dan Lim
- Special guests: Gisela Castillo
Skating On Thin Ice...
The remaining girls meet with Jay Alexander to learn how to do a model walk. But before that, the girls meet some guys at an ice rink to skate and move. Later on, a small runway is set up on the rink and the girls, one by one, are asked to walk for Jay. He gives everyone feedback on what they are doing. Based on his advice and coached backstage by Stacey McKenzie, the girls are to do a walk at MuchMusic with the audience. The audience's responses help determine who had a strong or weak walk.
The girls, all dressed in tight pink outfits and with their faces veiled, are asked to one-by-one walk for the audience, holding an item (e.g. apple, whisk). Tara wins this challenge and gets a diamond watch, in which she is claimed to have flaunted her victory in the other girls' faces. The other girls are annoyed with Tara's attitude. Only Gina manages to stick around with Tara, while she later has a dispute with Steff about disrespecting Jacqueline, earlier eliminated.
Following the model walks, the girls shoot for a commercial for Venus razors with Nolé. They must memorize lines that advertise the razors in front of a camera. Nolé is impressed with a few of the girls, but feels that some of them aren't as good. Steff, who seems confident at first, forgets her lines during the shoot. Cori does well and Nolé is impressed with her. However, when she was judged, she was accused of having "dancing eyebrows". Gina was accused of smiling too much. Tara failed to show her personality in this challenge, while she did not sound enthusiastic enough. Rebecca's voice did not serve her well during this challenge and Tia broke down in tears before her shoot because she was nervous that her dyslexia would get in the way of her doing a good job at her commercial. Mo admitted that her accent pushed down her performance.
During elimination, the girls had to show their walks to the judges, to show what they had learned from Jay Alexander and Stacey McKenzie. Together, they later see their compiled commercial for Venus and each of them are judged off their best lines of the day during the commercial shoot. In the end, Steff and Gina are left standing at the bottom two. They are compared by Jay Manuel - what's more important, dynamic personality or a pretty picture? Gina stays and Steff is sent home disappointed.
- Bottom two: Steff Groulx & Gina Guimont
- Eliminated: Steff Groulx
- Featured photographer:
- Special guests: Jay Alexander
Getting Carried Away
The episode begins with a JayMail hinting that the girls will try their hand at being a Jeanne; Jeanne Becker. Rebecca is furious with Tia for being so loud, annoying and using her shoes to practice runway without Rebecca's permission. Jeanne sits each girl down and gives them a mock interview illustrating the difficulties that may arise in such situations. Tara can barely stay awake and Tia gets scolded by Jeanne for not paying attention.
Next each contestant tries their hand at being the interviewer with a Degrassi cast member who does his best to throw each girl off with his rudeness, succeeding with all but Mo and Sinead. Sinead is once again the challenge winner and as her prize gets to cover a real Toronto fashion week show as a correspondant for Fashion Television. She gives a great interview with the designers and arrives home to her other prizes, a 37" flat screen tv, and a house full of jealous competators.
Another day, another JayMail. This time he warns the girls not to get too "cocky" and "hit cruise control" or they could be blown out of the competition. It turns out the photoshoot that day has each girl posing with a $2 million helicopter and the yet to be released 2008 CTF Cadillac. Decked out in expensive jewlery and gowns it is their charge to give a glamourous and sophisticated shot. Mo rocks the shoot while Gina, Sinead and Cori struggle.
Back at the house the girls are soon at each others throats and harsh words, tensions and tears are soon at an all time high. The hockey players they had met previously arrive just in time to change the house dynamic. The girls party hard with their guests, including Rebecca who gets very close and personal with one guy despite having a boyfriend back at home.
Soon they are back in the elimination room where Gina is not surprised to find herself once again in the bottom of the pack, but Cori is shocked as it is unfamiliar territory for her. Cori is soon put out of her misery as it is Gina and not her who is sent, literally, packing.
- Bottom two: Cori MacKinnon & Gina Guimont
- Eliminated: Gina Guimont
- Featured photographer: Mike Rosenthal
- Special guest: Dina Pugliese
Jumping off the Deep End
The episode starts off with Tara and Tia getting evicted from their room, forcing the remaining contestants to all share a single room. In protest, Tara creates a makeshift bed for herself on the living room couch. The girls are taken to the Yorkville Gym to take a spin class under Stacey Mackenzie. Cori struggles and, post-workout, finds herself in the washroom throwing up.
Next up, one-on-ones with Jay. Tara reveals that her mother went blind as a result of being poisoned and is sad her mom will never see her dance again. Jay tells Rebecca she needs to come out of her shell, Cori that she must show more confidence and less fragility, and Sinead that she needs to be more of a competitor and less of a friend to all the girls.
The next stop Stacey takes the neophyte models to is Flirty Girl Fitness studio for a pole dancing lesson. Mo is embarrassed, Sinead is too shy, Tara, the resident dancer, does very well but it is Cori who shows the most growth who takes her first challenge win. She picks Tia and Rebecca to share her prize of a day at a spa. Tara in the confessional booth reveals she was shocked she did not win, and possibly out of jealousy chastises Cori for being annoying and her incessant foul language, saying, "she literally reminds me of trash."
Photoshoot time and this week, the girls tackle an editorial concept while jumping on a trampoline. Cori, as part of her win received one and a half more frames than the others as well as the opportunity to stop, examine her shots, and modify her poses accordingly. It definitely helps as she nails the shoot. Mo has a difficult time, but not as much as Tia who gets only one great shot by luck. Tara is told her poses are too much like those of a dancer and not a high fashion model, and when it comes time to go to judging panel she lands herself in the bottom two with Mo. Jay throws Tara a life line and it is Mo who is then eliminated.
- Bottom two: Tara-Marie Winspur & Morayo "Mo" Ninalowo
- Eliminated: Morayo "Mo" Ninalowo
- Featured photographer: John van der Schilden
- Special guests: Chris Csak and Krista Knee
Contestants
In order of elimination
- Mika Lim Ho Fung, 25, travel representative from Toronto, Ontario
- Jacqueline Blackman, 20, student from Vancouver, British Columbia
- Steff Groulx, 19, student from Cornwall, Ontario
- Gina Guimont, 23, buyer for engineering firm from Calgary, Alberta
- Morayo "Mo" Ninalowo, 20, British Transfer Student from Toronto, Ontario
Still in the running (in alphabetical order)
- Corrine "Cori" MacKinnon, 18, insurance agent/broker from Val Caron, Ontario
- Rebecca Hardy, 22, meat factory worker from Mannheim, Ontario
- Sinead Brady, 18, call center agent from Chatham, Ontario
- Tara-Marie Winspur, 20, server/part-time impressionist dancer from Calgary, Alberta
- Tia Ayrton-Hill, 19, student from Montreal, Quebec
Cycle Summary
Call-out order
| Order | Finalist | Ep 1 | Ep 2 | Ep 3 | Ep 4 | Ep 5 | Ep 6 | Ep 7 | Ep 8 | ||
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| 01 | Tara | Cori | Sinead | Tara | Mo | Cori | |||||
| 02 | Steff | Tara | Rebecca | Cori | Rebecca | Rebecca | |||||
| 03 | Jacqueline | Rebecca | Tara | Sinead | Tara | Tia | |||||
| 04 | Mo | Jacqueline | Cori | Rebecca | Sinead | Sinead | |||||
| 05 | Cori | Tia | Tia | Mo | Tia | Tara | |||||
| 06 | Gina | Sinead | Mo | Tia | Cori | Mo | |||||
| 07 | Rebecca | Mo | Gina | Gina | Gina | ||||||
| 08 | Tia | Gina | Steff | Steff | |||||||
| 09 | Sinead | Steff | Jacqueline | ||||||||
| 10 | Mika | Mika | |||||||||
- The contestant won the week's reward challenge
- The contestant was eliminated
- The contestant won the competition
- In episode 1, the pool of 20 girls was reduced to 10 who moved on to the main competition. However, this first call-out does not reflect their performance that first week.
- Episode 3's call-out order does not reflect on how well the girls performed. Before handing out the photos, Jay Manuel told the girls, "To be quite honest with you, the first few names I'm going to call doesn't mean that you were successful. It just means that it just happens to be the first few names I call."
Photoshoot Guide
- Week 1 Photoshoot: Nude with a Male Model.
- Week 2 Photoshoot: Beauty Shot with Sea Creatures.
- Week 3 Commercial: Venus Razor Commercial.
- Week 4 Photoshoot: Glamorous Supermodel Editorial shot
- Week 5 Photoshoot: Couture Editorial shot
- Week 6 Photoshoot: Editorial Lingerie Shot
- Week 7 Photoshoot:
- Week 8 Photoshoot:
Makeovers
- Cori: Blonder, Gisele Bundchen inspired haircut
- Gina: Dyed brown and shoulder length angle cut
- Jacqueline: Blonde, Rachel Hunter inspired colour
- Mo: Textured and voluminized; dyed dark chocolate brown
- Rebecca: Dyed fire engine red and cut short
- Sinead: Chopped off, Natalie Portman inspired haircut
- Steff: Cut short in back and dyed entirely blonde
- Tara: Straight Hair Extensions
- Tia: Copper Red Extensions
Cycle statistics
- Total number of contestants: 10
- Oldest contestant: Mika, age 25
- Youngest contestants: Cori and Sinead, both age 18
- Contestant with the most consecutive appearances in the bottom two: Steff, 3 times
- Contestant with the most collective appearances in bottom two: Steff, 3 times
- Contestant with no appearance in the bottom two: Rebecca, Sinead, Tia
- Contestant with most challenge wins: Sinead, 2 times
- Contestant with most consecutive challenge wins:
- Contestant with the most collective first call-outs: Cori 2 times
- Call out averages of top 5 (not including week 3): Rebecca - 2.25, Cori - 3.0, Tara - 3.25, Sinead - 3.75, Tia - 4.5
- Six contestants are from Ontario, Canada
Judges
- Jay Manuel, host and professional make-up artist
- Jeanne Beker, fashion journalist
- Yasmin Warsame, supermodel
- Paul Alexander, fashion photographer
Photoshoot Director and Model Coaches
- Nole Marin, fashion stylist (photoshoot director)
- Stacey McKenzie (runway coach)
- Miss J. Alexander (runway coach)
References
- ^ Canada's Next TopModel Website