Excitement!

The (seemingly) long-awaited 2 hour premiere of cycle 8 of America's Next Top Model airs tonight at 8 on the CW network. As is my custom, I've studied the pics of the new contestants, and picked out my favorite girls, and they are as follows in descending order: Brittany, Samantha, and Jael. As a long -time fan of Top Model, I've watched since the very first cycle, getting numerous friends addicted to it along the way, though I have to admit that I have gotten worse at predicting finalists and the eventual winner as they have gone on. I also have become more of a fan of Tyra Banks, though many have seemed to dislike her more now that she is more than just a pretty face. In any case, I know I will be glued to my screen tonight, and I'm sure millions more fans like me will be doing the same!

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A big heads up--this year, the girls will going to Australia for their international destination. Let's see if they can handle being fierce in the land down under!

The first Top Model gets plastic surgery, turns into virtual star

Winner of the first season of America's Next Top Model, Adrianne Curry has been through quite a rollercoaster ride since she first appeared to us as a mumbly, monotone tomboy from Joliet, Illinois who was the unlikely victor of Tyra Bank's then fledgling show. Since being presented to us as America's Next Top Model, she's modeled diamonds for Merit diamonds Sirena collection, was denied a contract Revlon (after being promised this as part of her Top Model winnings), spent some time in Vh1's Surreal Life house, where she met and hooked up with the former "Peter" of Brady Bunch fame, Christopher night. After leaving the show, they moved in together and starred in their own reality show, My Fair Brady, which featured their engagement and wedding this summer. Now, the brash brunette has become the first celebrity to be totally recreated in digital form as part of Nvidia's new graphics chip, the GeForce 8800.
The company revealed a clip showing the stunningly lifelike computer creation with pourous skin and realistic muscle movements in a press conference last month. Now the new Mrs. Brady is revealing in Us Weekly the recent breast implant surgery she underwent to correct the two different sizes of her breasts. You, however, can read some of the details straight from the horse's mouth at Adrianne'sMySpace profile where she writes on her blog:

"Why implants? I had tried working out till I had no boobs...it just made my right breast almost dissapear...my left breast still big. I tried creams, I tried it all, and nothing worked...I knew that my left breast would just sag more over time and look even more different. It made me feel bad. I hated it. A reduction would have left me with too big a scar to model...and only one implant would be stupid because in a few years..the natural one would sag and I'd have to get it done anyway. Thats why i put a small one in my left side...I didnt want bigger boobs, just a difference in size that was NORMAL!"

--Adrianne Curry on her MySpace blog

So whether she's on Top, on a Brady, Surreal, silicone, or computerized, it seems like Adrianne is making sure she's not just another 15-minutes of fame reality star, but rather a star with real staying power!

America's Next Top Model winner

Well, it was a Battle of the Blondes last night as Tyra Bank's announced America's Next Top Model is 21 year old CariDee from Fargo, North Dakota. After Eugena was eliminated in the first half hour, CariDee and Melrose faced off in an outdoor fashion show featuring ghost brides. While neither of them were any of my favorites this Cycle, I am glad CariDee beat the superficial and rather annoying Melrose. CariDee made her first live appearance as the ANTM winner on Regis and Kelly this morning where she revealed that she actually won way back on June 10th, but had to return to her normal life and keep everything a secret until the show aired on the new CW network last night.

Mac-and-Model-spotting

Ever since I got my pride and joy, "Ducky", a white 1.83 GHz Apple Macbook, I have totally become a Mac snob. A PC user my entire life, I never really used a Mac until college, where I was editor of the yearbook and our offices had Macs as design programs run best (and are first designed for) Apple computers. Over the years, I witnessed more and more how efficient the OSX operating system is, and decided that my first laptop would have to be a Mac. Ever since, I have fallen in love with my Macbook, and have a hard time tolerating the sluggish inefficiency of PCs. As though now a member of an exclusive society, those "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" commercials have become extremely amusing (and truthful!) and I am totally titillated whenever I spot a Mac on TV (Marc Horowitz has one in those "Seven Days in a Sentra"commercials, I've also spotted them on reruns of shows like Friends, Sex and the City, and Yes Dear, as well as new shows like Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and Ugly Betty.) Today, I came across Tyra Banks' Holiday Wish List, where she says she would like a Macbook just like mine! To think that I have something Tyra Banks wants--now that is very cool. I shall be very amused indeed as I watch this cycle's finale of America's Next Top Model.