A show I’m dying to watch
At dinner a few nights ago, some girl friends and I indulged in every girl’s secret favorite pastime—dissing girls we don’t know. What girl has never talked smack about someone she’s not friends with? Girls are nasty creatures, I tell you. It’s totally unfair, for sure, but as my friends justified, “Ginagawa din naman sa atin’yun eh, so OK lang!” What goes around comes around, indeed!
D divulged how she recently met this seemingly perfect creature. The woman was so beautiful, so sexy, and she was nice to boot. While D genuinely enjoyed her company, she took it upon herself to find at least one little flaw in Ms. Perfect! (She found one, by the way, some kind of rash on her arm.) It’s petty, I know, but we all need to believe that there is some form of justice in the world, that in one way or another, our lives are somewhat better than the lives of the Ms. Perfects. This is perhaps the very premise behind America’s Most Smartest Model.
My brother, based in New York, was telling me about this show, which he gets to watch on VH1. It’s the funniest thing ever, he told me. And because it sounds like just the kind of thing I would watch (America’s Next Top Model-meets-Beauty and the Geek, sort of), I just had to research on it.
The show is out to look for the “complete package,” that one individual who has both beauty and brains. I scanned the bios of the 14 contestants (seven male, seven female) and one was actually working on getting his doctorate, and a couple had impressive GPAs. But naturally, they threw in a few, er, non-honor students into the bunch.
From what I understand, the models have to face challenges that would test their intellect as well as their modeling skills. In one challenge, they had to answer a question right; if not, they had to eat all sorts of fatty food (a stack of pancakes smothered in maple syrup, a gooey piece of chocolate cake, etc.)…right before a crucial fitness test! And if they got it right, they could feed the Piece of Evil to one of the other models! How brilliant are this show’s creators?
Among the gems:
Question: Who wrote The Star-Spangled Banner?
Model’s answer: Luther Vandross.
Question: Who shot JFK?
Model’s answer: Brad… (No last name, no anything. Just. Brad.)
Another challenge had the models making an outfit out of different shapes, such as a “rectangler,” “rhommus,” and “quadrit,” according to one of the contestants.
Please, Solar Entertainment, Studio 23, Channel V—ANYONE! PLEASE AIR THIS SHOW!!!