Canada's Next Top Model season 2
| Canada's Next Top Model season 2 | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Tyra Banks |
| Starring | Jay Manuel Jeanne Beker Yasmin Warsame Paul Alexander Nolé Marin Stacey McKenzie |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
| Production | |
| 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. The finale aired on July 18 2007 in which Rebecca Hardy defeated Sinead Brady and won the competition.
About The Show
The popular Canadian reality series, based on the successful America's Next Top Model franchise, premiered on Wednesday, May 30 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 girls that made it into the top ten were: Rebecca Hardy, Sinead Brady, Tara Winspur, Tia Ayrton-Hill, Cori McKinnon, Mo Ninalowo, Gina Guimont, Steff Groulx, Jacqueline Blackman and Mika Emmé.
- And the girls eliminated were: Elle, Meghan, Gillian, Sonia, Stephanie, Kara, Regine, Lacey, Leanne and Janine
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 Emmé & Steff Groulx
- Eliminated: Mika Emmé
- 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 as follows:
| Model | Sea animal |
|---|---|
| Cori | Lobster |
| Gina | Squid |
| Jacqueline | Caviar and Eel |
| Mo | Fish |
| Rebecca | Eel |
| Sinead | Baby Octopus |
| Steff | Snail Shells |
| Tara | Crab |
| Tia | Crayfish |
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: Gino Garcia, Gisela Castillo, John van der Schilden, and Dan Lim
Skating On Thin Ice...
The remaining girls meet with J. 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: J. Alexander
Getting Carried Away
The episode begins with a JayMail hinting that the girls will try their hands at being a Jeanne: Jeanne Beker. 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 her 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 correspondent 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 competitors.
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 jewelry 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 other's 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 and Gina Guimont
- Eliminated: Gina Guimont
- Featured photographer: Mike Rosenthal
- Special guest: Dina Pugliese and Adamo Ruggiero
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 McKenzie. 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 & Mo Ninalowo
- Eliminated: Mo Ninalowo
- Featured photographer: John van der Schilden
- Special guests: Chris Csak and Krista Knee
Some Girls Have All The Luck
In this episode, the challenge for the girls is to go on go-sees. They draw straws; the girl with the shortest straw must go by herself while the other four girls must be in pairs of two. Tara, to her dismay, ends up with Cori, while Sinead and Tia end up together. Rebecca must go by herself and vows to win the challenges. As the girls perform their go-sees, Cori grates Tara's nerves more and more. Sinead and Tia do rather well, but Rebecca seems to impress all the clients the most with her high-fashion look and confidence. At one client, Rebecca crosses paths with Tia and Sinead. Tia informs Rebecca that they did not have to go in order of the locations (each location on the map is marked as "A, "B", "C", and so on). Rebecca is dismayed and has little time, thus cannot see the remaining clients.
Jay gather the girls and tells them the results. He first reveals the prize: a ring worth about $5,000. Rebecca ends up in fifth place, but Jay says her scores were high, implying if she had made other appointments, she could have won. Tia in fourth place; she was even across the board but missed an appointment. Tara was in third place-- she made all her appointments but was "just above average." Cori had high and low scores across the board but made all her appointments. Sinead missed one appointment and had high marks. Ultimately Cori won. Tara is disgruntled because she had helped Cori. Tia reveals that a lot of girls think Cori is fake and brown-noses during the panel.
A few days later, the girls on their photoshoot and Nole tells them they will be modeling the new Chocolate cell phone by LG. They will also be wearing lingerie. He reveals their photographer: Nigel Barker, who impresses the girls greatly. The girls will also be posing with two large dogs.
After the shoot, the girls are invited to go to dinner with Nigel. Cori is particularly pleased, though nervous, and the other girls are getting annoyed by her complaining. She feels even more uneasy when it is revealed that they are going to an Indian restaurant because she prefers American food. At the restaurant, Cori hides her feelings and eats the food, lying that she likes it, though she cannot finish it. The other girls feel somewhat amused, watching Nigel serve Cori food she does not enjoy.
At judging, the special guest is Nigel Barker. During individual evaluations, Tia's photo gets praised for showing a "new attitude", but Nole said Tia needs to bring such intensity every time. Tara's photo gets negative results for having a hint of hesitance, which brings Tara to tears. Sinead's photo gets praised, as well, but Nole felt that Sinead lacks the confidence to be a top model. Cori is up next, wearing her new ring. Her photo gets good feedback, but Nigel tells her to control her eyes. Rebecca is last, and Jay brings up that she finished last in the challenge but had good scores. Her photo gets the most praise of all the girls.
Before the girls leave, Jay asks the girls to reveal the biggest misconception about the girls. Most girls say that Sinead appears so quiet at panel but that she has a funny and silly side. Sinead says that Tia talks a lot but is one of the greatest people she's known. Rebecca reveals that Cori puts on an act at judging. Tia agrees with her, which brings a hyperventilating Cori to tears. When the girls are brought back in, Rebecca is called first for her excellent performance. Tara and Tia are in the bottom two. To everybody's surprise, Jay says neither of them will be going home.
- Bottom two: Tara-Marie Winspur & Tia Ayrton-Hill
- Eliminated: Neither contestant was eliminated
- Featured photographer: Nigel Barker
- Special guests: Nigel Barker
Sweet Child O' Mine
The girls meet with one of Canada's first supermodels, Yanka, who helps them use the mirror with their visual confidence. Later, the girls go to an FCUK store where their challenge is to pose as window mannequins. Rebecca reigns victorious and receives a $2 000 shopping spree and later on receives a visit from her boyfriend, which results in envy for the other girls.
At the photoshoot, the girls had to shoot a cover try for Fashion Magazine. After being in the bottom two last week, Tia arguably had her best shot. Sinead's shot is hailed and the judges feel that her confidence is finally shining through, though her poses started to become too commercial. Rebecca's photo garners mixed reactions, but is criticized as being too Italian Vogue rather than catering to the real client.
In the end, it was Cori and Tara who were at the bottom of the pack. The judges feel as if neither of them evoked the necessary passion and energy to sell a magazine. The panel felt that Tara would have a better chance of stepping it up next shoot, thus Cori became the sixth girl eliminated.
- Bottom two: Cori MacKinnon & Tara-Marie Winspur
- Eliminated: Cori MacKinnon
- Feaured photographer: Miguel Jacob
- Special guests: Stacey McKenzie, Yanka, Susie Sheffman
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
The four remaining contestants have a night of fun and games in the house before their CoverGirl shoot the next day. All the girls impress Nolé. At judging the next day, Jay reveals that two girls will be sent home. The judges are impressed by all the photographs, but Tia and Tara are ultimately eliminated, leaving Sinead and Rebecca to compete in a fashion show the next day. Both girls perform well, but the judges believe that one girl can take fashion to the next level: Rebecca Hardy.
- Eliminated: Tara-Marie Winspur & Tia Ayrton-Hill
- Final two: Rebecca Hardy & Sinead Brady
- Canada's Next Top Model: Rebecca Hardy
- Feaured photographer: Jim De Yonker
- Special guests: Nolé Marin & Stacey McKenzie
Contestants
In order of elimination
- Michelle "Mika" Emmé, 25, travel representative from Toronto, Ontario
- Jacqueline Blackman, 20, student from Vancouver, British Columbia
- Stefanie "Steff" Groulx, 18, student from Cornwall, Ontario
- Gina Guimont, 23, buyer for engineering firm from Calgary, Alberta
- Morayo "Mo" Ninalowo, 20, British transfer student from Toronto, Ontario
- Corinne "Cori" MacKinnon, 18, insurance agent/broker from Val Caron, Ontario
- Tia Ayrton-Hill, 19, student from Montreal, Quebec
- Tara-Marie "Tara" Winspur, 20, server/part-time impressionist dancer from Calgary, Alberta
- Sinead Brady, 18, call center agent from Chatham, Ontario (runner-up)
- Rebecca Hardy, 22, meat factory worker from Mannheim, Ontario (winner)
Cycle Summary
Call-out order
| Order | Finalist | Episode 1 | Episode 2 | Episode 3 | Episode 4 | Episode 5 | Episode 6 | Episode 7 | Episode 8 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Tara | Cori | Sinead | Tara | Mo | Cori | Rebecca | Sinead | Sinead | Rebecca | |
| 02 | Steff | Tara | Rebecca | Cori | Rebecca | Rebecca | Sinead | Tia | Rebecca | Sinead | |
| 03 | Jacqueline | Rebecca | Tara | Sinead | Tara | Tia | Cori | Rebecca | Tara | ||
| 04 | Mo | Jacqueline | Cori | Rebecca | Sinead | Sinead | Tara | Tara | Tia | ||
| 05 | Cori | Tia | Tia | Mo | Tia | Tara | Tia | Cori | |||
| 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 was involved in a double elimination
- The contestant won the competition
- The contestant is the runner-up of the competition
- In the first part of Episode 1, 20 girls were narrowed down to the final 10 finalists.
- 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, "The first few names I'm going to call doesn't mean that you were successful. It just so happens to be the first couple of names that I call."
- In Episode 6 there was no elimination, even though Tara & Tia were in the bottom 2, due to the fact all the girls did extremely well.
- In the first part of Episode 8, the call-out order was random, and there was a double elimination.
- In the double elimination, Tia was called first and eliminated then Sinead. It came down to Rebecca and Tara, and Tara was eliminated
Photoshoot Guide
- Week 1 Photoshoot: Nude With Male Models
- Week 2 Photoshoot: Beauty Shots With Sea Creatures
- Week 3 Commercial: Venus Razor Commercial
- Week 4 Photoshoot: Glamorous Editorial Shoot
- Week 5 Photoshoot: Couture Editorial Shoot on Trampolines
- Week 6 Photoshoot: LG Chocolate Phone Shoot in Lingerie
- Week 7 Photoshoot: Fashion Magazine Cover-Try
- Week 8 Photoshoot: CoverGirl TruBlend Ad
Makeovers
- Jacqueline: Dyed blonde inspired by Rachel Hunter
- Steff: Cut into a shingle bob and more blonde added to hair
- Gina: Given a flip level haircut and dyed dark brown
- Mo: Dyed chocolate brown and hair volumed
- Cori: Gisele Bündchen inspired layered haircut and dyed blonde
- Tia: Long bright copper hair extensions
- Tara: Hair lengthened
- Sinead: Natalie Portman in V for Vendetta inspired buzz-cut fuzzy haircut
- Rebecca: Bob cut, bangs added, and dyed auburn
Cycle statistics
- Total number of contestants: 10
- Oldest contestant: Mika, age 25
- Youngest contestants: Cori, Steff and Sinead all age 18
- Contestants with the most consecutive appearances in the bottom two: Steff and Tara, both 3 times
- Contestants with the most collective appearances in bottom two: Steff, 3 times
- Contestant with no appearance in bottom two: Sinead, Rebecca
- Contestants with most challenge wins: Sinead and Cori, each 2 wins
- Contestant with most consecutive challenge wins: Cori, 2 wins
- Contestants with the most collective first call-outs: Sinead, 3 times
- Call-out averages for top 4: Rebecca - 2.2, Sinead - 2.75, Tara - 3.38, Tia - 3.88
- 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
- Nolé Marin, fashion stylist (photoshoot director)
- Stacey McKenzie (runway coach)
- Miss J. Alexander (runway coach)
References
- ^ Canada's Next TopModel Website