Asia's Next Top Model season 2

Asia's Next Top Model, Cycle 2
Season 2
File:AsNTM2CastSmall.jpg Cycle 2 cast
No. of episodes	13
Release
Original network	STAR World
Original release	January 08, 2014 – TBA
Season chronology

Asia's Next Top Model, Cycle 2 is the current season of the reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of Asia's Next Top Model and a chance to begin their career in the modeling industry. The show features aspiring models from the entire Asia-Pacific region. Casting for cycle 2 closed on August 25, 2013. Nadya Hutagalung and Joey Mead-King returned for panel this season, while Daniel Boey confirmed his departure from the show. After weighing his options, Todd Anthony Tyler also withdrew from the show. He was replaced by Mike Rosenthal.

The second season features a larger cast. The number of contestants increased from 14 to 16. Nepal was not represented for this season. The show was filmed in Malaysia, and it premiered on January 8, 2014 on STAR World Asia and Fox Asia. Among the prizes, are a three-month contract with Storm Model Management in London, the chance to appear in a spread and on the cover of Harper's Bazaar Singapore/Malaysia, a cash prize from FOX International Broadcast, a Subaru XV car, and the chance of becoming the new face of TRESemmé for one of their 2014 campaigns. 16 contestants from twelve countries in Asia were chosen to compete in the show. The footage was divided into thirteen episodes.

This cycle's promotional song was I Love It by Icona Pop.

Casting

Casting calls was held in five countries, listed below:

• August 9 at HYVE Club, Manila
• August 11 at JW Marriott, Kuala Lumpur
• August 13 at JW Marriott, Jakarta
• August 15 at Siam Discovery, Bangkok
• August 17 at FOX International Studios, Singapore City

Episode summaries

Episode 1: The Girl Who Walks the Walk

First aired January 08, 2014

All of the contestants first arrived at their accommodation, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel at the vibrant capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.

After visiting and discovering their penthouse, the girls met host and judge Nadya Hutagalung for the first time. Nadya introduced herself and gave the girls some information about the show. Joey Mead-King and movement coach Adam Williams revealed to the girls that they would be having a water catwalk challenge. Jodilly excelled in the challenge. Most of the girls were excited and nervous, while Jessie became fearful of the water.

Dressed in outfits designed by Gloria Mok, the girls were required to walk on a narrow strip of glass submerged in a pool while retaining their glamour and confidence. Most of the models struggled, especially Katarina, who was the only girl to fall into the pool. Jessie allowed her fear of water to conquer her, with the judges taking notice as they watched from the crowd. The majority of the girls received favorable feedback from judge Adam Williams.

After arriving back to the model house, Nicole received the news that her grandmother had passed away. Despite feeling sad, she remained strong and decided to stay in the competition, explaining that seeing her on the show to would have made her grandmother proud. Elektra was quickly alienated by the other girls, who felt that she was trying too hard to get attention.

The girls arrived to their set for their first photo shoot. Before starting with the shoot, Nadya revealed that there would be an elimination based on the performances during the runway challenge and on each girls' overall potential. As a result of being too fearful of the water and being unprofessional, Jessie was ultimately sent home.

• Challenge winner: None
• Eliminated outside of judging panel: Jessie Yang

The remaining girls met their photographer and judge, Mike Rosenthal. Dressed in outfits designed by Inai Red, each model was allotted ten frames as part of the opening titles for the show. Sheena, Josephine, Thao, Janice, Jodilly and Tia were among few of the girls to receive positive feedback from Mike for being confident and versatile. Tia was praised most for bringing energy and a vibrant personality during the shoot, while Adam felt Poojaa lacked energy during her session. Bona and Natalie struggled with giving their best angles to the camera. Nicole struggled with her poses, and failed to enhance her unique edgy look.

At the first elimination, Tia, Sheena, and Josephine received acclaimation from the judges, securing the top three slots in the call-out. Jodilly and Thao received positive feedback from the judges as well, landing themselves on top 5 as well while the other models were met with mixed reactions from the judges. Elektra, Natalie, and Nicole were all critiqued for failing to give a wide variety of facial expressions. The former two were also criticized for looking more being demonic than fierce. Nicole was the first model declared safe. After landing in the bottom two with Elektra, Natalie was given a second chance.

• First call-out: Tia Taveepanichpan
• Bottom three: Elektra Yu, Natalie Pickles & Nicole Lee
• Eliminated: Elektra Yu
• Featured Photographer: Mike Rosenthal
• Special guests: Gloria Mok, Kenneth Goh from Harper's Bazaar

Episode 2: The Girl Who Attracts a Following

First aired January 15, 2014

After receiving depressing news from her hometown, unfavorable comments from the judges, and landing herself in the bottom three, Nicole released her anger after panel by punching a board in one of the corridors backstage. The cameraman tried to record her breakdown, but Nicole proceeded to push him out of the way. The girls failed in their attempt to calm her down. Ji-hye felt glad that Elektra had been eliminated because she felt that she was not a model. Josephine admitted that Tia's first call out took her by surprise, and explained that she began to see her as competition. Janice and Tia begin to form a clique of their own, forming slight animosity between themselves and the other girls.

In the morning, movement coach Adam Williams visited the house along with model, DJ, and fashion blogger Bip Ling. Bip Ling shared her personal experience on stardom, and gave the models tips and tricks for taking a great selfie. The girls were then divided into three groups, with last week's top three, namely Tia, Sheena and Josephine as the leader for each team. Each one of them selected three girls to join their group. Nicole and Sneha weren't picked, and they were left aside as the fourth team in the challenge. They were immediately sent out to the streets of Malaysia to take their best selfies.

Group	Leader	Models
One	Tia	Janice, Marie & Thao
Two	Sheena	Poojaa, Jodilly & Ji-hye
Three	Josephine	Natalie, Katarina & Bona
Four	—	Nicole & Sneha

Josephine felt that her team created many interesting poses, while Sheena's team was repeatedly kicked out of their chosen locations by shop owners. Tia stressed that she wanted simplicity in their pictures. Despite the fact that she was a photographer outside of the competition, Nicole wasn't happy with the challenge. Sneha began to feel pressured by Nicole's overly bossy personality, as she felt that the mood in the pictures needed to be fun and joyful. The photographs were reviewed a while later, and Poojaa was revealed to be the winner of the challenge.

• Challenge Winner: Poojaa Gill

She was given the chance to spend one relaxing night at Pangkor Laut, and chose to share her prize with Katarina. The two later took a luxurious helicopter to Pangkor Laut. Meanwhile, Tia vocalized her displeasure and irritation concerning Poojaa's victory for the challenge.

The girls' were welcomed by Joey-Mead King at at Malaysia's popular tourist hot spot Batu Caves, the location for their second photo shoot. After introducing the photographer, Maurice Maricio, the contestants learned that they would wearing dresses from renowned fashion designer Melinda Looi's collection. Additionally, it was explained that they would only be given fifteen frames to capture their best take. The models were asked to give a wide variety of dynamic poses and facial expressions. While climbing their way into the cave with baskets of fruit, monkeys attempted to raid their offerings.

Thao became worried because she felt that her tired face would translate into her pictures, but Maurice gave her favorable feedback. Ji-hye delivered artistic poses. Maurice felt that she took a while to warp up, but improved significantly near the end of her session. He also felt that Janice was fun to work with. Despite being sick, she was able to hold her poses before he took her photos. Bona lacked variation, and Maurice felt that she was blank. Katarina received mostly positive feedback. Natalie did good, showing vast improvement from the previous week. Sheena successfully made her long dress flaunt. Maurice felt that she was consistent and delivered in most of the film. Sneha thought that her religion gave her a spiritual advantage over the other girls. Marie failed to think of good poses for the camera. Last week's winner Tia failed to give dramatic movement, while Jodilly and Josephine were praised for their amazing performances on set.

While Poojaa and Katarina enjoying their trip to Pangkor Laut, the girls in the house get their very own TRESemme goody bag which very much making the girls very happy. Sneha puts her messed laundry near the ironing section, eventually trigger roommate Janice temper as she feels disrespected, but Tia does not really care about it. Janice asks Sneha to clean it up, but strong-minded outspoken Sneha does not want to do it as she feels she is ordered. After Poojaa and Katarina are back from their trip, they shared their experience and memory, which much displeased Tia and Janice.

During the second round of judging, Nicole, Jodilly, Sheena and Thao received positive feedback from the judges. They were also praised for their passion, hard work and effort, securing the top spots. The other girls received generally mixed reactions. As the judges deliberated, sparks flew in the waiting room. The girls are having drama which involves Tia, Sneha, Janice, and Katarina. Tia vs Katarina, while Janice vs Sneha. Tia and Katarina's feud ended quickly but Janice and Sneha's feud continued. Back in the elimination room, Bona, Marie, and Tia wound up in the bottom three. Marie was the first to be given a second chance. Last week winner Tia was deemed as having more potential, and was thus saved from being eliminated. Bona was sent home for giving flat photo, much to the dismay of the remaining contestants.

• First call-out: Nicole Lee
• Bottom three: Bona Kometa, Marie Nakagawa & Tia Taveepanichpan
• Eliminated: Bona Kometa
• Featured Photographer: Maurice Mauricio
• Special guests: Bip Ling, Melinda Looi

Episode 3: The Girl Who's Hot When She Is Cold

First aired January 22, 2014

This episode features the remaining 13 girls to have a great challenge on their fear of height - runway on top of Kuala Lumpur Tower the largest telecommunication tower in Asia. They are required to walk a short distance on top of KL Tower and end their ads with a smile as their commercial for Visit Malaysia 2014. Most of the girls received positive reaction for being brave enough to overcome their fear, especially Sneha, Nicole, Thao and Josephine. Furthermore, hometown girl Josephine did the best and won the challenge.

Challenge winner: Josephine Tan

After the challenge, the girls was 'spot check' by movement coach Adam Williams. He shares some useful beauty tips to the girls. Then, he revealed that last week photo shoot winner Nicole will have a pool session on top of their penthouse, which surprises all the girls, Pampered by sushi buffet and having their joyous moment at the pool, Nicole and 4 more girls, namely Janice, Poojaa, Jodilly and Sheena is having fun. The girls are even more thrilled when the workers there revealed international Hollywood stars like Michelle Yeoh and Jackie Chan also been here before.

The girls then have their third photo shoot at SnoWalk, Selangor with only 1/2 lingerie on, featuring guest photographer Jasper McIlroy. At temperature below 5 celsius, the girls needed to stay 'hot sexy' at the cold environment. Josephine, Nicole, Sheena and Natalie gave a lot and being edgy and creative at the photo shoot, receiving positive comment from Joey, Jasper and Mike. Jodilly also awed the guest photographer and was noted to be a photographer's dream. Katarina was also praised for having consistently improved. The other girls received mixed reaction, with Ji-hye and Janice received negative reaction for being dull, and their under performance was probably due to their sick body and they feeling unwell. Ji-hye, who was critique for being expressionless, later revealed her expressionless-ness was due to her childhood bullied. Sexy photographer, Jasper who was also a former model, was jokingly 'accused' for being too distracting because he is too attractive and hot.

On the judging panel, Josephine, who won the Visit Malaysia ads challenge, received acclaimed from the judges. Last week photo shoot winner Nicole was complimented for giving edgy pose and successfully enhanced her unique edgy look, secure her runner-up spot in the shoot. Sheena was praised for being creative and professional, ultimately maintain her top 3 spots for the third consecutive photo shoot consistently, being the first girl in the cycle to do so. Tia, Katarina, Thao and Natalie received lukewarm reaction from the judges. Poojaa was critiqued for being beautiful but don't know how to pose well. Sneha and Marie (unavailable at the call out due to evacuation to hospital as she shakes uncontrollably after the judging) were complimented for trying new poses and gave great curves, but their blank facial expression did not connect to the camera, resulting in blank and flat photos despite of great curves. Janice, who was suffering from terrible cold, and Ji-hye was in the danger of getting eliminated as they finished themselves at the bottom two. Both of them were critiqued for giving same 101 poses for the third week and their photo are expressionless and far behind the other girls. Ji-hye and Janice were left in the bottom two but Ji-hye was the fourth model sent packing.

• First call-out: Josephine Tan
• Bottom three: Janice Hermijanto, Ji-hye Moon & Sneha Gosh
• Eliminated: Ji-hye Moon
• Featured Photographer: Jesper McIlroy

Episode 4: The Girl That Embraces Change

First aired January 29, 2014

The remaining 12 girls are going to have their makeovers. Some girls are happy, but some girls are sad because of their new makeovers. For their photo shoot, they returned to the beauty salon for a 60's chic style themed session. Back in the house, the girls were surprised by the arrival of their family.

• First call-out: Jodilly Pendre and Katarina Rodriquez
• Bottom three: Sheena Liam , Janice Hermijanto & Tia Taveepanichpan
• Eliminated: Sheena Liam
• Featured Photographer: Nicoline Patricia Malina

Contestants

(Ages stated are at time of contest)

From	Contestant	Age	Hometown	Height	Outcome
China	Jessie Yang	22	Toronto	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)	Eliminated outside of judging panel in Episode 1
Hong Kong	Elektra Yu	21	Central	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Eliminated in Episode 1
Indonesia	Bona Kometa	27	Jakarta	1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)	Eliminated in Episode 2
South Korea	Moon Ji-hye	20	Seoul	1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)	Eliminated in Episode 3
Vietnam	Sheene Liam	21	Cà Mau	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	Eliminated in Episode 4
Indonesia	Janice Hermijanto	21	Yogyakarta	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Philippines	Jodilly Pendre	20	Mandaluyong	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Malaysia	Josephine Tan	23	Pahang	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Philippines	Katarina Rodriguez	21	Makati	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Japan	Marie Nakagawa	24	Tokyo	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Taiwan	Natalie Pickles	25	Taipei	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Singapore	Nicole Lee	24	Singapore	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Singapore	Poojaa Gill	22	Singapore	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Malaysia	Sheena Liam	22	Selangor	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
India	Sneha Ghosh	23	Kolkata	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Thailand	Tia Taveepanichpan	17	Phuket	1.69 m (5 ft 6+1⁄2 in)

Summaries

Call-Out Order

Nadya's Call-Out Order

Order	Episodes
	1	2	3	4
1	Tia	Nicole	Josephine	Sheena
2	Sheena	Jodilly	Nicole	Josephine
3	Josephine	Sheena	Sheena	Nicole
4	Jodilly	Thao	Katarina	Jodilly
5	Thao	Katarina	Natalie	Marie
6	Marie	Natalie	Tia	Katarina
7	Sneha	Sneha	Thao	Natalie
8	Janice	Janice	Poojaa	Sneha
9	Bona	Josephine	Jodilly	Pooja
10	Katarina	Poojaa	Marie	Janice
11	Poojaa	Ji-hye	Sneha	Tia
12	Ji-hye	Marie	Janice	Thao
13	Nicole	Tia	Ji-hye
14	Natalie	Bona
15	Elektra
16	Jessie

  The contestant was eliminated outside of judging panel

  The contestant was eliminated

• In episode 1, Jessie was eliminated outside of judging panel before the photo shoot as a result of having performed the worst during a runway challenge.
• In episode 3, Marie was called out in absence after having to leave the set due to medical reasons.

Photo Shoot Guide

• Episode 1 Photo Shoot: Skydoesminecraft Stills
• Episode 2 Photo Shoot: Malaysian Couture Goddesses in SquidCaves
• Episode 3 Photo Shoot: Winter Wonderland Scene in Amy Lingerie
• Episode 4 Photo Shoot: 60's Stampy Style

Makeovers

• Janice: TBA
• Jodilly: TBA
• Josephine: TBA
• Katarina: TBA
• Marie: TBA
• Natalie: TBA
• Nicole: TBA
• Poojaa: TBA
• Sheena: TBA
• Sneha: TBA
• Thao: TBA
• Tia: TBA

External links

• Official casting website