Benelux' Next Top Model season 2
| Benelux' Next Top Model season 2 | |
|---|---|
 Promotial Photograph of the Finalists of Cycle 2 of Benelux' Next Top Model | |
| Created by | Tyra Banks |
| Country of origin |  Belgium Netherlands |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | 2BE, RTL5 |
| Release | September 13 – November 16, 2010 |
Benelux' Next Top Model, Cycle 2 was the second and last cycle of Benelux' Next Top Model which include Dutch and Flemish contestants. It premiered on September 13 and was aired until November 16, 2010. Although castings for a third season of the show were announced, the show returned as Holland's Next Top Model, the title it had prior the merge with the Belgian Topmodel version of the show.
The winner of the competition was 18-year-old Melissa Baas from IJsselstein.[1] Not only was she the second girl from the Netherlands to win the competition; the entire top three (Baas, Renée Trompert and Alix Schoonheijt) were from this country.
Contestants
(ages stated are at start of contest)[2]
| Name | Age | Hometown | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacqueline Sorbie | 17 | Antwerp, Belgium | Eliminated outside of judging panel in Episode 1 |
| Lisse Habraken | 21 | Mol, Belgium | Eliminated in Episode 2 |
| Daisy Koller | 16 | Loenen, Netherlands | Eliminated in Episode 3 |
| Lesley van Helden | 18 | Dordrecht, Netherlands | Eliminated in Episode 4 |
| Epiphany Vanderhaeghen | 21 | Asse, Belgium | Eliminated in Episode 5 |
| Aïcha Cissé | 23 | Antwerp, Belgium | Eliminated in Episode 6 |
| Frederieke Bonn | 20 | Boxtel, Netherlands | Eliminated in Episode 7 |
| Jaelle Leclerc | 21 | Hoeilaart, Belgium | Eliminated in Episode 8 |
| Marjolein de Velder | 20 | Kobbegem, Belgium | First eliminated in Episode 10 |
| Alix Schoonheijt | 16 | Zutphen, Netherlands | Second eliminated in Episode 10 |
| Renée Trompert | 22 | Leeuwarden, Netherlands | Runner-up |
| Melissa Baas | 18 | IJsselstein, Netherlands | Winner |
Summaries
Call-out order
| Order | Episodes | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 10 | ||||
| 1 | Epiphany | Aïcha | Alix | Aïcha | Jaelle | Melissa | Marjolein | Renée | Alix | Melissa | Melissa | |
| 2 | Renée | Renée | Marjolein | Frederieke | Alix | Frederieke | Melissa | Melissa | Melissa | Renée | Renée | |
| 3 | Marjolein | Daisy | Melissa | Marjolein | Frederieke | Renée | Jaelle | Marjolein | Renée | Alix | ||
| 4 | Melissa | Marjolein | Renée | Melissa | Melissa | Alix | Renée | Alix | Marjolein | |||
| 5 | Aïcha | Melissa | Aïcha | Renee | Renée | Jaelle | Alix | Jaelle | ||||
| 6 | Lisse | Jaelle | Epiphany | Epiphany | Aïcha | Marjolein | Frederieke | |||||
| 7 | Jacqueline | Lesley | Frederieke | Jaelle | Marjolein | Aïcha | ||||||
| 8 | Frederieke | Frederieke | Lesley | Alix | Epiphany | |||||||
| 9 | Daisy | Alix | Jaelle | Lesley | ||||||||
| 10 | Jaelle | Epiphany | Daisy | |||||||||
| 11 | Alix | Lisse | ||||||||||
| 12 | Lesley | |||||||||||
- The contestant was eliminated outside of the judging panel
- The contestant was eliminated
- The contestant was immune from elimination
- The contestant won the competition
- In episode 1, the pool of 16 girls was reduced to the final 12. Each girl was handed an envelope, with only the final 12's envelopes containing train tickets. Later, Jacqueline was eliminated as a result of having performed the worst during the photo shoot.
- In episode 6, Aïcha, Jaelle and Marjolein were called forward as the bottom three. Daphne handed the last two photos to Marjolein and Jaelle, eliminating Aïcha.
- Episode 9 was the recap episode.
Photo shoot guide
- Episode 1 photo shoot: Body painting promo photos
- Episode 2 photo shoot: Circus
- Episode 3 photo shoot: Oil of Olaz
- Episode 4 photo shoot: Meat packing industry
- Episode 5 photo shoot: Gold body painting with sunglasses
- Episode 6 photo shoot: Icy in bikinis
- Episode 7 photo shoot: Posing underwater
- Episode 8 photo shoot: Bruno Banani perfume
Judges
- Daphne Deckers (Host)
- Geert De Wolf
- Bastiaan van Schaik
- Mariana Verkerk
- Jani Kazaltzis
Other cast members
- Marie-Sophie Steenaert - Make-up Artist
- Mariëlle Bastiaansen - Hair Stylist
Special guests
- Heidi Klum (Episode 1)