BRAVO REVEALS THE 14 FINALISTS ON 'MAKE ME A SUPERMODEL,' PREMIERING
ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 10 AT 10 PM ET/PT
Prominent Casting Director Jennifer Starr And Modeling Agent Cory
Bautista Announced As Judges
NEW YORK January 3, 2008 Today, Bravo revealed the 14 beautiful
and talented men and women chosen for the new reality competition
series "Make Me A Supermodel." In a first for the network, the 14
finalists will compete every week and in a public vote, America will
decide which models will remain to vie for the $100,000 prize and a
modeling contract with New York Model Management. The winning male or
female model will also be featured in a fashion pictorial in GQ, the
leading men's general-interest magazine published by Condé Nast
Publications. Based on the successful UK series, "Make Me A
Supermodel" is hosted by supermodels Tyson Beckford and Niki Taylor
and is scheduled to premiere on Bravo, Thursday, January 10, 2008 at
10 PM ET/PT.
Jennifer Starr, the most prominent print fashion casting director in
the country, and Cory Bautista, Agency Director of New York Model
Management, will serve along with Beckford and Taylor as judges for
the series.
Following are the 14 models competing on the series:
- Aryn Livingston 20, Lownesboro, Ala.
- Ben DiChiara 22, Nashville, Tenn.
- Casey Skinner 19, Atlanta, Ga.
- Dominic Prietto 25, Orange County, Calif.
- Frankie Godoy 20, Miami, Fla.
- Holly Kiser 21, Coeburn, Va.
- Jacki Hydock 21, Cleveland, Ohio
- Jay McGee 22, Roswell, Ga.
- Katy Caswell 21, Auburn, Ala.
- Perry Ullmann 22, Los Angeles, Calif.
- Ronnie Kroell 24, Chicago, Ill.
- Sarah Swartz 20, Miami, Fla.
- Shannon Pallay 22, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
- Stephanie Bulger 21, Plano, Texas
Jennifer Starr is the premier print casting agent in America, whose
work and direction has influenced the fashion industry for over 15
years. She has cast a variety of celebrity print campaigns with
actors that include Scarlett Johansson and Hilary Swank for Calvin
Klein, Katherine Heigl for Samsung, and Penelope Cruz and Jennifer
Lopez for Pirelli. In addition, Starr has cast runway shows for some
of today's top designers including Ralph Lauren, Narciso Rodriguez
and Marc Jacobs, among others. She has launched the careers of some
of the world's most successful models including Travis Fimmel (Calvin
Klein), Filippa Hamilton (Ralph Lauren), Jamie Burke (Calvin Klein),
and actor and former model Tom Welling ("Smallville"), who she
spotted in Nantucket while casting a Tommy Hilfiger campaign and
suggested that he try modeling. Starr began her career working with
award-winning photographer Bruce Weber and for five years cast all of
his campaigns. In 1997 at the request of noted photographer Richard
Avedon, she searched the globe for the most beautiful faces and
bodies in the world for the critically praised 1997 Pirelli "Women of
the World" calendar. Since then she has cast all subsequent eleven
Pirelli Calendars to great acclaim. She has collaborated with the
most illustrious fashion photographers in the industry, including
Annie Leibovitz, Steven Klein, Steven Meisel and Mario Testino on
iconic advertising campaigns for Dolce and Gabbana, Calvin Klein,
Abercrombie & Fitch, Gucci and the Gap, to name a select few.
Cory Bautista, Director of New York Model Management, has been
working in the fashion industry for almost two decades. He served as
the Director of Ford Models Miami and then transitioned to Ford New
York, where he worked with the agency's prestigious Image Division,
representing major names in the business such as Naomi Campbell, Ines
Sastre, Kristen McMenamy and Christy Turlington. In 1995, he worked
with Company Management, where he handled models Rhea Durham, Shanna
Shank and Jaime Rishar. After Company, Bautista moved on to Karin
Models, both in their Paris and New York offices, where he managed
noted models Ines Rivero, Estelle Warren and Estelle Holliday. In
1998, he joined New York Models and currently represents some of
modeling's biggest names including Valeria Mazza, Elle Macpherson and
Sarah O'Hare Murdoch to name a few.
During the run of the series, Bravo viewers will vote each week to
determine who stays to walk the "Supermodel" catwalk again and who
goes home. Viewers will be able to vote to save their favorite model
by phone, text message or online at www.BravoTV.com. Over a 12-week
period, 14 hopefuls will live together in New York City and explore
friendships, romance and naked ambition while undergoing a series of
creative challenges designed to test their professional modeling
potential. This series will explore what it takes to turn the
exceptionally good-looking into the king or queen of the catwalk.
"Make Me A Supermodel" is produced by Tiger Aspect Productions, a
division of IMG Media. Lisa Perrin, Andrew Zein and Jamie Munro are
executive producers.
Source: Bravo Press Release