Australia's Next Top Model, Cycle 1

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Australia's Next Top Model
Cycle 1
Format Reality television
Created by Tyra Banks
Starring Erika Heynatz
Jodhi Meares
Alex Perry
Georges Antoni
Victoria Fisher
Country of origin Australia
No. of episodes 8
Production
Running time 60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel FOX8
Original run January 11, 2005 – February 22. 2005
Chronology
Followed by Australia's Next Top Model, Cycle 2
External links
Official website

Cycle one of Australia's Next Top Model started airing since January 11, 2005 with utmost 10 ladies to compete for the title. There is no certain international destination for the first cycle, except for the seaon finale comes from Melbourne, Australia.

The 13 finalists from around the country converge in Sydney where they will spend the next eight weeks sharing an inner city apartment while competing for the title of Australia's Next Top Model.

Gemma Sanderson was the winner of the first season. The prize for winning the first series of Australia's Next Top Model was a contract with Chic Model Management, an all expenses paid trip to Milan to meet with Italian modeling agency, Fashion, an eight page editorial in Cleo magazine and she fronted a national campaign for Napoleon cosmetics for a year.

Contents

[edit] Episode Summary

[edit] The Girl Who Makes A Poor Mark

The season premiere begins with the top ten girls from across Australia being greeted by host, Erika Heynatz, who gracefully arrives from off her yacht and leads them towards their first challenge. The girls soon meet Michael, their personal stylist and helper, who tells them that they're going to be strutting their stuff down the runway with an audience. They quickly strip down and into their given garments and afterwards, are told that they did fairly well for their first try. The girls are handed the keys to their new Sydney Apartment and the girls soon arrive amidst screams and excitement.

For their photoshoot, the girls are fitted into bikinis and are taken down to the beach where some girls do exceptionally well and others flop.

During elimination Erika and the panel question Nicole on her eating habits. The bottom two are revealed to be Naomi and Nicole, and Naomi is sent home.

  • Bottom two: Naomi Thompson & Nicole Fraser
  • Eliminated: Naomi Thompson

[edit] The Girl Who Strikes Again

The girls have just started to get to know each other and already there is tension and bitch fights.... The girls do a photo shoot on horse back. Nicole is eliminated because the judges feel that she wasn't emotionally ready to handle the modeling industry.

  • Bottom two: Nicole Fraser & Allana Ridge
  • Eliminated: Nicole Fraser

[edit] The Girl Who Breaks The Edge

In this episode, the girls were paired up to do a lingerie photo shoot. At panel, Allana and Atong stand in the bottom 2 and Atong was eliminated.

  • Bottom two: Allana Ridge & Atong Tulba Mulual
  • Eliminated: Atong Tulba Mulual

[edit] The Girl Who Loses Her Faith

The girls with the help of adventurer Tim Jervis they will learn some essential survival skills while trekking to their camp site. Along the way hopefully they learn about team work. Before they could begin the adventure/task they were stripped of all luxuries and left with only the barest of essentials. In this episode, Allana voluntarily leaves the competition.

  • Bottom two: Chloe Wilson & Zoe McDonald
  • Eliminated: Neither (due to Allana's decision to leave)
  • Quit: Allana Ridge

[edit] The Girl Who Has The Flaws

This week is all about body movement, and 6 ladies went to Fiji and the girls were taken to Bondi Icbergs pool where they met Olympic Gold Medallist Elka Graham. She taught the girls about control and movement in the pool. Later they will receive Surfing lesson from Rip Curl Surfers.

They will also have to be live mannequins in the front window of the MYER Centre. Zoe was eliminated in this episode.

  • Bottom two: Shannon McGuire & Zoe McDonald
  • Eliminated: Zoe McDonald

[edit] The Girl Who Breaks Down

  • Bottom two: Simmone Duckmanton & Gemma Sanderson
  • Eliminated: Simmone Duckmanton

[edit] The Girl Who Has One Look

Gemma, Chloe, Sam and Shannon do a photo shoot where they are nude except for a bit of gold body foil. The girls are also given a challenge where they have AUS$200 and an hour in a mall to come up with an outfit that suits their personal style.

They also receive a lesson in dining matters, where some feel Sam is being fake and overly-polite and proper to impress the teacher.

Chloe wins the challenge where they have AUS$200 and 1 hour in a mall to find an outfit. She picks Shannon to share her prize - a relaxing spa treatment including body mud and a massage. Samantha (Sam) was eliminated this episode because the judges felt she only had "one look" and her expression in photos was always the same.

  • Bottom two: Samantha Morley & Chloe Wilson
  • Eliminated: Samantha Morley

[edit] The Girl Who Becomes Australia's Next Top Model

Shannon, Gemma and Chloe do a beauty shoot for a cosmetics company, and one girl is eliminated after her photo isn't as strong as the others. The two remaining girls then compete in two runway shows, and Australia's Next Top Model is crowned. The girls compete in two runway shows: Nicola Feneti and Zambizi. Chloe, Shannon and Gemma made it to the final three. Shannon was eliminated because of her mediocre final picture.

Gemma and Chloe competed in the final catwalk, it was Gemma, who was chosen to be Australia's (first) Next Top Model.

  • Bottom two: Shannon McGuire & Gemma Sanderson
  • Eliminated: Shannon McGuire
  • Final two: Chloe Wilson & Gemma Sanderson
  • Australia's Next Top Model: Gemma Sanderson

[edit] Call-out order

Erika's call-out order
Order Finalists Ep 1 Ep 2 Ep 3 Ep 4 Ep 5 Ep 6 Ep 7 Ep 8
1 Zoe Chloe Gemma Simmone Shannon Chloe Sam Shannon Chloe Gemma
2 Simmone Allana Sam Gemma Sam Sam Shannon Gemma Gemma Chloe
3 Atong Simmone Shannon Sam Simmone Simmone Chloe Chloe Shannon
4 Nicole Shannon Chloe Zoe Gemma Gemma Gemma Sam
5 Gemma Zoe Simmone Chloe Chloe Shannon Simmone
6 Shannon Gemma Atong Shannon Zoe Zoe
7 Naomi Sam Zoe Allana
8 Allana Atong Allana Atong
9 Chloe Nicole Nicole
10 Sam Naomi


Note 1: Since Allana quit, there was no elimination held this week.
Note 2: There were two challenges. Both winners and their friends shared one prize -- a dinner with four eligible bachelors served by the other girls.

     The contestant won the competition.
     The contestant won the week's reward challenge.
     The contestant who was eliminated.
     The contestant runner-up the competition

[edit] Contestants

[edit] Show Statistics

  • Total number of contestants: 10
  • Oldest contestant: Naomi Thompson & Gemma Sanderson, both 22 years old
  • Youngest Contestants: Nicole Fraser, Atong Tulba Mulual, Simmone Duckmanton,Chloe Wilson all 19 years old
  • Tallest contestants: Zoe McDonald 6'1"
  • Shortest contestant: Naomi Thompson, 5'6.5"
  • Lightest contestant: Naomi Thompson, 107 lbs
  • Contestant with most consecutive challenge wins: Gemma Sanderson, 2 wins
  • Contestant with most collective challenge wins: Gemma Sanderson & Simmone Duckmanton, both 2 wins
  • Contestants with the most consecutive appearances in the bottom two: Nicole Fraser', 2 Allana Ridge, 2 & ', 2 times
  • Contestant with the most collective appearances in bottom two: Nicole Fraser, Allana Ridge, ', Shannon McGuire, ', & Gemma Sanderson, all 2 times
  • Contestant with the most collective first call outs: Chloe Wilson, 3 times
  • Contestant who quit the show: Allana Ridge

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v • d • e
Australia's Next Top Model
Current judges/personnel
Jodhi Meares • Charlotte Dawson • Alex Perry • Jonathan Pease
Former judges/personnel
Jez Smith • Erika Heynatz • Georges Antoni • Victoria Fisher • Marguerite Kramer • Ken Thompson • Michael Azzolini
Cycles & winners
Cycle 1: Gemma Sanderson • Cycle 2: Eboni Stocks • Cycle 3: Alice Burdeu • Cycle 4: TBD • Cycle 5: TBD