Who has replaced him? Please say leading Melbourne fuckhead Angus Kennett.

Some dude.

Can't wait for this. Love the meta reference in the promo to Charlotte's ''Dapto dogs'' call of a few years back.

I'm excited. Car crash TV at its finest!

http://images.theage.com.au/2010/05/17/1458042/ANTM6_VIC-Gal-600x400.jpg

I'm in.

To be fair, I would probably have been more enthusiastic if Angus Kennett was involved. But I'm still in.

'Fat' claims on model search anger host

July 15, 2010 - 3:44PM

Accusations that Australia’s Next Top Model is sending a dangerous body image message to young women is upsetting and frustrating, the show’s host and long-time model Sarah Murdoch says.

The show’s sixth series is causing a stir even before it hits TV screens for preventing a size eight model from walking the runway in the first episode because she was too big to fit into the sample clothes.

Murdoch, who last year appeared on the cover of The Australian Women’s Weekly without airbrushing to promote self-esteem in young women, says the accusations levelled against the show are unfair.

The girl in question, 16-year-old Ashlea Monigatti, was never told she was too big for the catwalk, just that the clothes available were too small.

‘‘I was so upset when I saw that in the press because I take it really seriously,’’ Murdoch told AAP ahead of the show’s launch party in Sydney today.

‘‘I was involved with the government last year on (a national strategy on body image) and at the time I thought it could seem like a contradiction to be hosting a modelling competition show, but I thought maybe it was a good way to send out some positive messages.

‘‘For me, it was the journalist sending dangerous messages because (Ashlea’s weight) was never once mentioned in the show, and I find it really upsetting that it’s the same old argument every time and no one’s taking any notice of the fact that we’re not even talking about that.’’

The added irony of the situation is that last year’s crowned winner was a size 10, Murdoch adds.

‘‘And then I had criticism because some people said I called her plus-sized, when in fact I have laughed at the fact that people thought she was curvy,’’ says Murdoch, while playing with her 13-week-old daughter Aerin.

With such conflicting priorities - trying to send a positive message about body image at the same time as giving contestants a realistic experience of the industry - finding the balance can be tough, she says.

‘‘There’s no way to win. People have made their minds up and it doesn’t matter what I try to do,’’ Murdoch says.

‘‘The only thing that I can say is that with all the teenagers and their mums that I meet in the street, they’ve thanked me for last year’s show and the messages that were sent about body image.

‘‘I’ll just have to go by that and say it’s a good thing. But it does get frustrating.’’

Murdoch says this year’s contestants are the best the show has had.And, she adds, it’s the transformations and modelling shoots that will help one girl win a prize package including contracts, a trip to New York and a magazine spread - not the bitchiness inside the top model house.‘‘We have taken a lot of bitchiness out and I think, I hope, that’s what people want,’’ she says.

‘‘Some of the things I would have said and done at that age I wouldn’t want on national television - it’s about protecting the girls too.’’

Australia’s Next Top Model season six premieres on Tuesday, July 20, at 7.30pm on Fox8.

Try the final four again

Bring it.

Urgh. Geez. Those photos are HORRIBLE.

Far right in the group of four - a man?

Can't see an Alice or a Cassie amongst them.

The lass in the middle of the top photo is the assistant at my chiropractor.
She definitely did NOT look like that while placing heatpacks on my spine.

The styling in those photos is atrocious. Was the brief to recreate a 1980s K-Mart catalogue?

Hey Fox8, I'm as excited about tonight as any teenage schoolgirl/homosexual, but is playing the first episode three times in a row really necessary? Or am I missing the obvious message here about the average ANTM viewer's comprehension skills?

Apart from the meter maid, there appears to be a shortage of potential obnoxious scrags.

And now the meter maid is the vulnerable outcast.

Good thing about this episode: Charlotte Dawson passing verdict before she'd had her first bump for the day. Claws out.

Makeover hysteria next week.

I need some cattiness to cut through the cringe factor or else I'm out.

I thought so

You're all being too hard on Sarah; according to the News Ltd papers she's done nothing wrong.

yeah, it's those 'nameless' production staff who are to blame.

blame the interns!

Kelsey has got a one-off gig with MTV Australia doing red carpet interviews at some awards night shortly.

Amanda and Kelsey are going to be at the ARIAS... is what i heard.

yeah, it's those 'nameless' production staff who are to blame.

it's the joe the cameraman / scott muller rule. ''she can't bowl and she can't throw!''

Latest model of Murdoch muscle

Matt Buchanan and Leesha McKenny

November 24, 2010

If you make a really big clanger in your job, the company you work for might choose to fire you: that's how it works. Not if you're Sarah Murdoch, it doesn't. If you're Sarah Murdoch, you fire the company. Yesterday The Diary heard that Foxtel, which is partially owned by the Murdoch family, had, at her insistence, dumped Granada Media Australia, the production company behind the past six series of Australia's Next Top Model - which Murdoch presents and executive-produces - to elope with a new production company for the show's seventh series. Which new production company will get the gig wasn't known, but the favourite, we were told, was Shine, which is owned by sister-in-law Elisabeth Murdoch. We called Granada, where a spokesperson couldn't confirm that it had lost the show. We put in two calls to Foxtel, explaining what we were calling about, but no one called back. Then we got hold of Murdoch, who confirmed the change in production company and gave us this statement: ''Granada produced Australia's Top Model for six years. I worked with them for two years. They are a very talented and hard working crew. But after what happened this year I thought very hard about it and decided it was probably time for a change.''

What happened, is, of course, ''Gaffegate''. Readers will recall that on the final live episode of the show, Murdoch momentarily panicked after a breakdown in communication with the backstage production team, and announced the wrong model as the series winner. It was a simple, embarrassing but really rather exciting misunderstanding that had everyone blushing to their shoulder blades but also yielded for the show a formidable boost in publicity - such a boost, in fact, that people speculated that the gaffe was planned. But since that night everyone had forgotten about it: everyone, apparently, except Murdoch, who, perhaps fearful of a blemish to her reputation, may have found a novel way to communicate that she thinks the gaffe was not her fault - by ditching Granada. Several people are expected to lose their jobs over the move - though several others will presumably gain employment. Australian TV is a small pond. And in that pond, we are told, there is much concern by what appears to be an ominous show of power by someone with ambitions to join the school of big fish. What with Sarah on the move, husband Lachlan now involved with Network Ten, Elisabeth at Shine and Grandpa Rupert still plumbing the depths, it's as if everywhere you turn there's a Murdoch whose flank you can run into, or whose fin you might tweak, at your peril. But that's the Australian media. 'Twas ever thus.

the message is clear: don't fuck with the murdoch clan.

Oooh love this kind of shit

controversy!

So did nobody watch this at all this year?

Very muted finale. They left very little room for Murdoch to fuck it up.

Best winner since Alice though.

i didnt watch it (foxtel=shit) but the winner works at my local deli - i guess i won’t be seeing her anymore.

this series was crap.

girls were boring, boring, boring.

I don't know whether they were boring or whether the show just didn't go into personalities this year. There was barely any stuff about life in the house and much more actual modelling.

They've toned the house right down since the despicable bullying incident with Demelza a few seasons back.

Good result this year.

Yeh, she's pretty amazing. But would have so loved to see Izzy win.
god I love/hate this show.

That's cos Izzy's personality was allowed to come thru.

Montana was pretty but boring.

Izzy was ok, but she got a bit annoying (or was portrayed a little annoyingly) with her being ''punk'', ''different'' blah, blah, blah. I'm sure she'll be fine though. She was great at that thing she did.

I thought Liz seemed alright, and was gutted when Maddie went out.

mathieson only watched to see if Short Stack plagiarised his opinion on the house dynamic.