And now a message from Viola:

If only more Next Top Model franchises were this self-aware, we can do away with awful titles like “Take Me to the Photoshoot.”

Hopefully I should have it up on Saturday if I have internet service at my home.  Just in case I don’t, however, I avow to have this week’s episode up no later than next Wednesday (due to the fourth of July holiday in the States). The finale will be up next Saturday as usual.

The actual BNTM6 casting notice is here.

Yes, there is a typo (”insde”).  I just noticed it.  (smacks forehead)

This week Ashley Brown and the English went to Buenos Aires, which is also known as

To celebrate Ashley played the Fender Sophiecaster.

(Note: this is about me and is under 600 words.  Saturday, as usual, a BNTM post that will be about Ashley Brown.)

I’m excited that Miami Social is finally premiering after God knows when.  Not like I’m going to watch Miami Social a lot—shows in the Hills/Real Housewives of… vein bore the hell out of me.  However, I was there when the company that produces Miami Social, Pink Sneakers* (known for the Hogan family shows on VH1) taped a segment in October 2008 for Miami Social at SET. This was around the time when I was debating going to a Miguel Migs deejay set (pun unintended) at SET or a Giada De Laurentiis cooking demonstration at the Arsht Center that never happened due to “scheduling conflicts.”  As I recall, the cooking demo was not on Giada’s official calendar of events on her website at the time.  Interpret that at your will.

For those of you who don’t give a shit about Britain’s Next Top Model but like Australia’s Next Top Model, I created a video about the whole Cassi shouldn’t smoke at age 16 hubbub in the episode “Media Virgins” (that aired last week).  I used it as a gag in the last post.  I wanted a link to Cassi’s name but since she hasn’t won AustNTM yet to get her Wikipedia page and I didn’t feel that links to posts from Bland Canyon, Jo Blogs and Aussie tabloids would be sufficient in showing the smoking disaster, I created a video.

Before you ask, no, I am not doing a video on this week’s “pussy pussy pussy pussy” exercise.  That is all.

I’m sick of the random Ashley Brown facts BNTM inserts here and there, so I’m going to list them all in one sentence: She’s a mother of two, a domestic violence survivor, a former junior tae kwon do world champion and Miss West Lothian 2009.* Oh, and for anyone searching for the American Broadway actress, this is not her.  The end.  You can come out now, Louis.  (Pun unintended.)

Okay, rest of post.

In this episode Ashley Brown had moments.  Spoiler alert:  she gets nervous and either a) talks too much or b) doesn’t talk at all!

After Hayley left the show, she left a Next Top Model Letter™ for the remaining cast and Mecia a special letter because Hayley and Mecia were close in the house.  This does not sit well with Ashley, she being one of two Scottish girls (the other is Hayley) to make the final 13.

That’s why you didn’t get a letter.

Lisa Mail!

“Usually I would dress up for our show’s ‘[Model] Mail’ gimmick, but you know what?  I don’t give a fuck this week.  Go crack some bottles over your heads and pull hair and see if I care.”

In episode 6, the Brits went to Iceland–

I said, they went to Iceland–

OH GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK—I mean, they went through a series of social experiments and tried too hard.