Britain's Next Top Model
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Host
Dave Berry (2010 Live Final)
Co-hosts
Head Judges:
Lisa Butcher (2005)
Lisa Snowdon (2006-9)
Elle Macpherson (2010-13)
Abbey Clancey (2016-)
Judges:
Jonathan Phang (2005-7)
Marie Helvin (2005)
Paula Hamilton (2006-7)
Gerry Deveaux (2008)
Huggy Ragnarsson (2008-9)
Louis Mariette (2009)
Julien MacDonald (2010-)
Grace Woodward (2010-11)
Charley Speed (2010-11)
Whitney Port (2012)
Tyson Beckford (2012-13)
Dannii Minogue (2013)
Paul Sculfor (2016-)
Hilary Alexander (2016-)
Nicky Johnston (2016-)
Guest Judges:
Nicola Roberts (2010)
Sophie Ellis-Bextor (2011)
Janice Dickinson (2011)
Tyson Beckford (2011)
Henry Holland (2011)
Ronan & Yvonne Keating (2011)
Broadcast
Thumbs Up Productions for LIVINGtv, 14 September 2005 to 4 October 2010 (69 episodes in 6 series)
Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model: Thumbs Up Productions for Sky Living, 4 July 2011 to 5 September 2013 (39 episodes in 3 series)
Thumbs Up Productions for Lifetime, 14 January 2016 to present
Synopsis
British version of a highly successful international format whereby females take on a variety of modelling tasks (which always seem to involve wearing clothes and looking good on photo shoots, strangely enough) and living in a house together whilst getting gradually eliminated by the three resident judges and a bonus guest judge week by week.
This being Britain, the prizes are a little less glamourous than their US counterpart (one year's representation by a Proper Modelling Company, and an exclusive photoshoot with B magazine which must be elitist, aspirational and exciting because we've never heard of it).
It does keep the rather natty "airbrushing the eliminee from the group photo after the credits" thing they do in the original US show, however.
Champions
| 2005 | Lucy Ratcliffe |
| 2006 | Lianna Fowler |
| 2007 | Lauren McAvoy |
| 2008 | Alex Evans |
| 2009 | Mecia Simson |
| 2010 | Tiffany Pisani |
| 2011 | Jade Thompson |
| 2012 | Letitia Herod |
| 2013 | Lauren Lambert |
| 2016 | TBC |
Trivia
Series 2 runner-up Abbey Clancy would go on to forge a successful modelling and TV career.
The final of series 6 was broadcast live, allowing viewers to vote for the winner for the first time.
From series 7, the programme was renamed Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model allowing contestants from Ireland as well as Britain to compete.
Web links
Sky site from 2012 via archive.org
