

What’s the point of having flood insurance if they only repair like two inches of your walls? I have Vivienne Westwood wallpaper! I thought, it’d be great to make some extra cash so I can pay for my Westwood wallpaper habit. And, you know, my house in Cold Spring got damaged from a hurricane over the summer, so I needed to repair a lot of damage that my shitty flood insurance company refused to cover. We want you to be a new judge.” I thought it would be great for my brand. I called her up and she goes, “We want you for the whole season. I figured they wanted me to do an episode, be a guest judge or host a challenge.

A good friend of mine works as a producer on the show, and called to ask if I would be interested in appearing. Actually, I was working with him on a shoot right around the time I got asked to join Top Model. And sometimes it’s a freak show! I’d worked with Nigel before on projects too, though. So that’s your judging style - concise, and hard-hitting?

It’s powerful.” And then I’m like, “I don’t get it.” “The thing that I loved is the way that you showcased the length of your neck and did something wonderful with your eyes, and you didn’t flinch for a moment - all of these other girls flinched but you didn’t. Do I have a crush on Nigel? Yes! And I can do a really good Nigel imitation. He’s a bit more loosey goosey than you would think, though he does take the show very seriously. When we were on the road, Ava would call him all the time and be like, “Nigel, it’s Ava, do you want to have dinner with my mom?” Or when her Dad was with us: “Do you want to have dinner with my mom and my dad and my nanny and I?” We kind of adopted him into the Cutrone clan. Nigel and I were doing the whole Mommy/Daddy worker thing together. I didn’t realize that they’d be infiltrating my sleep.” I asked Nigel too, “Do you ever dream.?” He’s like, “No way.”ĭid you enjoy working on the panel with Nigel? I told the producers one day, “I need to charge more money next season because I thought judging would end when I went home. It was always a couple who I didn’t really like - I can’t tell you who they were, but I’d see their faces and hear their voices. Some nights after judging I would wake up in my hotel room from scary Top Model dreams - the girls were haunting me. Do you know, I actually had dreams about the models.

It could be funny… but actually, it would be scary. Can you suggest that to Tyra as a future photo shoot theme, please? ones, were there cliques? “Tribal” lines drawn by country borders? And then some were just horrid, but they’d take good pictures and nobody would see their personalities. They gave up! So there were certainly girls I couldn’t believe make it as far as they did, because of that. If they could have just had a little towelette of refreshness, and reminded themselves that criticism is part of growth, and that everyone takes bad shots every now and then, then they’d get to move on. The girls who do well understand that they are in a competition, and when something bad happens – and let’s remember, if any of us were shot 24 hours a day we’d have bad moments too - spring up and keep going.īut there are girls who have bad days, they take bad shots, and we saw them check themselves out of the competition. There are plenty of opportunities for forgetfulness and ego and getting lost in the moment. It’s glamorous instead of living in a real model apartment, they’re living in a beautiful mansion somewhere. I mean, this is the world of Top Model… they have all of these mentors and experts, they’re getting photographed daily, and they’re being filmed 24/7. I think sometimes they lose face of what they’re actually doing. Do you think that’s something new girls on the show get too conscious about - that they have to make a big, loud, immediate impression to stand out? Top Model’s seen a lot of action already, eighteen cycles in. Over tea and macarons yesterday, Cutrone talked about the fashion industry, Tyra, the show, why the show is a good lesson for young women, and why some “sucky” flood damage insurance helped get her on the panel in the first place. While replacing André Leon Talley is certainly no easy task, if anyone can preserve Top Model’s campy spirit, it’s definitely Kelly. on the CW Network - so prepare yourself, because Kelly Cutrone joins the judging panel. Kelly Cutrone joins the show’s judging panel tonight.Īmerica’s Next Top Model’s eighteenth cycle premieres tonight at 9 p.m.
