Bullying, brains and too much brawn? Well, I caught up with last year's ‘Top Model’, Demelza Revelry (who was totally delightful and charming) but did tell me, for an interview for Grazia magazine, what she had learnt from her stint as the Foxtel tv series 'Top Dog'.
While Australia’s Next Top Model fans overwhelmingly voting for the well-mannered and charming Thanee Atkinson, over the self-confessed bold and brash bogan, Cassi Can Den Dungen last week, the result turned some of the judge’s choices on their diamond-encrusted ears.
While Australia’s Next Top Model fans overwhelmingly voting for the well-mannered and charming Thanee Atkinson, over the self-confessed bold and brash bogan, Cassi Can Den Dungen last week, the result turned some of the judge’s choices on their diamond-encrusted ears.
And while the obligatory 15 minutes of fashion fame has lasted much longer for 2007 ANTM winner, the long, languid and red-headed Alice Burdeu, the winning crown hasn’t been as kind or fruitful for last year’s winner, Demelza Revelry, who I caught up with for coffee on the day of ths year's final.
Demelza said she had just starting to finish her study for the School Certificate and had never thought about leaving school and then the ANTM auditions came up things and her life just changed. Oh. And changed in a big way, with a ‘bully’ tag firmly planted on her clear, Snow-White forehead as the show progressed.
“The bully tag really irritated me,’’ she admitted to me.
“I am just one of those people who can’t do anything about it. I feel I am just a very honest and wear my heart on my sleeve. I will say what I feel, so is that a bully?
“I actually felt I was really being attacked by the media and the producers and editors who were just playing on mine and everyone else’s emotions. In the end it’s for them to make money.
“But in saying that, I felt that all of the upsides outweighed any of the negatives of the competition.
“On the night of the final, I was panicking and so stressed, but until that moment I had no idea I would win. After my win, I went to New York twice last year then we shot the Napoleon Perdis beauty campaign at (the late) Frank Sinatra’s place and had pool parties and just had a great time, so I felt so fortunate that I was doing all of this at this age.’’
It’s a long way from New York to Demelza’s family home, in the middle of Wollongong (south of Sydney) where she lives in what she calls a ‘showcase’ of a family home.
“The house is called Tandem as Tanith (‘Tan’) is the name of my older sister and the ‘Dem’ is for Demelza. My mum keeps our house immaculate and there is even a small, grand piano in the front window which mum wished I had continued playing!
“It’s a real show-home. It’s lived in, but when I got back from NYC, all the reno’s had been done so it was like starting afresh.’’
Demelza says that towards the end of the competition, all the girls were getting so bored in a house together, stuck at home 2 days a week, every week.
“I had some of the same tricks done to me too _ silly things put in your bed, water bottles being thrown and because I am a very vocal person it all seemed like it was me and me only,’’ adds Demelza.
“Everything was magnified but because they are watching it on a TV show it looks bigger than it is.’’
“I actually felt I was really being attacked by the media and the producers and editors who were just playing on mine and everyone else’s emotions. In the end it’s for them to make money.
“But in saying that, I felt that all of the upsides outweighed any of the negatives of the competition.
“On the night of the final, I was panicking and so stressed, but until that moment I had no idea I would win. After my win, I went to New York twice last year then we shot the Napoleon Perdis beauty campaign at (the late) Frank Sinatra’s place and had pool parties and just had a great time, so I felt so fortunate that I was doing all of this at this age.’’
It’s a long way from New York to Demelza’s family home, in the middle of Wollongong (south of Sydney) where she lives in what she calls a ‘showcase’ of a family home.
“The house is called Tandem as Tanith (‘Tan’) is the name of my older sister and the ‘Dem’ is for Demelza. My mum keeps our house immaculate and there is even a small, grand piano in the front window which mum wished I had continued playing!
“It’s a real show-home. It’s lived in, but when I got back from NYC, all the reno’s had been done so it was like starting afresh.’’
Demelza says that towards the end of the competition, all the girls were getting so bored in a house together, stuck at home 2 days a week, every week.
“I had some of the same tricks done to me too _ silly things put in your bed, water bottles being thrown and because I am a very vocal person it all seemed like it was me and me only,’’ adds Demelza.
“Everything was magnified but because they are watching it on a TV show it looks bigger than it is.’’
You can read more on Demelza's year as Australia's Next Top Model in this week's Grazia, on the news stands today . .
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There have been bigger bullies on that show...in the form of some of the past judges!
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