Poor guy!
America’s Next Top Model judge Nigel Barker showed off his fierce pimple at the 2007 annual “Do Something” Brick Awards at the Nokia Theatre in New York City on Tuesday night.
Somebody get this man a zit zapper!
Super-sized pimple pictures inside…
The Barker Bunch!
“Noted fashion photographer” and America’s Next Top Model judge Nigel Barker takes a stroll in NYC’s West Village with son Jack Barker and wife Cristen Chin.
Nigel and Cristen were both represented by Q Model Management at some point, although only Cristen currently works with them. The happy couple have been married for five years.
Nigel (age 35?) was born in London, England to a family of British, Sri Lankan, Portuguese and Irish origins. He was last spotted with Cristen and Jack strolling NYC over the July 4th weekend.
- AJ - Marc Anthony & Jennifer Lopez (kicked off)
- Amanda - Ashton Kutcher & Demi Moore
- Anchal - Stedman Graham & Oprah Winfrey
- Brooke - Britney Spears & Kevin Federline
- Caridee - Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie
- Eugina - Jay-Z & Beyonce
- Jaeda - Bobby Brown & Whitney Houston
- Melrose - Donald Trump & Melania Knauss
- Michelle - Ellen Degeneres & Portia de Rossi
Check out the celebrity couples photoshoot from last night’s episode of America’s Next Top Model (”The Girl Who Punk’d Ashton”). Each of the contestants had to portray both people in their pre-selected celebrity couple. If you missed the episode, watch it on YouTube: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5]
And yes, above is supposed to be Brad and Angelina with their three kids, Maddox, Zahara, and baby Shiloh. Inset: Britney & K-Fed. How did this week’s contestants measure up? Think they nailed their celebrity impersonations?
Check out this choice clip from last night’s episode of ANTM. Melrose was the winner of this challenge and she got to interview a couple of celebs on the red carpet including Supernatural’s Jared Padalecki, Veronica Mars‘ Ryan Hansen, and Gilmore Girls‘ Matt Czuchry! Ryan goes buckwild dancing and Jared gives his best male model pout. It’s a great clip!
When The WB and UPN join forces this coming fall (September 18th to be exact) to form The CW Television Network, its first scheduled programming will be America’s Next Top Model Cycle 7 (premiering on The CW on Wednesday, September 20 @ 8PM EST).
The show will be just like its other 6 cycle/season predecessors but of course with an all-new cast of 13 models who want to make it big. Cycle 7 will provide plenty of new surprises such as the show’s first set of twins, Amanda and Michelle.
Tyra Banks comes back again to host and judge.
The competition gets fierce and feisty for the seventh cycle of the hit dramality "America’s Next Top Model," now on The CW, as the 13 finalists fight to make their dreams of becoming a top model a reality. This season, an incredible transformation takes place as the finalists face tougher challenges and live the high life participating in glamorous photo shoots all while living under one roof in a posh Los Angeles mansion.
During this cycle, the 13 participants live together and ferociously vie for the grand prize, competing in a highly accelerated modeling boot camp. The participants abilities are tested each week as they strive to master the runway, fashion photo shoots, perfect publicity skills and learn the business aspects of becoming a supermodel, all under 24-hour-a-day surveillance of the "America’s Next Top Model" cameras. Throughout the series, supermodel Tyra Banks, art director of photo shoots Jay Manuel, and runway guru J. Alexander mentor the participants. The new grand prize package for "America’s Next Top Model" will be announced at a later date.
Banks leads the panel of "America’s Next Top Model" judges, comprised of leading fashion industry experts, including supermodel Twiggy, photographer Nigel Barker and runway expert J. Alexander, who closely evaluate the progress of the models to narrow the field each week. In addition, special guest judges appear to critique within his or her area of expertise.
America’s Next Top Model Cycle 7 should be as exciting and entertaining as all of the rest. Be sure to tune in! The complete list of the 13 new contestants after they jump!
- Doobybrain
Name: A.J.
Occupation: Student
Age: 20
Hometown: Sacramento, Calif.Name: Amanda
Occupation: Bookstore Sales Associate
Age: 18
Hometown: Anaheim, Calif.Name: Anchal
Occupation: Sales Clerk
Age: 19
Hometown: Homestead, Fla.Name: Brooke
Occupation: Student
Age: 18
Hometown: Keller, TexasName: CariDee
Occupation: Photographer
Age: 21
Hometown: Fargo, N.D.Name: Christian
Occupation: Bank Teller
Age: 19
Hometown: Columbia, S.C.Name: Eugena
Occupation: Customer Service Representative
Age: 21
Hometown: Palmdale, Calif.Name: Jaeda
Occupation: Student
Age: 18
Hometown: Parkersburg, IowaName: Megg
Occupation: Retail Clerk
Age: 18
Hometown: Los AngelesName: Megan
Occupation: Bartender
Age: 23
Hometown: San FranciscoName: Melrose
Occupation: Fashion Designer
Age: 23
Hometown: San FranciscoName: Michelle
Occupation: Student
Age: 18
Hometown: Anaheim, Calif.Name: Monique
Occupation: Marketing Representative
Age: 19
Hometown: Chicago
America’s sexiest reality TV judge Nigel Barker from America’s Next Top Model was spotted in New York City over the July 4th weekend. "Noted fashion photographer" Nigel was with his wife Cristen Chin and son, Jack Barker (according to IMDB). Nigel and Cristen, both formerly of Q Model Management, have been married for five years. More pictures of Nigel, wife Cristen, and son Jack after in the gallery!
UPDATE :: Q Model Management dropped a line saying that Cristen Chin is still very much a model with them!
Fashion Wire Daily NY - March 9, 2001 - Model couple Cristen Chin, 26, and Nigel Barker, 28, - both with Q Model Management - met six and a half years ago through Barker’s friend and agent in Milan. And while his paramour was only a teenager, Barker knew immediately he had met the woman of his life. But it took him two months to convince Chin that he "was worthy" before she agreed to become his girlfriend. To prove just how serious he was, Barker moved from his native England to Paris, where Chin was living, and when she decided to move to New York, he followed her again. After three years as an item, Chin — who has recently been seen in Glamour, Cosmopolitan and French Vogue — finally started to think about marriage.
"It took me a bit longer than him before I knew that I’d marry him, but I figured he followed me enough around the world," Chin says, laughing.
When the wedding date (October 16th) and place had finally been set, the couple had to deal with the reality of organizing a destination wedding.
"All her life she wanted to marry in Fairhope, in Alabama where she’s from, and we had 90 people flying in from all over the world. 70 of them stayed with us a whole week," says Barker. "45 friends and family members of mine came from England, altogether we had 190 guests, so it was a fairly big wedding.
" Instead of booking hotel rooms for their guests, Chin and Barker rented two houses with 16 rooms each, and each guest chipped in for the houses. But the wedding being more than a one-day affair, entertaining those who had made the effort to come was another matter. Making use of Fairhope’s location, which is right by the Gulf of Mexico, boat trips on Chin’s father’s boat were planned every day, golf tournaments were held and the bride and groom put guides of the city’s best restaurants in every guest’s room. All the worry and preparation was worth it, says Chin.
"To think all of these people are here, just for us, it was the most overwhelming feeling," says Chin. "You just feel so loved and to get all the support - it’s such a happy occasion, especially when you’re the bride."
Apart from juggling their guests’ schedules and room and board, the two, like any other couple, had to go through all the other preparations involved in a wedding. At that occasion, it was Chin who showed her skills for organization.
"The best thing to do is to have a filing system for everything," Chin advises. "In hindsight, I would have hired [a wedding planner] but I didn’t think of it then. I’d rip out pictures I liked, looked for new ideas and also talking people who had gone through it before was really helpful."
To make things easier for their friends scattered around the globe, the couple registered in London and New York. "That was fun," Chin remembers. "Here, we registered with Bloomingdale’s — after looking at different places, it was the easiest and had the most variety."
The one thing that put Chin at an advantage was her job. "I’d done bridal shoots before, so I knew exactly the dress I wanted," she says about her silk taffeta strapless gown with a "puffy skirt" from Po Couture. And a friend from London who is also a make-up artist did the bride’s and bridesmaids’ makeup. "The hairdresser was from town, and because it was Alabama it wasn’t expensive," Chin explains. "But it was nice for all the girls to get the hair and makeup done."
When it comes to photographers, Chin advises hanging out with the snapper before the wedding. "Even if it’s just meeting for a drink — it’s better than to meet them on the big day for the first time, when everything is crazy."
Looking back at the wedding held at outside the southern style, brick and wood Grand Hotel, at sunset overlooking the water, Chin and Barker both agree they wouldn’t have done anything differently.
"It was certainly the best day of my life," says Barker. But proving just how much effort a wedding takes, Chin admits she still has dreams about it. Laughingly she says: "It feels like a loss because you put so much planning into it — I sometimes dream it hasn’t happened yet."
It’s been a long and often bumpy ride to the top for ANTM finalists Jade, Joanie, and Danielle. There have been tears, catfights, painful dental procedures, hospitalization, copycats, delusions of grandeur, and the “axcent” to deal with. And on last night’s Cycle 6 season finale, the long-awaited event finally happened – Jade was sent home packing. Oh, and also Danielle wins.
As we’ve come to expect on ANTM, season finale consisted of the Cover Girl commercial and photo shoot elimination challenge, and the final runway walk-off between two lucky (and fierce) finalists. For their Cover Girl commercials, the girls were each asked to memorize a different set of lines promoting Cover Girl Lash Exact Mascara. Danielle struggled with the commercial, trying to remember the lines and simultaneously deliver them without her southern accent showing through. Joanie, meanwhile, breezed through and made it all look beautiful and effortless. Jade, who was looking for the chance to redeem herself after her last disastrous CG commercial, assumed that she would be able to “improvise” as she did last time. Though advised by shoot director Jay Manuel to learn the lines word for word, Jade still ends up with interesting lines and even more interesting ways to put the 3 little words “lash exact mascara” together. Finally, in desperation, Jay has cue cards held up for Jade, who still wasn’t able to deliver the lines, even with the words right in front of her nose. Eventually, after many, many tries, Jade gets through those lines, and the blood vessel in my forehead finally bursts.
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At judging, though all the photos from the CG photo shoot turn out well – Danielle and Joanie’s are particularly gorgeous - none of the three commercials are without weaknesses. Jade tries to defend her commercial by saying that it’s her first (uh, no, it’s not – we still remember the last drag-queen-at-a-party commercial she did) and she hasn’t had the benefit of professional help by an acting coach. The judges finally lose patience with Jade’s never-ending blame game, and send her home.
In the final runway walk-off between Danielle and Joanie, the two must traverse a long, long walkway that is essentially a series of bridges linked by different temples, all in the middle of a lake. In addition, the runway is scattered with flower petals, making it incredibly slippery, particularly in 4-inch model heels. Each girl takes two passes down the runway. Joanie, in her first pass, looks a little like she’s walking in the mall (Tyra’s words, though that’s exactly what I thought when I was watching too), but on her second pass brings out all the fierceness and attitude the judges could want. Danielle, on both her passes, is elegant and very strong. In final deliberation, the judges declare that this is the hardest decision that has ever faced the panel, and that the finalists’ portfolios of pictures have never been this good before. Joanie is strong because she is a chameleon, always bringing variety to her photo shoots and in her poses, but the judges still feel that she lacks presence in person. Danielle had the stronger runway performance and always takes great photos, but often gives the same pose, and is further burdened by an “axcent”. In the end, Danielle takes the crown, and Joanie graciously concedes “the best girl has won”.
(America’s Next Top Model episode "The Girl Who Walked Through The Ancient City" recap written by Shihrah: Princess of Powertubing.)
YOUR TURN :: If you have any questions to ask Jade or Joanie, please leave a comment below. We’ll try to have them answered for you at tonight’s press conference.
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