"Top Model" Contestants To Get Second Chance After Riot
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"To all the `Top Model' hopefuls who were affected by the New York casting, we are doing everything we can to make sure that ALL the girls who weren't seen, get an opportunity to audition — we'll update you on our plans very soon," Banks said in a statement issued Monday by the CW network.So just what started the frenzy in the first place?
"The producer of the show didn't notify the NYPD, so there were no cops specifically assigned there," a police official told the New York Daily News about the lack of a police presence at the event. "They needed to alert the police before the event." New York City's Mayor Michael Bloomberg also weighed in on the situation and seemed to imply that police had not been properly informed of the large crowd of auditioners that were going to be present: "If you're going to have an event where there's the remotest chance that the crowd is going to be bigger than you expect ... call the precinct and make sure they know," he told the Daily News in a Monday report. [...] The wild scene occurred outside Manhattan's Park Central New York Hotel — where the casting call for the CW reality modeling competition was being held — on Saturday after hundreds of people began running from the scene after a car began smoking in the street near the crowd of waiting auditioners that were packing the sidewalks outside the hotel. According to eyewitnesses, the stampede began after false rumors that the vehicle contained a bomb began circulating through the crowd. "People were really freaking out about the smoke," Sedrick Myrtil, the overheated car's 21-year-old driver, told the Daily News. "There was pandemonium, and the cops got really upset about my car." Two people were sent to the hospital while four other declined treatment for injuries. Additionally, two women and a man were arrested for disorderly conduct while the audition was shut down by police as well. With the casting call, which was only open to women who were 5'7 or shorter, canceled, some of the girls who had waited on the line for their chance to get onto the show are now asking for a second casting call to be scheduled so they can get a second chance at stardom. "I want Tyra to realize that we were cheated, and it wasn't fair," auditioner Babyann Hernandez told the Daily News. "I'm tired, angry, hurt, confused, and I didn't even get to try out."Maybe I could have cut that last part out, but come on...Babyann? I had to use that. I mean srsly. You would too, and you know it. Okay, people, let's all stop and take a deep breath and calm down a minute. I just have one thing to say: You'd be working with Tyra Banks. The woman who said this:
“I think I was put on this earth to instill self-esteem in young girls,” says Tyra.And then sent contestants on ANTM to Amsterdam to pose in a shop window and let male judges decide who was best at "selling herself"...because nothing says "high self-esteem" like posing in an Amsterdam window. This, after many episodes on her syndicated talk show about the emotional trauma faced by those women and girls caught up in the world of prostitution. How about a show about the emotional trauma faced by those caught up in the world of Tyra? By the way, if you watch the video clip all the way to the end, you'll be rewarded. You know that whole self-esteem thing Tyra said above? I think I just got a boost, because while I'm not model material at least I can put sentences together coherently. "Yeah, ummm, pick me, because, um, I like didn't start, um, the riot or nothin', um, like, so, yeah [hairflip]."
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