Just another thought about BNTM

I was thinking today about BNTM (yes, I know the show has finished, but I read something somewhere that made me think of it again). I was wondering why I can see such a big difference between the contestants of ANTM and the British ones. I couldn’t figure out why, when there are so many apparent differences (American contestants look professional from start, seem more determined, more “model-oriented” attitude, they even look older for their age, etc)

And then the penny dropped. I think I know why. The contestants for the British version of Next Top Model don’t really want to be models. They want to be celebrities. They are a product of today’s television and media. I bet that they were in school a couple of years ago, a teacher asked “what do you want to be when you grow up” and all of them replied the same: I want to be a celebrity.

When I was little and the teacher asked that question the normal answers were: doctor, policeman, nurse, teacher, etc. Today, teenagers want to become singers, actors, models, tv presenters… Which isn’t anything bad, don’t take me wrong, the problem arrives when it becomes very obvious that none of them have any TALENT to be any of the sort and still apply to every single programme on telly that encourages people to demonstrate how inept they are. I don’t blame the poor brainless talentless teenagers, who could, it’s not their fault. At the end of the day, it’s me and you, the viewers of such programmes who are responsible for their success and keep encouraging them to try and become a celebrity.

Poor sods.