Disabled models to compete in reality TV show
Some of Britain's most beautiful disabled women are to be given the chance to become a top model in a ground-breaking BBC television series.
Britain's Missing Top Model, which starts tomorrow (Tuesday), hopes to challenge the boundaries that appear to exist in the image-obsessed world of fashion.
The BBC3 series will follow eight women with disabilities including one who is profoundly deaf, and over six weeks, the contestants will try to prove to a panel of experts that they have what it takes to become a model.
The woman who impresses the judges the most will win a photo shoot with a leading fashion photographer and appear in a top women's glossy magazine.
Danny Cohen, the controller of BBC3, said: "This series aims to challenge the artificial boundaries that seem to exist in the beauty and fashion industries.
"It would be great if in the future we began to see more disabled models gracing the covers of the world's magazines."
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i have been following this programme since it started and was shocked to find some of the other people with disabilities would be so quick to judge! as they thought a deaf person SHOULDNT be in the competition as its not a VISABLE disability and i was quite angry about that. i regard it as a disability and it can intrude in different kinds of situations as we have seen on the programme aka the talking in the group situation, i hope people will take more note of this and help us deaf people out as an individual who has gone through the same situation we could do with all the help we can get when it comes to a group situation whether its something as small as just telling us what they are talking about and we will be happy to offer out opinion in it! :) x
Posted by: laura jakubowski | July 20, 2008 10:59 AM