''The Model Scouts'', formerly ''The Model Agent'' during its first season in 2009, was an
Irish
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reality
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documentary on
RTÉ Two
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that followed twelve girls competing for a lucrative modelling contract with
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.
In 2008 the series followed model scout Fiona Ellis on her search for an Irish supermodel. On her way through Ireland, Ellis spotted eight girls in the entire country and chose the last four of the twelve finalists through applications that she received. Each episode saw the elimination of one or more girls. The winner, Carrie-Anne Burton, won a contract with the Independent Models agency and a cover of ''Image'' magazine. Supermodel
Erin O'Connor, who was also discovered by Ellis at the beginning of her career, advised the girls. Ellis said that, in contrast to ''
America's Next Top Model
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'', her aim was to give an insight in finding new model talent with serious ambitions without ''"all the drama"''.
For its second season in 2010, the show was renamed ''The Model Scouts''. Jeni Rose and David Cunningham of
IMG Models
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were the judges. The girls were taken to
London
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,
Paris
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,
Sydney and
New York City
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. The winner, Tabea Weyrauch, was a 16-year-old girl from
Derry. She won a one-year contract with IMG, and became the face of ''
A Wear
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'' in Ireland and the United Kingdom. She also appeared on the cover of ''Life'', the magazine section of the ''
Sunday Independent''.
Series summary
Season one
Contestants
(''ages stated are at start of contest'')
* Lisa Madden eventually became a contestant on the
eighth series of ''
Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model''.
Call-out order
: The contestant was eliminated
: The contestant was put through collectively to the next stage
: The contestant was immune from elimination
: The contestant won the competition
* Sadhbh, Miriam, Lisa, and Jennifer entered the competition in episode 2.
Season two
Contestants
(''ages stated are at start of contest'')
Models
RTÉ website
Call-out order
: The contestant was immune from elimination
: The contestant was eliminated
: The contestant won the competition
* In episode 1, Jenni Rose and David Cunningham scouted the cities of Dublin
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, Cork, Galway
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, Derry, and Belfast
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to find twelve aspiring models. After creating a shortlist
A short list or shortlist is a list of candidates for a job, prize, award, political position, etc., that has been reduced from a longer list of candidates (sometimes via intermediate lists known as "long lists"). The length of short lists varie ...
of thirty girls, the list was reduced to twenty-one models who were taken to Dublin for the final cut. At the end of the episode, nine of the models, Shauneen, Emma, Holly, Aoife, Niamh, Rebecca, Aoibhin, Eve, and Zahra, were eliminated. The remaining twelve moved on to the main competition.
See also
*'' Britain's Next Top Model''
References
External links
Season one official siteThe full second season on IMG's website
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2009 Irish television series debuts
2010 Irish television series endings
Irish reality television series
Modeling-themed reality television series