A decade has not dulled the humiliation that Australia collectively felt on that hallowed night in 2010.
There were hundreds of unforgettable moments in Australia’s prolonged and notorious historic past of tv.
Cast your mind reduction — the year is 2010, the month is September and Sarah Murdoch is preparing to divulge, on dwell tv, whether Kelsey Martinovich (with the sizable ol’ earrings) or Amanda Ware (no earrings) has been voted Australia’s Next Top Model.
Several seconds of aggravating, foreboding tune pass…
Till at closing, Murdoch publicizes:
Everyone screams. Kelsey is elated. Amanda is attempting her easiest to question respectfully racy, while internally weeping. And Sarah Murdoch is factual cosy that this entire circus is at closing coming to a discontinuance.
After about a minute of Kelsey repeating “thank you” and “I originate not know what to claim”, we score this horny montage of Sarah’s facial expressions.
The contestants launch to realise something’s amiss, the judges within the viewers are frozen mid-clap…
Till Sarah at closing utters:
And let me notify you, a chaotic ugly esteem no diversified fills the room within the moments that put together the announcement.
Kelsey, to her credit, is an absolute story about all of it — graciously congratulating Amanda on her factual in discovering and emphatically repeating that “it’s elegant”.
At which level, Amanda lets out the saddest, most awkward dinky “woo”.
We collectively indulge within the nervousness of it fervent by one more minute or so, sooner than Sarah at closing tells Amanda to “stroll that catwalk, revel in it” and the camera mercifully cuts to unlit.
As an comfort prize for inflicting such a large fuck up, Foxtel in actuality awarded both ladies $20,000, apart from as flights to Fresh York. Harper’s Bazaar also elected to print both ladies’ covers on the October mission, so in actuality, it became a elegant sweet deal for being runner-up — whenever you occur to in discovering away the mass-humiliation on nationwide TV.
And brooding about I will barely be conscious any of the contestants from the diversified 10 seasons of Australia’s Next Top Model, there’s no denying both Amanda and Kelsey earned themselves some excessive popularity.
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