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♫ Gymnopedie No. 1 ♫
America's Next Top Model is...
[Alarm]
♫ Fashion, put it all on me. Don't you wanna see these clothes on me? ♫
♫ Fashion, put it all on me. I am anyone you want me to be. ♫
Dead eyes. Smize. Dead eyes. Smize.
I'm smiling with my eyes because I can
because I'm powerful.
Can you smize with glasses?
Of course you can.
It's true.
Oh!
My name is Ben Phillips, when I'm a model it'll be Benjamin
because it just sounds better.
No--I'll go by Dominic Grey.
That's my stage name, but I haven't been on a stage,
So I don't really know how to do that.
I am 21 and I am from Iowa. In, a...
well, I don't live in a town, I live on a farm.
In the country. But I'm, I'm too civilized to be on a farm.
I...
I am Ben Phillips of the world.
Well, I never really thought about modeling as a career.
I still...
I still think sometimes I'm going to end up being an Egyptologist.
Digging through sand and unearthing little figurines
and pottery shards. I've always loved Egypt.
Or maybe even have my own cookin' show on TV.
I keep going Southern, I'm not Southern.
Uh, I would like to have a cooking show
showing delicious vegetarian foods
I... but I really want to model.
I think that modeling is a very interesting field, where
you get to create...beauty.
I like beautiful things. I like beautiful people.
I like beautiful books. I like beautiful songs.
I like beautiful things.
I graduated High School in 2008.
top of my class, well, some was tied, but it still counts.
And then I flew to Paris
to go to the Cordon Bleu pastry school.
I'm a professionally trained pastry chef.
And, I think...
th-- well, that's all I think, really.
Umm...
Hmmm.
I run a pastry shop,
out of my house.
Don't tell the government, cause it's probably not legal.
Cut.
I think that I should be America's Next Top Model because
I am not afraid to try anything--twice!
Well...
For the most part, twice.
I would wear a meat dress, but I wouldn't eat it.
I would do a...nude shoot. Yes! Why not?
I would do anything that you want me to do.
Cut my hair off? Cut it off!
Dye it purple? I don't care! I hate purple, but dye it purple.
I am ready to do whatever Tyra tells me to do to be
America's Next Top Model.
I think that fashion is a
is another form of artwork, like a painting, or like a movie or anything.
You are taking a blank canvas
which would be me, your model
and you're dressing me how you see me in your head
so, fashion is the realization of a vision
as well as selling things.
I mean, there's no point in dressing me up if you're not going to try and sell this watch.
So, it's money, it's art, it's creating a beautiful world.
Glasses, I think, are the easiest way you can change your look.
They're kind of my signature accessory.
I have...no...many, many pairs.
I'm basically blind.
My eye doctor told me that if this had been the Middle Ages,
I probably would have been a jeweler,
so that I could work close up with the jewels.
Imagine me making jewels for other people,
when I should be bathing in them.
Oh, this is a hard test.
I really like Anne, from, last cycle.
Brittani was another favorite.
But my favorite Top Model...
was Marvita!
I loved that horse hair.
Oh...people judge me.
I loved Marvita's horse ponytail
It was fantastic!
Well, I've decided to go on a practice go-see
for when I'm on the show, Tyra.
I have written down the address of IMG Models,
I know they don't do male models, but
for practice, this will be good.
So, wish me luck.
***! ***! ***!
♫ Exciting Go-See Music! ♫
Where's the Metro?
I'm gonna be late.
It should be me, me, me, me.
Me.
Wish me luck.
This slideshow is going to be my portfolio for my audition tape.
These pictures were all taken by me or by family.
Or by friends, or whoever I could thrust a camera into their hands.
I hope you enjoy it, and
I hope you judge me harshly.
I know what you're probably thinking.
Stop giving me profile!
Stop giving me 3/4 profile!
Give me a full on face!
And I will do my best to work on that.
It's my biggest weakness.
This one's just for fun.
Well, I think it went okay.
VO: What should you bring on a go-see?
Nude underwear! Never leave home without them.
Tyra, I believe what you tweeted me
well, all your followers, about an hour ago
An hour ago, yeah.
"Dream so damn big that people laugh in your face,
then prove them all wrong."
I wanna prove them all wrong, Tyra.
People often say to me, "Boy,"
becaue I'm a boy,
"You're not gonna be America's Next Top Model. That's for girls."
Well, I think it's time we moved past that.
People like boy models, too.
Men models, male models, whatever.
One of my biggest dreams in life is to be an underwear model.
It's true.
So, I wanna dream so damn big, Tyra.
I've been dreaming so damn big, and I'm ready to be on the show.
Give me a spinoff. Put me on
One way or the other, Tyra.
I wanna be on top!
Can you see it?
I've never been on a reality show before, so I do not know how
I would personally take
the people, the stress
but I'm not a person who tends to be stressed
and I personally find
the cattiness, the bitchiness, quite funny.
So, I'd really enjoy it.
But, I'm not the kind of person who has to call home every day,
or is bothered by being away.
I would be fully prepared to jet off tomorrow to Hong Kong
to walk on a show if that's what
well, if that's where we went on our location.
But, let's not go to Hong Kong, let's go somewhere fun,
like Sydney. No. Not Sydney.
Melbourne! Let's go to Melbourne.
I've always wanted to go to Melbourne.
Gurl! I would love it!
I am not a *** person by nature, but
I could have some fun there, Tyra.
For instance. Can I give you an example?
Don't you dare make fun of my baby!
Don't you dare call me a bad mother!
Cause I am not a bad mother!
I was born in a gutter, and you know what?
I don't care, cause this is my baby,
I had it and I'm gonna give it the life it deserves.
I'm workin here for my baby.
"Welcome to your 8 Minute Abs workout...
now, all the exercises are safe, effective, and fun.
There's gonna be nine movements
with 45 seconds built into it."
Fitness is, of course
very important for anybody aspiring to be in the modeling world.
You must be beautiful.
That's one of the biggest things.
You have to look good in pictures
And so every day, I do some exercises
to make sure that I look my best.
I will always have work to do
because I'm always striving for perfection.
I do yoga, I do abs, I do all sorts of things.
But the most important exercise for any model
is of course... it's walking isn't it?
♫ Scheiße [Mugler Edit] ♫
My biggest inspiration is Karl Lagerfeld.
He...he's well, he's the king of fashion, isn't he?
I feel that we have personalities that are quite similar
and I just love the way he doesn't give a crap about anything.
He's Karl. He makes his grand statements,
and people follow through with them. And I think that's fantastic.
Plus, he's Chanel.
♫ Little Black Baby ♫
[Knocking] Karl? Karl are you there?
Karl, please come out.
Or can I come in, Karl? Karl?
I'd be surprisingly good for you.
Karl? Karl? Karl? Karl!
Today I saw Dita Von Teese at Colette
And I recalled her episode on America's Next Top Model
where she wanted the contestants to bring out their inner sexy
and well, I do that every day.
I try to, at least.
Anyway, it was kind of like I was in panel
I was waiting for you and Nigel and André and
whoever you had with you that day
hopefully somebody cool, like Dita,
to bring out my picture, and then I would go
OOOOOO are you gonna call me first? Are you gonna call me first?
And then you do, and I go, "Yesss!"
Because, I am ready to be America's Next Top Model, Tyra.
This video might seem a bit jokish, but it's very sincere.
I know that...
it's not....
what's the word?
Word?
VO "I dunno what word you're looking for."
It doesn't fit the mold of the show.
But, I'm ready to break that mold.
And even if I seem a bit silly at times, I'm quite serious.
I am ready to be America's Next Top Model.
So, please think of me, for your next cycle, Tyra.
Thank you.
♫ ANTM Theme ♫
VO "You wanna be on top?"
YES!