Last night, during 90210, a longer promo for Cycle 12 of America’s Next Top Model premiered. This promo, like the first one, played with the origami and paper doll concepts. The girls are paper dolls that turn into or come out of flowers. All the girls are wearing short wigs, so it’s still hard to tell who is who. But if you watch it a few times, you will!

I like the promo, the concept is whimsical and fun. However, I do wish ANTM would go for something simpler and more high fashion. These commercials should really be about the girls …read more

Does this seem weird to you? Entertainment Weekly’s Hollywood Insider is reporting that both Clay Aiken and Ciara will appear in Cycle 12 of America’s Next Top Model. Apparently Clay, who most recently starred in Broadway’s

Christian Siriano, winner of the fourth cycle of Project Runway did an interview with Television Without Pity back in September and in it, he mentioned that he will be making an appearance in an episode of the “new season” of America’s Next Top Model.
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He doesn’t give any details about his cameo, so we can only wonder what he will be doing! Do you think he’ll be a guest judge? Or participating in one of the challenges?
I don’t see him as a guest judge yet, simply because he’s still new to the fashion world and doesn’t have …read more

New York magazine is reporting that Tyra Banks has slipped up and revealed the international destination for the twelfth cycle of America’s Next Top Model. The cycle is currently filming and will air on the CW in Winter 2009.
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According to the Cut, Tyra was having lunch with an unidentified businessman and was chatting on her cell phone when the wait-staff overheard her talking about the cycle of ANTM that is currently in production.
“She was mentioning the girls arriving in San Paolo,” the source claims. “Getting Samba dancers and batacuda drummers to meet them on their …read more

The CW has posted the application form and open call cities and dates for the auditioning process for America’s Next Top Model Cycle 12. As always, you need to be an American citizen 18-27 years of age, over 5′7″ and never had a national modeling campaign in the last five years.
The application is pretty rigorous, it’s 15 pages long and they ask you lots of personal questions.
Cities & dates are below the jump!
Good luck to everyone who auditions and let me know how it goes!