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Zimbo Interviews Jade Cole

Erin Balser — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:32:48 +0000

Zimbo caught up with Jade Cole, everyone’s bi-racial butterfly from Cycle 6 of America’s Next Top Model at the MCM New York Launch party. and they chatted about her work in Hong Kong and South Africa, her upcoming autobiography and more.

Jade just moved to Los Angeles and is trying to break into the film business. She also has a realistic take on the current season of Top Model: “It’s kind of sad because she’s giving false hope to young girls. Because in this harsh reality of the fashion world, let’s face it, being 5′6″…it’s not going to happen.”

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Jade Cole in Drake, Jamie Foxx & Kanye’s New Music Video

Erin Balser — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:28:37 +0000

Everyone’s favorite bi-racial butterfly, Jade Cole, is in Jamie Foxx’s newest music video, “Digital Girl.” The song features Kanye West and up-and-comer Drake. In the video, Jade is one of three digital girls who in the video, as the guys sing about the complications of dating a digital girl.

Drake getting a music career makes me happy. He was adorable as Jimmy on Degrassi. I’m amazed at how the Degrassi kids are doing in Hollywood lately – Shenae Grimes in on 90210, Nina Dobrev stars in the new series The Vampire Diaries and Aubrey Graham aka Drake is performing with Kanye West and seen with Rihanna. Good for them!

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Joanie Dodds in Juno Mak Video

Erin Balser — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:04:03 +0000

Joanie Dodds, who was the runner-up in Cycle 6 of America’s Next Top Model, got a quite a bit of work in Hong Kong during the past few years. One of those jobs was a music video for Juno Mak, a singer and record producer who is well known in hong Kong. The video, titled “The Secret” features Joanie as a domantirx-type. She sports both a blond and a black wig in the video.

There isn’t a solid plot structure to the video, but it isn’t bad and it’s good to see Joanie getting work!

Joanie has her own YouTube channel, jdodds120. Be sure to subscribe so you can stay on top what what Joanie’s been up to!

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Joanie Dodds’ Groove is in her Heart

Erin Balser — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:54:43 +0000

Joanie Dodds, the Cycle 6 runner-up of America’s Next Top Model has a pretty good sense of humor. Which is why she’s happy to star in homemade lip sync homages like the one below for “Groove is in the Heart.”

The video is simply Joanie going about her daily tasks while lip syncing this great ’90s song. For an amateur video, it isn’t bad!

Since appearing on ANTM, Joanie has been working steadily as both a model and television personality. She was recently a judge on a local Top Model franchise that aired in the Bay area.

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Mollie-Sue Gondi in Playground Music Video

Erin Balser — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:27:08 +0000

Mollie-Sue Gondi, who competed on the sixth cycle of America’s Next Top Model and is arguably the most success ANTM alum ever made a recent appearance in the French band Playground’s newest music video. The video is for the song “Maravillosa” off their sophomore album, “Nightology.” The band performs in both English and French.

Apparently the band had a huge hit in France with their first album, with the song “1994″. I had never heard of them until now, but the song in the video below is pretty catchy.

The video explores the lives of those in the fashion world. Mollie plays a moody photographer and is great in the role!

I think Mollie was great in this video. I’m glad she’s diversifying her body of work as she gets older. I’m excited to see what she does next.

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Nnenna Agba in Sergey Lazarev Music Video

Erin Balser — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:04:57 +0000

Nnenna Agba, who competed in Cycle 6 of America’s Next Top Model appeared in Sergey Lazarev’s 2008 music video for his song “Girlfriend.” Sergey Lazarev is a pop star who is pretty big in Russia and Ukraine. You can learn more at his website.

In the video, Sergey could have any of the beautiful models he runs into on a regular basis – he’s a pop star after all! – but all he wants is his friend’s girlfriend. Nnenna plays one of the models lavishing him with attention.

I think this video is hilarious! Nnenna looks amazing and it’s great to see her doing so well. She seems to be getting diverse, steady work overseas.

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Joanie Dodds Mends Children’s Hearts

Erin Balser — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:04:37 +0000

Joanie Dodds, the runner-up from Cycle 6 of America’s Next Top Model, had a rare red carpet moment when she stepped out for the Children Mending Hearts Gala held at the House Of Blues in Hollywood last night, February 18.

Joanie kept things fresh and simple in a casual little black dress. The tights aren’t great, but I love Joanie so I’ll forgive her for those!

The benefit raised money for the International Medical Corps’s relief efforts underway in the Congo. Children Mending Hearts works towards helping children raise awareness, learn, advocate and share ideas through art and activism.

Here’s a video about the organization and it’s founder:

Children Mending Hearts from David Serota on Vimeo.

Several celebrities came out last night in support for the charity, including Alyssa Milano, Sheryl Crow, Ben Affleck, Anderson Cooper and more.

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Mollie Sue Gondi in BBC Documentary

Erin Balser — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:06:13 +0000

Mollie-Sue Gondi, who competed in the sixth cycle of America’s Next Top Model was interviewed for the BBC documentary “The Seven Photographs that Changed Fashion.”

In the film, photographer Rankin recreated his seven favorite images by Cecil Beaton, Erwin Blumenfeld, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, David Bailey and Guy Bourdin. You can see a slideshow of the images here. He uses Heidi Klum, Erin O’Connor, Jade Parfitt, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Tuuli Shipster, Mollie Gondi, Daphne Guinness and David Gandy to recreate this influential and iconic images.

Mollie participated in the recreation of the Helmut Newton image. Her part of the documentary is below:

I think it’s an honor that Mollie was asked to participate in such an exciting project. The documentary originally aired on January 14, 2009 on BBC4 and has been replayed periodically since. There’s no word on whether there are plans to release it in North America, but it is up on Youtube, if you’re interested!

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Top Models “Pay it Forward” on The Tyra Banks Show

Erin Balser — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:38:56 +0000

Fatima Siad, second runner-up on Cycle 10, and Joanie Dodds, runner-up on Cycle 6 appeared on an episode of The Tyra Banks Show earlier this week.

The girls came on the show to pay it forward and become the top models they know they can be by giving back to their community. Tyra looks back at each girls’ powerful story and how it propels them to go forward. They look at Fatima’s female circumcision story, and talk about how ANTM changed her life. Joanie looks back at ho Tyra gave her a brand new smile

Here’s Fatima’s part:

Here’s Joanie’s part:

You can find the rest of the episode on YouTube. I think its great these girls are using their ANTM experience to help out others in similar predicaments.

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Nnenna Agba in McDonald’s Commercial

Erin Balser — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:47:58 +0000

Nnenna Agba from cycle 6 of America’s Next Top Model appears in this French McDonald’s commercial. It also aired all over Europe this summer in different languages. It’s about six months old, but I had never found a video clip of it, until now!

Burger CBO @ McDonald’s
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I think Nnenna looks gorgeous in the clip. I’m glad she’s kept her close-cropped hair and is getting work. I loved Nnenna when she was on ANTM.

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