Top Model Gossip » Dominique Reighard

Cycle 10’sFatima Siad, Lauren Utter and Dominique Reighard, Cycle 8’s Renee Alway, and Cycle 9’s Bianca Golden are competing for a $50,000 modeling contract. Tyra claims these girls were chosen specially because they “touched her in a very special way.”

Each model has to keep a blog while they are in the Modelville house. You can read each of their blogs here: Bianca, Fatima, Lauren, Dominique, and Renee.

In this video, Tyra introduces each contestant and the show itself. Lauren looks really polished. Bianca talks about her airport fight. It sounds pretty bad, but Nikki has come out publicly saying Bianca is lying.

The Modelville videos continue below the jump!

In this video, Tyra asks the girls how their modeling careers are going. Bianca says she’s been working constantly, but the fight did slow her career down. Bianca has been getting pretty steady work since ANTM, and even appeared in this year’s New York Fashion Week. Renee moved to a dangerous part of LA before moving back to Maui. She’s using Modelville to restart her career.

After ANTM, Dominique found out her boyfriend had gotten another girl pregnant! That’s crazy! So she’s been dealing with that instead of focusing on her modeling career.

Lauren was living with her mom and trying to pursue her modeling career before joining Modelville. Fatima’s career has been growing steadily since ANTM, but she hasn’t been making any money and it’s been a struggle. Tyra also reveals the exciting Modelville prize.

So, what do you think? Are you going to tune in for the next episode? I think it might be a lot of fun, as long as it doesn’t become an exact replica of ANTM.

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Modelville on The Tyra Banks Show

Erin Balser — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:38:27 +0000

Tyra Banks is expanded the Top Model franchise to include her own daytime talk show The Tyra Banks Show. Modelville, a show-within-a-show will premiere on the October 8 episode.

Modelville will follow former America’s Next Top Model contestants Fatima Siad, Renee Alway, Lauren Utter, Bianca Golden and Dominique Reighard as they continue to pursue their modeling dreams.

Al the girls will live in a house together and complete a series of challenges. The winner will receive a $50,000 modeling contract.

You can see a preview video here. It looks like the drama heats up quickly!

While I think this is going to be fun to watch, do the contestants really think that participating in another Tyra-creating modeling competition is what it will take to make their modeling dreams come true?

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TMSS Round One: Dominique (10-4) vs. Lluvy (4-10)

Erin Balser — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:14:27 +0000

This match-up features one girl who was constantly criticized for looking too tranny and a girl who had the “worst photo ever” on Top Model.

Cycle 10’s Dominique Reighard and Cycle 4’s Lluvy Gomez face-off below the jump!

Dominique Reighard

Dominique was possibly the most annoying contestant on the tenth Cycle of ANTM–at the beginning. But she quickly grew into a fun favorite to watch. The 23-year-old receptionist from Ohio was determined to make a difference in people’s lives when she arrived on set. Despite the fact she conflicted with all the other contestants–and was constantly told she looked like a drag queen in her photos–she persevered, making it all the way to the top four. After the show, Dominique had plans to move to L.A. and pursue modeling, acting, fashion and the entertainment industry in general.
Here is her audition video:

Lluvy Gomez

Image used with permission from Newscom

Lluuvy was a 21-year-old from California when she tried out for the fourth cycle of ANTM. SHe impressed the judges with her strength and willingness to be herself in front of them, but once she made it into the house, she struggled with the photo shoots. Tyra even called one of her photos “the worst photo in the history of Top Model. She did redeem herself from that moment, but was eliminated in the sixth episode because the judges felt she wasn’t improving fast enough and her photos weren’t strong enough. Currently, Lluvy still does bit modeling, but is focusing on her growing family (she had a baby boy in 2007) and opened a coffee shop with her husband last year.

Here is her audition video:

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CW The Source ANTM 10.11 “Ready for My Close-Up” Recap

Erin Balser — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:11:57 +0000

Here is CW The Source’s video recap of last week’s episode of America’s Next Top Model with Dominique. I love how much nicer, grounded, funny and sweet she comes across in person. It’s a shame that she was such a victim of editing.

She’s clearly still crazy. But delightfully so! And she’s so graceful about her other contestants. Not a lot of other eliminees have been that gracious about their former competitors.

She talks fast, eh?

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