The Model Scouts

The Model Scouts
Genre	Reality television
Created by	Billy McGrath
Developed by	Sideline Productions RTÉ
Judges	Fiona Ellis (Series 1) Erin O'Connor (Series 1) Jeni Rose (Series 2) David Cunningham (Series 2)
Theme music composer	Airdate
Opening theme	Everytime
Country of origin	Ireland
No. of episodes	14
Production
Executive producer(s)	Billy McGrath (Series 1) Katie Giles (Series 1) Una Shinners (Series 2)
Running time	60 minutes
Release
Original network	RTÉ Two
Picture format	480i (4:3 SDTV)
Original release	20 April 2009 – 21 December 2010
External links
Website

The Model Scouts, formerly The Model Agent  during its first season in 2009, was an Irish reality documentary on RTÉ Two that followed twelve girls competing for a lucrative modelling contract with IMG.

In 2009 the series followed model scout Fiona Ellis on her search for an Irish supermodel. On her way through Ireland, Ellis spotted eight girls in the entire country and chose the last four of the twelve finalists through applications that she received. Each episode saw the elimination of one or more girls. The winner, Carrie-Anne Burton, won a contract with the Independent Models agency and a cover of Image magazine. Supermodel Erin O'Connor, who was also discovered by Ellis at the beginning of her career, advised the girls.^[1] Ellis said that, in contrast to America's Next Top Model, her aim was to give an insight in finding new model talent with serious ambitions without "all the drama".^[2]

For its second season in 2010, the show was renamed The Model Scouts. Jeni Rose and David Cunningham of IMG Models were the judges.^[3][4] The girls were taken to London, Paris, Sydney and New York City. The winner, Tabea Weyrauch, was a 16-year-old girl from Derry.^[5] She won a one-year contract with IMG, and became the face of A Wear in Ireland and the United Kingdom. She also appeared on the cover of Life, the magazine section of the Sunday Independent.^[6]

Series summary

Cycle	Premiere date	Winner	Runner-up	Other contestants in order of elimination	Number of contestants	International destinations
1	20 April 2009	Carrie-Anne Burton	Amber Jean Rowan	Sadhbh Moore, Miriam El-Mahdi, Chloe Loughnan, Lisa Madden, Julia McGovern, Rochelle McIntyre, Jaime O'Connell, Jennifer Foley, Laura Keohane, Sharon Touhey	12	London New York City
2	2 November 2010	Tabea Weyrauch	Ellen Flanagann	Shannean Gormley & Heather O'Brien, Katie McGinn & Justine Kelly, Lauren Owens & Becky Ali, Sarah Taylor, Jessica Kelly, Lucy Moore, Aishling O'Connell	12	London Paris Sydney New York City

Season one

Logo, used in the show's first season in 2009

Contestants

(ages stated are at start of contest)^[7]

• Lisa Madden eventually became a contestant on the eighth series of Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model.^[8][9]

Call-out order

     The contestant was eliminated

     The contestant was put through collectively to the next stage

     The contestant was immune from elimination

     The contestant won the competition

• Sadhbh, Miriam, Lisa, and Jennifer entered the competition in episode 2.

Season two

Contestants

(ages stated are at start of contest)^[10]

Call-out order

     The contestant was immune from elimination

     The contestant was eliminated

     The contestant won the competition

• In episode 1, Jenni Rose and David Cunningham scouted the cities of Dublin, Cork, Galway, Derry, and Belfast to find twelve aspiring models. After creating a shortlist of thirty girls, the list was reduced to twenty-one models who were taken to Dublin for the final cut. At the end of the episode, nine of the models, Shauneen, Emma, Holly, Aoife, Niamh, Rebecca, Aoibhin, Eve, and Zahra, were eliminated. The remaining twelve moved on to the main competition.

See also

• Britain's Next Top Model

References

External links

• Season one official site
• Season two official site
• The full second season on IMG's website