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MFG, HDGDL, LOL, ROFL, ASAP, OMG - Germany's advertising-relevant target group clearly likes abbreviations.

So it's only logical that this trend has now also spilled over to Germany's Next Top Model.

In the form of ex-juror Thomas Hayo.

The Denglish lecturer was part of the GNTM family for eight years and then founded the “Thomas Hayo Attitude Academy” in 2018.

Today the prodigal son returns for a short home visit to model mom Heidi and gives the season some of the rare moments for eternity. By the way, “Hayo” is, here we come full circle, actually just the abbreviation for “Have Attitude You Olle”. What the best of this week has already leaked: The renaissance on the runway, the comeback on the catwalk - fashion trend researcher Thomas Hayo is a guest juror. Party mood everywhere, especially in the Twitter meme game.

The evening is saved and I am full of gratitude that Hayo is giving the most famous feminism documentary since “Tutti Frutti” another chance after the strawberry roll fiasco last year.

A year ago he staged the girls as aliens in the Nevada desert.

This year, Berlin has to be enough due to the corona.

Although our capital also has many deserts.

Lots of service and organizational deserts, for example.

For example, try to get a vaccination appointment.

In addition, the latest rent cover fiasco shows that the sand in the red-red-green government alone would be enough for three to five Saharas.

Heidi Klum: "I want my girls to be well prepared for the auditions. I asked my friend Thomas Hayo to do the teaching for that."

Source: ProSieben / Richard Hübner

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The very first sentence Hayo says this week, but reconciles everything: "It's like a family reunion". Yes, we are family. And hungry. Fun fact: The latest fast food craze in Japan is black ketchup on fried potato slices. Or as they say at GNTM: Pommes Hayo. With this maximum of third-rate word game, we are finally starting the scientific analysis of the casting week at the Opel Mokka Festival. Hayo first gets an overview of the potential of the top 10. He calls the girls individually to a Polaroid shoot and engages them in non-binding small talk. That doesn't go well for everyone. Mainly because Hayo is pretty much the biggest celebrity the candidates have met so far. And that won't change when she soon joins Julian FMStöckel opened a few hardware stores.

In addition to the small beat, Thomas Hayo also has brand new insider tips in his luggage.

With shoulders, for example, he sees it exactly as I do with bags of chips: "If you give me one shoulder, don't give me a second".

Then he rummages a little in the Denglish surprise bag and finds this gem: “As a model, you have to be able to live with not getting a job.

It's actually a business of rejection ”.

Business of Rejection - or as Markus Söder puts it: Chancellor candidate race.

Special support for Heidi's top ten: Thomas Hayo explains how to win over customers at a casting

Source: ProSieben / Richard Hübner

Freshly trained in haya, the GNTM candidates are throwing themselves into a casting marathon this week.

First, an online perfumery is looking for a face for some Instagram video format.

As a tribute to the juror of hearts, the perfume online shop manager wears a complete Thomas Hayo memory look.

All in black and with a biker jacket.

She is looking for a model who is “wild, colorful, loud or even completely natural”.

Huh?

Nightingale ick hear you casting.

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Unfortunately, ProSieben then obviously cuts Romina's big appearance. After her triumph at the yoghurt casting last week, she actually started her application today with: "Since I was 12, I have not been ordering perfumes online". But it scores with the look. As is customary in the modeling industry around the world, girls have to do their own makeup. If the online shop were to sell perfume with this philosophy, the business model would be: We have the most beautiful fragrances online at the best price, but you have to pick them up yourself - and please bring an empty bottle with you.

But Romina is a professional and gives herself a do-it-yourself makeup for which Bibi's Beautypalace would get 60 million views on YouTube: “I have green eyeshadow as a complementary color to my red hair”. If she was still wearing something yellow, she could work as a traffic light on the side. And that might even be a good alternative because she won't get the job.

The second casting is about a series in the industry magazine “InStyle”, the “Vogue” of nail studios.

Kerstin Weng is editor-in-chief there and has a capital "R" on her shirt.

What it stands for remains unclear.

It cannot be “reach”, because “InStyle” has been consistently losing circulation for years.

“In addition to the“ R ”, she also has a professional photographer with her.

For what, also puzzling.

Ah wait.

Then maybe the "R" stands for "riddle"?

In the “InStyle puzzle book” the question of the week is today: Why is there a photographer when the girls are then photographed by a passport photo machine?

Sounds illogical at first, but think about it: If you had a star chef and a kitchen, what would be missing for a very good restaurant?

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Exactly - a snack machine. Then the star chef can stand next to the snack machine all evening and comment professionally why one guest is having a Snickers and the other a sloppy avocado sandwich. A concept for which it would rain Michelin stars. Here the “InStyle” is on the trail of a very big trend. Many successful influencers have not used iPhones for a long time, but always carry a photo booth with them so that they can take a spontaneous selfie of themselves at the crucial moment.

Ana is accordingly confused, but remembers her favorite film “When the photobox rings twice” in good time and is creative: “I also want to work with my legs”. Good tactic in a machine that is half a square meter. A bit like saying in a vegan restaurant, you would like to try something with pork meat. Ana is correspondingly dissatisfied with her result: "It was harder than I thought". Only correct grammar is more difficult. Of course there is no job for it. Liliana gets it. Kerstin is a little enthusiastic about her: “First of all, you have to manage to give an intense look through sunglasses”. Nobody has succeeded in doing this for a long time. Last Superman, but he also had a laser eye.

Immediately afterwards there is the big “InStyle” shoot and Kerstin Weng announces: “We're going to do a photo shoot with sunglasses today”. In a nutshell, you think: Then why all the casting effort? But the all-clear: Liliana is also there. And of course the star photographer, whose name I unfortunately cannot remember. Even Heidi can't help me spontaneously. Obviously he's not one of her 250 favorite photographers. In any case, the photographer hit the jackpot today. During the casting, he stood by the photo booth, doing nothing. Logically, one believes that the shoot is now in its prime. But then the shock: Liliana should take her pictures on her own with a self-timer. The photographer is standing around as uselessly in the area as I did when teams were chosen in physical education.

Romina: “I think Thomas Hayo has such a calm aura.

You come into the room, it shines, it looks at you, it perceives you "

Source: ProSieben / Richard Hübner

At the same time, Alex wins the casting for the designer Galvan and Dascha the one for a hair tie manufacturer.

Quite rightly, because: “I love my hair, you can do anything with it!” Coffee, for example, or washing up.

Dasha is satisfied.

Quite different from Romina.

Two auditions messed up in one day, it sucks your nerves.

In the meantime, bets are running that Hendrik Streeck would probably rather make an accurate corona forecast than Romina win a casting.

Full of self-doubt, she speaks to her boyfriend in the evening via video call.

A dialogue for the history books:

"No job again, as a model I'm always too small!"

“You are doing a great job!

Don't make yourself so small! "

Sentences like this are the reason why size expert Stefano Klein ... uh, Zarrella, has more airtime this season than Luca, for example.

But Romina still has one chance: the Fashion Week casting on the following day.

With designer Kilian Kerner you always automatically feel the impulse to pronounce your name in French.

Unfortunately he is German.

At least he doesn't have a "B." between his first and last name like his grandfather Johannes.

And he also does not present any quiz shows on ZDF.

But he looks like the illegitimate son of Rammstein singer Till Lindemann and Sophia Thomalla.

Surprised faces: Yasmin, Dascha, Ana, Elisa, Soulin, Alex, Liliana, Luca, Romina and Ashley

Source: ProSieben / Richard Hübner

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Luca is particularly excited because: "We know Heidi's sentence - a model without a job is not a model".

And that's true.

Also a law of the fashion industry: a sweater without sleeves is not a sweater and GNTM without Thomas Hayo is not a GNTM.

That is why the High German team made up of plus quamperfectionist Klum and Denglish mastermind Hayo will be present again in person for the final casting.

However, initially hidden behind a roller door.

Attitude-Allstar Hayo has done his homework and donated a triple of the high school of Anglicism:

1. "Being here feels like homecoming"

2. "We watch under the radar"

3. "Ashley talks about her personality"

And what else was going on?

Designer Kilian Kerner is looking for models for Berlin Fashion Week: Can Liliana convince him of herself?

Source: ProSieben / Richard Hübner

And that's true, because Ashley is not only a model and law student, but also a philosopher: "There is this cliché that models are stupid, but that is out of date, models can be very diverse". It doesn't quite have the cult potential of "Just because you're pretty doesn't mean you're stupid - you can be both," but it has class. But it's still not enough for the Kerner job. Dasha gets it. Double victory for the hair tie model from Solingen. She convinces Kilian Kerner, although he had asked himself at the beginning: “I've never booked a curvy model, why should I change my concept for you?” Well, I'm not an expert, but maybe because “No Curvys” isn't one Concept, but a diversity and sympathy killer?

Kilian B. Kerner has made the right decision and opens his horizons to models who do not fit in size 32.

During the subsequent sifting, Heidi Klum initially distributes a few criticisms.

The biggest thing about Romina, the Schalke 04 of the season: "You had a lot of chances, but few results".

She is allowed to stay anyway.

This week it hits Elisa.

She has to go.

With only nine candidates left, we'll all meet here again next week.

Until then, MFG!

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Marie von den Benken is on Twitter and Instagram as @Regendelfin, she is from Hamburg, model and author.

In addition, she writes every week on ICONIST about the big and small dramas at “Germany's Next Topmodel”.

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