Recently, Netflix aired a documentary about America’s Next Top Model, and there were a lot of shocking reveals that came out of Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model.
The most shocking and horrifying reveal was that season 2 contestant, Shandi Sullivan, had blackout drunk sex with a man while the cameras rolled, and captured the moment, and no one in production stopped it from happening.
We were not the only ones who could not believe that production did nothing. Janice Dickinson, who was a judge that season, was also horrified by it.
The World’s First Supermodel made a video and shared her opinion on the situation. “I had absolutely no idea. I swear on my mother and children. If I had found out that was going on at the time, further, when Shandi got into bed at night, and the boy climbed into her bed, they were filming that with cameras in the bedroom. I do not think that is right, and I would have stopped production,” she said. “But when I heard about it, I was fucking livid. Because these young girls need to be protected.”
She then went on to say that she does not believe that cameras should be in the bedrooms and bathrooms, and she has not let production cross that line with her. But she can do that because she is Janice Dickinson. The girls who were on the show did not have the courage or confidence to do so because they were so young. That is why production should have protected them and not used them for ratings.
I believe in people over ratings. But that is me. And yes, I do sometimes watch a reality show for those shocking moments. So I am a guilty viewer. However, knowing what we know about what happened to Shandi, I believe we need to do more to protect the reality show stars. What do you think?
