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VH1 Preps Show About Ugly Chicks

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MODEL MATERIAL? Betty
Would Ugly Betty make a good reality show? VH1 may soon find out. The cable network is developing a new show called America The Ugly that's said to be inspired, in a roundabout way, by ABC's hit sitcom (itself a copy of the Spanish-language show Betty La Fea).

The premise: What happens when unattractive women are thrown into the high-glam environment of the fashion and modeling industries? On hand to make sure the contestants feel sufficiently bad about themselves will be Becky Southwick, best known as the salty-tongued Wilhelmina Models executive who was forever castigating her girls for being too fat on VH1's The Agency. Southwick, who now works at Trump Model Management, confirms that she shot a pilot, but says she hasn't been told whether the show is being picked up. "I'm not even confirmed for it, anyway, so I don't know what's happening with it," she says. "I've got other things of my own going on."

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Ugly, just like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. So does this mean that short girls who are cute (but not "beautiful" because in the eyes of the media, anyone under 5'5" can't be BEAUTIFUL. Sexy, yes. Pretty, yes. BUT NOT ELEGANT!!!) can qualify too? Or true blue plain janes?

And why on EARTH is it called America the Ugly? Isn't this insulting the very actress playing Betty??

Posted by: PRgal on June 27, 2007 11:43 AM

Ugly, just like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. So does this mean that short girls who are cute (but not "beautiful" because in the eyes of the media, anyone under 5'5" can't be BEAUTIFUL. Sexy, yes. Pretty, yes. BUT NOT ELEGANT!!!) can qualify too? Or true blue plain janes?

And why on EARTH is it called America the Ugly? Isn't this insulting the very actress playing Betty??

Posted by: PRgal on June 27, 2007 11:43 AM

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