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The Set-Up | EP 1

The Set-Up | EP 1

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Tyra Banks screamed it, but was she ever really rooting for these girls? In the series opener, host Bridget Armstrong explores one of ANTM’s biggest criticisms—that the show didn’t create any top models. We go back to the beginning to figure out how this germ of an idea in Tyra Banks’ imagination ended up on our screens. We talk about Tyra’s accomplice, ANTM Executive Producer Ken Mok, and explore how America’s Next Top Model was built on a formula of entertainment, desperation, and humiliation.

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Watching re runs of ANTM and it's just not even funny. The way they spoke to those girls and humiliated them.... Naomi Campbell was right all along.

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