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It was over before it began. When Make Me a Supermodel contestant Kerryn got her walking papers last week, the writing was on the wall: nerd-a-licious local, Colin Steers, would be the next to go. Kerryn’s ouster meant innocent Colin’s lessons in Carnal Knowledge 101 would remain incomplete, and without the possibility of the Charlottesville virgin’s public deflowering on cable TV, the show’s producers could no longer justify keeping the modeling novice in the catwalking pack.

Furthering the dismal prognosis for Colin’s fate was his first camera confessional this week, in which he talked about how much he’d progressed and geekily made a graph with his arms, concluding, “I’m not going home this week— no, no.” Sigh. Reality TV Rule #6: Whichever contestant talks about “not going home” and (more)

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Colin Steers
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This week on Make Me a Supermodel (Wednesday, 10pm, BravoTV), the budding romance between underwear-sporting Gabriel and single mom Amanda continued to blossom (with baby talk and mock fights nauseating everyone else in the wannabe models’ house). Salome, meanwhile, lamented being “fat.” And Sandhurst…

What’s that you’re mumbling? Just tell you what happened to geek-a-licious local, Colin Steers? Well, fortunately and unfortunately, Charlottesville’s favorite reality star didn’t spend much time on camera this episode– fortunately because lack of air time boded well for his survival, and unfortunately because hungry Colin fans received only crumbs to nibble.

For this week’s photo shoot, Bravo’s creative team, in its sadistic (more)

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Colin Steers
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Last week, brainiac Colin Steers, Charlottesville’s least likely reality star, narrowly avoided elimination on Make Me a Supermodel (Wednesday, 10pm, BravoTV), gasping, “That was the scariest thing in the world!” as he embraced fellow contestants after exiting the catwalk (apparently, facing down model mentor Nicole Trunfio is the same as nuclear Armageddon).

This week, the Carleton College student awoke to host Tyson Beckford in drill-sergeant fatigues banging pans. After a bone-jangling trip in the back of a camouflaged truck, Colin and his fellow model wannabes arrived at a naval warship, where Beckford informed them that they would work in groups of three for this week’s photo challenge and play “military personnel sneaking off to engage in an illicit, erotic encounter.”

Colin, whose virginity has been established as the series’ primary subplot, confessed to the camera, “A twosome would have been a good starting point (more)

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After three weeks of steady progress for Charlottesville’s nerd-a-licious Colin Steers on Make Me a Supermodel (Wednesdsay, 9pm, BravoTV), the first 12 minutes of this week’s episode came as a shock. Where was our boy? It was a virtual Colin-free zone on the small screen.

The model wannabes received their photo assignment: work with mirrors to create a “window into who you really are,” with the photographer advising them to be “memorable, confrontational, and raw.”

The reward? Two winners would pick two others, and the four would head to Montreal Fashion Week for the chance to walk in a show. As the contestants demonstrated various permutations of narcissism, there was virtually no sign of Central Virginia’s prettiest son.

But after the first commercial break, the show ominously (more)

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Colin Steers.

Last week Charlottesville’s hottest nerd, college student Colin Steers, got his bobbing head under control and successfully walked on to another week of Make Me a Supermodel (Wednest, 9pm, BravoTV). This week the series turned its attention to other contestants— surly CJ of the bad attitude and Gabriel of it’s-always-a-good-time-to-walk-around-in-your-underwear— and focused less on our sweet boy of the fine mind and good manners (which, although it left Colin fans wanting more, was a good indication that he would not go home).

During the photo challenge, the model wanna-bes arrived at a football field, where they were wired into harnesses and told to perform aerial sports poses. The photographer advised, “I’m really looking for a strong sense of motion,” while model mentor Nicole reminded the models to heed their facial expressions. The photographer paired Colin with Branden, last week’s overall winner. Although not the brightest light— on the first episode, he announced he was “especially not gay,” and last week he called women’s breasts (more)

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Colin Steers (Photo courtesy of BravoTV)

When we last left Central Virginia’s favorite mathlete-turned-model, Colin Steers, he had barely squeaked through the first episode of Make Me a Supermodel (BravoTV, Wednesdays, 10pm). Having had his catwalk appearance likened to a bobble-headed dog, Colin began this week’s episode by practicing his walk in the contestants’ house, noting in a voiceover, “My first trip down the runway was pretty much a total blackout.”

So went Colin’s first snippet selected by the editors, who rifle through miles of footage to craft dramatic personae and individual storylines. Colin, at this point, has been cast as the earnest newbie who is in over his (bobbing) head and whose sexual innocence is ripe for the plundering. In real life, he’s a pre-med student at Carleton College who spends school breaks working with University of Virginia neuroscientists. But there’s not even a hint of intellectual smugness to his bright-eyed and bushy-tailed character who always tries his best.

For this week’s photo challenge, the model wanna-bes stripped down (yes, oglers, the show serves up soft porn on a weekly basis) for their transformation into candy. Host Tyson Beckford advised (more)

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Barboursville’s Isabella Falk (L) and Charlottesville’s Colin Steers (R).

For three hours on Wednesday night, March 4, two pretty young things from Central Virginia displayed their genetic gifts on national TV, striking poses on a playground and in a suspended Lucite box, all in the hope of becoming the fiercest human clothes hangers in the world (or at least on cable TV). But only one survived to strut the catwalk another day.

Isabella isn’t bella enough

On America’s Next Top Model’s two-hour premiere, Barboursville’s own Isabella Falk was among the 34 finalists who squealed together in Las Vegas as they clamored to be the fiercest of them all, or at least among the 13 contestants chosen for the show.

The 19-year-old blonde first had to don a skimpy white tunic in an effort to become the next “Goddess of Fierce,” by striking her “most fierce goddess pose” and fiercely walking on clouds (well, through a fog of dry ice). Among her competition: a self-proclaimed Jesus freak, a conspiracy theorist, (more)

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