I can't believe there isn't already a thread about this -- a reality show "search for the world's most gorgeous male model".

Bravo for Bravo?

"Bravo turns the world of modeling on its high-heels by focusing the camera on the ever-neglected world of male fashion models with the first-ever search for the hottest male model. Watch as unsuspecting men are plucked from the streets and invited to participate in a series of challenges to determine who has the looks, style, stamina and charisma to be a male supermodel. Manhunt: The Search for America's Most Gorgeous Male Model will break fashion industry stereotypes as a group of young newcomers compete for the ultimate prize: a $100,000 contract with top international modeling agency, IMG."

I saw a commecial for this the other day. WOW! A LOT of hotties! This makes it official: Bravo IS the gayest network on TV!

Someone stop me before I move to Arkansas and chase after Hunter. GORGEOUS.

Tivo here I come.

I was going to say I will be missing the Queer Eyes, but I guess shaved, muscular, lean, toned, taut men will have do for me. wink

Looking at the bios I've found 3 gays so far: Rob, Ron and John.

If Hunter is not gay and doesn't marry me there is absolutely no justice in the world.

Interesting collection of men...I like Rob's q&a and bio, the fact that he's cute and gay. But as always I fall for the exotic and Paulo is very hot--ego and all.
Will at least check out the first episode.

Wow. That must have been hard work to review all of those bios and pictures to find the three openly gay guys!

Yes, very hard I'm sure.

I kinda liked Matt right from page one, I think it was the eyes.

Hunter, Kevin P., Micah and Paulo would round out my short list.

I also had a quick fantasy flash in which I seduced Mormon boy Brett but I'm sure that just me.

maybe there will be someone else. Some of the guys in the question about relationship status have gave answers not specifying the gender of the person they are looking for (one added that he likes athletic butts)

[ October 08, 2004, 12:41 PM: Message edited by: andrea ]

Did you need to actually READ Rob's bio to find out he was gay??

Based purely on looks (and from what I understand, that's the entire modeling industry), my picks for the final two are Hunter and Casey C.W.

You read it here first.

Me too. I'm a sucker for the "boy next door" look.

In another thread there's a rant going against the use of the term "straight-acting" for all its implications and inaccuracies.

Maybe I should start a similar rant here about the term "boy next door look." When I was growing up, none of the "boys next door" to me ever looked like that! If they did, I'd still be living at home wink

Maurice, no doubt. He looks like a Sean John model with the pronounced features. His skin is nice and smooth. It reminds me of Jason Taylor. The two of them together...wow.

It's on tonight! I guess I'll be staying up late to watch. Damn me for volutneering for work tonight!! :mad:

I love the bios where they try to out-do each other by showing off about their hard-luck lives, where the spunky little f**kers manage to overcome death, divorce and disappointment by, um, working out. Inspiring stuff. I think Hunter or Matt will win. Most of the guys aren't model material. Which isn't surprising. It's like that Tyra Banks show, where they cast them for what they think will be compelling/dramatic personalities or to have a balance of types.

TomFord, I think you're right. If someone has the model look, they're probably already discovered and doing well. It's like American Idol, if you're already an excellent singer, then you don't need Simon Cowell to launch your career. So definitely TV plays into who gets chosen for these reality talent shows. Wait, is modeling a talent? I guess if they have Miss America.

Here's what real working models look like.

Paulo is okay, but he needs to realize that his true calling is in Kristen Bjorn movies.

batboy, it's not a talent, it's a calling!

You mean like Ryan?

Just my opinion, but all but two or three of this "Top 50" look downright strange to me!

Matthew Lanter. Atlanta Braves batboy. OH. MY. GOSH! I have just witnessed my future husband.

Yeah, like Ryan, who's so hot right now. Seriously.

I just saw Manhunt. They really just cast a bunch of freaks. And no models at all. Except Matt. What a gruesome show.

Exactly, and that's what makes a successful male model. What works for male models is either quirky facial characteristics or a face that is so devoid of quirkiness that it can be molded to fit into almost any style. That's why most of these guys are not real model material. Sure, most of them are scorching hot, but what makes a guy hot in the real world rarely works for top models. These guys would make great Undergear catalog models, except for John and Rob who look the most like typical fashion models.

SPOILER ALERT -- there is a clue in this reply that can lead you to identify who the "stealth model" is... a friend of mine called during the show to tell me that he saw the product of person X's work.

Yes, a friend of mine told me the same thing...but he told me which model it is. :mad:

I know who you're talking about... I wonder if he's really the stealth model. It wouldn't be much of a secret since he's been in the "that work" for at least a year now. I'm assuming most of the guys on that show have seen "that work" at least once, and I'm pretty sure they would recognize him. He's even on the cover of "that work" fairly often. It just seems too obvious.

If it's an Undergear kind of look, I would guess that it's Kevin P. He's got a catalog underwear look. He's also got the standard issue haircut.

Kevin P. was on the "Are You Hot?" show on ABC a couple of years back. He was actually a lot bigger then and has debulked (is that a word?) quite a lot.

Just do a search on "Kevin Peake model". Again, if he's the secret professional model, it wasn't much of a secret.

Someone please explain to me how tandem skydiving in your Calvins makes you a better team player. I've tandem jumped, and there's no "team" about it -- when he goes, you go.

Also? White Calvins, black boots and 70s Ray-Bans? Not a good look. On anyone.

Save Hunter, Matthew and Kevin P (provided he had a massive ego-ectomy) there's not even any good eye candy. And don't even get me started on the You Can Only Be A Male Model If You're Completely Smooth shite, but I had to laugh when they gave them Nair. Jeebus...

What. Utter. Crap.

[ October 13, 2004, 09:54 AM: Message edited by: dwb56 ]

I think the point in making them skydive in their tightie whities was to see who would put up a huge fuss and refuse to do it. I thought it was funny on the way there, one of the guys said, "Did they tell you to make sure to wear underwear today?" I'd have gladly accepted the Nair for Men (hell, I'd have already brought some with me!) but being forced to wear underwear is where my protesting would have begun.

[ October 13, 2004, 10:06 AM: Message edited by: bobby78751 ]

If you were looking for some type of Shakespearean tragedy, you are definitely watching the wrong show!




[ October 13, 2004, 10:25 AM: Message edited by: Allen ]

Allen, what's disappointing about this show (and shows like this in general) is not that they're something short of Shakespeare, but that they're billed as the best X vying to be the winner X--with X here being good looking male models. And then you watch it and it's a mostly bunch of delusional guys (I'm thinking of John especially) who are downright scary looking, and have zero prospects as real working models. It's a crock (or, alternatively, we're dupes for ever thinking a reality competition show on Bravo would live up to its hype).

OK, does anyone think the editing has also thrown this show out of the water? It just seems so poorly edited. I mean, you watch this "premiere" show and you already feel like you've missed two or three episodes. And what does Carmen Elecktra actually do as a host? She doesn't even introduce the show or any of the segments. She just goes and takes pictures for the marketing of the show!

And that former model turned drill sergeant is a bit scary. Although I have to say his portfolio of his hey-day makes him look hot when he was younger.

This is a weird show, even when you're trying to watch it just for the eye candy. The only highlight for me last night was when they were at the A/X store and they were welcomed by the creative director. That guy should be a model, he looked totally hot to me. I wanted to see more screen time of that hunk!

The eye candy is fun! I just wish this was the male version of Tyra's reality show. Now, THAT'S a riot!

It's harmless fluff since the Queer Eyes are off for a spell.

The way he was barking orders, some guys would find him a total turn-on...he'd make me lock my doors!

I'll admit it ... the barking was a turn on.

batboy, it looked like they had, say, 10 episodes (I'm making up the numbers), and then they were forced to edit it down to 8. They probably meant to have an episode about the audition process, and then they had to cut it out. And where is Carmen? I really like her.

The ex-model drill sargent bragging about his past accomplishments was risible. It's like an over the hill beauty queen bragging about how she was Miss Texas in 1983--talking about it yourself just makes you look somehow pathetic, even if it's true. Besides, like it means anything to be on over 100 TV commercials--shit, there's a trillion of them, so someone's got to do them. And, like one of the guys said, we sure don't recognize him, so what does that say about success as a male model? It would have looked better if they had someone else telling them about his past.

Yeah, the A/X creative director was way cooler looking than the guys in the contest.

For all my complaining, I sure have a lot to say about it!

High on the Cringe Meter for me was when they were skydiving and they played "It's Raining Men".

But I will agree with the woman from A/X that Kevin's @ss looked amazing in those low rise jeans.

[ October 13, 2004, 01:26 PM: Message edited by: aquaman ]

TomFord is my new best friend. Let's not watch this shite together, shall we, TF?

Look, I don't expect this to be Shakespeare, "Survivor" or even "7th Heaven." What I might expect is some scrap of insight into what it takes to become a successful male model. Which I seriously doubt includes flinging yourself out of an airplane at 15,000 feet in your boxer briefs or being told by an aging model no one's ever heard of (what, they couldn't get Jeff Aquilon?) to drop trou in the desert. There's skanks and crying? Oh, yay! Except for the ew. And the eye-rolling.

Mind you, I like mindless eye candy fluff as much as the next guy -- I used to watch "Smallville" before it got too stupid -- but if you're going to give me eye candy then hold the damn camera still and stop editing it like you're on a three-day P&P bender with Tina (and Tina Turner's choreographer).

Man, this makes "BlowJob" -- sorry, "BlowOut" -- look like "The Sopranos."

BTW, for some reason, part of the show does involve competitive games. That was mentioned early on last night. I thought that Carman was also there when the first 10 were booted off at the start of the show. I suspect she will be more involved as the show goes on.

I was home sick today and dial flipped across Bravo about 1/4 of the way into this train wreck. As others have noted, these guys just aren't that great to make it worth tuning in for eye candy. I see better looking guys at my gym on a daily basis.

As for the women all falling all over these "studs" while they were shopping, here's a newsflash. Were it not for the TV cameras and the other hubbub that must have been going on as a result, these bimbos would have continued their shopping and not given most of these guys a second look.

This wasn't even so-bad-it's-good bad; it was just baaaadddddd.

Sigh, watching Manhunt makes me want "BlowOut" to return. At least the editing was more professional and engaging. And the celebrity hairdresser had all the neuroses to make him a real character. I love watching people implode dressed in Versace!

Watched the show last evening. Id say its total crap other than the fact you have hot boys to look at. So Ill still watch it! LOL


Hunter reminds me of Theo from the Real World in his pixie like charm. Sounds gay but too country to even be gay.

Id say the hottest one on there right now is Jon, the astrophysics student. He just has that surfer, dark exotic look. But not so exotic youd find him in the Amazon or anything.

2nd runner up is John, just on his sexy eyes. He kinda reminds me of Jim Breuer which is not a good thing. Unless youre into smokin weed.

Maybe it's because every reality show has these competitions. Because, after all, it is reality. It's true! Many days I'm at work and suddenly I'm told that in order to not be fired, I have to eat some pig rectum or slimy worms and coagulated blood made to look like spaghetti,* or I have to run outside and harass people into buying lemonade from me, or I have to jump out of a plane in my underwear.

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* Actual "Fear Factor" stunts!

A friend tells me that if you're a fan of "America's Next Top Model," you'll probably find this show hilarious. If not, you'll probably just find it mildly amusing.

And WTF was going on with Micah? "I'm ambitious, but I'm not gonna go down on some guy," etc., etc. Why is he telling us this? No wonder he was cut early.

Is that available on the Internet? eek! wink

It can be, for the right price.

I dare say more people would probably tune in to watch Joe's Boxer Plunge (working title!) than for the debut of Messhunt, er, I mean Manhunt. According to TV Guide "only 453,000 gay men and women caught the first episode of Bravo's vapid model romp, Manhunt". At least it beat McEnroe's
talk show!