“Germany’s Next Topmodel”
Heidi Klum chooses a winner
Which two will be Heidi Klum’s new top models?
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The new season of “Germany’s Next Top Model” will be completely different than before. There should be two winners, as Heidi Klum revealed.
With the start of the season on February 15th, something like a new era begins for the casting show “Germany’s Next Top Model” (ProSieben). Because for the first time there will be two winners. This is what the chief juror reveals Heidi Klum (50) herself in an interview with the Funke program magazines “TV Digital”, “TVdirekt” and “Hörzu”.
We are looking for a winner
“In the end there will be a winner and a winner, not just a ‘Germany’s Next Top Model’,” she delivers the happy news. But of course that brings with it a rat’s tail and so she adds in relation to her cult sentence: “So it’s no longer true that ‘there can only be one’.” And that’s apparently the end of it, because “I call my male candidates ‘my men’,” says Klum and immediately enthuses: “I have chosen real dream men.”
As an example, she cites 50-year-old Marvin, “a real prince from Africa. His father is a king from Ghana.” He has curves and looks fantastic with them. Twins are also competing for the first time. “In the past, twins have often applied, but so far there have never been any that really appealed to me,” she says. “I see huge potential with Julian and Luca – they are both just great,” said Klum. The same applies to Aldin and Linus.
The fans can’t hope for best agers this time, but there are petite models there. “I still think it’s extremely important to think diversely and to provide a reflection on the catwalk of what we see on the street – real life! And in that we all look different,” says Klum on the topic of diversity, which she has also highlighted in her show since 2021.
Heidi Klum announces different tests
There is also an innovation in the challenges: “The candidates will have different tests – because there are still differences,” she says.
She gives two examples of this: For example, “men in Paris, Milan, London and New York don’t walk in high heels, even if it happens now and then,” says Klum. Female models could also be “transformed with wigs and make-up”.
Is there a mixed model shared apartment?
The fact that this time women and men are taking part in the show for the first time will also have an impact on how the candidates live together in the model villa in Los Angeles, California. “The bedrooms will be separate, although ultimately the participants are all of age. They are all adults, not children, so I’m not worried,” says Klum. Because she will nominate men and women separately, she will also separate them in the accommodation, she explains.
The successful entrepreneur promises that “there will be a community area where they can cook, eat and relax together.”
And what happens to the cover shoot?
Loyal viewers already suspect that something has to change: the cover shoot. Until now, at the home stretch of every casting show there was a cover shoot with the remaining participants. In the finale, the cover of the winner was revealed and she was announced.
The show creator generously promises how it will work this time: “My winner and my winner will each get a cover on ‘Harper’s Bazaar’ and a 100,000 euro winner’s bonus.”