Get Gorgeous
Get Gorgeous was an Indian reality television show and model talent search that premiered in 2004 by one of India’s music channels, Channel V India. The show was formatted by Kaveri Mehrotra while Amar Deb was the head of the channel. Get Gorgeous was about discovering the next face of modeling in India.
| Get Gorgeous | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Reality television |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language(s) | English, Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 78 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 41–43 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | Star India Channel V India |
| Picture format | |
| Original release | July 1, 2004 – November 21, 2010 |
Seasons
| Season | Premiere date | Winner | Runner up | Number of contestants | Destination |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 July 2004 | Aarohi Mishra Archana Vijaya Natasha Suri Tanvi Singh |
16 |  Goa Mumbai  Rome | |
| 2 | 23 April 2005 | Priyanka Shah | 16 | Goa Mumbai | |
| 3 | 2006 | Anurita Jha Meenal Thakur |
15 | Goa Mumbai | |
| 4 | 7 June 2005 | Rachel Varghese | Rebecca Maumkel | 10 | Goa Mumbai |
| 5 | 16 May 2008 | Iris Maity | Gwendolyn Athaide Salome Narayana Polaki |
10 | Kerala Mumbai  Paris |
| 6 | 29 August 2010 | Preeti Chauhan Rajat Dahiya |
Roushni Das† Udit Methi |
20 | Goa Mumbai Delhi |
Get Gorgeous 1
The show’s first season aired in July 1, 2004 with the finale on September 23, 2004.[1] It had 6,000 entries received and 16 finalists were taken to the coast of Goa. The season was hosted by designers Hemant Trivedi and Aparna Chandra, with make-up artist Ambika Pillai, choreographers Tanya and Aparna Behl, fitness guru Mickey Mehta and lensman Sameer Parekh as judges.
The show’s prizes for this season include walking for designer Suneet Verma at Rome Fashion Week and a contract with Elite Model Management in India. The four winners were Aarohi Mishra, Archana Vijaya,[2] Natasha Suri[3] and Tanvi Singh.
Season 1 Contestants
| Name | Age | Hometown |
|---|---|---|
| Aarohi Mishra | 18 | Bangalore |
| Abha | 23 | Delhi |
| Anjali | 19 | Mumbai |
| Arohi | 18 | Bangalore |
| Archana Vijaya | 21 | Kolkata |
| Asha B. R. | 20 | Bangalore |
| Drashta | 23 | Delhi |
| Lakshmi | 23 | Chennai |
| Latika | 21 | Delhi |
| Mihika Verma | 19 | Mumbai |
| Natasha B. | 17 | Mumbai |
| Natasha Sethi | 20 | Mumbai |
| Natasha Suri | 20 | Mumbai |
| Sanya Aslam Shaikh | 17 | Mumbai |
| Sapna | 23 | Bangalore |
| Tanvi Singh | 20 | Bhopal |
Get Gorgeous 2
The second season first aired in April 23, 2005 with the finale in July 16, 2005 and it was hosted by season 1 winner Archana Vijaya.[4] The prizes include: a talent contract with Channel V India, a modelling contract with Elite Model Management in India, a campaign for LG CDMA and will be walking at India Fashion Week. The winner of this season was Priyanka Shah.[5]
Season 2 Contestants
| Name |
|---|
| Chahat Sabaji |
| Kanika Khanna |
| Mahima Chaudhary |
| Malika Jan |
| Priyanka Shah |
| Sudharani Gupta |
| Tina Desai |
| Tina Noronha |
| Tanushree Biswas |
Get Gorgeous 3
The third season first aired in 2006, and had fifteen finalists. The prizes include: a talent contract with Channel V India and a modelling contract with Matrix Model Management in India. The winners of this season were Anurita Jha and Meenal Thakur.[6]
Season 3 Contestants
| Name |
|---|
| Andrea Wiltshire |
| Anurita Jha |
| Dimple Anand |
| Dipitha Shayan |
| Jyothi Mahadev |
| Meenal Thakur |
| Rucha Gawas |
| Rupalee Yadav |
| Swetha Reddy |
Get Gorgeous 4
The fourth season aired on June 7, 2007.[7] The season's host was Samantha Kocchar, with Alison Kanuga and Shantanu & Nikhil judging. The 10 finalists travelled to the Swaswara resort in Goa. The prizes include: a talent contract with Channel V India and a modelling contract with Elite Model Management in India. The winner of the season was Rachel Varghese.[8]
The Grand Finale had over 1,000 guests visiting the live runway. The anchor of the live show was Channel V's VJ Pia Trivedi. During the taping of the season, Channel [V] allowed a blogger from Trendy.com to live among the contestants and collect exclusive behind-the-scenes material for a section of the show's website called “The Gorgeous Blogger”.
Contestants
| Name | Age | Place |
|---|---|---|
| Sarika | 10 | |
| Mizpah Waters | 24 | 9 |
| Sneha | 8-7 | |
| Nina Sarkar | ||
| Kirtana Krishnan | 6 | |
| Arlette Evita Grao | 5-4 | |
| Arika Silaichia | ||
| Nidhi Sunil | 3 | |
| Rebecca Maumkel | 2 | |
| Rachel Varghese | 19 | 1 |
Get Gorgeous 5
The fifth season aired in May 16, 2008 and with the finale on July 26, 2008. This season was hosted again by VJ Pia Trivedi. Indian Supermodels Diandra Soares and Gauhar Khan were judges. The 10 finalists travelled to Kerala. This season garnered an average of 10 million viewers, making it the highest rated season of the show's history.
The winner of the season was Iris Maity, beating Gwen Athaide and Salome Narayana Polaki in the finale. She receive:[9]
- A talent contract with Channel V worth ₹1.000.000
- A modelling contract with ICE Model Management
- A trip to Paris to feature in a shoot for Christian Dior
- An exclusive splash feature in L'Officiel
| Name | Age | Place |
|---|---|---|
| Sameera | 10 | |
| Lavanya Tripathi | 18 | 9 |
| Roopa | 8 | |
| Aarushi Kadam | 19 | 7 |
| Aarohi Kadam | 22 | 6-4 |
| Anjali Raut | 21 | |
| Saterah Nour | 18 | |
| Gwendolyn Athaide | 3-2 | |
| Salome Narayana Polaki | ||
| Iris Maity | 15 | 1 |
Get Gorgeous 6
The sixth season aired in August 29, 2010[10] and with the finale on November 21, 2010. This season was hosted by VJ Andy. Indian Supermodels Sahil Shroff and Neha Kapur were the new judges. After 2 years gap, the show return with 20 brand new contestant, including male contestant for the first time. The prizes include: a talent contract with Channel V India and a modelling contract with Kwan Model Management.
The winner of the season was Preeti Chauhan & Rajat Dahiya.
| Name | Age | Hometown | Outcome | Place | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gauri | Episode 2 | 20-19 | |||
| Michael Obidike | 25 | Nashik | |||
| Charudutt Sapra | 21 | New Delhi | Episode 3 | 18 | |
| Tanya Nambiar | 23 | New Delhi | Episode 4 | 17 | |
| Shibani Suvarna | 23 | Pune | Episode 5 | 16 | |
| Pankaj Tanvar | 21 | Haryana | Episode 6 | 15 | |
| Ankit Raj | 22 | New Delhi | Episode 7 | 14-13 | |
| Hazel Sobti | 21 | Goa | |||
| Asmita Sood | 21 | Shimla | Episode 8 | 12 | |
| Samridh Bawa | 20 | Mumbai | Episode 9 | 11 | |
| Asif Sataar | 21 | Kashmir | Episode 10 | 10-9 | |
| Mruga Kurkani | 19 | Pune | |||
| Riddhima Shahani | 20 | Pune | Episode 11 | 8 | |
| Veir Dhillon | 20 | Pune | Episode 12 | 7 | |
| Bharat Sharma | 25 | Mumbai | 6-5 | ||
| Jenny Ghottra | 23 | Toronto, Canada | |||
| Roushni Das†[11] | 18 | Mumbai | Episode 13 | 4-3 | |
| Udit Methi | 23 | Pune | |||
| Preeti Chauhan | 23 | New Delhi | 2-1 | ||
| Rajat Dahiya | 22 | New Delhi | |||
Results
| Place | Model | Episodes | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 | 4[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2] | 6 | 7 | 8[lower-alpha 3] | 9 | 10 | 11[lower-alpha 4] | 12[lower-alpha 5] | 13 | ||||||||||||
| 1-2 | Preeti | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | LOW | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WINNER | ||||||||||
| Rajat | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | SAFE | LOW | WINNER | |||||||||||||
| 3-4 | Roushni | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | LOW | LOW | LOW | OUT | ||||||||||
| Udit | LOW | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | LOW | SAFE | LOW | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | |||||||||||
| 6-5 | Bharat | SAFE | LOW | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | |||||||||||
| Jenny | SAFE | SAFE | LOW | OUT | SAFE | OUT | ||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Veir | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | LOW | SAFE | OUT | |||||||||||
| 8 | Riddhima | LOW | SAFE | SAFE | LOW | SAFE | LOW | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | ||||||||||||
| 10-9 | Asif | LOW | SAFE | SAFE | LOW | SAFE | LOW | SAFE | OUT | |||||||||||||
| Mruga | SAFE | OUT | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Samridh | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | ||||||||||||||
| 12 | Asmita | SAFE | SAFE | LOW | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | |||||||||||||||
| 13-14 | Ankit | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | ||||||||||||||||
| Hazel | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | |||||||||||||||||
| 15 | Pankaj | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | |||||||||||||||||
| 16 | Shibani | SAFE | SAFE | LOW | OUT | |||||||||||||||||
| 17 | Tanya | LOW | LOW | OUT | ||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | Charudutt | SAFE | OUT | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19-20 | Gauri | OUT | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Michael | OUT | |||||||||||||||||||||
- The contestant was eliminated
- The contestant was eliminated outside of judging panel
- The contestant won the competition
- In episode 4, Tanya was eliminated from the casting challenge. Because of that, Mruga, who was eliminated last week, return to the competition.
- In episode 5, Asmita, Jenny & Shibani, who was in the bottom in the last episode, have a shoot-out in swimsuit at the pool, and Shibani was eliminated on that battle. The elimination in episode 5 was not shown, which carried over into the episode 6.
- The elimination result in episode 8 was not shown, which carried over into the first half of episode 9.
- In episode 11, Jenny & Rajat return to the competition for having the most audience's vote.
- In episode 12, Veir was eliminated for the worst performance on the commercial.The elimination result in episode 8 was not shown, which carried over into the first half of episode 13.
Challenges
- Episode 2 photo shoot: Makeover
- Episode 3 photo shoot: Swimsuit calendar
- Episode 4 commercial: Garnier product in pair
- Episode 5 commercial: Garnier product
- Episode 6 photo shoot: Homosexuality couple
- Episode 7 photo shoot: Adam and Eve
- Episode 8 video shoot & commercial: Bollywood couple; Scooty Pep motorbike in group
- Episode 9 commercial & photo shoot: LG Cookie smartphone in group; Rich and poor style
- Episode 10 photo shoot: Vampire romance on the air in pair
- Episode 11 photo shoot: Hair & Care campaign
- Episode 12 commercial & photo shoot: Mumbai Underworld online game; Editorial shoot for Grazia in pair
- Episode 13 runway: India Fashion Week 2010
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