The BBC is to launch a TV talent search for disabled models.
'Britain's Missing Top Model' will see eight women compete before a panel of industry experts.
The five-part series aims "to challenge preconceived notions of beauty". The winner will land a spread in a women's glossy magazine, shot by one of the world's top fashion photographers.
BBC3 controller Danny Cohen said: "This series aims to challenge the artificial boundaries that seem to exist in the beauty and fashion industries.
"It would be great if in the future we began to see more disabled models gracing the covers of the world's magazines."
The competition is open to disabled women aged between 18 and 30.
It has a similar format to 'America's Next Top Model', which was hosted by Tyra Banks. The eight finalists will live together in an apartment and complete a different challenge each week.
Industry experts will train them for photoshoots, location work and the catwalk.
The series will be supported by Ouch, the BBC's disability website, and is being made in consultation with Disability Action in Islington, North London.
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H.I.A. and Biosphere
Artist: H.I.A. and Biosphere
Genre(s):
Electronic
Discography:
Birmingham Frequencies
Year: 2000
Tracks: 7
Polar Sequences
Year: 1996
Tracks: 6
Coldplay nearly finished new album
Coldplay nearly finished new album
Coldplay are currently mixing their fourth, as-yet-untitled studio record, which their manager has described as the band's "best album".
Billboard.com reports that Coldplay began work on the album in November 2006 and have been collaborating with producers Brian Eno and Markus Dravs.
They plan to release the album in the early summer through longtime label EMI.
Speaking to Billboard.com about the album, the band's manager, Dave Holmes, said: "We're just about finished. They're in the final mixing. They'll start mastering, and away we go."
"They've really delivered. It's a fantastic record. They've really put the work in," he said.
Holmes said the album "definitely takes them in some different directions".
"I'm not a music critic, but it's certainly a progression, with some really great songwriting," he said.
Vaughn speaks of connection with Aniston
Ex Jackson praises K-Fed's parenting skills
Ex Jackson praises K-Fed's parenting skills
Kevin Federline's former mate Shar Jackson, world Health Organization has deuce children with him, has praised the rapper's parenting skills.
Federline is currently the primary winding legal defender of his deuce danton True Young sons with isaac Merrit Singer Britney Spears, wHO has had altogether her visitation rights stripped by the courts.
According to People mag, Michael Jackson said of Federline: "You know, he can't worry about what's sledding on exterior his home."
"That's the alone way you rear ride out sane and stick focused. You scarcely can't worry virtually the stuff that's leaving on outside your planetary house. You have to only protect everybody at heart your home base and stay focused on that."
She praised Federline's parenting skills, saying: "I've invariably said he's an amazing father... it's barely now masses settle they want to listen. He's an awesome fop. He makes mistakes - the great unwashed do that. It's division of life."
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