In December, Aussie Rachael (Rachael Murphy) spoke out about her feeling that she had wound up on America's Most Smartest Model through a kind of bait-and-switch tactic. At this time she said, “I didn't anticipate for being involved in that kind of a show. It wasn't anything like I expected it to be. I was told that it was a show that was to be more structured. It wasn't going to be as voyeuristic or invasive…I really wasn't told much about the concept of the show. It wasn't something that I would have ordinarily signed up for.”

Maybe it was sour grapes at being kicked off the show, but her account is backed up by another America's Most Smartest Model contestant, Gaston Willig.

Gaston recently wrote on his MySpace blog that he while he does model, he primarily considers himself a musician, and that's why agreed to be on the show. However, things didn't turn out how he planned, and he claims that contributed to his early ouster.

He wrote, “Americas Most Smartest Model is a joke! TV reality is all about the drama and entertainment. The reason why I did the show is because they said I could play my songs and they will have a piano. Also they never mentioned the title or how the show was going to be. My main purpose was music exposure. That's why as soon as they took my guitar away I got ‘eliminated.' Plus they only showed what it was convenient, my runway walk was edited and many more parts, for ex. where I was saying, ‘this show is to make fun of people and I'm leaving next.'”

He doesn't pull any punches when it comes to the judges, calling them “the puppets of the producers.”

He concludes that while it's just his opinion, he still wants to get the message across that “TV reality is really about…DRAMA AND BULLS**T.”

- Leslie Seaton, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: Gaston Willig's MySpace
(Image courtesy of VH1)