If it seems like we've had more Miss America news than usual, it's not by design. Miss America has just been in the news lately, between Donald Trump having to police his beauty queens extra-curricular activities to
AC Slater being named host of the pageant. Well, since
America's Next Top Model is wildly popular (as it should be, everyone like models), we thought it'd be nice to fill everyone in on judge Nigel Barker's whereabouts.
Nigel Barker, the ever-present
Top Model judge, will be working as a judge for the Miss America pageant, which will air on January 29 on CMT. It should be a pretty seamless transition for Barker from judging prospective models to judging beauty queens.
Barker will be joined at the Miss America judge's table by actresses Delta Burke and Debbie Allen, singer Michael Feinstein, talk show host Chris Matthews, and former pageant winner Susan Powell. It feels like Chris Matthews is slumming a little here, but I suppose that anyone who is around politicians as much as he is could use a good beauty pageant to appease the eyes.
-Oscar Dahl, BuddyTV Senior Writer