Netflix’s new documentary deals with the dark side of the series “Huippumalli haussa”.
On Netflix fresh Searching for a top model and the dark side of reality TV -documentary takes a time jump to the popular model show that aired in the US for 24 seasons between 2003 and 2018. The documentary also goes through the dark side that hides behind the scenes of the program.
One of these applies Shandiawho finished third in the second season of the show.
Shand is asked in the documentary if he wanted to win the competition.
– Yes, until… until the events in Milan. Then I didn’t care anymore, Shandi answers.
During the season, the participants traveled to Milan, Italy, where they met a group of young moped drivers. The drivers finally arrived at the competitors’ lodgings to have dinner and drink wine.
– I was excited about the evening. We talked and drank, Shandi describes the evening.
The evening was spent, among other things, in a party. Shandi says that she hadn’t eaten or slept and that she was drunk.
She tells in the documentary how the man who was there was later on top of her in bed. He himself had lost consciousness.
– No one prevented it. And it was all filmed. Every moment, Shandi says.
– I didn’t even feel sex. I just knew it would happen.
The next day, Shandi thought about what happened the night before.
– It all came back to me like a flood, Shandi says.
A clip from the program is shown in the documentary. The show has shown Shandi crying as her fellow contestants console her.
– I want to die, Shandi says hopelessly in the old clip.
Seeing the clips also makes Shandi cry in the documentary interview. He is asked if the production should have stopped the situation.
– When we got out of the hot tub and what happened after that, they should have said: Okay, this has gone too far. We have to take him away.
Shandi was one of the participants of the second season of the Huippumalli haussa program. RUBA
The production commented
In the documentary, the creator and host of the show, Tyra Banks, is asked if she remembers Shand’s story. Banks states that he remembers Shand’s story, but states that it is difficult for him to comment on the production side because it is not his area.
Executive producer of the program Ken Mok states in the documentary that the production saw the program as a documentary.
– The rules were reviewed on the first day. Cameras are always following you and filming the good, the bad and everything in between. Whatever happens when you are in front of the camera, we document it all, says Mok.
According to executive director and judge Jay Manuel, Shandi has sex in the shower with a man. According to Manuel, the members of the production were elsewhere.
– I was like, what? The rule of the series was that if you go to the bathroom alone, the camera is not allowed to follow you there. But when she took a shower, she wasn’t alone. The cameras followed and filmed it.
Jay Manuel served as a judge on the show. NETFLIX
The shock of betrayal
Shand’s story was followed more in the series.
In one scene of the series, Banks arrives at the show’s contestants and tells the story of how she was betrayed. Shandi listens to Banks’ story with a serious expression.
– Are you okay? Banks asks Shandi who shakes her head.
– Did you cheat on him? Banks asks.
Shandi admits this.
– I’m not judging you. But we must fight against our fleshly desires. I understand that people are attractive. It’s about how open your relationship is and how honest you can be, Banks states in the scene.
After this, Shandi wanted to go home.
– I didn’t want to be involved anymore. I demanded to speak to Eric, but they wouldn’t let me. That’s when I really wanted to go home, Shandi says in an interview for the documentary.
Chilling call
According to Shandi, the production tried to sway her decision, but Shandi refused. At this point, production gave Shandi the phone.
– Everything worked out when it was necessary.
However, the call to Eric had to be filmed. The documentary shows a scene in which Shandi talks brokenly on the phone with her boyfriend. Eric asks Shandi if she had sex on set.
– We always wanted to be together. You threw it away. You stupid bitch too, Eric screams on the phone.
Shandi says she lay on the floor and cried. The cameraman and sound guy who were there left and later came back to apologize that the scene had to be filmed.
– They knew it wasn’t right. Why was it filmed? Shandi states.
Shandi later asked the man if he used protection and if he had any STDs. This conversation was also filmed.
– When I saw the material in the post-production phase, we shortened the scene considerably, Mok says.
Mok himself describes Shandi’s story as the series’ most memorable moments, for better or for worse.
– It was good entertainment, Shandi says with a serious expression on her face.
