Manitoba model dies in Italy

Friends and family of a Manitoba-born fashion model are asking questions about how the 26-year-old died in Italy.

Hayley Marie Kohle, originally from Beausejour, Man., northeast of Winnipeg, died Saturday in Milan.

The Italian police are investigating and Ottawa is providing consular assistance. So far, her family has heard only that she fell from a seventh-floor window.

Quinn Adams says Kohle was full of life, and she still can’t believe her close friend is dead.

“Just absolutely fabulous. She could light up a room,” Adams said.
“She was a model. She had everything going for her, she was ready to be a supermodel. And when somebody dies like that, it’s going to be suspicious, I think.
“We don’t know a lot of information, whether it was suicide, whether she was pushed, whether she accidentally fell.”

Liz Crawford, one of Kohle’s first fashion modelling coaches in Winnipeg, agrees: “How does a girl fall from the seventh floor window of a model apartment? I don’t know. I mean, you know, it’s a little unusual.”

Modelling industry needs more regulation: coach
Crawford was behind the Worker Recruitment and Protection Act, which was passed in Manitoba last spring requiring licences for employment agencies, individuals recruiting foreign workers and anyone who recruits or represents models or entertainers.

The modelling industry in general needs to be better regulated, Crawford said. She hopes other levels of government will help protect models from finding themselves in situations they’re not prepared to handle.

“My concern … for a lot of the girls that come in, is just, you know, how well educated are they before they go off and do this?” she said.
A memorial service for Kohle will be held on Monday in Beausejour.
source: cbc.ca

‘Shout’ magazine scouts for Maltese model

The UK award-winning magazine for teenage girls, Shout, is searching for a Maltese girl to star in a fashion shoot for one of its up-coming issues. This is the second time that Shout magazine is running this campaign in Malta. Martina Callus, 12, of Gzira, was last year’s winner.

Shout is a fortnightly magazine which sells an average of 84,000 copies in the UK and export markets, per issue. Every issue also includes a fashionable, high-quality gift.

Any girl between the age of 11 and 15 can aspire to become Shout’s fashion model. No experience in modelling is required. Interested candidates just need to fill in an application form which is currently inserted in the magazine, on sale at all leading newsagents. Application forms, complete with the required pictures of the applicant, have to reach the organisers by not later than Thursday, 30 October.

One hundred applicants will be shortlisted for an audition to be held at the Phoenicia Hotel on Monday 3 November at 2pm. On that same day, the girls will be photographed to be selected down to 40 finalists. On Tuesday, 4 November at 7pm, the 40 finalists will be interviewed by a panel of judges, all from the fashion industry, and led by stylist Carina Camilleri. The winner will be announced on the same evening.

Between the 4th and 5th December 2008, the lucky model girl, together with a parent or guardian, will travel to London to participate in a day’s long professional photo shoot wearing different fashionable outfits. The pictures will feature in the fashion section of an upcoming issue of the magazine. All expenses are covered by Miller Distributors Limited, local distributors of Shout magazine.

“It is a great opportunity for us to be in a position to offer this fantastic experience to the readers of Shout magazine,” said Emma Miller, Marketing manager for Shout in Malta. “Last year’s winner was featured with prominence in Shout, and the whole event launched the girl who got noticed by the world of fashion, modelling and photography also in Malta, enabling her to build up an interesting portfolio.”

source: independent.com.mt

Channel 10 axes new 90210 after just four episodes

The much-hyped teen drama series, which was considered a television phenomenon in the '90s and catapulted Hollywood stars Shannen Doherty, Luke Perry and Jennie Garth to fame, has been dumped due to poor ratings by Channel 10.

"90210 is an excellent show that clearly resonated with a younger audience, but it didn't have the kind of numbers needed to stay in this intensely competitive environment," a Ten spokesperson said.

While the program, which features Shenae Grimes, Australia's Chantelle Barry and Garth, has achieved moderate success in its native US, the glossy remake has taken a major nose dive locally, recording a national audience of just 616,000 during its final outing in the primetime slot of 8.30pm on Monday.

Following Ten's decision to move the program to Friday evenings last week, the network announced yesterday the series would not return to the small screen and would instead by replaced by a Friday night movie, beginning this week with The Bourne Supremacy.

The axing is a blow to Ten, which considered the series one of their most highly-anticipated programs of the year and took a risk by purchasing the program before viewing the pilot.

Just weeks prior to the program's debut in Australia on September 8, Ten's head of programming David Mott said while the network hadn't seen the pilot he hoped the worldwide buzz surrounding the show would lure viewers.

"Generation X, who were targeted in the 1990s, have grown up and the show is already creating buzz in Generation Y," Mott said.

"I think it's a no brainer ... in our initial discussions with producers we were talking about the issues that faced Generation X - and they haven't gone away."

However, the audience has spoken, with the fate of the series apparent from the outset when the show's two-hour debut secured an all-people audience of 837,000, far less than anticipated.

Despite the program performing better in the network's younger demographics audiences have turned away from the drama with each passing week.

The network intends to broadcast the remaining episodes during the non-ratings period over summer.

source: news.com.au