Local girls on top in TV modelling comp

Three Illawarra girls have been given the chance to earn themselves prestigious modelling careers and instant fame, being selected as finalists in the upcoming season of Australia’s Next Top Model.

17-year-old Alyce Crawford from Kiama, 16-year-old Demelza Revely from Wollongong and 18-year-old Rebecca Jobson from Wollongong are three of 13 young women selected to compete for the chance to win a modelling contract and be skyrocketed to fashion fame.

The girls will live together in a mansion in Sydney while traversing their way through different modelling-related challenges, trying to prove they are the best of the best.

Wollongong’s Demelza Reveley is the youngest girl in the field at just 16, and is starting Year 11 this year.

She has no formal modelling experience and said that she regarded fashion as a way of expressing herself.

She has also admitted that she can get overly excited and annoying and is sometimes selfish, egotistical and judgmental, which she hates.

The other Wollongong representative in this year’s cast, Rebecca Jobson, has modelled professionally in the past.

Rebecca has worked with high profile magazines including Dolly and Cosmopolitan and describes modelling as her dream.

She said she loves that her Filipino heritage shows in her skin.

Incidentally Ms Jobson has recently started seeing the brother of the boyfriend of the third Illawarra entrant – Alyce Crawford.

Ms Crawford said her dad is her “best friend in the whole world,” and said she never gets embarrassed.

Thousands of hopefuls tried out for the newest series of the popular show, which will be hosted by model turned fashion designer and television presenter, Jodhi Meares.

This year the competition was open to entrants as young as 16.