Sara Tetro, one of New Zealand’s most successful and influential model and celebrity managers, will return as the host of the show and will be joined again on the judging panel by internationally successful model and actor Colin Mathura-Jeffree and top photographer and former model Chris Sisarich. 

The first series of the show saw the winner, Christobelle go on to be signed to the Next model agency in New York and Chic agency in Sydney. 

Sara Tetro comments: “Christobelle has been an amazing success story as have Laura, who is going to Australia for Melbourne Fashion week and Ruby who continues to go from strength to strength.” 

Director of Programming, Kelly Martin says viewers can look forward to the show they know and love, but with some exciting new twists! 

NEW ZEALAND’S NEXT TOP MODEL applicants must be between 16 and 25 years of age and must be at least 170cm tall to be eligible for participation in the series.  

To pre-register for the auditions, applicants can visit www.tv3.co.nz/topmodel. 

Information about the audition dates, venues and times are still to be finalised and will be announced in the coming weeks. 

Produced by and exclusive to TV3, the show is based on the hit US series AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL®.
NEW ZEALAND’S NEXT TOP MODEL is a format of AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL, which is produced by 10 Entertainment in association with Bankable Productions. Tyra Banks is the creator and executive producer along with Ken Mok and Daniel Soiseth.  AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL is licensed in over 100 markets.  AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL and the AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL format are licensed internationally by CBS Studios International.