It's official. The "M" in MTV no longer stands for music, which is kind of weird since they are hell bent on calling themselves a music channel. Go figure?

The good people over at Models.com reports today that the network is gearing up to air a model reality show and they're looking for a few hired actresses budding mannequins to star in their new project. Oh, and you must be healthy!

Here's the inconspicuous press release:

"Michael Flutie and Chris Abrego with MTV Networks will offer 10 women the opportunity to work with a panel of industry experts, physical fitness trainers, photographers, a model authority and a nutritionist. Under the watchful eyes of these experts, models will endure twelve weeks of intensive physical fitness training to help them get down to their ideal size.

Models will also compete in various high fashion challenges to determine who has star quality. With weekly eliminations looming, models must put their best foot forward at all times while staying focused on losing weight. Get in shape, develop your modeling skills and polish your "look" to achieve your ultimate goal of becoming a high fashion model."

The prizes include $100,000, a modeling contract (?), and a chance to walk the runway for a celebrity designer (LA Fashion Week/Lauren Conrad). Don't get too excited just yet. There are a few requirements: you must be between the ages of 17-24 and at least 5'9 but no taller than 6'0.

If you think you have what it takes, email your best body shot (head shots and body shots in a bathing suit) by today to mtvmodel@madwood.tv. Good Luck!

Being the reality TV show victim that I am, I tuned in last night to BET to watch the second season debut of Baldwin Hills, the more colorful version of MTV's The Hills.

The cast is 100% black, comprised of mostly high school kids, and very, very, real. As with the majority of the programming over at BET, the show couldn't be scripted even it really wanted to be.

The characters are very believable and the entertainment level was at an all time high throughout the thirty minute broadcast. Basically, I was sold in the first five minutes.

Did you watch?

As anyone who grew up watching the Disney channel in the 90s can tell you, this kids show was critical to the development of children across America.

Being that this is a fashion blog and I'm not too keen on bad-mouthing a fourteen-year-old child, I'm going to stick solely to the more politically correct issue I have with E's Living Lohan:

Fourteen-year-old Ali Lohan wears wayyyyy too much makeup.

When I was in middle school, which was only a few years ago, I would only narowwliy escape the wrath of my parents with just wearing tinted lipgloss and a little mascara to school.

So I can only imagine the power lecture I would have received if I ever attempted to walk out of my parents house looking like Ali Lohan -- 14 going on 40. Truthfully, she is a very pretty girl and looks much better with a fresh and bare face.

Why does her mother want her kids to look decades older than what they are? Clearly, the over abundance of sparkle eye shadow hasn't worked for Lindsay. Especially when she started living up to her new and more mature look as a teen.

But as I mentioned earlier, this post is not about parenting skills. However, the fact that Dina Lohan found Ali's music producer via a random Instant Message on AOL could probably explain her daughters crop tops.

I'm just saying...

"Supermodel on deck" was how the contestants were supposed to greet host/producer Gemase Simmons when the cameras were rolling on his model reality show -- except he never had Tyson Beckford's career. And his little show? Well, that wasn't real either.

This weekend, I caught a cold, so I had the pleasure of staying in on Friday night to watch Chris Hansen's special on Dateline called Reality Bites, which was about the 28-year-old con man known as Gemase Simmons and his years of deceit.

In short, the San Antonio resident lured young people via Myspace looking for a promising modeling career a la America's Next Top Model by telling them they could win $50,000 and a possible modeling contract on his "show."

And once the group of 10 made it to their modeling quarters, that's when things really start going awry. Some of the major offenses committed by Gemase include:

1. Watching the girls and boys get bikini waxed.

2. Dishing out offensive remarks to the contestants when the cameras weren't rolling.

3. He made one woman strip down to her under wear for a "cosmetic exam," which included him touching her inappropriately.

4. He asked the male models if they were circumsized and attempted the have sex with them by telling the guys that they had to be "Protege" models i.e., sleeping with casting directors if they wanted to be male supermodels.

Yeah, it was pretty bad. And just how did he finally get caught? Well, Simmons didn't pay for anything related to the show (food, housing, etc.) and the camera man kept the tapes for collateral and sent them to the good people of Dateline when he didn't receive his payment.

And then Chris Hansen did what he does best: Exposed the pervert to the free world.

But what's even more sad, though, is the fact that none of the contestants left after each one of the atrocities were perpetuated aganist them. When the one female contestant was sexually assaulted, the other girls consoled her and helped the victim call her boyfriend so he could pick her up, but they went right back to filming with Simmons.

And after the men were sent to Simmons bedroom and asked to have sex with him, they didn't flee the premise either.

As a result, the contestants told Hansen that they're self-esteems had been severely damaged because of this event and that they had given up on ever wanting to do modeling again.

I'm not sure if this had to do with their blinding naivity or the fact that they are used to seeing people doing crazy shit on reality TV and probably thought this was just the "norm," but when did sexual assault ever make its way onto MTV, VH1, or Oxygen. How could no one have called 911 when that woman was assaulted?

Click here, to check out some highlights from the one-hour special.