The new season of America’s Next Top Model starts on September 19th. Yesterday the 13 contestants for the upcoming season were revealed. Given that none of the winners have really become TOP models, I’m thinking why these girls rush to compete in the first place, but then look at the fine print and there is that $100,000 contract - read, money in the bank - awaiting the winner. Of course the modeling career could amount to something - Eva’s done a great job working her new connects and looks every part the model/her decision to cut Tyra and Benny Medina as her manager could come back to hurt her - but it seems as though personality is the most important quality any of these girls could walk in the room with.

Toccara is a great example: gets booted mid-season and still gets a BET gig.

But we’re talking season 9 and other than Eva can you pick any of the previous winners out of the sea of other models in the mix?

Scraped straight from Page Six..

“She’ll go public with outrageous subjects on her talk show, but Tyra Banks is keeping very private about her personal life. Spies spotted the former Victoria’s Secret model at Chin Chin on East 49th Street last Friday at a “very private” party for her younger brother, Devin Banks, an Air Force cadet who is leaving for Iraq on Aug. 9.

“Tyra was with her brother and their mom and Devin’s wife. Everyone was hugging and kissing and sending him off.” A rep for Banks declined to comment about her patriotic family.

Making something from nothing is ageless economic wisdom, in this age of ever-connectedness someone should tack on the remix, “make something out of everything.” Naomi Campbell did just that with her week long date with a New York Sanitation broom handle.

Evey day as she made the walk from her chauffeured driven SUV to the Sanitation building’s metal gates, that strip of concrete became her personal 100 foot runway - just as many cameras were snapping.

Who knew the whole time she was also filling up pages of The Naomi Diaries.

W Magazine published the entire thing in this month’s issue.