''Get Gorgeous'' was an Indian reality television show and model talent search that premiered in 2004 by one of India's music channels,

Channel V India Channel India was an Indian television channel affiliated to the international Channel launched on 27 May 1994, as Channel South Beam on the AsiaSat 2 satellite. The channel owned by STAR India and 21st Century Fox broadcasts a mix of mu ...

. The show was formatted by Kaveri Mehrotra while Amar Deb was the head of the channel. Get Gorgeous was about discovering the next face of modeling in India.

Judges and other staff members

Seasons

Get Gorgeous 1

The show's first season aired on 1 July 2004, with the finale on 23 September 2004. It had 6,000 entries received and 16 finalists were taken to the coast of

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. The season was hosted by VJ

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, with renowned fitness instructor Mickey Mehta, photographer

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, well-known choreographers Tanya LeFebvre and Aparna Behl, designer Aparna Chandra, make-up expert Ambika Pillai and Hemant Trivedi as judges. The show's prizes for this season include walking for designer Suneet Verma at Rome Fashion Week and a contract with

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in India. The four winners were Aarohi Mishra, Archana Vijaya,

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and Tanvi Singh.

Contestants

Get Gorgeous 2

The second season first aired on 23 April 2005, with the finale on 11 June 2005, and it was hosted by season 1 winner Archana Vijaya. It had 5,000 entries received and 16 finalists were taken to the training camp at Taj Exotica in

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. The season had designers Hemant Trivedi, model Noyonika Chatterjee and model-turned-actor

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as judges. The winner of the season was Priyanka Shah. She receive: * A talent contract with

* A modelling contract with

in India * A campaign for LG CDMA * Will be walking at

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Contestants

Get Gorgeous 3

The third season first aired on 16 March 2006, and with the finale on 4 May 2006., and had fifteen finalists. The season was hosted by VJ Pia Trivedi, with model-turned-actor

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, model and ace fashion choreographer

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, fashion designer Surily Goel, ace fashion choreographer Colston Julian, model Noyonika Chatterjee, and choreographer

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as judges. The prizes include: a talent contract with

and a modelling contract with Matrix Model Management in India. The winners of this season were

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and

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Season 3 Contestants

Get Gorgeous 4

The fourth season aired on 7 June 2007 and with the finale on 9 August 2007. VJ Pia Trivedi will once again host this season, along with the judging panel were make-up artist Samantha Kochhar, fashion choreographer Alison Kanuga, fashion designer duo Shantanu Mehra & Nikhil Mehra, former model-turned-celebrity fitness trainer Deanne Pandey,

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Universe 2006

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, photographer Manoj Jadhav and fashion editor for Seventeen Kushal Parmanand. The 10 finalists travelled to the Swaswara resort in Goa. The prizes include: a talent contract with

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India and a modelling contract with

in India. The winner of the season was Rachel Varghese. The Grand Finale had over 1,000 guests visiting the live runway. The anchor of the live show was Channel V's VJ Pia Trivedi. During the taping of the season, Channel allowed a blogger from ''Trendy.com'' to live among the contestants and collect exclusive behind-the-scenes material for a section of the show's website called "''The Gorgeous Blogger''".

Contestants

Get Gorgeous 5

The fifth season aired on 16 May 2008 and with the finale on 26 July 2008. The 10 finalists travelled to

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and the 3 finalist travelled to

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. This season garnered an average of 10 million viewers, making it the highest rated season of the show's history. VJ Pia Trivedi will once again host this season, along with the judging panel were fashion designer duo Rahul Khanna & Rohit Gandhi, fitness expert Yasmin Haz, photographer Nisha Kutty and actor

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. Indian Supermodels Diandra Soares and

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were also judges and their model mentor. The winner of the season was

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, beating Gwen Athaide and Salome Narayana Polaki in the finale. She receive: * A talent contract with

worth

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1.000.000 * A modelling contract with ICE Model Management * A trip to

to feature in a shoot for

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* An exclusive splash feature in

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Season 5 Contestants

Get Gorgeous 6

The sixth season aired on 29 August 2010 and with the finale on 21 November 2010. This season was hosted by

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with the brand new judges were: model

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, fashion photographer

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and fashion designer Gayatri Khanna, and 2 new mentor are supermodels

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& Archana Vijaya. After 2 years gap, the show return with 20 brand new contestant, including male contestant for the first time. The prizes include a 1-year modelling contract with Kwan Entertainment. The two winner of the season were Preeti Chauhan & Rajat Dahiya.

Contestant

Results

: The contestant was eliminated : The contestant was eliminated outside of judging panel : The contestant was immune from elimination : The contestant won the competition

Challenges

* Episode 2 photo shoots: Makeover * Episode 3 photo shoot: Swimsuit calendar for MiD-DAY * Episode 4 commercial:

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product in pair * Episode 5 commercial:

product * Episode 6 photo shoot:

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couple * Episode 7 photo shoot:

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* Episode 8 video shoot & commercial:

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couple; Scooty Pep motorbike in group * Episode 9 commercial & photo shoot:

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smartphone in group;

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editorial * Episode 10 photo shoot: Love in the air * Episode 11 photo shoot: Marico Hair & Care campaign * Episode 12 commercial & photo shoot: Mumbai Underworld online game;

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editorial in pairs * Episode 13 runway:

2010

References

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External links

Official website of Get Gorgeous
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