How does season two of American Beauty Star compare to season one? The second season features 14 hair and makeup artists who will compete in a series of intense challenges, from creating high-end editorial looks to the latest red carpet and runway-ready beauty trends.īelow, Graham opens up some more to THR about American Beauty Star‘s “makeover,” shares her thoughts about the current state of inclusivity in fashion and reveals how she believes the industry has changed one year after the #MeToo movement was born. Joining Graham is beauty guru Sir John, who returns to American Beauty Star as a mentor, and Christie Brinkley, celebrity photographer Yu Tsai and Hearst chief beauty director Leah Wyar, who round out the panel of judges. “I definitely took some cues from the queen walking into this - but I made it my own.” Tyra has been such an incredible mentor to me ever since I met her,” says Graham, who filmed ABS this summer over the span of a few weeks in Atlanta. Walking in with the intention each day of who I am and what I want to portray in the show really helped. “I wanted to embody her spirit in American Beauty Star and I wanted to walk in with a little bit of my Tyra-isms. Like Banks has done with Top Model, it became Graham’s goal to put her own stamp on American Beauty Star. “Tyra didn’t need cue cards, she didn’t need a teleprompter, she didn’t need an earbud. “I watched her not only host but produce America’s Next Top Model,” says Graham, who participated in cycles 23 and 24 of the VH1 show from 2016 until 2018. It’s a lot of hard work, but I had so much fun in having my hands behind-the-scenes.”Īfter gracing the covers of glossies like Sports Illustrated, Vogue, Elle and Harper’s Bazaar penning a memoir serving as a judge on America’s Next Top Model making history as the first plus-size model to star in a Revlon campaign and launching a podcast, Graham felt like producing television was the “perfect next step” in her career.Īccording to Graham, watching Tyra Banks juggle hosting and producing responsibilities during her tenure on ANTM helped prepare her for taking on double duty herself. every day.”Īdds Graham: “So, it was intense - and I got just a piece of it. I was working with the most incredible crew and every morning I asked them, ‘What time did you go to bed?’ And they would tell me that they hadn’t gone to bed until like 1 or 2 o’clock in the morning. “The work that happens on the flipside of making a TV show is wild. There was pressure,” says the star, who is producing the show alongside Lima, Norton Herrick and Ross Elliot, plus Lifetime’s Gena McCarthy, Christian Murphy and James Bolosh, among others. “It’s a lot of back-end work that I didn’t really realize.
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