Janice Dickinson: 'Top Model' Is Rigged (VIDEO, POLL)

Just days after Tyra proclaimed to the world that the prickly persona she's cultivated on "America's Next Top Model" is "not really [her]," former show judge Janice Dickinson has come out saying that the whole darn show is fake.

The winners? Not really chosen by that ersatz panel of judges, Janice alleges in a new interview with FilmOn:

"There was a way I experienced being on that show, being conned, thinking that I was actually helping judge a TV franchise, that actually my say had any impute," Janice says. "But it really didn't."

I mean, that's not totally shocking, for any reality show. So who did choose the champion models?

"Cover Girl are the people that choose the model ... Not any of the judges, not what Tyra says. It's who Cover Girl thinks should win, each season."

"She [Tyra] makes a lot of money hawking that franchise around the world, but... it's Cover Girl who chooses the winner."

Them's fighting words! As Janice concludes: "Definitely on Tyra's show, it's rigged."

This isn't the first time Janice has spoken out against Tyra's reality show; last year, she claimed Tyra's apology for casting a too-thin model was insincere, saying:

"Everything they shoot is intentional. Don't tell me different. I did it for five seasons." She added, "Tyra is the executive producer of that show....It's her show. She's very controlling. She's the hardest working woman on that show. She has her finger on that pulse -- trust me."

Watch the interview below and weigh in below: are you surprised by Janice's charges?

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Are you surprised that 'Top Model' might be fake?

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Comments

[PecanSandie]

10:28 AM on 12/12/2011

Takes a fake and bitter woman to know it's a fake show.

[Lauren Kottwitz]

02:43 PM on 12/10/2011

That Allison has now lost TWICE only confirms what I already knew: ANTM, like every other reality tv show, is really a "reality-ish" TV SHOW.

[DeloresT]

09:09 PM on 12/09/2011

This woman is ill and obviously needs help. There's something about carrying a grudge too far!! Get yourself another job and forget about Tyra.

[Sid Monique]

07:28 PM on 12/09/2011

LOL So many angry black women in the comments. Get over it.

[PecanSandie]

10:29 AM on 12/12/2011

Get over what? And why did you have to say that, anyway?

[method]

07:04 PM on 12/09/2011

I think Janice might be a little jealous since her TV model show didn't take off. I don't think it even made a full season.

[surfandshop]

04:33 PM on 12/09/2011

NO WAY! Is it true there is no santa claus, and the easter bunny is a tale.? What the heck can we believe in??? OH MY!

[caad4]

10:39 AM on 12/09/2011

Yeah, Janice. So's your face.

[johnnygoodwud]

08:54 AM on 12/09/2011

how does anyone even understand her with those lips?

[Comidoki]

08:41 AM on 12/09/2011

Someone's looking for some attention.

[Fortune27]

01:22 AM on 12/09/2011

"Eat a bag of royal snank?"

Soooo, you are suggesting this, Janice, because you like the taste? Jealousy is such a nasty, unattractive emotion especially when delivered with a bag of royal snankiness.

[Yaya LTL]

12:04 AM on 12/09/2011

Dang I Janice is not talking about Tyra, then she ain't talking. First, off it's a reality show, which means it's not reality. If the fakest thing about the show is that Covergirl is picking the winner then I'm OK. I guess Heidi doesn't pick the winner on Project Runway either.. As long as the girls are not actresses pretending to be models, I'm OK>

[divalocity]

10:19 PM on 12/08/2011

I know Janice has aged and she was once a beautiful model but the scalpel has destroyed her good looks. It's rigged, so what and so is everything else.

[blssme]

09:37 PM on 12/08/2011

Still bitter you were fired?

[jukesgrrl]

08:40 PM on 12/08/2011

Top Model is totally rigged ... and your face is totally fake, Jan. The difference?

[Vanessa1129]

07:08 PM on 12/08/2011

*shocked face*

I have been bamboosled and hoodwinked!!!

I want my money back...Oh MY badd...I didn't pay for anything....lol