Last but not least, be sexy, now!

US-American Bruce Darnell is the catwalk coach on Heidi Klum's casting show Germany's Next Topmodel, the second season of which has just started on Pro Sieben. Bruce likes to shout at the girls: "Sexy, sexy, sexyyyyyyyy. You have to move your ass for me now." But that fails. Last Thursday, in front of 70,000 spectators, the contestants stalked across the center line of Dortmund's football stadium. Meanwhile, Bruce implores the girls with desperation in his voice: "Sexy, sexy, yeah, come on." But nothing was sexy at the start of the new season of the model show. One commentator from the Süddeutsche newspaper, for example, lost his sexy thoughts as soon as Heidi Klum squeaked her greeting, as if she was secretly dubbing the Mainzelmännchen in her spare time. Bruce is not sexy, but he is also squeaky when he demonstrates to the wannabe models how to walk the catwalk in a decidedly foxy manner. The man knows how to skillfully combine charm and boundless naivety. His sentences are great works of the German-American word community. "This isn't a vacation, this is a competition," he chides his protégés, not always to their enthusiasm. When a candidate returns from the jury, she is asked by a fellow contestant: "So, how was it?" The answer couldn't have been clearer: "It was crap." Thank God Bruce didn't hear that. He would hardly have found that sexy.