Top Models, top brawl

Brawling on model reality shows is usually confined to people who are actually cast on the show, but in the US on the weekend, wanna-be models waiting to audition for CW’s America’s Next Top Model broke out in chaos as fights marred the queues.

Clothes and shoes were left strewn outside the Park Central New York hotel in Manhattan, three people were arrested and six others hurt. By the look of the clip below, it’s amazing there weren;t more casualties.

Police didn’t know what prompted the chaos involving hundreds of people but shut down the audition, saying it wasn’t properly organised.

The NY Times reports many women had waited overnight to audition.

Contestant hopefuls said the lines were poorly coordinated, and no one knew what to do or when they would be seen. With little to eat and no way to use the bathroom without losing a spot in line, tempers flared. By 6 p.m. Saturday, the street was littered with the wreckage of the day: torn sleeping bags where aspiring contestants had spent the night, police barricades, shoes and clothes in the gutter.

When they were told producers had left, fights broke out.

Source: smh.com.au, NY Times