Britain's Next Top Model (or Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model 2011–13), often abbreviated as BNTM, BINTM, or Top Model, is a British-Irish reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of Britain's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modelling industry. The first "cycle" premiered on 14 September 2005 on Sky Living.

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Britain's Next Top Model
Also known as	Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model (2011–13)
Genre	Reality television
Created by	Tyra Banks
Presented by	Lisa Butcher Lisa Snowdon Elle Macpherson Abbey Clancy Paul Sculfor Cindy Bishop
Judges	Marie Helvin Jonathan Pang Paula Hamilton Gerry DeVeaux Huggy Ragnarsson Louis Mariette Julien Macdonald Charley Speed Grace Woodward Tyson Beckford Whitney Port Dannii Minogue Hilary Alexander Nicky Johnston Max Rogers
Country of origin	United Kingdom Ireland
Original language	English
No. of series	12
No. of episodes	108
Production
Running time	60mins (inc. adverts)
Production company	Thumbs Up Productions
Original release
Network	Sky Living (2005–13) Lifetime (2016–17)
Release	14 September 2005 (2005-09-14) – 21 December 2017 (2017-12-21)

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The winner normally receives a modelling contract, cosmetics campaign, and a spread within a fashion magazine which also included appearing on the front cover. Other prizes which changed from cycle to cycle included a car, holiday, money, or an apartment among other things.

As part of the Top Model franchise, it was based on the American television series America's Next Top Model. From series 7 thru 9, the show was named Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model as it had begun to include contestants from Ireland.

On 28 October 2013, Sky Living confirmed that the show had been cancelled.^[1] In April 2015, the show confirmed via its Twitter account that it would be returning in 2015 on Lifetime.^[2] The title was changed back to Britain's Next Top Model due to licensing issues,^[3] but contestants from Ireland were still allowed to apply for the show.^[4]

The series features a group of young female contestants who live together in a house for several weeks while taking part in challenges, photo shoots and meetings with members of the modelling industry. Normally, one poor-performing contestant is eliminated each week until the last contestant remaining is declared "Britain's Next Top Model" and receives a modelling contract along with other prizes.

In a BBC interview, Elle Macpherson contrasted the show with the U.S. version, describing BNTM as "Uniquely British, the sense of humour and the styling is very British... more hybrid backgrounds... and I think that is really examplatory [sic] of what's going on in the UK today".^[5]

Each series of Britain's Next Top Model features from ten to fourteen episodes and begins with twelve to fourteen contestants. Each episode, one contestant is eliminated, though in rare cases a double elimination or no elimination is given by consensus of the judging panel. Series 6 saw a live finale where the public chose the winner of the cycle. The series was narrated by Fearne Cotton. Due to maternity leave, Cotton did not fulfil this role for the ninth series. She was replaced by Dawn Porter. When the show got revived on Lifetime, Dawn Porter was replaced by Cycle 5 and America's Next Top Model cycle 18 contestant, Annaliese Dayes.

Starting with the ninth series, the elimination process was changed. Multiple contestants were in danger of elimination every week, with the number of contestants in danger being lowered as the competition progressed.