Bridget Armstrong

It's obvious that Tyra's been told by production what happened the night before.

But even now, 2026, Tyra's like...

I don't know what happened.

And that's just like, it's probably the worst excuse you can give.

So the contracts were pretty one-sided and they favored the production company, the producers.

There's some standard stuff you might see in other reality TV contracts, right?

Like the models had to agree that they were not entitled to compensation beyond what they were offered, which was like a per diem.

In some cases, it was like $12 a day.

In some cases, it was like $50 a day.

But you have to remember when they're not shooting a photo shoot on set, the models had to pay for their own food, toiletries, all of that stuff.

So when you put that in context, they made absolutely nothing like...

So that stuff was standard for reality shows of the time, right?

But also, A&TM owned the rights to these model stories within the A&TM universe, and that meant that they could not benefit or profit from being on A&TM, right?

So as one model I spoke to broke it down, you couldn't have a YouTube channel, you couldn't write a book.

Once you left that show, A&TM could continue to use your image in whatever way they wanted to tell whatever story they wanted.

And that's actually in the contract that A&TM could tell your story in a way that's true or not.

And you couldn't do anything about it.

And they could use your image and play clips the next season.

There's some really gross language about being able to use footage of the contestant's

whether they are clothed or unclothed, and whether or not they knew the footage existed.