Super model Cheryl Tiegs is The Judge of ‘True Beauty’

ABC airs a new reality show tonight, calling it the “love child of America’s Next Top Model and Punk’d”. True Beauty is not your average model reality show, though. The set up? Ten contestants, who think they are the most beautiful people in America, will fight to win the show’s prize - $100,000 cash and a photo feature in People magazine’s “100 Most Beautiful People” issue. The catch? The judges are actually rating the contestant’s integrity and moral character. They’re judging their True Beauty, get it?

Laura Leigh loves to be the center of attention, but so do the rest of the contestants. Billy, the oldest contestant, is a Chippendale dancer and owns a vitamin shop.Monique thinks she’s beautiful but androgenous. She has a science degree but prefers club dancing. The contestants make small talk, commenting how shiny each other’s teeth are.

Joel arrives and his #1 goal in life is to look good naked. Julia is a pageant queen from Texas. CJ is the oldest of the crowd, in his 30s. He compares himself to Michael Jordan.Chelsea has no friends because she’s simply too beautiful for other girls to be around. Hadiyya-lah thinks it’s very possible she’s the prettiest one of them all. “Everything about me is perfect,” she says. “I’m so thankful to be beautiful.” Ashley loves expensive couture clothing. She packed $30,000 worth of dresses to bring with her. Lat to arrive is Ray, who thinks it’s awesome to be the cockiest person in the room.They all arrive in fast cars, short skirts, and too-tight shirts

The judges are former model Cheryl Tiegs, celebrity fashion guru Nole Marin, and former Miss Teen USA Vanessa Minnillo. They’ve hired an actor to play a waiter and will be rating the contestant’s reactions to him. The “waiter” trips and spill drinks everywhere. “The waiter was hated,” Haddiyah-lah says. “There’s a lot of hate when your beautiful.” Laura freaks out about her lucky gold shoes. Ray helps clean up the other contestants and tries to help them clean up.

Hostess Vanessa sends them inside their new house for some beauty rest. The house is a designer’s paradise, with a billiard room and pop-art style pictures of each contestant over their bed. “Is that me? It looks so good!” Ray says. The next morning, the girls joke in the bathroom. Chelsea complains because it seems like all of the guys care about is their muscles, but notes that CJ “seems like he has a brain.” It turns out that CJ is a closet writer. He started writing as a fat kid using a journal to move past the other kids’ teasing. Chelsea and CJ seem to have made a connection!