Ever wanted to know just how bitchy girls can be? Tune in to America’s Next Top Model (Sunday, 6.30pm).

But you better do it quick, as the bitchfest is gearing up for its season finale this weekend.

Season finale ... hah! Yes, it’s all a bit ridiculous really because – sorry to burst your bubble – this season actually went to air in the US two whole years ago.

So, if you hate surprises, Google the show, click on the Wikipedia entry and find out who won season five. Hell, you can even check out who won seasons six, seven and eight if you want.

Top Model is one show that represents the absolute worst of the television land delays that have our American viewing counterparts scoffing into their Oreos and Cap’n Crunch, while we here in little ol’ Oz struggle to “keep up”.

Weren’t we five years behind American programming with the Bold and the Beautiful at one stage? Not that anyone would have realised ... Ridge was still pining for Brooke, despite the fact that she was his sister; Stephanie died, came back from the dead, died again and was then resurrected as a man named Stephen, all the while carrying Ridge’s baby.

You know, standard US soap stuff … the storylines never change.

So there was no uproar there, but I suspect there has been elsewhere – and it’s yielded results.

I notice Channel Seven, ever the innovator, is now heavily pushing its "Fast Track" line with shows like Prison Break (bring it on!).

Ten and the others better take heed.

We are living in a global marketplace now and the world is tiny, thanks to advances in technology. No longer can arrogant TV execs rely on our ignorance about what’s being broadcast in the US.

Anyway, I digress ... back to Top Model. The bitchiness I mentioned at the top of this entry has nothing to do with the contestants, and everything to do with the people watching it.

At least, the people in my house.

My partner and I turn into judgmental, picky and horrible people when that show is on!

Poor Diane who, in reality, was probably a healthy size 12 and should have been a role model we championed, really stood out as the fatty in among the other skeletal waifs.

We nodded in agreement when one catty judge slammed 24-year-old Lisa for looking "old" and don’t get me started on Jayla’s ears.

See? Terrible, Muriel.

Oh well, at least I’m perfect. I would have auditioned for season six, but I didn’t know that it happened already, living as I do in the ass-end of global TV land.

— REBECCA MARSHALL

Have you been watching America's Next Top Model? Which girl do you think should have won?