Deal or No Deal Models: Hard at Work!
Matt Richenthal
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What, you think it's easy to hold a suitcase on the game show Deal or No Deal?
As a recent New York Times article detailed, the modeling job on this series isn't nearly as simple as it looks on TV:
For the 26 women who take the stage each week on the NBC hit game show, life is not all glamour and sequins and witty repartee with the host, Howie Mandel.
At a taping in mid-January, for instance, there was the 14-hour workday, 8 ½ hours of which involved some or all of the models standing on an Arctic-like soundstage in short, short sleeveless dresses and four-inch heels.
The models are a popular part of this game show that "has no trivia, no stunts, no skill," as Mr. Mandel put it. "The first time I heard about it, I thought, there's no game."One television critic, Phil Rosenthal of The Chicago Tribune, put it less delicately, calling the program an elaborate version of "How many fingers do I have behind my back?"
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