Tyra is bringing in a cast of shorties for the thirteenth season of America's Next Top Model. And if that's not enough to get you to watch, she's got a clan of glitterati scheduled to come in and guest judge them. Troops include Lauren Conrad, Chanel Iman, Kim Kardashian, and others. Tyra needed the boldest of boldface names to join her on the judging panel after she laid off Paulina Porizkova. Likewise, Chanel Iman and Lauren Conrad needed Tyra to keep their television careers alive. Chanel has basically been off the air since MTV stopped rerunning its revived House of Style. And Lauren Conrad is off The Hills and has nothing to do so she may as well go look at a bunch of short girls and give them something to aspire to, since they're about as likely to become real fashion models as Andre Leon Talley is to burn her entire stash of turbans. But what really gets us is that all the accomplished guest judges are on the same playing field as Kim Kardashian, whose incomprehensibly fame-worthy accomplishments include only having a big butt and getting it Photoshopped. But at least she can show the short contestants, that even if they're short and can't be models, they can still make something of themselves, on E! if they're lucky.
