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I don't think these were posted but if they were, I apologize. From the 8th Annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (2002)

I don't think these were posted but if so, I apologize.

Ph. Michael Maier

Not sure how many of you will care or how many haven't seen but yeah. The triumphant return of Victoria's Secret Fashion Show to the airwaves? Not so much. All but about 8.9 million Americans found themselves able to resist the lure of pouty girls in candy-coated and crystal-caked undies, prancing between two of Paul Bunyan's albino teddy bears to strains of The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and possibly Song of the Volga Boatmen, though it's been years since we took that Music Appreciation class so don't hold us to that. It was the first Victoria's Secret Fashion Show broadcast in two years. CBS suits took a breather last year, rightly figuring it would be hard to top the national TV debut of Janet Jackson's right breast on their own air in February '04. After such a long dry spell, you'd think a boatload of those 2 billion people who, according to chatty model Heidi Klum, have seen the runway show since its inception a decade ago would have been glued to the CBS broadcast. Not so. The event's return to broadcast TV fell short of even '03's disappointing 9.4 million, and was laps behind the 12.3 million who'd caught its television debut on ABC. (Note to self: Find out where on Earth Heidi got those stats.) And this is sad, because history was made last Tuesday night when Tyra Banks performed her very last march down a fashion show runway. And Klum's bod just two months after giving birth to a baby Seal is nothing short of a Christmas miracle. (Fortunately, you're going to be given a second chance. UPN, which is headed by the same guy who runs CBS, will rerun the fashion show tonight at 9.) It's hard to know why the show failed to cop a bigger crowd. Yes, it's true that when the models were out there giving a hard sales pitch on the crystal-caked ensembles, to Snoop Dogg's Drop It Like It's Hot, they were wearing a shocking amount of clothing. Perhaps there was also just a wee bit too much time spent backstage as girls in very high heels stomped clumsily down a set of stairs to the dressing room, looking like knock-kneed giraffes in pushups and thongs. Kind of killed the mood, you know what I mean? And there's no denying that there was way too much blah, blah, blah from models, who, sadly, appear to have IQs even teensier than their dress sizes -- excepting the fabulous Banks, of course. "Look at their butts!" is not the kind of trash talk you want to hear from the mouth of your come-hither holiday fantasy. But there were wonderful moments, too. Like the opening, in which jazz trumpeter Chris Botti performed a gorgeous version of the romantic George Gershwin song Embraceable You (or, as one of the contestants on the next American Idol is sure to call it, "Rod Stewart's Embraceable You") while the words "Please Be Advised This Program Contains Adult Content" moved liltingly across the screen again and again. And it was so good to see Ricky Martin, all grown up and filled out, in his modified mohawk, performing his new hit single Drop It on Me, from his new album Life. Martin has added hip-hop to his repertoire, at least the crotch-grabbing part, which CBS coyly cut away from each time his hand headed south. So beguiling. And who can forget Seal singing Crazy in the dark and then blowing a kiss to a blinding white Electric Bra and Panties that turned out to be his wife, Ms. Klum. source

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Yeah, I take that back. On a new computer and the screen was dark when I said that, I finally adjusted it. I couldn't really see her features and it looked like someone else.

Yes I'm positive that it was Tatiana in the show.

I'm one of the Ashleys and I agree. It's weird to not have more than Ashley in one place, at least for me.

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