National modeling reality TV show opens in HCM City

The fourth season of modelling reality TV show The Face Vietnam has opened in Ho Chi Minh City.
National modeling reality TV show opens in HCM City ảnh 1Mentors of The Face Vietnam 2022 reality show and Le Thi Quynh Trang, CEO of Multimedia JSC (middle). (Photo courtesy of the organiser)
HCMCity (VNS/VNA) - The fourth season of modelling reality TV showThe Face Vietnam has opened in Ho Chi Minh City.

Thousands of contestants, female and male, are expected to participate in theshow’s qualifying round held in the city and Hanoi.

Fifteen best contestants will be chosen for the final round held in the citynext month.

During the final round, they will be coached by the show’s chief mentors aswell as local and foreign fashion industry insiders to compete for The FaceVietnam title.

This year, the show brings together Vietnamese models and actresses Anh Thu andVu Thu Phuong as mentors.

Thu rose to fame in 2000 as a model and has won many modelling prizes. She hasalso appeared in Vietnamese movies and TV series like NhungCo Gai Chan Dai (Catwalk Girls), a film about the backstage lifeof fashion models directed by Vu Ngoc Dang, which won the Silver Lotus award atthe 14th National Film Festival in 2004.

Phuong began her career as a model in 2008 after winning the national modellingcompetition and quickly gained success in the modelling and film industries.

She announced her retirement in 2011, then returned as a judge of the MissUniverse Vietnam pageant in 2019 and 2022.

Model Minh Trieu is paired with Miss Vietnam 2014 Ky Duyen to become the othermentoring duo for the show.

Makeup artist Nam Trung, who hosted several modelling and fashion TV realityshows, is the host of The Face Vietnam 2022.

The Face Vietnam 2022 season can be watched at https://www.facebook.com/TheFaceVietnamOfficial.

The Face Vietnam, which premiered in 2016, has brought out severalrenowned models like Phi Phuong Anh, Mac Trung Kien, Tu Hao and Nguyen QuynhAnh.

Quynh Anh won the sixth season of SupermodelMe, a multi-platform realityseries in which Asian models compete for a chance to launch a career in thefashion industry, held in Singapore last year./.
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