The Wig, The Bitch & The Meltdown

By: Jay Manuel

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

The Wig, The Bitch & The Meltdown is a satirical look behind the scenes of Model Muse, a fictional reality model competition show and global phenomenon. Seen through the eyes of our moral compass Pablo Michaels—the heart of production in the helter-skelter world of Model Muse—we see behind the scenes and backstage shenanigans of the fashion/reality TV world.



As "The Fixer," Pablo is the man everyone turns to in crisis. Struggling to hold the fledgling production together, he juggles his duties to his "BFF," the ruthless and vulnerable antihero Keisha Kash, his supermodel boss, while trying to hold on to his own soul.



When the show is renewed after its sensational first season, this satire takes up where The Devil Wears Prada left us, only now we're on the runway itself. Think Crazy Rich Asians meets Ladies Who Punch and a dish of Dulce de Leche.©2020 Jay Manuel

Love The Tea

Good and entertaining and definitely a good insight, even if it's just satire. I enjoyed it!

Best Fan fiction ever

If your an ANTM fan I would definitely recommend reading/listening. It has a few iconic moments and top models from the show you’ll definitely remember and Jay Manuel will definitely leave you thinking did this really happen behind the scenes or is this just fiction.

A perfect fashion reality tv book

The tea was hot and very red! A must read if you enjoy the ins and out of fashion and fiction!

Mindless entertainment

Provided mindless entertainment. Just what I was looking for. It took a while to get past the rather robotic narrative.

Mean Girls, but it’s America’s Next Top Model

So Jay Manuel has taken the plot of Mean Girls and superimposed it on a fictional version of America’s Next Top Model. Take a somehow simultaneously fresh faced, starstruck and very connected silver-haired, adopted Pablo Michael (Jay) as our Cady Heron and the supremely narcissistic supermodel Keisha Kash (Tyra) as Regina George, and supplement with a barrage of the worst possible caricatures of the most famous faces from ANTM; Runway Coach Miss Thing (Miss J), British Photographer Mason Hughes (Nigel Barker), and Judge/“World’s First Supermodel” Sasha Berenson (Janice Dickinson).

Basically: boy meets supermodel, boy becomes supermodel’s minion. Boy realizes supermodel is evil. Boy tries to fight evil with evil and people start telling him he’s become evil. Tada! Mean Girls, but it’s ANTM. (But not actually ANTM because this is fiction and ANTM exists in this world, but that’s a whole other mess…)

The actor probably made this sound better then it would on it’s own, so there’s that at least. Just go watch Mean Girls, really. They wore it better.