Aug 21, 2008 5:51 pm US/Eastern
'The Price Is Right' Model Search Hits Columbia
COLUMBIA, Md. (WJZ) ―
They were called Barker's Beauties, but now the new host of "The Price Is Right" calls them by name.
There's a vacancy among "The Price Is Right" models that only one woman can fill.
Gigi Barnett reports the nationwide search came to Columbia Thursday.
With headshot in hand, cameras rolling and plenty of competition, women arrived wanting a shot at a once-in-a-lifetime shot.
No, not to win a sofa recliner, but a chance to be "The Price Is Right's" next model.
Sounds easy enough for Nikki and Tara Hasselbarth, two sisters who auditioned to fulfill their grandmother's dream.
"She said, 'you all must try out for The Price Is Right. They're having auditions. You need to be on TV,'" said Tara.
But beating the competition and becoming a model is more than posing and pointing. The camera must love you first.
The audition consisted of a few questions on camera and paper, and then what some said was the hardest part, saying a rehearsed line.
Any woman, any age over 18 could audition. Stacey Heyison brought her daughter.
"I don't believe that you stop being attractive or vital after 40. Women are staying much more in shape and in vital as they get older. I feel better now than I've ever felt before in my life," said Stacey.
About a dozen other cities are hosting try-outs, and from each one of those cities, only one girl will get a chance to go to the semi-finals in LA. From there the judges will pick five girls. Out of those five girls, only one of them will get the full-time gig.
"It would be unbelievable. It would mean the world," said Erika Barth.
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