Badge TV & Radio Blog  A debate on disability and beauty, or
just trash TV?  Is BBC3's contest to select a disabled model
really concerned with the issues, or is it simply an
exploitative entertainment?  Britain's Missing Top Model
contestant, Jess Jess (left), contestant on Britain's Missing
Top Model. Photograph: BBC/Love Productions  I expected to hate
Britain's Missing Top Model. But we are now three weeks into the
show, part of BBC3's beauty season, and I'm still watching. In
fact, having watched a sneak preview of tonight's show I can
confirm I now care who wins. As with every other reality
television programme we've had tears, late night squabbles, and
a double elimination. In tonight's show there's the "catwalk
challenge", the judges fall out and there are yet more shots of
creepy "mentor" Jonathan Phang looking wistfully into the
distance as he says "I just wonder if the public is ready for a
disabled model".  Last week Debbie was booted out for daring to
have hint of a stomach, giving the impression