‘America’s Next Top Model’ Angelea Preston Says Producers Knew She Had Worked As An Escort Before Taking Her Title Away

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“America’s Next Top Model” has controversy brewing. The 2011 All Star winner Angelea Preston had her title taken away from producers who learned she was previously an escort.

But Preston is now claiming producers knew. Preston was set to sign a $100,000 Covergirl contract but that part was removed from the final episode after fellow contestant Krista White told Tyra Banks and the production team. “It was already traumatic going through the sex-work stuff, and now to add insult to injury, they were punishing me for the rest of my life.

I was gutted. Back then you didn’t talk about [sex work] because it was shameful, and I felt ashamed. And [Top Model] made me feel even more ashamed than I already was,” Preston told Bustle. READ MORE: Tyra Banks Rocks Two Of Britney Spears’ Iconic Looks For ‘Britney Night’ On ‘DWTS’ Preston claims casting agent Michelle Mock had asked her, “Were you being pimped?” to which she told about her past. “To my understanding, she knew what happened, but she wasn’t going to say anything to anyone else.

It was going to be our little secret,” Preston said. Preston had already competed on the show twice. It was after she escaped her pimp that White, who won in season 14, tried to help her out before she was cast in All Stars. “I understood how she came into that work, and what she needed to do to make money.