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Suomen huippumalli haussa season 2

season of television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ7641822 ↗
Source-derived summary

The second season of Suomen huippumalli haussa began filming in the Autumn of 2008 and began airing 13 April 2009 at 20.00 on the Finnish channel Nelonen. The prize for the winner was a contract with Paparazzi Model Management, the front cover of Finnish Cosmopolitan and becoming the new spokesperson for Max Factor.

Nanna Grundfeldt won the competition, with Riina Roms and Anna-Kaisa Tyrväinen sharing second place. Grundfeldt is the first out lesbian to win any of the over 30 versions of Top Model around the world, including the original.

Self-proclaimed "supermodel" Janice Dickinson was a guest judge on the show for episode 7. She was in Helsinki for filming in November 2008. Tommi Kilponen, of Finland's version of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, is this season's stylist.

Episode summaries

"Premiere"

Original airdate: April 13, 2009

20 semifinalists are chosen for casting and walk in an Andiamo runway show to compete for being contestants. There were supposed to be 10 final contestants, but the panel (Anne Kukkohovi, Saimi Hoyer, and Sakari Majantie) decided to take 11 instead.

"Makeovers"

Original airdate: April 20, 2009

The girls move into their new house and get a visit from Anne Kukkohovi and then a catwalk lesson by drag queen Jarkko Valtee.

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