'Runway' model's traffic tragedy

[smartarse]

Possible Project Runway Season 3 Spoiler

Season three of "Project Runway" premiered on Bravo last night, but a tragic accident marred the finale of the Heidi Klum show.
Designers compete for $100,000, a car and other prizes, while their model wins a spread in Elle magazine.

Hungarian model Jia Santos (whose real name is Eliza Jakubek), 18, became one of the three finalists. But near the end of taping, she was struck by a bus while riding her bike to the show's location in the city.
"She was dragged underneath the bus," her agent, Avenue Models' Javier Hernandez, told us yesterday. "She fractured her skull and her eye socket and was in critical condition for three days. Now she has been in intensive care for a month."

Her first words upon waking up, Hernandez tells us, were: "Am I still on 'Project Runway'?"
Santos still appears in the show, and her accident is explained during the finale. Hernandez said she was modeling to support her parents in their Hungarian village. "Everyone from the show has been really supportive and offered their help to get her parents a visa to visit her in the hospital and work on a benefit for her," he said.

'Project Runway' model Jia Santos is still in the hospital after she was hit by a bus on the way to tape the hit Bravo reality show.

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[VainJane]

That's horrible!

But thank god she's still alive! It really is a miracle that she lived after being dragged underneath a bus.

While this is a terrible thing to happen to someone, she is a very lucky woman to survive it.

[Zen]

I'm so sad.....I don't know what to say about that!

[Uchina]

Aww poor baby! Thank god for the magic plastic surgeons can do for people like her though- her face is her rent and the food in her belly.

[stl]

This is sad

I must say that I'm a bit surprised by the modelling world giving her such support. From what I have heard and read, they are like total monsters and don't give a **** about you unless you are pretty enough for them.
Okay now, PLEASE forgive me for my words!!

[Siesta]

Horrible! Wish her get well soon.

[ise76]

Poor thing! Best wishes for her.

[kellyt]

Originally Posted by stl

This is sad

I must say that I'm a bit surprised by the modelling world giving her such support. From what I have heard and read, they are like total monsters and don't give a **** about you unless you are pretty enough for them.
Okay now, PLEASE forgive me for my words!!

That is beyond awful if they are usually like that, the girl was dragged underneath a bus for christs sake! Think about if something this horrible happened to you and your employer was like , too bad f*** you!

I wish her a full recovery...

[chanelnumber5]

that is so unbelieveably sad. i hope she gets better soon

[SophieKawaii]

I didn't know we have the same nationality..
Best wishes for her!

[Ianastar]

This is so sad.

Best wishes to her for a speedy recovery.

[mellowdrama]

I wish her a speedy recovery, but hope this doesn't send reality-tv producers the message that people want to see their contestants dragged under a bus. If I were dragged under a bus, I don't think I'd want to be in a gripping tv feature about it. I'd feel...a wee bit...exploited. But I'm a big weirdo.

Hopefully, they just explained what happened on the show without resorting to dramatic reenactments or a soft-focus pity party.

[Hipkitten]

Originally Posted by mellowdrama

I wish her a speedy recovery, but hope this doesn't send reality-tv producers the message that people want to see their contestants dragged under a bus. If I were dragged under a bus, I don't think I'd want to be in a gripping tv feature about it. I'd feel...a wee bit...exploited. But I'm a big weirdo.

Exploited? She's a model

Seriously, though, this is tragic. She's lucky to have survived. I wish her all the best.

[Nemova]

That's so horrible, poor girl!

[kellyt]

Originally Posted by mellowdrama

I wish her a speedy recovery, but hope this doesn't send reality-tv producers the message that people want to see their contestants dragged under a bus. If I were dragged under a bus, I don't think I'd want to be in a gripping tv feature about it. I'd feel...a wee bit...exploited. But I'm a big weirdo.

Hopefully, they just explained what happened on the show without resorting to dramatic reenactments or a soft-focus pity party.

I know what you mean. although she is a model, that has nothing to do with it. The point is, if producers decide to use a tragedy like this in a tv show to their advantage in order to pull in ratings, it would be unethical IMO...its a gray area though, definitely. it has yet to be seen how they will portray this event in the show