Model 'picked on due to faith'

A SIKH contestant on TV show Britain's Next Top Model has claimed she was singled out and exploited on the show because of her religion.

Business studies student Harleen Nottay, 19, from Roslin, Midlothian, said that while other models were simply asked to pose standing next to male models, she was made to get on to a bed and adopt sexual poses.

Ms Nottay said she had been singled out because of her background: "I definitely think I had the most revealing, most intense situation and I found it unfair that I was put into the worst scenario there could have been.

"I'd said that I wouldn't mind doing lingerie and swimwear but naturally they would be aware that I'd be uncomfortable with it because of the background that I come from and the backlash there might be against me.

"So I think for the story and the entertainment of it all, that's what they got me to do."

She was eliminated in last night's episode.