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Is America’s Next Top Model Back on Top (Top, Top)?

New host Rita Ora set a five-year record high with her season-premiere debut.
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From left to right: Drew Elliott, Rita Ora, Law Roach, and Ashley Graham.Courtesy of VH1.

Wherever she is, and whatever she’s up to, we’re guessing Rita Ora has a big smile on her face right now. (Perhaps she’s even smizing.) Why? Turns out her debut on VH1’s America’s Next Top Model reboot set a five-year ratings high for the series.

On Monday night, 1.7 million viewers tuned in to watch the hallowed reality competition show on its new network, Variety reports. The series wrapped up its 12-year, 22-season run on the CW last year. In February, it was announced that the show would be reborn on VH1—with erstwhile host Tyra Banks signed on to executive produce as she focuses on her business ventures.

And so, in Ora stepped—along with a panel of new judges: Ashley Graham, celebrity stylist and self-professed “image architect,” Law Roach, and Paper magazine chief creative officer Drew Elliott. (Paper, you might recall, was the magazine behind Kim Kardashian West’s Internet-breaking photo shoot.

So, what can we expect from this newly reinvigorated competition? At the very least, it seems Ora has already chosen her own catchphrase: “boss.”

“I’ve never said the word ‘boss’ so many times in the space of six weeks,” Ora told Vanity Fair. “For me, it’s more of an attitude than a word. It’s very important for them to have a thick skin. We want these girls to really be threats to the current superstars of today, so we really put them through it.”