Factory worker crowned Canada's Next Top Model

CTV.ca - Canada - Rebecca Hardy, a tomboyish meat packing plant worker from Mannheim, Ont., was crowned "Canada's Next Top Model'' in a tear-filled season finale of the catty reality TV series on Wednesday night.

"I'm super thrilled,'' the five-foot-11 redhead with the edgy bob haircut said in an interview at the CHUM building in Toronto as the last episode of Cycle 2 of the Citytv reality TV series was airing.

Hardy, 22, beat out four other women in the finale to win the title, which carries a C$100,000 beauty contract with Procter & Gamble, a modelling contract and an editorial spread in Fashion Magazine.

As "Canada's Next Top Model,'' she said she likely won't continue working at the plant in Kitchener, Ont., where she blends different raw meats on the graveyard shift Monday to Friday.