Post by proxio on Apr 27, 2014 0:16:13 GMT -5
Mariana "Mia" Lasanti will be your sixth pick of the 2013 NITRO Rookie Draft. She was scouted by ICE's Keith Jan Lewis in Toronto.
Mia Lasanti is one of the four models that hail from Jacksonville as the first one Sara Sampaio was already drafted and it assumed that Ashley Greene who is from J'Ville also has a huge edge over drafting these models to her studio. Some people think that things may have changed a little bit for Mia because once Sara moved up to #2 and chose ROD now Mia might be forced to go to another studio where she won't be in Sara's shadow but ROD is still considered the top favorite to take her although she's in ICE's system she might even surprise everybody and go to SBC. A lot of it may depend of where Miranda Kerr and Joan Smalls goes as she will likely get more money going to a studio where they aren't drafted at.
Mia Lasanti is has an older sister out there named Lauren Layne Lasanti who is a model also but not working in the NITRO system right now. Mia is also the second Italian coming out of this draft behind Kyla Ray.
The bigger cog of Mia Lasanti's value is that she's probably one of the top if not the top musician that will be taken in this draft as her backstory is intriguing because she was actually discovered auditioning in Tampa back in 2011 for The Carpenters Hour as a 14 year old but didn't make it to Detroit Week b/c decision makers thought she was way too young and too immature to take the competition seriously and that was a huge surprise to viewers. That elimination was the reason why ICE developed the spin-off The Carpenters Hour Juniors so that contestants under the age of 16 could be in their own competition so Mia is the reason why The Juniors was made and the age limit was established. During her time this past year while the actors were out of work for the year she practiced a good amount with the Diamond Girls so this is someone who could be real special.
Mia unlike Miranda Kerr and Joan Smalls is really young and super immature which is why she dropped so much in this draft. She is a typical NITRO teenager who doesn't play by the rules so she needs to be in a studio with some structure. She's one of the top 5 dangerous models on this list with a checkered background doing some time behind bars like Kyla Ray but when you get past her behavior she is a huge gem to the studio and franchise type player.
These rookie draft picks have already proven to be very valuable out the gate this season as Joel Osmond (1st, SBC), Sara Sampaio (2nd, ROD), and Kyla Ray (3rd, ICE) have all already had early success in this young season so they can be a huge draw to these studios that need more help in the ratings. So consider yourself lucky if any of these picks and their agents choose your studio.
