The winner of New Zealand's Next Top Model had been announced at the World show at New Zealand Fashion Week in front of a live audience.
Brigette Thomas was named the winner after taking to the catwalk for New Zealand designers World.
Judges Sara Tetro, Colin Mathura-Jeffree and Chris Sisarich
announced the winner in front of a live Fashion Week and television audience.
The final three girls - Bianca Cutts, Brigette Thomas and Rosanagh Wypych all walked in the World show.
Wypych - a Hasting's Girls High student, who lives in Napier, made it to the final from 33 shortlisted model hopefuls and hundreds of others who auditioned across New Zealand. In the end she proved the most controversial contestant.
The 17-year-old revealed details about her February drink-driving conviction to a woman's magazine early in the competition but didn't admit to also being caught driving while disqualified and being convicted and discharged for giving false information to police, which made national headlines about a week out from the final show tonight.
TV3 confirmed Rosanagh did not disclose her full criminal conviction to the network. "While TV3 was aware of Rosanagh's DIC conviction, she did not disclose a subsequent driving while disqualified incident that had occurred prior to the start of filming," MediaWorks publicity manager Rachel Lorimer said, while also confirming she was still in the running for the competition.
The following day Hawke's Bay Today obtained boozy and druggy party photos from Rosanagh's Facebook page which the national media then whipped up into a frenzy, with many supporting Rosanagh but many also questioning her judgement in posting the photos.
The Facebook page and its 4,000 followers vanished the next morning as Rosanagh's father, Tony Wypych, defended her as being "a little bit naughty" but was kind and stuck up for others.
MediaWorks publicity manager Rachel Lorimer said the network "takes its responsibilities towards younger viewers seriously" and did not condone illegal behaviour.
Ruby Higgins, a Hastings teen who came fourth in the first season of NZNTM, remains one of the show's most-liked models.
