I then asked about another girl on the website. “Oh Carla?” the girl said with a sigh, sounding rather bored. “Yeah, well, she lives in London now so she wouldn’t be available at such short notice.” I found myself wondering why a model who lives in London and isn’t available to work at short notice has a photo up on an Irish agency website. Then I asked for another girl that I liked the look of. She couldn’t attend the casting unfortunately because she was five months’ pregnant and was apparently only doing maternity fashion shoots at the moment. At this stage I was practically pulling my hair out. It was the same story at nearly all the agencies. Nearly everyone I wanted to see was unavailable. The girls were either on holidays or sick, or lived abroad or had already been booked for the following day. One girl, whose picture on the agency site was stunning, turned out to be thirty years old so she was also a non-runner.
