It's day three in Goa and the models' bitching and complaining has reached new heights.

The little diva wannabes started whining from day one about the "food situation" – even before today's announcement that Deanne is putting them all on special diet food for the rest of the competition.
 
For the first two days, they could eat the same food the judges and crew were eating, but apparently, in the time they had to wait between the courses, they'd get hungry all over again.
 
Nina's taking it the worst.  She's snapped at the hotel staff a couple of times and keeps making digs at Arika about her age. She even told Deanne that what she'd really like to eat is Butter Chicken.
 
The girls are also irritated by the rules, the camera, the work, their tiredness, the weather, the sun, the make up, homesickness, missing their boyfriends, no network coverage and even each other.
 
The incessant complaining is starting to grate on my ears.
 
And it's not doing much to help them impress the judges either.
 
Tonight Alison is training the girls to walk the ramp, and I'm hanging out with the judges. They start talking about how they wish there were more girls to choose from because they might possibly not find a real winner among these girls.
 
A light bulb goes on somewhere in my head. I start to tell them about this American reality show, P. Diddy's Making of the Band, where unimpressed by the girls, the judges actually start auditions again and bring in new girls! I suggest that maybe the Get Gorgeous judges should fool the models into believing that something like that is going to happen. That way they might pull up their socks and start performing to the best of their abilities.
 
The judges love the idea. I don't know if they can make this happen but it would definitely lead to an interesting turn of events. One thing is certain though, if the girls ever find out it was my idea… I'm as good as dead.
 
It's morning, and when I walk into the dinning area, some of the girls who aren't shooting are having a late breakfast. Tensions are rising. The eliminations are starting the today and two girls will be sent home.
 
Arika seems very quiet. Nina tells me that Arika, who according to her is a temperamental brat, is angry because she just yelled at her.
 
Amman (the marketing guy from Channel [v]), Nina and I strike up a conversation with Kirtana, who's been telling everyone that she doesn't know what she's doing here and doesn't care about winning the competition – and is starting to irritate the other girls.   We ask her what's going on, and she says that her bad attitude towards the show is because she's so into her work with an NGO. We point out that she's not at the NGO, and that right now this is her work. Nina's tells Kirtana to stop acting like she's better than all this. "Get that stick out of your arse," Nina says!  She isn't shy about repeating it for my camera as well.
 
Arlette, Mizpah, Rebecca, Rachel and to some extent Nidhi are still acting like a clique and helping each other deal with the stress. They're calling themselves the Famous Five. I don't know if I agree with that, but I'm pretty sure none of them are going to be among the first to get eliminated.
 
It's almost noon and I stop by Nidhi's room to pick up some earphones she said she'd lend me. Kirtana is sitting in the bed applying some concealer. I say I've never really figured out how to use concealer. All of the sudden Kirtana's applying it on me to show what a difference it makes. She proceeds to do up my entire face with a "day look". She's bossing me around a bit, and I sit with my eyes shut tight and my fingers crossed.
 
The make-up looks great! It's not as heavy as I thought it would be, which is a relief. And it's such a pleasant surprise to see Kirtana letting her guard down with me and being herself.
 
Over lunch, Manoj tells me about this morning's shoot. Today's challenge has the contestants in some very cute bikinis posing with kitchen pots and pans, as if they are doing print ad.  Manoj says that the girls he shot in the morning should have been more creative while posing with their kitchen props. They should have put more thought into it, he says.
 
It's after dinner and the girls have finished practicing their ramp walk and are sitting around, waiting for eliminations to begin. They're starting to get snappy with the crew and me as well. They have just one thing on their mind… elimination.
 
Everyone's worried about being eliminated at this point. But it seems like the girls with the most potential are more nervous than the ones the judges have been criticizing. Nidhi has one of the most stunning faces and a lovely body, but she's concerned because she's never modeled before. Arlette and Rebecca are also very worried when I don't think they should be.  Maybe they're not confident enough at this point.
 
I think that Sarika and Kirtana will be the two girls sent home. Sarika's filmy drama has not been well received by the judges, and Kirtana's disregard for everything to do with the show has not gone unnoticed. The judges have been, not so fondly, referring to them as "Tollywood" and "RJ".
 
It's after 10pm and the eliminations have begun. The girls are looking at their bikini pics and are about to go before the judges.
 
I haven't been told who's going home. This is scary for me, even though I'm not part of the competition. I'm stressed out!
 
Next week: training gets more intensive and the girls have two big surprises in store.

The girls have already divided into cliques – or one clique and one group of girls who are excluded.

Rachel's the most vocal. She's enthusiastic and is obviously happy to be here. In her clique are Mizpah, Nidhi, Rebecca and Arlette.

The outsiders are Sneha and Sarika (who are missing home and spending a lot of time upset and on their cell phones), Kirtana (who's got her nose buried in a book), Arika (the youngest and friendliest), and Nina (who was napping when I first met the group.)

I'm sitting with the semifinalists in the dining hall on my first night in Goa. There's a camera filming as they eat. I guess this really is reality TV.

They had arrived a day ahead and had some time to start getting to know each other, so it was time for me to introduce myself.

"Hi! I'm Valsa, and I'm going to be blogging about what goes on behind the scenes at Get Gorgeous4", I say.

A mix of polite smiles and blank expressions stares back at me. I'm not too sure they've understood, until Rachel asks me what "exactly" I'll be blogging about.

I explain that I'm here to write about the making of this show. I am the viewer, and I'm here to let other viewers know what happens when the cameras stop rolling.

Rachel and her girls turn from conversation to assigning each of the girls a pet name. They've decided Rachel's will be Phoebe after the character from Friends. Nidhi's is "Charlie" because she looked like one of the "Charlie's Angels" in her bikini in the pool earlier in the day. No one can remember any of the angels' names.

Since Arika is the youngest, they call her "kiddo", like the character from the movie Kill Bill. She hasn't seen the movie and doesn't like the name much. They try to come up with another name for her based on her looks and someone comments that Arika looks a bit Oriental. Arlette jumps in about how she dislikes oriental looks and finds them "creepy." I interpret the comment as an odd personal attack on Arika, not too mention extremely politically incorrect.

The subject moves to how the models think the crew wants them to fight so that there'll be more drama on the show, but they say it won't happen because they like each other so much. They tell me there's not going to be any unhealthy competition or bitchiness.

But with ten beautiful girls, one pair of butterfly wings and some serious competition, things are bound to get ugly.

The next morning with the girls at breakfast, it's Sneha's turn to get her nickname, since she was busy on the phone with her mum the day before. She has really great long hair so someone suggests "Rapunzel". Sneha hasn't heard the of the fairy tale. Arika starts to tell the story, but Nina cuts her off, saying, "If anyone can still remember fairytales, it has to be her," referring to the fact that Arika is so young.

Suddenly a loud, theatrical girl with a South Indian accent and huge sunglasses appears. I don't have a clue who was is until one of the girls introduced introduces her to me as Sarika, the quiet girl from the night before. There was no way that the two were the same. I sit here amused and thoroughly entertained by her prancing, pouting and spewing "sweeties" for the camera.

Sarika gets the nick name "Paris", as in Paris Hilton. But Mizpah suddenly says that she would call Sarika a "retard". I can't believe she just said that! When someone asks Mizpah why she said it, she says she didn't mean to be malicious, but explains how yesterday in the pool Sarika (who doesn't know to swim was trying to float) ended up splashing about "like a retard".

Sarika seems hurt, but changes the topic.

Personally, I think Mizpah was being nasty. Had I been in Sarika's place, I would have handled that very differently.

It's the afternoon of Day 2 for me in Goa and I move in with my new roommates, Mizpah and Rachel. (I'd gotten my own room for the first night).

Rachel tries to lay down some ground rules she and Mizpah would like me to follow while staying with them. According to them, I'm not supposed to reveal anything in my blog about what is said and done in our room.

As If, I tell them. This is what I'm here to do.

I'm no pushover, so I lay down a rule of my own: they will not touch any of my stuff and I will not touch any of theirs.

Overall, today is pretty a relaxed day for the girls. They have nothing on their schedule besides profile shoots for a few of them with Zubair, the show photographer.

After dinner, as he's working on the pictures he's taken today, I sit down to chat with Zubair to hear about his day and find out what he thinks of the girls.

So far, he thinks that a lot of the girls are too scared to give the competition their all. By holding back, if they get eliminated they can turn around and say they didn't really want to do it in the first place.

He also has interesting insights into which contestants have potential and who could win this. He says that the perfect winner would have a combination of Rachel's attitude, Arika's innocence and Nidhi's grace – all shaken up together.

(Check out my contestant bios to read more about his take on each of the girls.)

It's 2:45 in the morning, and my phone is ringing. (I'd just fallen asleep)

Sarika is on the other end crying. Her roommate Nina hasn't come back to their room and Sarika woke up alone. She's freaked out that she had no clue where Nina is. And she's scared.

Sarika is 23. That's how old I am! I sure as hell wouldn't have started crying if I woke up and saw that my roommate was not in her bed. Maybe she's a bit immature. She lives with her mum and grand mom and from what she's told me I gather that she has led a pretty sheltered life. Or maybe she's just stressed out since the girls will be meeting with the judges the next day.

All I'm thinking right now is, "how can I sort this out and get back to sleep?" I'm also feeling a little badly for her, so I invite her to come to my room, since Rachel and Mizpah are bunking with some of the other girls.

But Sarika is nervous about walking to my room alone, so I drag my groggy self out of bed and walk down to her room three villas away. After bringing her back to my room I calm her down, make sure she's comfortable and then try to get some sleep.

At 3:10am, Sarika wakes me up (again) with an announcement. She wants to go back to her own room. And of course, she wants me to walk her back and make sure she reaches safely.

Now I'm wide awake. This is just great.

The next day, I learn from some of the girls, as well as the crew, that Nina wasn't sleeping in the room because apparently Sarika likes to sleep in the buff.

Hey, it's great to have your quirks and sleep nude if you want to. But if you're staying with someone, particularly in a reality TV contest scenario like this, maybe you'd want to wear at least something?

Next week: The pressure from the judges heats up and the girls prepare themselves for the first elimination.

My name is Valsa and I'm a self-confessed television junkie.

A moment ago I was struck with disbelief — I got a call from the producers of Channel V's 'Get Gorgeous IV'. They want me to get behind-the-scenes of this season's show… and write a blog about it!

Thousands of girls auditioned in Pune, Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai with the hope of being named "The Next Hottest Face". The ten girls who survive the auditions and make the cut will be going down to Goa for modelling boot camp.

And I'm going with them.

Like a lot of you, I too have wondered how a show like this gets made. How much of it is real? How much is contrived? Do the cameras ever go off, or do they actually manage to film all the interesting little things that go bump in the night?

This is my chance to find out.

I've always thought Get Gorgeous was a cool show. Remember how the first season had four winners instead of one? It's fun to watch the girls transform themselves with expert help and gain confidence. Some of them use advice from the judges to edge their way to the front of the pack, but the really juicy stuff happens when they think can get ahead with their catfights and complaining.

Whatever the strategy, the fact is that the girls' fate depends on the judges. For the first time, this year's Get Gorgeous will have eight judges. The line-up includes the likes of Samantha Kocchar, Alison Kanuga and Shantanu & Nikhil. I don't generally swoon over models but I must say, I wish they would bring back the gorgeous Milind Soman from seasons 1 and 2. I just can't seem to get rid of the crush I've had on him since I was 12!

So if you've read this far, you’re probably wondering, Who is this Valsa character and why is she the blogger? Well, I've lived in Mumbai my whole life, I'm 23 years old and yes, I've always loved watching TV. I think the sitcoms, funnies, and dramas like "CSI" and "Law & Order" are really great but I find reality shows especially fun to watch. I can't help but be amused as the relentless camera forces people to shed their inhibitions and pretences in front of the whole world.

But watching TV isn't all I do. I also love to write. I like to read, sketch, listen to music, write poetry and watch movies every chance I get. I really like to dance and I'm especially proud of the fact that I can successful do the Shakira hip-wiggle. I love spicy food and I carry my bottle of Tabasco in my bag with me at all times (in case of emergency – bland baguettes kill me).

But enough about me. I've got barely 18 hours left to book a flight ticket, shop for essentials, get a hold of a laptop, have a haircut, grab dinner with my boyfriend, pack for my ten days in Goa and hopefully get a couple of hours of sleep as well.

Oooh, but before all of that, as my first bit of "research" for this project, I’m going to Google the resort we're staying at — Swaswara. Maybe they have pictures of the rooms on the web? Hold on, I'm checking…

Wow! The place looks awesome. Their site says they're all about "self-discovery and rejuvenation." The ocean is just five minutes away, but for the lazy and tired they also have a pool. I can already feel the wind caressing my hair as I float around in the pool, sipping a glass of wine.

I hope that down in Goa I'll really be able to get the skinny on these models. Did I mention that? I'm going to be living among the models! And I'm going to shoot some of my own video, too. My goal: to ask all the questions you would if you were on the set, find out who these girls really are and what this competition is all about.

Then I'm going to bring it to you, warts and all.

I've done some hunting around and I don't think any reality TV shows in India have ever allowed an embedded blogger into their production before. It's a great opportunity for me. And, hey, we could be making reality TV history!

So find your way back to read my blog each week — I'm sure I'll be doubled over with laughter while writing it and in all likelihood, I'll have you doing the same. I'll be posting my diary entries on Tuesdays so you can read my weekly inside scoop before the new episodes of the show run on Thursday nights.

Next week — I'll be spilling some dirt on the audition process and what the contestants wrote in the applications to try to make it onto the show!