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Supermodel of the 80s Elle Macpherson, now 47, will be a judge on the new season of Britain’s Next Top Model, and fashion industry star Julian Macdonald, for one, is thrilled about it. The new season starts Monday, July 5.

“If I was a woman, I wouldn’t mind being Elle,” said Macdonald, at a launch party for the show. In fact, he recently told Now magazine that the Australian fashion star was the reason he chose to join the show, saying, “When I got the call from her, I knew it was serious. Elle only ever gives 100 percent.”

Macpherson is the executive producer for BNTM, and the one who personally selected the 25 aspiring models, who will battle it out in the rarefied world of couture fashion designers for the title of Britain’s Next Top Model.