ANTM spoilers, news, and updates tease that Nyle DiMarco, winner of the 22nd season of America’s Next Top Model, has been successful even after the show.
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Nyle DiMarco – Won America’s Next Top Model In 2015. The Show Opened The Competition For Both Men And Women In 2013.
When Nyle won the show in 2015, he was the first deaf contestant, which also made him the first deaf winner of ANTM. With his exposure, he became the face of deaf and hard-of-hearing models in the fashion industry.
His success in the show exhibited that their disability is not a hindrance in everything they do, especially in the fashion industry.
After ANTM, he also joined Dancing With the Stars in 2016. He was the second deaf contestant to join the show. By joining DWTS, he showed that disability also does not affect his talent as a dancer.
He also won the show, which makes him a winner of two different competition TV series. He is also the first deaf winner of Dancing with the Stars.
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Nyle DiMarco’s – Other Talents
Nyle also worked as an actor in different television shows. He was in Switched at Birth, Difficult People, This Close, and Station 19. Switched at Birth is one of the first TV shows to showcase several regular casts that are deaf and hard of hearing.
Some of the scenes were shot in ASL or American Sign Language, which is a great representation of deaf people in the media. Having actors who are deaf made the show more genuine, and it opened a lot of opportunities for actors with the same disabilities.
He also came out as sexually fluid, and since then, he has been an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community. So, he is both an advocate for the deaf and the LGBTQ+ communities, and he is using the platform he built for himself to raise awareness of the challenges that people like him face every day.
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Nyle DiMarco’s advocacy
He created his foundation, The Nyle DiMarco Foundation, which provides resources for deaf children and their families. With the exposure he got from two separate shows he won, Nyle probably built a lot of connections and really raised awareness when it comes to being deaf and what people like him actually need.
He also produced a reality series with Netflix titled Deaf U, which focuses on students at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. It is also where Nyle studied. The federally chartered research university is built to provide higher education for the deaf and hard of hearing.
There are over 23,000 alumni, and the university currently has 1,400 undergraduate and graduate students. Apart from Deaf U, Nyle also worked with Netflix with the short film Audible.
Recently, he published his memoir Deaf Utopia: A Memoir – and a Love Letter to a Way of Life.
Nyle really had used his platform to good use by raising awareness for people like him and actually helping them through his foundation.
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