Regis Philbin is one of the most famous faces and voices in American broadcasting, and has been for decades, even setting a Guinness World Record in 2009 for most hours on camera. He made his television debut over forty years ago and since then has hosted game shows, talk shows, and other types of programming. An Emmy-winning icon, he has become most well-known for his work on the “Live with Regis” program as well as the hit game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire,” both of which he has won awards for in the past. This Regis and Kelly Baby Contest 2010 is only yet another way in which he is giving back prizes to the American public.

Regis’s bubbly American sweetheart of a co-host, Kelly Ripa, has also had a lengthy and dynamic career on daytime and prime time television alike. She earned this highly esteemed seat on television next to Regis, having hosted the show now for eight years, receiving seven Daytime Emmy nominations in the meantime. Other television shows she has helped make successful include “Hope and Faith,” and “Ed.” She also runs her own production company, and has appeared in several feature films. Her participation in the Regis and Kelly Baby Contest 2010 is one of the annual events that she claims to enjoy the most as part of the program.

With such formidable hosts, it’s no wonder that the Regis and Kelly Baby Contest 2010 is able to draw in the heavyweights in sponsors, and inspire so many people to enter in photographs of their babies. The competition is fierce, but the glory is well worth it, with such great prizes attached and the chance to meet Regis and Kelly in person. If you are interested in taking part, there are still a few weeks left to enter and be a part of Regis and Kelly history.

Here are a few rules that stood out to us:

1. Age Requirements – 6 Months to 48 Months

2. Photos Must be Taken Within The Last Month

3. Photos Can NOT Be Taken By  A Professional Photographer

4. Winners Will Be Notified February 22, by Phone

You can find the remaining rules below. We would highly recommend reading every rule so you and your beautiful baby have the best chances to win!

Live’s Beautiful Baby Search 2010 – Official Rules:

1. NAME OF SPONSOR(S): LIVE with Regis and Kelly, 7 Lincoln Square, New York, New York 10023 (”LIVE”); American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., 77 West 66th Street, 16th Floor, New York, New York 10023 (”ABC”) (Hereinafter collectively referred to as “Sponsor”).

2. ELIGIBILITY: Nominees must be between the age of 6 months and 48 months as of January 5, 2010 and legal resident of the 50 U.S., D.C. or Canada, with the exception of Maine, Guam, Puerto Rico and all other U.S. territories and possessions and the Province of Quebec, Canada and where prohibited by law. 

Any individuals (including but not limited to employees, consultants, independent contractors, and interns) who have, within the past six months, performed services for LIVE with Regis and Kelly, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., Buena Vista Television, The Parenting Group, Inc., any organizations responsible for sponsoring, fulfilling, administering, advertising or promoting the contest or supplying the prize, and their respective parent, subsidiary, affiliated and successor companies, and immediate family and household members of such individuals, are not eligible to nominate or be nominated. “Immediate family members” shall mean parents, step-parents, children, step-children, siblings, step-siblings, or spouses. “Household members” shall mean people who share the same residence at least three months a year.

3. HOW AND WHEN TO ENTER: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. 

Send us a recent photo of your baby. Photos must have been taken in the last month and cannot be the product of a professional photographer. Submissions must be the sole property of entrant and entrant must have all rights to reproduce and distribute the photo submitted. Any submission not meeting these requirements will be immediately disqualified. You may enter twins, triplets, etc. as one entry. Hereafter “Child” shall refer to a single child or collectively to twins/triplets, etc. as applicable. 

To enter by mail, include with your baby’s photograph, your name, address, day & evening phone numbers along with your child’s name, date of birth and date when picture was taken and mail to: 

LIVE’S BEAUTIFUL BABY SEARCH 2010
Ansonia Station
P.O. 230233
New York, NY 10023-0004 

Or you can enter by logging on to our Web site at: www.liveregisandkelly.com. There you will find instructions on the appropriate and acceptable file formats and sizes for submitting your entry electronically. Use the submission fields to provide your name, address and day & evening phone numbers along with your child’s name and date of birth, and properly formatted photo. 

LIVE can provide no technical support and accepts no responsibility for insuring the receipt of your online submission and photo. If you experience any difficulties trying to submit your entry via electronically, we recommend that you send your photo via U.S. mail to us at the above address. 

Entrants must be able to supply additional photo(s) if requested. Entries must be received by 5pm ET on Friday, January 29, 2010 to be eligible. Photos will not be acknowledged or returned. All entries become the property of LIVE and may be used in any manner, in any media, worldwide in perpetuity. 

Finalists must be available to appear on LIVE in New York during the week of March 1, 2010. Choice of dates for any appearance is at LIVE’s sole discretion. If a Winner is unable to travel on the dates selected, or does not possess documentation required to travel to New York (if needed), Winner will forfeit prize and an alternate winner will be selected, if time permits. As deemed necessary at the sole discretion of the Sponsor, LIVE will provide transportation and accommodation for the five (5) finalists asked to appear on the program. LIVE reserves the exclusive right to determine the details and/or necessity of such compensated travel arrangements. 

Federal, state and local taxes associated with all transportation and accommodations provided are the responsibility of the finalist. Any and all expenses not expressly mentioned above are the sole responsibility of the finalist. 

Entries remain the property of Sponsor and will not be returned or acknowledged. One entry per nominee will be considered for further participation. 

Sponsor is not responsible for mail that is lost, stolen, late, illegible, incomplete, damaged, mutilated, misdirected, altered, tampered with, or postage-due. 

Sponsor is not responsible for failed, partial or garbled computer transmissions, or for technical failures of any kind, including but not limited to electronic malfunction or damage of any network, hardware or software. If for any reason the contest is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or other causes that corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the contest, Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process, and to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the contest. No responsibility is assumed for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries; or any problems or technical malfunctions of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail or electronic entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Web-site, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to entrant’s or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participation in or downloading any materials from this contest.

4. HOW AND WHEN WINNERS WILL BE SELECTED AND NOTIFIED 

Potential semi-finalists will be notified by telephone during the week of February 22, 2010. Three (3) attempts will be made to contact the potential semi-finalists. If contact with potential semi-finalists is not made within three (3) days potential semi-finalist will be disqualified and an alternate will be selected, time permitting. 

Ten (10) semi-finalists will be chosen from all qualifying entries. Entries will be judged by representatives of the LIVE and Parenting magazine staffs. 

The ten (10) semi-finalists pictures will appear on LIVE and on LIVE’s website on or about the week of March 1, 2010. Viewers will have the chance to vote on-line for five (5) of the ten (10) semi-finalists. Only one (1) entry will be accepted per registered e-mail address. The Viewers will be told on air when the on-line voting will begin and end. The five (5) finalists receiving the most individual votes will be invited to appear on the program. 

The five (5) finalists will attend a photo shoot held by Parenting magazine. Based solely on photos produced from the photo shoot, representatives from the staffs of LIVE and Parenting magazine will decide who will win the title of “LIVE’s Beautiful Baby.” 

All entries will be judged based on the visual appeal of the baby to the judging panels as evidenced by the photograph. All decisions of the judges are final and binding as to all contest matters. 

All five (5) finalists’ parent/legal guardian must supply proof of identity, sign an Affidavit of Eligibility, Release and Indemnification, provide their Social Security/tax identification number and must sign a liability release and a publicity release prior to their appearance and final qualification and appearance. Failure to timely comply with any requirement of these terms and conditions will result in the winning entrant being deemed ineligible for any prize.

5. PRIZE(S) 

One (1) Grand Prize Winner will receive $125,000 to be used towards a 4 year college education and will appear on a future cover of Parenting magazine, Early Years edition. Four (4) runners-up will each receive $25,000 to be used towards 1 year of college education. Ten (10) semi-finalists will each receive a year’s worth of Gerber’s Start Healthy, Stay Healthy food vouchers including a personalized nutrition plan. Valued at $1000 (per winner). 

Federal, state and local taxes are the sole responsibility of the winner, who will receive an IRS Form 1099 reflecting the final actual value of any prize valued at $600 or more. Consult with your tax professional regarding potential tax implications. 

Prize won by a minor will be awarded in parent’s or guardian’s name. Winners are not entitled to exchange or transfer prizes or to obtain cash or other substitutes, but Sponsor in its sole discretion may substitute prizes of equal or greater value. All expenses not specifically provided for herein are the winner’s sole responsibility. Some restrictions may apply. 

Prize is subject to availability. Sponsor is not responsible for cancellation or rescheduling of any appearance or for other circumstances that make it impractical or impossible to fulfill any appearance related element of the prize. The appearance on the cover of Parenting magazine element of the prize has no approximate retail value, and if it becomes impractical or impossible to fulfill this element, Sponsor’s only obligation will be to provide the remainder, if any, of prize.

6. RELEASES: By participating, entrants agree to be bound by these official rules and the decisions of the Sponsor / Judges and the contest administrator, which shall be final in all respects. 

By participating in this contest and accepting any prize that they may win, entrants agree to release LIVE with Regis and Kelly, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., The Parenting Group, Inc., their respective parent, subsidiary, affiliated and successor companies, advertising and promotion agencies and prize suppliers, and each of their respective officers, directors, agents, representatives and employees, as well as each of their respective successors, representatives and assigns (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from any and all actions, claims, injury, loss or damage arising in any manner, directly or indirectly, from participation in this contest and/or acceptance or use of the prize. 

Entrants authorize the Released Parties to use their name, voice, likeness, biographical data, city and state of residence and entry materials in programming or promotional material, worldwide in perpetuity, or on a winner’s list, if applicable, without further compensation unless prohibited by law. Sponsor is not obligated to use any of the above mentioned information or materials, but may do so and may edit such information or materials, at Sponsor’s sole discretion, without further obligation or compensation. 

By submitting entry materials, entrants certify that such materials are original and created by entrant, that entrants have the necessary rights, permission and authority to submit such materials, and, if applicable, that entrants maintain a valid copyright in the materials. Entrants acknowledge that such materials may be included and/or discussed in a broadcast, that such discussion may include statements or opinions by the broadcast talent or others about the entrants, the entrants’ appearances and/or the materials, and that those statements and opinions may be considered surprising, humiliating, embarrassing, derogatory, defamatory or otherwise offensive or injurious to them, Sponsor’s employees, its studio or at-home audience and/or other third parties. Entrants release the Released Parties from any actions, claims, injury, loss or damage allegedly caused, directly or indirectly, by any such statements or opinions made during a broadcast. 

To claim prize: (a) winner must provide proof of age, identity and residency; (b) winner must sign and return affidavit of eligibility/compliance with rules, publicity/liability release and indemnification; and (c) winner’s intended guest(s) or travel companion(s), if any, must sign liability/publicity release, all within the time period specified by Sponsor.

7. MISCELLANEOUS; WINNERS’ LIST: Void where prohibited or restricted by law. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. 

Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process and to cancel, terminate, modify and/or suspend the contest in the event of tampering or other circumstances, including but not limited to acts of God or civil disturbance that render it impractical or impossible to complete or fulfill the contest as originally planned. 

For a list of winners, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to LIVE’s Beautiful Baby Search 2010 — Winner’s List Ansonia Station, P.O. Box 230234, New York, NY 10023-0004 within 30 days after contest end date. Vermont residents may omit return postage. List of winners will be posted on www.liveregisandkelly.com for 30 days after contest end date.

Winning the 2010 Regis and Kelly baby contest photography contest is possible!

Here are some tips that will help guide you:

Unique Baby! Judges of photography contests are look for unique shots of beautiful babies. Of course you will want to follow the guidelines of the 2010 Regis & Kelly baby contest, but don’t forget to use your imagination.

Click Click! When setting your baby up to take beautiful photos we all know it can be difficult to keep your little one in order. Try to take between 50 to 100 photographs in a short-session. This will ensure your baby fresh and excited for that new toy you put in their lap! Nobody likes a tired, whiney baby. When complete you’ll have a great selection of photos to choose from.

Do your homework! Take a look at the 2009 Regis and Kelly baby contest winners. You can find some great content here: http://www.thecutekid.com/parent-center/baby/contests/. What type of photos won? Such as action shots, angles even the outfits they wore. Get a leg-up on the competition by doing your homework in advance. Parenting Magazine and Regis & Kelly Judges know what they are looking for!

Follow the rules! You’ll be surprised how many moms enter their beautiful baby into the contest just to find out they didn’t follow the rules and can’t be considered to win! Make sure to check out: http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/regisandkelly/contests/beautifulbaby10/rules.html

Have a blast! Don’t stress out, it won’t be good for your baby, or those wrinkles! While taking photos of your beautiful baby try to have fun and a good time. Remember, you can’t win every contest but you’re supposed to have fun and enjoy spending time with your baby. Don’t put too much thought into winning the contest, focus on having fun with it for the best photo results.

While you can’t win every baby photo contest you enter, if you keep at it you are sure to win your share. More importantly you may be able make some friends along the way and you will certainly enhance the joy of your baby picture album.

What is Gap Casting Call about?

Gap casting call is all about finding the next stars. If you think your kids could be one of them, make sure you enter your cute kids into the Gap casting call contest. Gap casting call contest is a nationwide search to find the next faces of BabyGap and GapKids. Who knows your cute little one might get lucky and become the next face for Gap.

Gap Casting Call Prizes:

Winners of the Gap casting call contest will receive exciting prizes like $1,000 Gap GiftCard redeemable for a GapKids or babyGap wardrobe, their photo in Gap stores nationwide, Professional Gap photo shoot, IP vacation to see Disney’s The Lion King in New York or Las Vegas.

Gap Casting Call Rules:

• The Gap casting call is intended only for residents of the US.
• The Gap casting call is only for children of age 10 years or younger.
• The photographs entered for participation in the Gap casting call contest should be recent photographs (photos taken within the last three (3) months prior to the date of Entry).
• You can submit up to 5 entries for the Gap casting call contest.

How to Enter Gap Casting Call Contest?

Participation in the Gap casting call contest is easy and fun! Just register online and submit your little one’s photographs. Get more Info about Gap Casting Call on This Link.

Entries for the Gap casting call will be accepted from September 22 – October 22, 2009. Once the entry period closes, judges will shortlist 20 finalists (five baby boys, five baby girls, five boys, and five girls). Those finalists will star in a professional Gap photo shoot the week of November 16, 2009. On December 7, 2009, the finalists will be announced on the official Gap Casting Call website.

Even if you don’t have a little one you can go ahead and vote for your favorite contestant!

So what are you waiting for? Enter your little angel into the Gap Casting Call for a chance to win a shot at stardom, a Disney vacation, gift cards and much more! Who knows your cute kid could be the next Gap star!

1. A common mistake that parent usually make is always being over-confident about their child. Do not forget that some agency calls can have about hundred babies for an audition for a single role.

2. Never criticize someone else’s baby just for the fact that they have landed a role over your own baby. Always remember, the most important thing is to have fun! Never let your little one(s) and yourself be stressed with results.

3. Another mistake that parents usually make is they get too aggressive and start taking things personally.

4. Parents should not forget the fact that modeling is not meant for all babies. So learn to consider if your child is really capable for the field or not.

5. Use your agent to your complete advantage. Do not blame them if your baby doesn’t become the next Baby Model. Realize it’s a bit of a gamble and not everyone hits the big time.

6. Parents, at times, behave totally impractical and also want their fussy babies to be a model or a star. It is not practical for any agent to work with a baby who is not easy to work with.

7. Parents must consider the talent of the baby. Also, If the baby is not interested, he/she cannot be forced to be a baby model just because as a parent, you what your child to be a baby model.

8. Understand your baby’s personality, disposition and behavior. Babies can not be held responsible for controlling their developing personalities. Yet, if your baby seems to love attention, feels happy, and smiles often, your child might be well-suited for baby modeling.

9. Temperament is a big factor in baby modeling.  Many baby models don’t continue on to be child actors either. Beyond being cute, there has to be a certain level of talent as well for casting agents to continue to show interest in your child once they’re out of their diapers.

Remember, to be a part of baby modeling world, talent, patience and hard work are the most important requirements. Also, make sure not to let your kid be in any kind of stress. Your little one can do his/her best only when they are happy & having fun. Good Luck!

Famous baby models have a special place in the hearts of the audience. Famous and known artists have used baby models for their countless works over the centuries.
Famous baby models, with their hard work have achieved success in a short span of time. Baby modeling has become a distinct and special activity because of the explosion of commercial media over the past several decades.
Many young actors started their career as child models. Actors such as Katherine Heigl, Lindsay Lohan, and Brooke Shields are a few of the Famous baby models.
A Young Baby Model described the life of Lisanne Falk in the book called Lisanne. This book talks about the Famous Baby models who started their career as babies and have achieved a space in the modeling world. Lisanne Falk, like Brooke Shields, moved from modeling to movies as she became older.
Falk, like Shields, was a relatively successful child model who used to pose for magazine covers, notably Seventeen, for editorial fashion layouts, and for advertising in magazines and mail-order catalogs. Both models appeared in the 1977 Sears and Montgomery Ward catalogs.
More recent news says that an Australian child model Morgan Featherstone has achieved a huge world-wide success but she has also attracted a lot of criticism due to her looking older than her real age.

The huge success of famous baby models who then become famous celebrities has led number of children and their parents to consider modeling as a part-time career. In reality, most modeling jobs go to children who have already worked as models and have developed a good and healthy working relationship with a modeling agency. For strugglers, the challenge is to land the first job. This usually happens through referrals by people already involved in modeling. It’s also possible to land jobs by contacting modeling agencies directly. Occasionally, a child may be “discovered” in a public place or through other grassroots means, such as:
Entering photo contests
Competing in local and national beauty contests
Working with local retailers for small-scale modeling
Entering shopping mall fashion shows.