Friday Night Lights returns tonight with THREE IMTA alumni!!!!

Don't miss NBC's primetime premiere of Friday Night Lights, the critically-acclaimed series about high school football in a small Texas town. Season 3 begins tonight by fast-forwarding to the start of a new school year! An AMAZING three IMTA alumni will appear on FNL during this season!

Zach Roerig

Zach Roerig joins the cast as Cash, a local rodeo star who does his best to lasso fellow IMTA alum Adrianne Palicki's Tyra Collette! Zach competed at IMTA Convention in Los Angeles in 2003 where his charm, great looks and acting talent impressed the agents and managers attending. Zach signed with the late Thomas Harding Jones and FORD MODELS and was cast on One Life to Live. He is best known for his portrayal of Casey Hughes on the daytime drama As The World Turns from 2005-2007.

Jeremy Sumpter

Friday Night Lights has also cast IMTA alum Jeremy Sumpter in a pivotal role! Jeremy plays lead character J.D. McCoy, a hotshot freshman quarterback who moves to Dillon with his family to try to take the starting QB job. Jeremy has starred in a several feature films including Frailty, Local Boys and The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang. After an exhaustive world-wide search, Jeremy was chosen to star as Peter in P.J. Hogan's $100 million dollar version of Peter Pan. Jeremy competed at IMTA in Los Angeles in January of 2000 where he met his manager Mark Robert of MARK ROBERT MANAGEMENT.

Adrianne Palicki

And of course, IMTA alum Adrianne Palicki resumes her role, starring as Tyra Collette. Adrianne has been on Friday Night Lights since season one. Please see the post below for THAT IMTA BLOG's exclusive feature on Adrianne to read more about this talented gorgeous actress who competed at IMTA in 2001.

Be sure to watch Adrianne, Zach and Jeremy on
Friday Night Lights on NBC!

Adrianne Palicki on Friday Night Lights Season 3 Premiere!

Be sure to watch IMTA alum Adrianne Palicki on NBC tommorow for the third-season premiere of Friday Night Lights! Adrianne plays Tyra Collette-the popular "bad girl", a central and riveting character. Variety named Adrianne as one of the actresses who should be considered for an Emmy nomination in a feature from Variety's Award Central:

More than one option

• (Film) Friday Night Lights
• (Tv) Friday Night Lights

"In an ensemble overflowing with acting chops, Palicki emerged with distinction by conveying Tyra Collette's multidimensional personas. She rose to the challenge of humanizing a sensational plotline...and has all kinds of onscreen potential."

Adrianne competed at IMTA in New York City in 2001 and in an interview with the IMTA Video Crew, she said,"It was amazing. I love IMTA. I'm so sad it's over." Check out these amazing photos of Adrianne when she was competing at IMTA:

Adrianne Palicki Runway Competition IMTA 2001


Adrianne Palicki Jeans Competition IMTA 2001

Catch the exciting premiere Friday night on NBC! For daily news about Adrianne, please visit the definitive Adrianne Palicki MySpace page who kindly provided the interview footage below!

Also, be sure to check That IMTA Blog tomorrow for the inside scoop on 2 other IMTA alumni who appear on the show this season!

Adrianne Palicki @ Jup2.com FNL S3 Interview w/ Adrianne Palicki

Eva Longoria is Red Hot on the Red Carpet!

IMTA alum Eva Longoria stopped traffic on the red carpet in her gorgeous Reem Acra gown! She was one of the celebrity presenters at Sunday's 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards. Eva is earning widespread praise for her glam "elegant but hot" vibrant red dress and is being named as one of the best-dressed of the night!

Eva has a tradition of looking amazing in red! Check out this IMTA exclusive photo of Eva competing at IMTA!


Eva competed at IMTA in 1998 and had 38 agencies and managers interested in representing her! She signed with a manager she had met at the convention. Eva told Pageantry Magazine that, “The first day they signed me I had four auditions...It was pretty fast.”

She quickly moved to Los Angeles and landed guest-starring roles on Beverly Hills 90210, General Hospital, The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless. In 2003, she took a role as a detective in a TV remake LA Dragnet and made her big-screen film debut in Carlita’s Secret, and starred in the films Harsh Times, and The Sentinel. Eva's breakthrough role is as the beautiful Gabrielle Solis on the award-winning Desperate Housewives on ABC.

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