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Moderators, presenters and other personnel[edit]

On 22 March 2014, Ariel Swaringen, who was a moderator on VFTGUK moderator panel from its inception in the first series, died from natural causes.[1] [2] On 7 April 2014, Kathi Jameson announced that she would be leaving VFTGUK after one series, with a statement saying, "After some long ... hard ... thoughts ... I didn't feel like Vote for the Girls UK was the right fit for me." However the reports suggest that Jameson was sacked by the VFTG UK webmaster Ava ZInn. Jameson has indicated that her troubles with her transition from male to female was the primary reason she signed up to do Vote for the Girls UK, yet had stated that she would remain on the American version (and later sacked on 18 September 2014). On 23 June, Tracia Ward announced on during an interview with Fiona Johnson confirming she would be joining the moderator panel (in addition to the U.S. version).

On 11 July, Vote for the Girls USA moderator Holly Everman on her Facebook that her niece, Nermal Everman, was confirmed as a moderator. Nermal had inherited the moderator role that her father, Michelle Steele, held from the American counterpart. However, she was dismissed from the American version of VFTG due to Aeverine Zinn Holdings' (owner of Vote for the Girls franchise) strict family contractual restrictions disallowing immediate and extended family members serving as moderators to protect the Vote for the Girls' ratings and revenue; in the case of Nermal Everman, she is the niece of current VFTG USA co-host Holly Everman and daughter of former VFTG USA moderator Michelle Steele, and Nermal's auntie Holly has been with the American version since its debut in April 2010. Nermal Everman could serve as moderator on the American version, but only off-camera, including making frontrunner picks, except for common primary picks not claimed by Holly Everman, so Nermal's mother, Elisa Steele (and the sister of Holly Everman) approached Ava Zinn about allowing Nermal to become a moderator of Vote for the Girls UK as a birthday present for Nermal after she chose to resign from the American version completely. As mentioned above, Nermal Everman is the niece of of VFTG USA co-host Holly Everman, which would have come in handy had Holly Everman resign from the American version. This issue has also affected many other members of the same immediate family that have worked with Ava Zinn over the years, Nermal Everman was officially dismissed from the American version in August 2014.


Ava Zinn confirmed her return for her second series as presenter of the main site after initially posting on her Twitter on 14 April 2014, that a second series of VFTG UK would be postponed until as late as August 2015 as a result of Chow's actions after the first ever loss on the site and subsequent physical clash with Holly Everman on the U.S. version. Zinn later retracted her post and announced that a second series will begin in August 2014. Chow was eventually sacked on 18 September 2014 and two new moderators, American news presenters Kendra Ray and Rhonda Rhodes, both transwomen, joined the moderator panel to replace Chow. Ray and Rhodes were officially introduced on 4 October 2014.