In the Spotlight - Sobchak vs Shayk

This week, the sultry model girlfriend of footballer Cristiano Ronaldo was hired to replace Ksenia Sobchak as the judge of "Russia's Next Top Model" after the channel got cold feet about Sobchak's political protest activities.

"The world economic crisis could not shake the Sobchak business model, but politics very well could," Russian Forbes magazine wrote in July.

On the upside, she made U.S. Harper's Bazaar posing — bizarrely — in a wedding dress in Manhattan for an interview titled "From Party Girl to Putin's Threat.