If the wings aren’t enough to lure customers to Hooters of Baton Rouge, perhaps a dream girl will do the trick.
Brittany Farmer, a 21-year-old waitress at Hooters on Corporate Boulevard, is one of 16 Hooters Girls across the country competing for the title of 2012 Hooters Dream Girl.
With her waist-length brunette locks, Farmer, a Natchez, Miss., native, was branded the “Baton Rouge Bombshell” for the competition. She was selected from about 40,000 Hooters Girls around the world. The finalists went to Aruba for one week in November to compete and film a television show that premiered on SPEED on Jan. 14.
The competitors are divided into a “Bikini Bracket” until it’s narrowed down to the final Dream Girl. The women endure three elimination rounds, determined by viewers’ votes. The first round of voting ends Sunday, and eight competitors will be eliminated.
The final round of voting ends Feb. 16, and the winner will receive the Dream Girl title, a feature on the cover of Hooters Magazine and $10,000.
Holly Simon, director of marketing for Hooters Louisiana, said there is no formal audition process, and the contestants are selected by the national Hooters Magazine based on their performance throughout the year.
Transforming the competition into a TV show is an annual tradition, Simon said.
Farmer said she’s still shocked by the success she’s found at Hooters. She competed in her first Hooters swimsuit contest when she started working for the company at 18 and won first place ahead of about 50 women.
After that, she said, she just kept winning.
She was the pull-out in the Hooters swimsuit calendar and is featured on a billboard in New Orleans. Farmer said she almost wrecked her car upon passing it, and she said being surrounded by photos of herself is