Aspiring teenage model, Alamela Rowan, broke down in tears on Australia's Top Model TV reality show after being taunted by bullying rivals.

Australia's Next Top Model hopeful Alamela Rowan was left alone and weeping after weathering verbal taunts, being doused with a bowl of water and having a water bomb hurled at her.

Disturbing footage aired on Foxtel last night showed the results of the physical and mental abuse.

The cruel attacks, led by youngest contestant Demelza Reveley, 16, who ironically was the victim of playground bullying in the past, left Rowan, 17, depressed and alone.

Rowan had come close to a nervous breakdown over the bullying and was "honed in on from day one" by a few of the contestants who called themselves the "bitch-keteers".

Despite being scolded on air and dubbed the "Dapto Dogs" by judge Charlotte Dawson, Hodge said producers did not "punish the bitches enough".

"They almost glorified the bullying because the girls didn't get in any kind of real trouble. They got yelled at but nothing else happened," Hodge said.

Also allegedly targeted by Reveley, 16, Hodge said Rowan was only attacked because "she was timid and shy" and "not a Barbie type".

"It's not her fault she's got a brain and likes to read Scientist Monthly," Hodge said.

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