The 20-year-old has spent the past month strutting his stuff for the cameras during auditions for Channel’s 7 new reality show Make Me A Supermodel.

And the attention is only going to increase when Billy moves into a luxury Sydney compound as one of the program’s 14 finalists.

The group - made up of seven males and seven females –will be hooked up to microphones and filmed as they live together and compete in challenges to impress the show’s judges and voting viewers.

“It’s bizarre, but we’ve gone through heaps of selections so we’ve done a lot of it already,” Billy said.

“We’re kind of used to having interviews then sitting in a room for five or six hours then going and doing a photo shoot for another 10 hours.”

The keen musician and part-time Cleveland Sands bartender said he was worried about how he would be portrayed on the show, but was trying not to let it get to him.

“They shot like hundreds of hours of footage (during the auditions) and they only made two episodes, so there was so much that didn’t go to air and there were so many parts that were edited, you just give up.”

Billy has long wanted to break into the entertainment industry and almost got his chance two years ago as the Queensland entrant in Dolly magazine’s Search for the Next Big Star, which would have seen him cast as Ringo on Neighbours.

He missed out on that opportunity and has spent the intervening years balancing bartending with “bits and pieces of modelling”, roles in ads for Movie World, Diet Coke and Davenport underwear, and playing bass guitar in band The Ride.

As the Ormiston College graduate enters the cutthroat world of show business, he has to look no further than his own family for advice on the industry.

His father Michael was a model before starting a successful cordial business, and his uncles include a Cirque du Soleil performer and an actor who starred on Blue Heelers.

“Because my dad models, he’s got plenty of handy tips, or just more like etiquette things and knowledge of the industry,” Billy said, adding that his mum provided the “magical” support.

While he could be home from Sydney in two weeks if he’s voted off the show, Billy hoped he’d be away for the full three months and longer if his modelling career takes off.

Make Me A Supermodel will return to Channel 7 after the Olympics.