Lauren the next 'Top Model' sent home
Guest blogger John-John Williams IV reports:
Mistakes are gonna cost the contestants this far into the competition on America's Next Top Model. Lauren found out the hard way. She was absolutely dreadful last night, and it resulted in her being sent home.
The girls were in Rome, and while many of them hit the ground running, Lauren continued to work against herself by exhibiting extreme social awkwardness. First, she demonstrated her horrendous runway walk during a go-see. Surprise, surprise! Her Frankenstein walk did not impress the designer.
Anya, on the other hand, won the go-see and received a designer dress as her reward. Not too bad for the Hawaiian, who has been pretty solid.
Fatima also was wonderful. She excelled in almost every aspect of last night’s episode. The designer loved her at the go-see. Later, she delivered the best performance of the day shooting a Covergirl commercial, which required the contestants to speak Italian. She was simply amazing.
The judges agreed:
“Mr. Jay said you were the best of the day,” Tyra added.
The judges felt that Whitney’s commercial came off phony and flirty.
“I felt like the whole thing was fake from beginning to end,” Paulina Porizkova said.
Tyra wasn't on the same page.
“It might have been a little over the top, but I liked it,” Tyra said.
Anya’s commercial wasn’t the best. Tyra liked the end of Anya’s commercial, but that was it.
“Everything else was a piece of dookie,” Tyra said to Anya.
Dominique was bad.
“Girl, if that wasn’t a hoochified Italian commercial I don’t know what was,” Tyra said.
Katarzyna was pretty strong.“Overall I think you did a better job than anyone else,” Paulina said.
“I thought you were boring,” Tyra said.
Everyone agreed that Lauren was terrible. The judges cringed while they watched her take.
“You threw it away,” Nigel Barker said. “There was no love, no romance.”
“I was afraid you were going to do this,” Paulina added.
“What we saw in that commercial today was absolutely dreadful,” Tyra said just before she gave Lauren the boot.
To add insult to injury, Tyra added: “Maybe you are that model who is the silent movie actress. But America’s Next Top Model has to talk.” (Dang, Tyra!)
Here’s a breakdown of the remaining contestants:
Anya: She’s been doing really well. The designers and the judges love her.
Fatima: She’s in it to win it. Fatima looked like a completely different competitor during the commercial. She was ultra-confident, poised and professional. She looked like a top model.
Katarzyna: She really impressed me this episode. She spoke more. She showed off a little more of her personality. I think this was her breakout week.
Dominique: A designer commented that she didn’t look fresh. Miss J said she looks like a man. Neither are good things in this industry.
Whitney: I’d say that she should be the next to go. Yes, she has a pretty face. Yes, she takes good photos. But, her personality stinks. She has been fake and phony. She needs to go.
Comments
Okay... so it was the Cover Girl Queen Collection, and they couldn't make Dominique's skin tone anything other than pasty? Isn't the entire point of that collection for women not in the same skin tone as Anya and Lauren to have shades of make-up that work with their skin tones? She looked positively anemic. I don't like her, but I wish they hadn't made her face look like it belonged in a vampire movie. I actually felt sorry for her.
I thought Whitney's commercial seemed like one of those "telenovela" soap operas, which I was funny. I'm sure she's seen plenty of them growing up in Florida. It is nice to see the token plus-sized girl make it to the overseas trip and not be the first eliminated.
I really like Katarzyna. I could see her in a Cover Girl ad. I see Anya faltering when it comes to the official Cover Girl ad in English. Anya was sweet though, taking care of Fatima when she was sick. I was impressed at how Fatima pulled it together for the commercial.
Lauren would never have made it to the end, much like Jenah last season. I'll miss her monster walk, though.
Posted by: Alyssa K | April 25, 2008 1:49 PM