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November 13, 2008

Marjorie eliminated from 'America's Next Top Model'

Poor Marjorie and her desperate attempt to be the "perfect contestant."

Week after week, her shy awkwardness was picked apart by the judges. There were a lot of tears and a lot of excuses. Her luck ran out this week when Tyra Banks and company gave her the boot. Samantha, the bubbly blond with the short, sassy cut, beat her out with her overall presence.

I knew Marjorie was in trouble from the beginning. Top Model does a horrible job in the editing room. Season after season, the show will focus on one or two girls during the episode so that the audience builds a connection and then BAM!!! One of them is eliminated. The most recent episode was no exception. The cameras zoomed in on Marjorie lamenting being in the bottom two in the previous episode. (Can you say kiss of death?)

It appeared that Marjorie might advance. She had a pretty strong showing during the middle of the episode. She excelled in a challenge that required the girls to shoot a silent commercial with a male model. Surprisingly, her shy awkwardness worked to her advantage. She won a $10,000 shopping spree for her victory. (She decided to split the money evenly with her BFF Analeigh. How sweet.)

Later in the episode, Marjorie kind of crumbled during the photo shoot. She simply came out flat. During the judging, she appeared quiet and reserved. The judges pounced all over that. Tyra told her that she could strike the proper balance between her awkwardness and the mute routine that she was pulling in front of the judges.

Now that Marjorie is out of the way, my money is on McKey to take the title. She's got the goods necessary to win. She's a great model, and she's agreeable. She's been strong from the beginning; she deserves the title.

 

 

Posted by John-John Williams IV at 7:17 PM | | Comments (1)
Categories: America's Next Top Model
        

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For the first time in the 11 seasons of the show, I am happy with the final three and will be happy with any of the girls getting the title. It has been quite a good season. No major cattiness , no major dramas... It has been a modeling competition like no other season. I just loved it!

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Sarah Kickler Kelber, an editor in the features department since 1999, got sucked into reality TV with the first episode of MTV's The Real World in 1992. Then came Survivor and American Idol, and suddenly, the genre was everywhere. She started blogging about it for The Baltimore Sun in January 2006 and has logged more hours watching and writing about such shows as Dancing With the Stars, Big Brother and, of course, Idol, than she'd like to admit.
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