'America's Next Top Model': Down To Ten
Here's John-John Williams IV on last week's episode of America's Next Top Model (recap of this week's is coming soon!)
The episode started with Ashley and Lulu talking smack about resident bad-girl Bianca. I'm not saying that Bianca didn't have it coming with her horrendous antics in the past few episodes, but she had the last laugh.
The girls went to get a little runway coach from Miss J Alexander who was joined by Diva Davanna, a 9-year-old model, who knows how to walk the catwalk like nobody's business. The pint-sized beauty hit every pose thrown at her. She was really impressive.
The girls were paired up so they could learn to walk the runway alongside another model. This was pretty uneventful except for the crap Ashley was talking about Brittany during her confessional. Ashley said that Brittany's walk was "forgettable" and that her proportions were weird and made her look short.
Later that night, Bianca got a wake-up call when Sundai told her that Courtney, who was eliminated last week, talked crap about her with Lulu. Bianca later confessed that her feelings were hurt and that she intended to put up more of an emotional wall.
The next day, the girls put their new skills to work in a Kevan Hall fashion show. Ann Shoket, the editor-in-chief of Seventeen Magazine, made her annual appearance, and told the girls that the best catwalker would win a spread in Seventeen Magazine. The winner would also get to chose two competitors to join her in the shoot.
The girls had to walk the runway with much taller models to further reinforce the fact that they this year's contestants are 5'7" or shorter. (Enough already!) Brittany won the competition. (I'm not sure I really agree with that. Her walk didn't do anything for me.) She chose Kara and Laura for the photo shoot, even though Lulu and Ashley were critical of her walk the night before.
Lulu and Bianca turned their fangs back in the direction of Bianca later that night. Bianca was having a heart-to-heart conversation with Nicole in the hot tub, while Lulu and Ashley looked on from the house making a slew of comments about Nicole's naive personality and Bianca's fakeness. Later the two warned Nicole about Bianca. Nicole brushed it off and said in a confessional that Ashley was a "mean girl" and that Lulu was her sidekick.
The next day the girls did a photo shoot where they.... wait for it.... attempted to look taller. (That really isn't much of a theme. I'll skip to judging.)
The guest judge of the week was Jaime Rishar, who was the first petite model to make the cover of Italian Vogue back-to-back.
The judges said that: Erin took one of the best photos; Bianca brought a softness to her face, which had been missing in past weeks; Brittany did not look tall in her photo; Sundai looked stunning; Laura didn't have enough length; Jennifer had a beautiful picture; Nicole looked 5'13" (not a typo) and that she looked like one of Anna Wintour's new models; Lulu looked pretty and average; Kara looked strong and used the set to her advantage; Rae didn't really look longer because she was laying down; and Ashley didn't really look that tall.
The best photograph of the week went to Kara. Brittany and Ashley's sidekick Lulu were in the bottom two. Judge Nigel Barker said that Lulu was one of the cutest girls, but didn't have an "it factor." Brittany was in the bottom because she looked too short in her photograph.
Tyra told Lulu that she lacked tension, which made her look like she wasn't interested in modeling, so she was out. Lulu vowed to work on the tips and to be a successful model. (Hopefully she will work on her attitude while she's working on the modeling.)
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