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Friday, November 25, 2005
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Ahhhh, America’s Next Top Model. Is there any better hump day respite than seeing a bunch of modeling wannabes compete for a Cover Girl contract and Tyra Banks’ affection? Over the last few episodes, we got rid of perhaps the prettiest girl in the whole competition (Kyle), fake eliminated two girls only to let them continue on to London (Nicole and Jayla), and most recently, sent the girl who was taking the most consistently fierce photos (Lisa) back to Los Angeles, where she was last seen dealing with the pain by soaking in a bubble bath, talking to her potted fern, and finishing off a case of Two Buck Chuck. Once again, there are complaints that this group of models aren’t really model material, but I once gain remind everybody that part of the reason for this show is great TV. Anybody who has actual talent that made it as a finalist will have enough publicity to get a good head start on a career, and so while we may not remember any of the remaining girls because they will grace the cover of Vogue in a few years, at least they are giving us plenty of drama every Wednesday. Some people may have wondered if Lisa’s departure would jeopardize the amount of conflict in the house, but after one week without her, we can say that is definitely not the case.As much as people didn’t like Lisa, everybody was shocked that she was going home. During their confessionals, they all said how surprised they were at her elimination because they thought she would be in the final three. Even Kim didn’t have a bad thing to say about her, but I am guessing that is because their new confessional room is not soundproof, and consists of a couch in some unidentified hotel suite. I guess she didn’t want to start talking about people, lest they make a big situation out of the entire thing. Then again, Kim really thought that she and Bre were back to being friends. The two of them were discussing how amazing it would be if both of them were in the final three together. Personally my final three would be Nik, Bre, and Jayla. Nicole is just more and more spoiled every week, and Kim is starting to remind me of the mascot for Bob’s Big Boy with that face of hers.
What I was wondering, however, was if Kim and Bre had really decided to let things go. Kim was seeing things like the fight in the limo was “blown out of proportion” and that they’ve “put their problems aside” and they “care about each other and want to help each other out”. I am sure that is how everything goes in Kim’s fantasy world, but in the real world, I don’t think that was the case. Bre sees she is getting closer to the finish line and desperately wants to win. She has tried to be everybody’s friend during their time in Los Angeles, but she was not afraid of making enemies now that they were in London.
The first Tyra mail told the girls to think about their pecking order, and the next day they were greeted outside their hotel and were given a tour of London to look at the sculptures. Their host was discussing about the importance of being able to hold a pose, especially in the world of painting and sculpting, because the ability to hold a pose could mean the difference a great piece of art and a piece of crap. For example, before Michelangelo sculpted David, he wasted a year and a half sculpting Fred, who wouldn’t stop scratching his ass. I have no story to explain David’s shrinkage, however.
With all of the talk about statues, you knew that there was going to a challenge featuring holding a pose, and that was exactly the case. They met Miss J, and learned that they were going to going to be tested on holding a pose. Since they were all posing like statues, their makeup and wardrobe were done in such a way that they looked like they belonged on pillars outside the Temple of Hecate. In other words, they were wearing togas and their bodies were covered in white. The girl who won would win a shopping spree and pick two girls to go with her.
The Tyra mail talked about the pecking order, and just before the girls were going to get started, they showed us some footage of pigeons. I laughed to myself thinking how funny it would be if the pigeons started making themselves at home on the girls as they posed, but put the thought out of my mind. But about ten seconds into this segment, sure enough, pigeons start landing, and it looks like that was exactly what the producers had in mind. To do well in this challenge, you had to be able to focus and block out all of your distractions to hold your pose. There is only so much distraction Miss J. can do wagging her ass around in the background. I am not sure if the birds were just used to landing on immobile objects or there was feed in the plates the girls had to hold up, but something was attracting the birds, and for a moment I thought I was on the set of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Hmm, what was it? Suspicion? Notorious? Rear Window? Oh, yes! The Birds!
OK, you got me. The scene was less like The Birds and more like that scene from Home Alone 2 where the crazy bird lady throws the feed on Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern, preventing them from shooting MacAulay Culkin with that gun covered in molasses. These pigeons weren’t trying to stop a potential homicide, but they were aggressive enough that they really bothered a few of the girls including Bre who called them flying rats, because they would eat anything, and were probably going to eat her. I don’t think Bre got it the worst though, at least there weren’t two pigeons humping on top of her head like Kim. And she surely wasn’t the one who was complaining the most; that honor goes to Nicole.
I think it is safe to say that Nicole is very spoiled, and acts like a spoiled brat in almost every social situation. She also tends to throw things out of proportion. For instance, she said that the reason she was scared of the pigeons was that she didn’t like huge birds. I’m not an ornithologist, but as birds go, pigeons are not that huge, are they? What sort of trauma happened to Nicole to make her hate this birds so much? Did her boyfriend break up with her after Winged Migration? Does her adopted puffin not love her back? Did she have some bad nachos during March of the Penguins? There has to be some deep dark secret we don’t know about. What’s next on her list of fears? Bunnies?
Nicole’s reaction infuriated Bre, who called the voice very sharp and alarming, preferring that Nicole keep her shouts very dull and reassuring. I don’t know when Bre turned from sort of listening on the sideline and judging people with acerbic stares to actually letting all of this craziness get to her, and maybe it had just been building up for a long time, but Bre seemed like she wanted go all Fenster and McManus on Nicole. I, for one, was hoping that it would all blow up into a nice bit of drama down the line.
As for the challenge, Nik won and she of course decided to bring along Bre, and in a surprise, she picked Jayla for the other person to go with her. I say this is a surprise because Jayla was the one who stole Nik’s secret so many weeks ago and promised that something big would go down if the two of them had to live together for much longer. Even if Jayla is not the best of friends with Nik, she did a good job not saying anything about the situation, and I am sure that the $2,500 shopping spree she received had NOTHING to do with it.
After the challenge, the girls went home, and Bre was feeling a little sick. I was also feeling something looking at Nik’s backside; I wouldn’t call it sick, as much as stiff. There is a song by Black Star called Brown Skin Lady, and dear God; I think it was written for Nik. I won’t bore you with the whole song, but I would like to quote it and say, “Damn she’s fine, I would like to add the R-E in front of that and see if she’d like to get with a cat like me”. Mos Def and Talib, just pure genius.
“Over the years I met a few, none of them compare to you”
Anyway, Bre was feeling sick and she didn’t like how Nicole was so very loud and inconsiderate. Bre was trying to get some rest and Nicole was jumping up and down on her bed in the other room. Why was Nicole so excited? Well, she really loved her hotel suite because they finally got out of that “hell house” they were living in before. Is there anybody else who wishes they could have lived in that hell house, even if it wasn’t filled with a bunch of potential models that were walking around in their underwear all the time? I mean, the hotel suite was nice and it had maid service, but their house in the hills was, as we used to say, the bomb diggidy. Whatever was bothering her about the old house, Nicole wasn’t going to let Bre’s Debbie Downer attitude keep her from being fun and happy.
The ladies received their Tyra mail for their photo shoot and were asked if they ever felt like they were being framed. By this time, they are all tired of trying to think about what the double meaning is, and they all decide to go to bed. Before Bre retires to the confines of her bed, she decides that she is going to have a little snack. Well, I assume she wanted a snack, but whatever happened, she saw that somebody had opened her box of cereal bars and taken one. Normally, you wouldn’t think that a missing cereal bar would be that big of a deal, but Bre was convinced that Nicole did it, and that she did it on purpose because she knew it would upset Bre. And she did it without asking.
There were many ways that Bre could have handled all of this, but instead of asking Nicole, or ignoring her, she decided that she needed to retaliate. Who cares if it could have been any other girl in the suite (including possibly her roommate Nik?), all of the evidence was pointing to Nicole. Nicole was loud, inconsiderate, complained all the time, and was scared of birds. Bre just had to come up with the perfect thing to get back at Nicole. A ha! You should take something of hers Bre, and then laugh when she doesn’t know who it is. The perfect crime!
Bre managed to sneak in to the bunker where Nicole hid her items, and removed the one thing she knew Nicole couldn’t live without – Red Bull. Everything was going according to plan until Kim heard something going on and wanted to ask Bre what the hell was going on. Bre had the idea that if she laughed loudly and homicidally, Kim would just go back to sleep and let the exorcists worry about Bre when they got back home. But Kim really wanted more information and while Bre was trying to convince her not to worry about it, they fell over and although I was pretty sure they weren’t going to make out, they had some sort of Sappho-Roman wrestling going on. Bre then said Kim shouldn’t ask any questions and sort of forget it ever happened.
Bre waits for Kim to tap out
Even the most ardent Bre fans, and I would consider myself among them, would have to admit that she was going a little crazy at this point, somewhere between Tom Cruise on Oprah and Lisa in a diaper. The next day, as she, Nik, and Jayla got to get up early, and it seemed to calm her down a little bit. When they got to Harrods, Nik got her own gay personal shopper and $10,000, while Bre[not Nik, thanks Lauren] and Jayla were left with $2,500 a piece and had to fend for themselves with only straight women by their side. It was all a great experience, and Bre said that it made her feel like she was in a different place for once, or as we all like to call it LONDON.
While the other girls were shopping, Nicole and Kim were discussing what the hell happened. The producers didn’t show us who took Bre’s cereal bar, or didn’t have footage of it, and by the way Nicole was talking, she had no clue what was going on. She stated that she didn’t have the energy to deal with these people anymore, which is probably why she got the Red Bull in the first place.
At this moment, I was laughing maniacally in anticipation of what was to come. Lisa and Coryn was good, Bre and Kim was decent, and I had a feeling that Bre and Nicole would be something that none of us could miss. The shopping spree girls met Kim and Nicole on the set of their next photo shoot, where they learned that a special guest was going to introduce another special guest. While the Katamari Damacy music crescendoed in the background, Twiggy came in and introduced Barry Lategan, the photographer that made her famous. Barry is a legend among photographers, especially in the UK. In fact they should probably make a movie about him before Richard Attenborough dies and they don’t have anybody to play Barry.
Welcome to Jurassic Park!
I am not sure what is it about these British photographers that makes me laugh so much, perhaps it was the hat. The girls learned that they would Barry would be taking pictures of them while they did modern interpretations of classic art. Kim was going to Botticelli’s birth of Venus, Nicole would do Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, Jayla would do James Whistler’s Mother, Nik would do Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man and Bre would do Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. As photo themes go, I thought it was very original, and was interested to see how the interpretations would turn out, but let’s be honest, we had more important things to consider, like who was going to replace Nicole’s energy drinks.
As much as I like to make fun of Nicole for being immature, I will admit that she handled the whole Red Bull thing very well. It pissed her off, but if Bre was going to be like that, she was going to let her drive herself crazy. Kim, on the other hand, thought that it was like the greatest injustice since NBC cancelled 227, depriving the world it’s weekly dose of Marla Gibbs. Nicole asked her to stay out of it, but Kim decided that wasn’t good enough. She confronted Bre about the whole thing, and told her that she should replace Nicole’s Red Bulls. Bre was trying to ignore her, because she really wanted Nicole to get mad at her, and was wondering why Kim was trying to mediate and play both sides of the fence. Eventually, she simply asked Kim not to talk to her and walked away.
Kim wouldn’t take no for an answer, and started talking about it to everybody who would listen, but nobody else seemed interested in butting their heads into this affair, probably because it was among the pettiest of dramas ever. Eventually, Kim found somebody who would listen to her and it was Jay Manuel, who gave the perfect advice, comparing the whole situation like the movie Showgirls. Actually, his advice was kind of stupid, but he managed to work kerfuffle into a sentence, and that deserves some recognition. All of this drama was great, but I think the producers were a little upset because it threw off their product placement plans. They never meant for Red Bull to ever appear or be spoken, and it took away from the product they were trying to plug, which was an Olay lotion. Ever chance they could they had somebody mentioning how it smelled good or lasted all day without reapplication. They must have been paid a lot because little lotion bottles appeared in the corners of the pictures as well.
As for the photos, Barry Lategan was very calm on the set and gave great direction. He didn’t get upset, and his soothing demeanor seemed to bring out the best in a lot of the girls. All of the girls seemed to be taking direction quite well, and it was easy to see that it was going to be a very difficult decision for the judges. Here are this week’s pictures. I had some people e-mail to say they wanted bigger pictures. I keep them small to save space in the recap, but you can click on them to get larger versions:
At panel, the girls were given one more chance to demonstrate what they learned. The judges asked them to demonstrate a stoic pose, and hold it for a minute. During this time, the judges would do everything they could in their power distract them, whether it be Miss J. getting a little freaky in front of them or Tyra on the table backing her ass up for Barry to get a piece. This could have been funnier, but nobody up there was that outrageous. Funny hats, fake hair, and false teeth were not going to do much, especially after the pigeons just a few days before.
The girls then came in for their evaluations. This week, I was most impressed with Nik. Obviously, I think she is gorgeous, but that is not the only reason. The Vitruvian Man is supposed to be the model of the ideal male figure in terms of proportions, and I was wondering how Nik would be able to pull it off. Nik didn’t take the picture naked, which was a disappointment, but Barry said it was remarkable how well she held her pose and how symmetrical it all turned out. The judges loved it because it was the first time they saw her face straight on, and not in profile, which was, of course, the purpose for picking her for that shot.
When say that Nik was first, it was very close, because I thought that Nicole, and Jayla were also very impressive. Girl with the Pearl Earring seemed like it was made for Nicole. Her immaturity bugs me, but I can’t really say that I don’t understand her allure. The judges always rave about her eyes, and with her hair pulled back like it was in the picture, they stood out even more.
Whistler’s Mother is as old and dowdy as can be, but again, Jayla pulled it off very well. I think it might have been the easiest of all the poses because the painting as it was didn’t represent any sort of classic beauty in the same sense as some of the others. Even though they praised her for her work, they were kind of concerned about what Jay Manuel had to say about the shoot. Before the pictures were being taken, Jay was telling the girls that if they weren’t familiar with the art they were depicting, they should take a look, and practice their pose. Jayla wasn’t concerned with how her picture was going to turn out, and when Jay suggested that she get in a chair and practice, she laughed and said she didn’t need any. I understand that Jay is there to help the girls, but if they don’t take his advice, there is no need to be pissy about it. It is one thing to be arguing with the photographer or get in a fight about hair, makeup, or wardrobe, but if the girls don’t follow Jay’s advice to practice, I don’t think it is any of his business. Sure it may bruise his ego, but if his advice is so precious that it can’t be missed, it will show up in the picture, and he can enjoy watching them be eliminated for their arrogance. You know, you can lead a model to a studio, but you can’t make her practice sort of thing.
Jayla was not the only one Jay narced on; he told the judges everything about Bre and her problems on the set as well. The judges were blown away with how well Bre seemed to take the Mona Lisa, which was a symbol beauty for generations, and made it into her own. I’ll admit that at first I didn’t see how they pictured Bre as Mona Lisa, but after the picture was taken, the results were more clear, but I still think Nik, Jayla, and Nicole had better shots. Once again, the judges weren’t so concerned with her photos as much as what was going on in the periphery. Bre admitted that she took Jayla’s things, and I think once she heard the words coming out of her mouth, she realized how dumb the whole ordeal was. Tyra of course had a story about the whole thing, saying that it reminded her of this time when she was first modeling, another girl accused Tyra of stealing her alarm clock with no evidence.
I know people say that I am biased about Kim, but I can honestly say that I thought her picture was the worst this week. Twiggy seems to like her because Kim reminds her of herself at that age, young and edgy, and possessing something that maybe the rest of the world isn’t ready for. Perhaps that is the case, but Kim’s edge wasn’t what was holding her back this time. The Birth of Venus is another classic painting, representing Aphrodite, the epitome of all things feminine in the ancient world. You could see what the judges were going for, and in terms of poses, I thought it was nearly as difficult as the one that Nik had to do. There is no way to tell if Kim was distracted by what was happening on the set, but she seemed to revert back to her old insecurities of how she can make her body look more feminine, and looked as if she had lost all of the confidence she had built up in the last few weeks were she had begun to have faith in her look. Perhaps it wasn’t her fault, because Barry admitted that he wanted her to have that dreamy sort of look on her face and the way he tried to get her to feel feminine was to think about her mother or her boyfriend, and obviously the latter was not going to help her at all.
While the judges deliberated, the girls waited in their holding room backstage. There were several times as they were getting their picture critiqued that it looked like Bre was going to break down. At one point, Kim was talking about how much she liked the necklace she wore in the shoot and decided to buy them. Tyra said that usually models just steal stuff, and while it may have been a slight dig at Bre, she just couldn’t let it go. Maybe it was guilt about doing what she did, or maybe she upset because she was singled out and she thought the judges would eliminate her for it.
There was more arguing back stage between Bre and Kim. Bre said that she was 96% sure that she was going home, and if she left, she just wanted to Kim to know that she thought that Kim was a bad person. Bre probably saw much of this coming, but she wasn’t prepared to have her professionalism challenged. To make matters worse, Jayla and Nik were staying out of the argument, leaving nobody to back her up while Nicole was very vocal in her support for Kim.
The top three were Nik, Jayla, and Nicole, and I believe well deserved. With Lisa gone, Nik is the one who screams high fashion, and while she never demands presence when in the room, her looks give her a natural presence I think is just unmatched by any of the others right now. Looking at the close-up of her picture this week, I got a strong Angelina Jolie vibe, although there is no word on what Nik thinks about little Asian boys with mowhawks. Jayla has had the worst pictures the past two weeks, but the judges liked the way she took direction, so they kept her, but told her she has to be nice to everybody. Nicole still has an attitude problem, but everything seems to come to her so effortlessly right now, although there was some concern that she wouldn’t work out as a spokesperson.
That left Kim and Bre in the bottom two. As Tyra asked them both to step forward, I was waiting for a real scathing lecture, but it really didn’t happen. I was thinking that perhaps Bre was going to go home because of the way she acted, but if they never said a word to Lisa for pissing in a diaper, it would be kind of strange to eliminate Bre based solely on her personality or lack of professionalism this week. Bre and Kim were two of the girls who were working near the bottom at the beginning of the competition, but had also been praised for how much they have improved since that time. In the end, the judges decided that Bre should stay, perhaps because she was able to maintain that high level of performance this week while Kim dropped off, even if it was just a little bit.
I think it is a testament to everybody who’s left how difficult this week’s elimination was. Even though there have been gay reality contestants for a long time, Kim’s tenure on top model “broke the seal”, so to speak, for lesbians on ANTM. She was able to go on, say she was gay, challenge our stereotypes on femininity, challenge her stereotypes on femininity, and for a time she was able to find how all of that could translate into a career as a model. Perhaps I am putting too much thought into it, and I am surely not the proper person to say what this means to breaking down barriers for lesbians, but no matter what I thought of her pudgy face, it’s hard to go on national television and become a spokesperson for something when you don’t really know anybody that you can look up to yourself.
As for the girls remaining, I would have to give the handicap to Nicole. I was reminded of something Nigel said about Naima, which was that she was the girl that every girl wants to be. That’s what made her a Cover Girl, and that’s what made her America’s Next Top Model. If I were to judge everybody that’s left on those criteria, I would have to say that Nicole comes on top. Unless she completely alienates one of the photographers or the judges with her attitude, I think this competition is hers to lose, although I still personally prefer any of the other three. It’s hard for me to say that Nik won’t win, but I just think she is more high fashion at this point, and she hasn’t shown that she can step up and be a spokesperson. It’s too early to say if Bre will be affected from all that happened this week, but she has been able to shut out everything and focus on the prize so far, so I don’t see that changing. I think Jayla has the least chance because she has been inconsistent of late, and the judges are still looking for more effort.
What did you think? Did Kim deserve to stay? Why is Bre becoming so mean?
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I think Nicole is the hottest one left by far. However, i see Nik as the winner, as I think the editing is pointing thatway.
Did anyone else suspect that Nik was the one who ate that cereal bar? That would be my guess.
Great recap–just to clarify–it was actually Nik who got the $10,000 and personal shopper at Harrods, and Bre and Jayla got the $2500 each.
When Tyra made the comment about models usually stealing stuff and they cut to Bre’s expression I almost fell off the couch. It was priceless.
I think it was Jayla that took it. Notice how quiet she was during all this? No, that doesn’t automatically implicate her, but she just seemed a little sketchy to me. She just didn’t have the guts to stand up to Bre is what I’m thinking.
When we first saw Nik, I told my wife she looks like Angelina Jolie and Uma Thurman had an African-American baby.
I loved Kim, she was pretty, but funny looking. But looking at her face vs. the rest, she has the best “Cosmo Spread Face”. Sad she gone.
Bre needs to go next. She is BB6 Yvette evil.
Hope now Jayla wins. Nik is ugly, and Nicole is too lame. Jayla has the best attitude for the industry. Her “bitch” all melts away with just one smile.
What is up with Bree?? She has really gone psycho. I really liked her, but then last week she seemed so bitter, and now she has become the mean person she claims Kim to be. She is getting all high and mighty, it’s all going to her head.
My favorites are still Nicole and Nik.
I still think Jayla should have gone. There is nothing great about her.
I’m gonna miss Kim. She was fun. I loved her eyes. She really did take amazing pictures in the last while.
But Bree and Jayla need to go. Bree has definately lost it.
Hope Nik goes all the way. She seems the most level-headed. Nicole acts like a 12 yr. old spoiled brat. Jayla is off and on w/ her pics, and Bre is not high fashion.
Bitch probably ate the granola bars herself. Bre’s a psycho.
Jayla’s a fugly creature like Smeagol. I cannot stand her and she should not still be here.
Nicole’s okay, but she is cloned from Marie Osmond.
Nik is my favorite to win. She is kind of soft-spoken. I don’t see anything objectionable about her, other than that mole.
I used to like Bre. She wasn’t my fav but she was up there until this last episode.
Her eargerness to blame Nicole based solely on her dislike of her really pissed me off.
She can act mature all she wants but her true colors showed.
She’s a psycho bitch that can’t take stress well and is quick to judge.
As much as I wouldn’t have minded if she had gone this week.. I still would’ve prefered it if Jayla had left.
The judges must suffer memory loss or something b/c I don’t see how she can still be there.
She’s had by far the most horrible pictures out of them all and for them to keep her based on that one EASY picture… well… sucks :\
I read an interview tvguide had with Lisa which really makes me respect her more now and makes me hate Jayla on a new level.
What was said is too long to explain.. I’m sure someone else will know.. but it really pissed me off to no end.
Jayla needs to go next week.
Bre is not pyscho. I must admit. She was acting childish, but she had to check them ho’s.
This IS how it will go down in the end:
Jayla or Nicole is leaving next week and Bre and Nik will be in the final together.
I think it would be interesting for Bre and Nik to be in the final together because they are the only ones cool with each other. How can they possibly compete with each other?
Nik is definitly gonna be in the final and if she went against Nicole or Jayla
1) I’ll be scared that Nik might not win….and that’s scary if Nicole or especially Jayla wins…..ESPECIALLY Jayla.
and
2) It would not be near as interesting if eneimies go against each other as if two friends did (think about the Aubrey and Aundrea battle on Making the Band 3…..I was on the edge of my seat! Anyone else who saw knows what I mean).
Nik should win at this point unless she does something extremly ridiculous within the next two weeks….and that hard to do compared to the MANY ridiculous events the other circus animals have been putting on.
Nicole is definitely NOT the girl everyone wants to be. she just isn’t special, doesn’t have it. NIk wasn’t my favorite first but she is slowly becoming my favorite. Jayla just doesn’t do it for me. I am just loving NIk’s pics too much!
I’m not sure any of these models are all that strong. Nik just doesn’t do it for me at all- she seems so boring and her picture from this week was… not good. Her pose wasn’t hard and her face looks messed up. I know she’s popular though so keep in mind that’s just my opinion.
Jayla is really interesting to me and I like her a lot, but I agree that she has been inconsistent. Have you seen her photo on the Top Model web site, though? It rocks.
Jayla is a big ole bitch.
) should wear makeup to appear less ugly.
Since it hasn’t been mentioned yet…
She says fat people should stay indoors b/c no one wants to see them.
But if they must leave their homes… they (guessing just the women
Now apparently she said this around Lisa who has an overweight sister and she got ticked off at her for these comments.
Being in the south… I know plenty of overweight people who are the best people you could ever meet.. and for someone to say shit like that.. really pisses me off.
If that bitch had said that in front of me I would’ve knocked her the F out.
love bre, although i was also thinking that jayla or nik(most likely jayla) took her cereal bar. i absolutely do not like nicole because she is a highly immature. not gonna lie, bre should have went about handling things differently, but shit, someone had to let those bitches know what’s up. bre & nik are my girls, reppin for african-american women & jayla is my 3rd since i hate nicole. didn’t care for kim and was only impressed with her for like 2 or 3 pictures. i’ll be happy if bre or nik win.
I’m really gonna miss Kim. I could really relate to her and I agree that it was great to see a masculine lesbian on a modelling show who was forced to act feminine. Hopefully it opened the minds of viewers.
OK, I didn’t see this episode, but still, who cares who took the damn cereal bar, ffs! It’s about the least malicious thing ever. What happened with Bre?! I mean if she really thought Nicole was out to get her, does she really think stealing ONE cereal bar is how she’d go about doing it.
I’m glad that Kim went – bad pictures, bad attitude – though going in the midst of that whole kerfuffle (ha!) I think casts her in a much more sympathetic light.
Of the rest, Nicole, blah, brat, only one vacant facial expression; Jayla, cute but nothing special in photos; Bre, nice photos, supposedly fierce walk, but holy psycho; Nik, gorgeous, but desperately needs some personality stat. Dunno.
Dude! No mention about Mr. Jay’s wonder-bra cleavage??
Man I’m so dissapointed in Bre! What was she thinking accusing Nicole for no good reason?! Yeah, she’s definitely letting the stress get to her, and her immaturity really showed this week.
And who does Kim think she is jumping all over Bre’s back like Bre is the devil? Please, she needs to get off her high horse. I don’t think Bre is a mean person at all. But for some reason she just couldn’t let her whole beef with Kim go b/c to her it would be like the bad guy is getting away with something, in this case it was Kim talking trash behind people’s back, you know saying hateful things she would never say in front of their faces. I do kind of see Kim’s point though about Bre betraying her b/c after the whole stint in the limo Kim had the impression that everything was cool between them but Bre really still had it out for her. Either way, Kim is no angel and I couldn’t stand how she was acting like she didn’t do anything wrong.
On another note (sort of), I was suprised that Nik didn’t say anything to Bre when she was in the process of going to steal Nicole’s things. Come on, if your friend’s about to do something stupid, shouldn’t you make some effort to try and stop her? So maybe in fact SHE took the granola bars?? Hmmm, will we ever know…
I thought Jayla’s picture looked good this week, although she’s not consistent and she’s a b*&%. Personally, I think she should have been eliminated eons ago. Just my opinion. Glad Kims gone though. Nicole might have a pretty face, but that can only take you so far in modeling. Bre and Nik are still my pick for the top two, although at this point I think Nik should win by far. She better win!
um, i think jayla stole coryn’s line, no? which would explain why nik had no problem taking her on the shopping spree…i think.
No, it was Nik. I think the reason she chose Jayla, was simply that she was the least objectionable at the time. Also that Jayla is more or less in the anti-Kim/Nicole camp too.
Nicole is not the girl I would want to be. She’s the annoying girl you knew in high school who wasn’t in the in crowd, but kind of thought she should be, so was overly loud and annoying.
My pick right now is Nik.
I want to know who stole Bre’s energy bar. There’s still an unnamed thief among the girls.
I think Jayla should have gone…she looks tired and has bags under her eyes.
I liked Bre until she went nutty this past week.
I think Nicole will win also.
Best episode of the season.
I WAS SOOOOOOO MAD that Kim was eliminated. I really wanted it to come down to her and Jayla. Bre should have left, she obviously cannot handle pressure and Kim was very versatile, she can do fem, butch, whatever and still look good but I guess since Naima was in the same boat they can’t have two winners that are alike.
Going with Jayla for the win…Nicole kicked next week.
I think that bre or nik should really win. Even though bre went a little psycho this week i’m still rooting for her and nik .I think Jayla stole the granola bars to make a whole conflict with the other gurls. Nicole is a selfish little 12yr old brat she just needs to go next week, or the judges are just messed up .I am soo happy kim left she is an ass that wants to create a relationship with every other gurl in the competition. doesn’t she have a girl-friend???
I am just still in shock about Lisa being eliminated. Yeah sure she was annoying and sometimes obnoxious, but I really liked her. I thought she had the most overall talent and her photos were FIERCE!!!!! She definitely had the best pictures out of everyone this season and some previous seasons.
As for the remaining…I’m happy kim is gone. Every picture she took had the exact same expression. I think the competition is going to be between Nik and Bre. If Bre rocks the next couple of weeks, she will take it. Nik and bre are like polar opposites and the judges will make them the top 2 just for that reason.
I’m guessing whoever stole the granola bar did it because they were hungry *shock*. I would. I mean, really, who would ever predict that stealing one crappy cereal bar would get that kind of reaction out of anyone. Not good form not to fess up, but really at that point who’d want to incur the wrath of Bre.
I really don`t like Nicole. I know at least 5 girls in my high school with the same exact kind of look that she has AND she acts like some 12 year old girl. It was a good thing she didn`t get her red-bull becuase at least then she wasn`t as annoying.
Bre was being very bitchy but it wouldn`t`ve gotten so out of hand if Kim just kept her big mouth shut. She should just mind her own business. Her facial expression in her picture made her look really stupid.
Lisa was my favorite but since she was eliminated last week, I`m rooting for Nik.
Bre shouldn’t have handled the situation the way she did. But she had a right to be mad. If somebody stole my shit, All hell is going to break loose. I glad Bre didn’t pull a Brandy(cycle 4). But somebody stole Bre’s things, and they tried to make Bre seem like the bad guy, that wasn’t right. I think Bre is going to pull an Eva (cycle 3) and WIN.
Um… I think… ‘who cares who stole the granola bars?!?!?!’ I think probably Jayla took them even though I’m rooting for her and Nic to win. Or Lisa. you never know. She was there in Paris with them. I seriously don’t think it was that serious about the Nic and Jayla incident because they are friends now aren’t they? Well I’m rooting for both of them and is glad Kim is gone. Her pictures totally sucked except for the pin-up one. That one was nice. But only one. I thought Jayla was going to get eliminated too when it was her and Lisa in the bottom. Well Nicole is annoying. I dislike her. Bre is… I don’t know and don’t care and don’t think she is going to win. Why are people saying things about personality as in ‘Nic needs to get a personality.’ You don’t really know them. It’s just on a reality show and they put some stuff on only. Not everything that goes on. Although I DO know that Nicole is annoying because I see girls like that at school. I’m just thinking ‘Shut the fuck up bitches!’ Has anyone ever seen Jayla’s myspace. I only found her and Kyle’s… Jayla’s is weird though… Except when you read her blogs you will feel sorry for her because people write hate mails… I would never write hate mails to Cassandra or any other ones on the show because I don’t know them and I think it’s stupid. Jayla seems a little nice. She just needs to keep her mouth shut about things and needs to not say everything on her mind. If she did say that thing about fat people because I didn’t see… I thing that too about overly obese people. They should lose weight!!! But I keep it to myself. Like I should right now… Well GO NIC AND JAYLA!!!! Everyone else isn’t that good. AND how can you say Jayla doesn’t look like a model? Everybody can look like a model.(If they are 5’5″). And she’s that height!
Ger….
Thinking to yourself that someone needs to lose weight is totally different than saying that they shouldn’t even see the light of day b/c you think they’re all ugly and no one wants to see them.
She needs to go.. not b/c she’s a stank skank… but b/c she’s the least consistant out of them all.
Her last pictures minus this last one (which would’ve been easy for any of them) totally sucked major donkeyballs.
Hey, chillax there ger. Personally I think Nik seems quite lovely, and I find her quietness and reserve quite refreshing amidst a house of attention seekers, shriekers, whiners, gossipers, and cereal bar avengers. Just that she’d have this thing already sewn up if she was a bit more gregarious or outspoken when it came to judging panels and spokesmodel stuff.
I saw Coryn at the Mall of America in Minnesota a little over a week ago. She was in Nordstroms at a large Mac Makeup display getting her whole body covered in makeup. People were staring, but I don’t think they realized who she was because there weren’t any signs up announcing it. My friend and I recognized her immediately though. She was smiling and seemed to be in good spirits. I’m glad to see she’s finding work.
Nik is silent but deadly and her look is different. I think out of all the girls she secertly has what it takes.I could step out side and see a dozen girls who are pretty, but can not find a dozen who are pretty and unique. As far as personality , I think it is just another word for “problem” Meaning that Nik Is not crazy, loud, weird or any thing else.
this episode reminded me very much of college, like when one of your roomates would steal your last joint and nobody would ever own up to it. bunch of bastards.
anyway, sad to see kim go. i have to say, although nicole looks like the person that would typically win this whole thing, i hope she doesn’t. i would much rather see nik or bre take home the bacon, because nicole is just too…too…white? traditional? pasty?
i know that sounds racist, but there is something entirely too cookie-cutter about her, and i feel like i’ve already seen her face a thousand times on a million ads. she looks like the clearasil girl, the noxema girl and the neutrogena girl all wrapped up into one. and if past seasons of ANTM are any indication, she is just too plain to win.
then again, i was wrong about kim, so who knows wtf the judges are going to do in this time. i wish they would elminate miss jay, though, because he/she is annoying the crap out of me anymore. he can go sit in the corner with janice dickenson.
p.s. i still hate jayla with a passion unrivaled by anything i’ve ever felt before in my life.
If I thought someone took a granola bar off me I would just ask..and its no big deal its a freakin granola bar! I think Bre just used it as an excuse to wail on Nicole…it was immature and spiteful…but since these girls are competing to be models its not like one wouldnt expect such antics off of them. Makes for exciting reality TV!
I agree Jordy. Nik just isn’t a weirdo, so far.
I think it would be absolutely hilarious if in “Kim Mail” next week the only thing she says is, “I ate the f-ing granola bar. Suck it.”
I was totally disappointed in the decision that was made in letting Kim go. I believe in my heart that Bre should have been elminiated. I have watched ANTM faithfully since Season 2. So I was upset when you let Kim go. Bre was wrong for what she did and it was like she was getting a slap on the wrist saying that it was ok to do what she did. I really think that Kim should be called back to the show.
Okay – Bre is completely batshit. It’s clear to me that either creative editing by the producers or extreme restraint on her part is the only reason this hasn’t come up before. Not only that but she’s the most ordinary looking of the bunch. Nothing special about her at all. I think the judges kept her around for the first few weeks based completely on her walk, which is ridiculous, especially in brightly-colored (what looks to be size 15) stilettos. She’s always sucking her teeth and saying such caustic things. I don’t care if she models, just don’t let her win this competition. She’s a “bad person”.
That’s not to say that many of the others left are better than her. I’ll agree that Kim (despite the fact that I loved her personality) needed to go. She didn’t have the face or grace for modeling.
Jayla, seriously, she looks like a Pokemon or something. Those ears…they are least 7 times larger than they should be. No need to mention her teeth, that’s been covered at length. Her personality is so irritating. People like her are so “I’m different and I’m not trying hard at all to get people to look at me so I can react scornfully and full of angst and say what the f are you looking at”
Nicole looks like every WT girl I went to highschool with. She does take great pictures (a la Shandi I suppose) but I really don’t think that in person, in her own clothes and make-up, that she’s anything worth putting in a mall runway show, let alone the cover of Vogue or Cosmopolitan.
That leaves Nik. She’s so awesome. I said in the beginning that if she didn’t take the whole thing I’d boycott future cycles of ANTM. I stand by that. Honestly, the girl is gorgeous and she’s got poise. She looks amazing in jeans and a t-shirt and she looks incredible in couture. She’s got my vote. Not to mention the fact that there are pictures online of her and her “publicist”.
ps. in the preview for next week they mentioned something about bre and nicole having to be paired up for something because Nik and Jayla really wanted to go together. IMAGINE THAT!! I bet NONE of the production staff had any say or offered any incentives to Nik and Jayla to make that on-screen decision!
Ahhh watch out for those myspaces, I just looked at Jayla’s and there was a spoiler on the front page (by a dumb fan)!
Oh well. Serves me right for not having a life.
do you have a link for jayla’s myspace?
alana,
i just choked on my granola bar reading your post. i’m going to build a time machine purely to go back and deliver the “Kim Mail” personally, just for the suck it. brilliant.
up to this week Bre was my favorite but she acted so immature in this episode that now i’m rooting for Nik. Yes i’m surprised there was no photo or mention of Mr. Jay’s hilarious boobie tshirt
God, this episode gave me such flashbacks to the sorority house! Like who gives a crap if someone ate your $1.50 granola bar? But sadly, you DO care because…well, you have no life.
Did you see Nicole boo hooing when Kim left? Um, hi, you were her THIRD best friend on the show! Kim totally has this habit of finding one person to make her BFF because they think she’s funny, etc. But she just uses them to have someone on her side all the time. If she had just kept her mouth shut and stayed out of it…although her face in this week’s picture looked like it hadn’t been airbrushed at all. It was pretty bad.
More like 50 cent granola bar, if that. Unless it was some organic type or high-performance sports type. But stupid.
A little googling tells me this is the lucky link. I haven’t read her blogs or anything though. Maybe later if I’m mega-bored.
http://myspace.com/hate_me_too
It is obvious Nik is getting the winners edit.
Are you fucking kidding?
Nik looks NOTHING like Angelina Jolie from the front.
Nik looks bad from the front, her features are not as attractive frontal, and she looks older due to her natural dark circles under her eyes.
Nik is getting that brainwashed overblown hyped fan base too, just like Naima did last year.
And just like Naima, Nik the completely unattractive from the front bore, will go nowhere in modeling once she wins ANTM.
Its all about the funky hair I guess…that and being ethnic.
Clearly, once Nik wins ANTM this cycle, we will all finally know that Tyra and Covergirl NEVER plan on letting a white girl win.
Because if the youngest, tallest, thinnest girl with the best bone structure loses(Nicole})…ANTM will be a bigger fucking joke than we once thought.
wow
http://img8.picsplace.to/img8/1/56288751.jpg
That girl looks like Angelina joile…lol
yeah okay! *rolls eyes*
I don’t know I think Nicole looks pretty average. She needs to show more versatility in her pics or she’ll get the boot.
When I think of a successful white model, Heidu Klum is one person that comes to mind. She is obviously white but being that she’s European she doesn’t look like your typical white american girl. She’s extremely beautiful in fact but she also stands out because of her unique look.
Then you also have Molly Sims. She is very attractive but to me she has a very common look, but she also has a great personality and that’s part of her appeal. She can also model.
I think Nicole is very good looking but she needs to step it up plain and simple. There are alot of beautiful girls out there but it takes more than that to be a successful mode.
And beauty is in the eye of the beholder because I think Nik HAS GOT IT GOING ON!
i’m soooooo freaking mad that kim got voted off!!!!! She was my favorite by far! She’s the only one besides Nik who looks beautiful and stands out. I really loved kim’s black and white picture, does anyone have that? I can’t find it anywhere!! If you find it, can you e-mail the image to me? thanx! l8ernesssss…
~me
I think Jayla ate the dumb cereal bar, because she never gives an opinion, and because I hate her and think she’s a totally bad person.
I also think it was completely unfair to say Kims picture was bad because of her facial expression, when the photographer was saying that that’s the expression he was telling her to make. Clearly, she was doing what she was told.
Also, Bre didn’t pose at all, she just sort of was pretty… she did nothing to look like the Mona Lisa though. And wasn’t that the point??
I think you’re biased against Kim, because when Bre wrestled her to the ground, it wasn’t them wrestling, it was Bre attacking Kim and covering her mouth and essentially saying “Do what I say… OR ELSE”… just that the “or else” was implied. Bre’s a sick psycho. If she wins, the world will become a worse place. She needs therapy.
OK. I HOPE NIK WINS AND IF NOT NIK THEN I REALLY DONT CARE CAUSE BOTH BRE & NICOLES PICTURES DONT SEEM TO SAY MUCH AND THEY BORE ME WITH THE THEIR PHOTOS. NIK’S PICS ARE THE BEST BECAUSE SHE IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL BEAUTY AND SHE STANDS OUT. THE MODEL WHO DELIVERED THE BEST PICS OF THEM ALL WAS ACTUALLY LISA. EVEN THOUGH SHE SEEMED TO BE PRETTY ANNOYING TO THEM ALL, HER PICS WERE THE MOST PROFESSIONAL AND HER POSES WERE “CRAZY AMAZING”-THOSE ARE TYRA’S WORDS ABOUT LISA’S PICS, NOT MINE. JAYLA SHOULD HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE 1ST TO GO BECAUSE SHE ISSUED THE SAME FACE IN EVERY SINGLE PIC, NOT TO MENTION, IN THE BOLLYWOOD PIC THEY HAD TO FIND WHICH GIRL WAS HER CAUSE HER PIC WAS SO BORING, SHE BLENDED IN WITHT THE REST OF THE BACKGROUND(YAWN). ANYWAY MY FAV IS NIK, AND HAS BEEN FROM DAY ONE AND I HOPE SHE WINS, HOWEVER FOR SOME REASON I THINK NICOLE WILL WIN BECAUSE THEY PLAY HER PICTURES UP TO BE MORE THAN WHAT THEY REALLY ARE. THE ONLY PIC I CAN SAY I REALLY LIKED OF NICOLE’S WAS HER BLACK & WHITE PIC-STUNNING. SHE LOOKED AMAZING IN THAT PIC, AND AS FOR BRE, HER PHOTOS ARE OK BUT A BIT ON THE BORING SIDE WHICH IS NOT ENOUGH TO BE A TOP MODEL, HOWEVER, GIRLFRIEND’S WALK IS FIERCE!!! I’M JUST GLAD THAT BRE & NICOLE MADE UP AFTER THE INFAMOUS RED BULL SCANDAL…IT WAS STUPID AND BRE WAS DEAD WRONG FIR THE PART SHE PLAYED IN IT. I THINK KIM IS THE ONE WHO DID IT AND BRE SHOULD HAVE ASKED BEFORE ACCUSING NICOLE. THE PERSON WHO GOT VOTED OFF(KIM) SHOULD HAVE BEEN GONE A LONG TIME AGO ANYWAY. NOT ONLY WERE HER PHOTO’S BORING BUT WERE TOO BUTCH FOR THE GIRLY SHOOTS THEY WERE DOING. OK THATS MY 2 CENTS ON IT. LOL. CAN’T WAIT FOR THE FINALE AND FOR SEASON 6.
OK. I WAS DONE BUT I JUST READ THAT STUPID IDIOTIC COMMENT ABOUT “Clearly, once Nik wins ANTM this cycle, we will all finally know that Tyra and Covergirl NEVER plan on letting a white girl win.”- WROTE BY LISA_T…DUNCE, I GUESS YOU NEVER SAW SEASONS 1 & 2 WHERE A WHITE GIRL DID WIN TOP MODEL. DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE MAKING YOUR COMMENTS, CAUSE LAST TIME I CHECKED ADRIANNA CURRY (SEASON 1 WINNER) & YOANNA HOUSE (SEASON 2 WINNER)WERE BOTH WHITE. OR ARE YOU COLOR BLIND? THE TRUTH IS, TO THIS DATE THE ONLY AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL YOU ACTUALLY SEE DOING ANY WORK IS EVA(THE DIVA) AND YEAH SO WHAT, SHE IS BLACK, WTF DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING. THE COMPETITION IS BASED OFF OF TALENT AND WHO CAN DELIVER THE GOODS. BLACK, WHITE, BLUE OR GREEN, IF YOU CAN WORK THE RUNWAY AND A PHOTO SHOOT YOU’VE GOT MY VOTE. TRY ANOTHER ANGLE TO PRESENT YOUR ARGUEMENT, BECAUSE THE RACE CARD IS WHACK, TIRED & PLAYED. FIND A HOBBY EVEN. LOL.
I hope Nik wins, Nicole looks like she should be on seventeen magazine and Bre is a hoodrat.
Oh my goodness, Nik is by FAR my favorite model, not only because she has the most natural talent and beauty, but because she has a charm that makes her adapt to every situation and makes her mysterious, and want to know more about her, which is something most models lack nowadays. And she is so sexy, it’s crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NIK GOT ROBBED!!! I was so mad, when they compared their pics side by side Nik’s was so much better than Nicole’s. Nik was awesome, I hope she get a better contract than Nicole, because she looks and act so much better. I think the judges already have a winner picked out, because Nik performed better than Nicole in the commercial, and fashion show. That’s a shame, in my mind NIK won!!!!
NIK GOT FREAKIN ROBBED!!!!
NIK GOT FREAKIN ROBBED!!!
The judges should have been wearing ski masks and carrying guns ’cause this poor girl got JACKED!!!!!!!
That had to be a sympathy vote, ’cause there’s no way in hell Nicole is better looking, more charismatic, and overall more beautiful than Nik.
This show has lost all credibility.
ROBBERY!!!!!
WHAT A DISGRACE!!!!
NIK GOT ROBBED!!!!!