This week on America's Next Top Model, Tyra keeps speeding up the typical timeline of the challenges and throws the CoverGirl commercial at the girls, which prompts one of them to have a meltdown of epic proportions. Love it.
"BEN, this dress makes me look young and hip, right? Not to mention that it's totally flattering for my boobs, right?"
"Ummmm.... <blink>."
We begin the episode with WonkEye telling Rae how proud she is that Rae doesn't annoy the shit out of them by whining about her kid all the time. Well that's an awkward compliment. "Gee, thanks Rae for being an awful mom who doesn't give a damn about her kid, because it's great not having to hear about it!" Rae doesn't seem insulted, but probably because she forgot she even has a kid and thinks WonkEye is confusing her with someone else. Why are they suddenly bringing up Rae's kid? Anyone else think this is an elimination foreshadowing?
Meanwhile, VampirErin is busy telling us that BEN takes some great pictures, but has a shitty personality. Zzz. How many times do we have to go back to this story line? However, VE points out, VE has a GREAT personality that a lot of people could relate too! If by "a lot of people" she means "football and rugby players", then I totally agree. Those guys would definitely relate to VE's penchant for a well-placed elbow in the back or a good shoulder-dislocating arm pull. As for the teenage girls who use CoverGirl products? Not so much. The editors then attempt to prove VE wrong re: BEN by showing BEN suggesting a head-banging and twirling competition. I am appalled. If she suggests a burping contest next, all of her trumped up claims of superior maturity will be for naught.
Tyra Mail! Laura reads it out loud without a problem, but then tells us that she's dyslexic and has been called stupid by classmates and teachers in the past. I don't think that it's the dyslexia that's making her stupid -- it's being born and raised in Kentucky. I just hope that this isn't foreshadowing her having difficulty with the commercial shoot.
"Momma always said, 'stupid is as stupid does.' What, have you heard that before, too???"
The next morning the girls arrive at the studio for "The Insider", which I guess is some sort of "Entertainment Tonight"-esque tabloid shit show. The host, Lara something or other, is conducting a fake interview of Ant (who, according to Wikipedia, is the host of Celebrity Fit Club. Okee-dokee), and they are both hamming it up for the camera, ANTM-style. After their "performance", Lara babbles to the girls that as an interviewer, she has to think on her feet. She then gushes that Tyra's "the best" at it. Oh, barf. How much did you get paid to say that? Well, I hope you use the money for a new dress at least. That shit is FUG. Anyway, Lara explains that each of the girls will conduct a mock interview of Ant to see who thinks the fastest on her feet.
Rae is up first, and she won't let Ant finish answering a question before she jumps in with a new one. VE's tone is patronizing and she sounds like she's speaking to the mentally retarded. However, she's not as bad as BEN, who literally sits there and stares at Ant silently. What happened to the conscious girl we saw last week? Can she only be normal when she's given something to read? Needless to say, thinking on her feet is not BEN's strong suit. The only other girl we see is Laura, who has to deal with Ant's "classic diva" behaviors. After Ant does his very best Tyra impression, the girls begin the actual challenge.
Ann Shoket's schnoz shows up to announce that the girls will each be interviewing Jessica Lowndes, one of the chicks from the new 90210. Each of them is handed a fact sheet, and they will be using the teleprompter for the interview. This, of course, is good news for BEN and bad news for Laura. The winner of the challenge will get another advertisement appearance in Seventeen. Wow, someone help me to my feet -- I just fell over in shock. Gonzo awarding some pictures in Seventeen? No way!
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Comments (9)
I laughed out loud at VE's meltdown. Serves you right, you twit. Now stop being so damn full of yourself and get on with winning this show.
Although yeah, BEN looked great this week.
The others? Zzzzzzz....
1 of 9 | Posted by itchy79 | Posted on October 25, 2009 4:06 PM
VE looks like The Joker in that picture with the red lipstick. A little more like Nicholson's Joker than Ledger's--I guess that's good.
2 of 9 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on October 25, 2009 6:04 PM
LoLo, thank you so much for my call out! Glad you like Boney Brit . . . I did think she would last, but you are sooo onto this show--perhaps it was denial, but I thought Rae would do better, yeah, she's dull, and I'm not sure why I liked her, but I did . . . VE, by all rights, should have gone-hello!!! But I have to say this whole thing felt staged and BEN, Laura and Erin are the clear top three. Your call on all is soooo right on, and I couldn't add a thing--even Nigel shirtless--you're the BOMB!!!XOXOXOXOXOXO
3 of 9 | Posted by juddfan | Posted on October 26, 2009 12:23 AM
Hah, LoLo, I loved your interview question for Jessica Lowndes. Given the similarities in inappropriateness between that question and BEN's, do you think that if she doesn't make it as a model she may have a future as a TVGasm recapper? WonkEye impressed me this week, but once it goes back to still pictures, that will be over. Besides, this is the season when Tyra is picking her first shortie model. She'll wait to pick her first Asian model in another season when she can get more publicity out of it. Although she might be the spoiler for one of your final three there, juddfan. Possibly Laura (noooooo, I love Laura.)
itchy79? What happened to plain old itchy? Is it that you decided to tell us how old you really are, or are you the new, improved v2.0? :)
4 of 9 | Posted by sayhuh | Posted on October 26, 2009 1:13 AM
Heh, 79 was the year I graduated high school...it's in my email address (but really it's my departement number here in France)...oops!
5 of 9 | Posted by itchy | Posted on October 26, 2009 4:56 AM
Say-huh, you may be right, I base the conclusion on them trying to make the top three, obv choices look flawed and struggling-like Caridee and the stick up the Nigel incident, and her out of nowhere terrible foreign language commercial . . .
I think Wonk is a contendah, personally, and will gladly stand corrected!
Ps, LoLo, that VE pic is the worst I've ever seen of her, and the sniff at the end of the take was priceless!
PPS. I've got dyslexia a little--probably typo city, tho I edit these, but my family has some worse cases, and I have full grown siblings who totally have that words all over the page thing, and can't spell for beans--it's really rough in this age of texting for them! Not sure about the memory part tho. Also, in school, granted this was years ago, but my poor bro was tortured by the nuns, and stupid was his middle name, he still can't shake that impression of himself--yes, it's a cruel world . . .
6 of 9 | Posted by juddfan | Posted on October 26, 2009 10:30 AM
Regarding dyslexia... Many people think that it means that people see or write letters backward and have trouble reading. And that is true for a lot of dyslexics. It is a very common symptom. However, it can manifest itself differently. It can cause people to have trouble speaking, memorizing and even can affect physical coordination. It is basically a "miswiring" in the brain. The area that is affected determines what sort of symptoms the person might have.
Thanks for a great recap!
7 of 9 | Posted by Snootchy Bootches | Posted on October 27, 2009 4:03 AM
Lolo, Ant was on that comedy show hosted by Jay Mohr, then he hosted Celeb Fit Club as you mentioned, and he also hosts some travel show on Logo (I love my C-List celebrities!) And, Lara SPENCER hosts The Insider!
With that out of the way, I hope Sundai pulls out of her average funk and starts to do better because I like her a lot. But, a finale with BEN and Laura seems inevitable, with VE getting the bitchy cut at third place edit. Although, Brittany is my dark horse, although her love of math is going to be held against her. As soon as she takes a bad pic, she's gone.
8 of 9 | Posted by slutty_whore | Posted on October 27, 2009 6:44 AM
Oh Slutty, you reminded me that I wanted to tell what happened today! So I have a couple of friends who regularly work on tv shows and movies and plays etc. So anyway, one of my friends has been working on a reality tv show but couldn't tell me which one. I've been dying to know because, as is obvious, I am a reality tv junkie! So finally she was able to tell me which show... Celebrity Fit Club. I was like "Oh." Wah-Wah. :p
9 of 9 | Posted by Snootchy Bootches | Posted on October 28, 2009 5:09 PM