| Review | Apr. 24, 2008 | 1:14 am |
America’s Next Top Model: “Viva Italia!”
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Previously on ANTM:
Fatima has legal trouble with securing documentation to travel abroad and misses her photo shoot, putting her in the bottom two with Stacey Ann. However, the judges thought Fatima had a better body of work than Stacey Ann and she’s sent packing.
Oh Stacey, we’ll miss your not-so-sensual lap dances. If you have no idea what I’m talking about. Take a look.
And as we all remember, Lauren cuts off the top of her thumb while chopping an onion. I guess it’s better she took out her angst on vegetables rather than the other girls in the house. Then again, I would never trust Lauren with a knife, or for that matter, any sharp object.
Spoiler Alert!
Welcome to Italia!
The girls are finally abroad. This time its Rome, Italy and Anya gets her first taste of Italian concrete when she falls flat on her face stepping out of the van– mama mía!
Mona Lisa mail? Yes. On the Tyra mail she replaces Mona Lisa’s face with fierce. Only Tyra could get away with this.
The girls love their new and improved Italian pad!
An indoor pool though? Practical – no. Fabulous – yes.
Once again, Fatima brings on the drama. It seems like every week is “Woe is the African princess .”
This week, Fatima caught the African cooty bug…or as we call it in America, the flu. If she can make it through…well, I think you know what I’m going to say here (insert tasteless reference to female circumcision) then she’ll get through a cold.
Early in the morning though Lauren decides to play Home Makeover: ANTM edition while all the other girls are sleeping. The others girls are not pleased and she does not get the emmy like the real experts at Extreme Home Makeover did. Oh well, we still love you, Lauren.
On the other hand, did anyone else notice Dominique actually looks prettier with a mask over her face?
Challenge time!
The models do their fierce tranny walks to the Piazza! Then roll around Rome on Segways!
Taking notice of the high-fashion Italian modelistas walking through Rome, Lauren says she feels like she couldn’t pull off that look everyday. She likes her leather jacket too much. Obviously fashion is not more important than 10 working fingers.
Fashion designer Gai Mattiolo (who looks like he’s eaten a few models in his lifetime) has the girls walk in some super-fashion fierce threads! Let’s see who pulls it off.
Katarzyna: Very elegant. She looks very natural and walks like a fox.
Anya: Also fabby fierce. However Gai had to ruin it by being creepy.
Gai: “Anya you are so blonde… so skinny… so young… so fresh…”(awkies!)
Fatima: Sick.
Whitney: Hippy chic.
Lauren: Looks like shes walking in quicksand.
Dominique: Surprisingly decent with a touch of tranny.
Covergirl commercials!
The girls have to shoot and ad for the Queen Collection in Italian.
Anya’s up first – and falls flat for the second time in Italy – this time not so literally. Actually, she does a decent job. She looks good on camera and remembered all her lines the first take. Bravo to her. In my opinion though, she speaks better in Italian, a language she doesn’t even know, than she does in English. And that Hawaiian accent? - Bullpoop.
Katarcyna: Her Italian accent is great. Good work. I guess her eastern European trashiness is working out afterall, hmmm Paulina?
Dominique: Sounds like a tranny and looks like a tranny. I’m pretty sure she said the word Nintendo somewhere in there.
Lauren: She looked so uncomfortable in the shoot. Jay asks her to flirt with the male model and she just looks at him. Is there any hope for her?
Fatima: The director says she spoke the best Italian. He also thinks she’s a goddess. Oh, the things he has yet to find out.
Whitney: According to Jay she acted “bitcharina”. ‘Nuff said.
Panel time!
Ciao bellas! - screams Tyra.
She tells the girls about a fantastic runway show and reminds the girls that she has walked in it four times – we get it Tyra. You’re ferocious.
What the judges say
Fatima: Tyra says she looks like she’s selling some sexual chocolate in her commercial
Whitney: Tyra likes it. I guess that makes two bitcharinas - work it!
Anya: According to Tyra? Dookie.
Dominique: Paulina was scared the whole time. For me, Dominique reminds me of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. According to Miss Jay she looks like a BROTHA!
Lauren: Trainwreck. Miss Jay says – Hell to the NO! Sorry we can’t give you a thumbs up this week. Or in Lauren’s case - “a thumb up.”
Katarzyna– Because Last week the panel thought they weren’t getting a sense of who she was, Katarzyna speaks up tonight and Tyra gives her a lesson in Ebonics 101. “Oh no she didn’t!” But Tyra thinks she is boring sexy in her commercial.
Results
Fatima gets called first! Good job darling.
Bottom two: Lauren and Whitney.
Although the judges think that Lauren has arguable some of the best photos out of all the girls, they don’t think she would “hide” her real self for one million dollars. On the other hand, they judges think that Whitney is coming off as fake - they’re not always getting a sense of the real Whitney.
So it comes down to: The fake versus the real. Who wins?
Tyra says that America’s Next Top Model has to talk – so goodbye to Lauren. Fake wins! Ciao Lauren!





j said,
April 24, 2008 @ 3:45 pm
HE SAID fATIMA WAS ELEGANT.