Americas Next Top Model :: Season 3 :: Episode 5
(Information Copied From The UPN Website)
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YOU'VE GOT TO BRING IT: JENNIPHER JETTISONED
Kelle , the 20-year-old gallery owner from New York City, Ann , the 21-year-old All-American swimmer from Erie, Pennsylvania and Jennipher , the 22-year-old bartender from Pocatello, Idaho all have a rough week, but in the end, Jennipher fails to "bring it" and is sent home as the number of girls is cut from ten to nine.
LET THE POSING BEGIN?
A mysterious Tyra Mail comes in: "New York pretzels aren't the only things that are twisted." The girls can't figure out what on Earth that might mean.
They wake up early and head down to meet Savvas, a personal trainer who will be teaching them yoga. Soon, Toccara , the 22-year-old student from Dayton, Ohio, finds herself sweating up a storm, and even athletic Ann admits, "Yoga is hard."
After the girls have done a series of postures, they turn to face the rear of the room and see Janice Dickinson . With her inimitable take-no-prisoners style, Janice announces, "I'm going to show you how to pose." She displays in quick succession what she considers to be the four basic swimsuit poses, and then shares a fundamental truth: "It's important to not look like a porn star."
Janice introduces them to famed swimsuit photographer Jeffrey Neira and selects a trio of girls for an impromptu shot: Ann, Jennipher and Cassie , the 19-year old student from Norman, Oklahoma. After a few snaps, Janice isn't liking what she sees from Jennipher and tells her to step aside. The three-shot becomes a two-shot.
Following the swimsuit session, it's time for the girls to glam it up and get their inner divas on by slipping into evening gowns. While some girls--like 19-year-old sales associate Norelle from Newport Beach, California and Eva , the 19-year-old student from Los Angeles, California--seem to take to gown posing, Jennipher again seems to lack the necessary enthusiasm. Janice pushes her, urging, "Sell me the gown." Kelle also disappoints Janice, who tells her, "This is not working. If you're not going to have an expression, you should hide your face."
A LITTLE TYRA TIME
Tyra knows the pressure is beginning to get to the girls, so she swings by to provide a little one-on-one encouragement. When Kelle asks about her strengths and weaknesses, Tyra replies, "Your strength is your skin; your weakness is your face." She adds, "You are photogenic, but you don't understand how to place your face." She suggests that Kelle practice, because the mirror can be her canvas.
Tyra's advice to Ann is that she needs to try harder, reminding the All-American that anything worth doing takes effort, and that she didn't just jump in the pool and start playing water polo, so why should modeling be any different? When Cassie tells Tyra she's not going back to stripping, Tyra tells her that if she did, then Tyra would pull her right back off that stage. Tyra tries to get Jennipher to understand that she really isn't showing the judges that she has what it takes, telling her, "There's a fire that people need to feel."
The real heart-to-heart takes place with Toccara, who has been struggling to get her parents to be happy, but she realizes that for them to be happy, they need to be the ones who want it. She tells Tyra how hard it is to be strong and begins to cry. Wanting to bring out Toccara's inner beauty, Tyra shows great compassion and lets her know that her real strength comes from this kind of emotion. After Tyra tells her that she can be an inspiration to everybody--her mother, her father, her sister--Toccara collapses in Tyra's arms, sobbing.
After her heart-to-heart, Kelle practices in the mirror, only to end up sobbing. Toccara rushes in to console her and reminds Kelle that when she showed up, she was nothing but confidence. "The judges have broken her" is Toccara's snap assessment. Kelle knows that the next challenge has to go her way, as she has not been taking good photos.
PLAYING AT LA PERLA
The next Tyra Mail has the girls guessing that they will be doing a runway show in panties, but instead it turns out to be something entirely different at the lingerie company La Perla. Upon entering, they are greeted by their judge, Barney's Creative Director Simon Doonan. He tells them their assignment will be to pose wearing lingerie in La Perla's window in front of all New York: "You should look interesting and appealing, not cheap and slutty. You will be judged on creativity, style and technique." Simon then tells them that the winner will receive $5,000 in La Perla merchandise.
The girls then have to select items from the La Perla showroom, and for most of the girls it's easy as one-two-three. With her 38 DDD bust, however, Toccara has some difficulty finding something adequate.
The first group to go to the window is Kelle, Yaya, the 21-year-old student from Harlem, New York and Nicole , the 21-year-old former punk rocker from Minot, North Dakota. Simon first looks very confused by what he sees before him, but afterwards comments that he thought Kelle looked very "natural" and everything seemed "effortless." Jennipher can't seem to catch a break, as Simon takes one look at her and calls her "dull-slash-very dull," while ex-stripper Cassie seems "a little too bada-bing" for his taste. Ann is told she has "natural elegance," and he tells Jennipher she has a great body, but criticizes her lack of energy.
Then, in a surprise turn, Simon names Kelle winner of the challenge and the $5,000 in lingerie, telling her to select somebody for the second and third prizes, $1,500 and $500 respectively. Kelle chooses Toccara for second and Amanda , the 25-year old mother from Hendersonville, North Carolina for third.
ROLLER BOOGIE QUEENS
Minds start racing when the next Tyra Mail includes such choice phrases as "roll with the punches" and it's a "dog-eat-dog world." Ann suggests they might be doing a photo shoot with animals, while Kelle thinks they might end up boxing each other. Arriving at the Roxy, they are greeted by Jay Manuel , who isn't letting on what's about to happen, even after he's asked.
The girls are dispatched to hair and make-up, where they are glammed up and meet photographer Matthew Jordan Smith. The girls are surprised when Tyra rolls in on a pair of skates. She tells them that today's shoot is for Dooney & Bourke purses, and that they will have to do the shoot on roller skates.
Despite being a trained dancer, Yaya struggles to strike a pose. Toccara falls more than once, hitting the floor hard each time but keeping her spirits up. Jay yells at Cassie, "We need couture. We need Paris Vogue." In her wild getup, Nicole feels like "Marilyn Monroe done by Andy Warhol," and Jay thinks that she has "lucked into the shot of the century." Jay saves his harshest criticism for Ann, laying it on the line: "I would hate to see you not move on after this shoot." Ann responds to the criticism by turning out her best photos, but when the shoot is over, she skates right by and shuns him.
TO THE JUDGING ROOM
Tyra Mail arrives, announcing time for another elimination. Amanda thinks it's going to be Kelle or Ann, and she isn't alone in this opinion. Talking on the phone with her mother, Ann is visibly upset, saying, "I'm wasting such a good opportunity."
Tyra greets the girls and reintroduces her stellar judging panel, adding Matthew Jordan Smith as guest judge. After the introductions, Janice reveals that their next challenge will be to pose alongside male model Lanny Ward, and they will be judged on how well they pose.
The girls bust a variety of poses, some intriguing, some alarming, some alluring and some just plain different. When it's time for evaluations, Toccara goes first. Janice says, "You look like you were going to throw him over your shoulder." Even Nolé, who has been Toccara's champion, says, "You look like you were waiting for the bus."
Norelle fares better and is told she looked gorgeous and sexy. Then it's Jennipher's turn, and though in her picture she appears to be hiding behind Lanny, now there is nowhere for her to hide. Tyra asks her point blank, "Why do you want to be a model?" Jennipher's reply, "Didn't we do this last week?" goes over as poorly as her attempt at humor did the week before.
Eva gets high marks for not blaming the photographer when her face is covered up in the shot, while Yaya hears again that she is being too dancerly and must move like a model. When it is Ann's turn, Nolé expresses his disappointment. "I've labeled you my orgasmic letdown. I get so excited. It's yes, yes, yes, then no." Nigel exhorts her to be powerful, and Tyra seconds this, adding, "I've seen this powerful girl in there." Amanda, however, is lavished with praise from all.
DISCUSSION AND ELIMINATION
The judges send the girls out of the room so that they can confer amongst themselves. Janice is not down with Kelle, remarking, "It's the same face in each photograph." But Tyra feels that Kelle should be judged against herself and how much she has improved. Ann's lack of passion continues to be a problem, even though everyone agrees she is a natural beauty, prompting Tyra to observe, "Pretty don't make you buy Dooney & Bourke purses."
Once the girls are brought back, Tyra begins to read the names of those who will get to move on. Amanda is first, thanks to her stellar picture. Then it's Yaya, Norelle, Eva and Nicole. Toccara is admonished that her eyes are dead in the photo, but is told she's still in the running. The next girl to have her name called is Ann, to whom Tyra says, "This photo is not horrible; it's satisfactory. No top model is satisfactory." Cassie is next, leaving Kelle and Jennipher.
Tyra tells Jennipher, "From week to week, it looks like you don't want to be here." She then turns to Kelle, who had been on such a high after having won that week's competition, and informs her, "Your pictures have been some of the worst in the bunch." Even so, Kelle lives on to see another day.
Jennipher hugs the other girls and goes back to pack her bags. She is upset that people think she wasn't into the competition: "If I didn't want to be here, why would I have left everything I had back home behind me?" She remains confident that she might one day make it. "Eventually, it will happen. I feel this is my purpose, just not at this time."
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