America's Next Top Model
Cycle 11 Episode 11
“The Final Five”

Last weeks preview already told us the girls are going on “go-sees” this week. Who will forget the time and get disqualified? My bet was Elina, simply because she seems to believe the world revolves around her, but McKey screwed the pooch by showing up 5 minutes late. Marjorie was jumping up and down cheering her defeat. Perhaps she feared another expulsion - Hannah style.


McKey wowed the designers and that was the real shame. She would have won the go-see challenge had she remembered that every girl that shows up late from this challenge since ANTM began gets tossed. What was she thinking? Her tardiness cost her $18,000.00 worth of goodies donated by the designers. However, I've watched Project Runway and I've seen how little designers spend on garments, so I figure she only really lost a couple hundred bucks of stuff in the real world.

McKey's disqualification meant that Analeigh slipped in and bagged the goodies and pissed Elina off. Analeigh had this sideways braid going on that would never work in the US, but these designers seems to love it. Elina so believed she (or McKey) should have won that challenge. She was offended that the lingerie designer didn't want a model with tattoos. The designer was absolutely right in saying that the big tattoo on her midriff would be a distraction. Go ahead and express yourself permanently with ink – just keep in mind that not everyone appreciates it and the golden rule applies in modeling, i.e. them with the gold makes the rules.

It wasn't surprising to hear the designers call Samantha commercial. I've discovered that is model-ese for cute. The high fashion modeling world loves androgynous like Marjorie and McKey to certain extent and coldly beautiful like Elina, but doesn't like cute at all and as Sheena discovered last week – they absolutely loathe hoochie. Had Marjorie gotten her nerves control she would have done much better, but since she looked like a frightened colt the whole day she scared off the 2 designers she managed find.

The Tyra Mail warns the girls that they have never been so exposed and Sam starts to worry about a nude shoot. Mr Jay meets them at the photo shoot and allays their worries and Tyra promptly jumps out and informs them that she will be their photographer du jour. Tyra generally does nude or plain faced shots with the girls and follows the same pattern. The twist this time is that the girls will do one absolutely plain and then take another shot all painted up. Samantha looked awesome in both shots. McKey kicked ass in both shots as well. Analeigh looked posey in the natural shot but tore up the made up shot, Marjorie did her broken doll thing in the natural and looked editorial in the second. Elina sucked in both. She shows us the same expression and face in every shot. I'm so over her.

Panel. The girls are going to be judged on their go-sees as well as their duel photos tonight to trim down the group to the final four. We already know who sucked the most in the go sees, but Marjorie turned in fierce photos. Apparently McKey's DQ wasn't a factor to the panel. They were impressed that of the 4 designers she saw, all of them would book her. Analeigh also impressed the 3 designers who she saw who also said they would work with her. Samantha booked 2 of her 3 visits, Elina only bagged 2 of the 4 she saw. One of the designers was grossed out by her sweaty back (apparently she ran to get to that shop) and the lingerie designer hated her at first sight. Marjorie laid a big ol' goose egg.

The most surprising revelation tonight was that Elina is only 18 years old. It usually takes a few years and a couple husbands to get that uptight. Jeez girl, relax.

The commercial break before the results shows us this week's Top Model in Action: Molly Sue from Cycle 6. The girl with a hillbilly name is now an International Fashion Maven.

Marjorie and Elina are in Tyra's sights. It was a toss up for me – I didn't care which left because they both need to go. They kept Marjorie for one more week. I'm guessing we already know who our finalists are: Samantha, McKey and Analeigh. I think unless McKey falls on her face or does something really stupid, she has this sewed up. I think Samantha will be a better CoverGirl, but she has that commercial stigma to shed (does it get any more commercial than CG, though?) Analeigh I expect to be 3rd runner up.

Two more weeks and we'll see if my predictions come true.