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[TWoP Pembleton]

THE MODELS VISIT HONG KONG - The models are challenged with having to learn a fight sequence and act in a scene with Nicholas Tse, international actor and pop star. The pressure is on as the women have to pose while harnessed atop a high rise tower in extreme rain and wind. Kelly Cutrone and Nigel Barker join guest judge Nicholas Tse as well as Tyra Banks on the judges' panel for elimination

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[MKL122788]

That was so stunning. I was super excited when Eboni was eliminated, but damn, I was sad when Alisha withdrew.

I am totally over Laura now.

EDIT: This is the first time that I have been truly stunned by the outcome. The edit at the beginning focused on many people, I wasn't sure what was about to happen. Now, I see why.

Edited by MKL122788, May 9, 2012 @ 9:05 PM.

[damnyouRyan]

This is the first time that I have been truly stunned by the outcome. The edit at the beginning focused on many people, I wasn't sure what was about to happen. Now, I see why.

Same here! I was totally expecting Annaliese to go home because Kelly hates her, but never expected for both Alisha and Eboni to depart. Definitely rooting for Annaliese next week, but I feel like she'll be going home.

Kind of over Laura now too. She's just so... much. And not in a good way. Ugh. This season is crazy/unpredictable.

[annoyinglyrad]

Hate to sound like an awful person, but that out of nowhere double elimination / withdrawal was such a nice surprise! Usually can guess who's leaving, but had no idea this time.

A Brit better get the title. Laura gets more and more annoying with each episode.
Pulling for Sophie personally.

[The Void]

Insanely shocking. Probably one of the most out-of-nowhere quits/eliminations!

I'm getting tired of Laura getting so much praise for lackluster shots.

[ashlynne]

Tonight any "like" I had for Laura went away. She's a nut. I don't get the Kelly hate for Annaliese. In fact, I don't get Kelly. As the publicist sure she has clients to book but I would think since the photographer has to want to shoot the girl or the company to hire the girl that Nigel's input on the quality of the photos would mean more. Kelly can, in my opinion, just suck it (and I'm sure Laura can teach her how).

[noluvnoluck]

What. The. Fuck.

I'm done with the season. Alisha was my favorite and really had a chance to redeem herself and win. What happened to all that "Doing it for my mum?" talk? To come THIS far in the competition and now feel the pressure? It's ridiculous, so I guess good riddance to her weak behind. Eboni was my favorite in the beginning but fell off, so when Alisha quit I was pissed, but then I thought "Oh well, at least Eboni will have another chance." And no.

I love Annaliese but she won't win, Kelly can't stand her, Tyra is on the fence, and it seems that Nigel is just on her train to stick it to Kelly. Laura is blah. Sophie is Blah. A Sophie/Laura final two is ultra BLAH. So whoever wins wins.

Oh, and what the hell was with the Sophie 2nd callout?? Are you kidding me? Kelly Cuntrone sure has power on this damned show.

Edited by noluvnoluck, May 9, 2012 @ 9:32 PM.

[Genevamom]

Laura is crazy and mean. If this contest is as much about branding to Tyra as it is modeling, then Laura should not win. It's like she's always thinking about 'cutting a bitch'. It's interesting because she's also a bully. Sophia may make the comment, but Laura zeros in on the one she hates. She did the same thing with Kyle.

I wanted to like Eboni, but she sounds she's getting over a cold all the time.

At this point, I don't care who wins.

[Canada]

Well thank god those two are gone. I've never liked Eboni - from her stupid name to her lack of any personality, along with her revolting habit of eating with her mouth open, she just irritated right from the start. Aliesha (sp?) was obviously not coping at all with the competition and her stank attitude was just annoying. In fact, all the girls this season, with the possible exceptions of Ashley and Catherine, have had horribly stank attitudes. And none of them have looked ike real models.

At least this show used to be amusing and entertaining! It's not even that anymore!!!

I miss Seasons 1 and 2, when modelling ability actually counted for something.

[StarForeman]

Three girls quit this season, maybe production needs to worry more about that and less about trimming the staff. Something is wrong. Either with the pre-production screenings, or the atmosphere on set.

edited- only 2 quit and 2 were seconds from leaving the show when they were let go.

Edited by StarForeman, May 10, 2012 @ 12:52 AM.

[phoenix780]

Kelly Cuntrone sure has power on this damned show.

And after watching her back and forth with Nigel, I wonder if she was involved with his departure. I don't think she saved/helped Sophie, though.

I was wondering how they were going to wrap up next week, but I did not expect that. The editors have done much better in general this season, imho, and it's been a nice treat.

I feel bad for Alisha. I hope she goes home and moves away from modeling, maybe to television. I think her best thing was that music video (I secretly hope Fiercely British becomes a "real" group and there's a tv show about it, sort of like The Monkees). She should explore that.

I appreciated Nigel bringing up Mercedes. It's nice to remember they found a few people who have had visible post-show success.

Do publicists book models for a client? I don't know the industry well enough to know.

[Firate]

"Three girls quit this season"

Actually only two did. Louise and now Alisha. Kyle was thinking about it, but never did.

[StarForeman]

oh, and i should mention that it really bothers me they did the shoot in those weather conditions. They could just have easily green screened that shoot because you can't even really see the city.

[AnalysticalBoy]

For the past few episodes, I really couldn't tell who was going home. Well done, editors!

I was really surprised by the ending of the panel. The last two episodes, they showed Alisha threaten to walk if she was in bottom two, but I didn't expect her to make good on her word. However, what was her reason for quitting again? She was sobbing so much I didn't catch what she was saying in her final interview. She really is gorgeous, with legs for days, but when they showed her portfolio in the end, she had maybe two good shots - the Hello Kitty and the American car/British hat photos.

This double elimination helped set a new record: for the first time, none of the top three girls has ever been in the bottom two, which is really pretty impressive.

[Mrs Joe]

I'm getting tired of Laura getting so much praise for lackluster shots.

I don't know. I kinda enjoyed Nigel's comment tonight that I took to mean "well yeah she had the best shot tonight, but only because you decided to do a terrifying photo shoot just to screw with them and Laura's the only one crazy enough to not be affected by it. The girls who are actually decent models were terrified or they would have been better than her." Not exactly resounding praise…

And the location really was stupid since in no way could you remotely tell where they were or how high they were.

**edit for kindle corrections.

Edited by Mrs Joe, May 10, 2012 @ 2:00 AM.

[RachelKM]

"You're a slag. Let's be professional." Oh Alisha, I'll miss you. Her lack of self-awareness has its own sort of charm. Honestly I think the poor girl was homesick.

I won't miss Eboni. She was boring annoying. I feel bad hating on a child, but there it is. Nigel sort of summed it up, give us something, even if it's not what we want.

Holy Shit! I know I say it every week, but fuck Kelly is an asshole. I think I remember what an asshole she is and then I see it and I realize it's so much worse then I remember.

[Ginandtonic]

Three girls quit this season, maybe production needs to worry more about that and less about trimming the staff. Something is wrong. Either with the pre-production screenings, or the atmosphere on set.

edited- only 2 quit and 2 were seconds from leaving the show when they were let go.

2 quitting is more than there should be, my first thought when Alisha actually quit was that Tyra basically beat her down until until she broke. She was fine until they terrified with that stupid photoshoot. I don't know anything about the modeling business, but I refuse to believe that a real shoot would take place in those kind of conditions with an obviously terrified model.

[babysmith]

I'm so sick of Laura and her annoying attitude, also Kelly can gtfo and burn in a fire to be honest, the grease on her hair can make the fire bigger.

Now it's pretty obvious the final two is going to be between Sophie and Laura, there are slim to none chances of an Annelise(sp?) win or 2nd place for her.

[slensam]

Has Laura said how much she loved sex yet or did I miss that?

[Clemency]

Has Laura said how much she loved sex yet or did I miss that?

I know, right? That drives me crazy. Yes, everyone enjoys sex. You're not the first one to discover it, so you don't need to go around talking about it all the time. Laura talks about sex the same way some annoying drunk people want to constantly talk about how drunk they are.

[Lady Cathcart]

Much as I detest Kelly, I think she raised a valid point at panel this week: the problem with these photos is that the viewers and judges look at them and think about the model's personal story and relate to the photo based on that (like how scared she was at the shoot, how much she's improved since last week, etc.), whereas a modeling agency or potential client is going to look at it and think, "Why is her arm so awkward," etc.

But that's why this show has no credibility any more, and hasn't since ... well, Cycle 1 or maybe 2. It's a reality show and not a search for decent models.

[petramom]

Since the silk worms didn't freak anyone out, they really had no choice but to put them on top of a million-story building.

I am fascinated by the thought that these girls had a conversation about Hong Kong's buildings. I was willing to believe it was spontaneous until they used the word "architecture" and pronounced it correctly.

Why did Alisha get to quit without a Tyra scolding?

[Kosmonaut]

Kelly, you are not Janice. *shakes head*

Why is Nigel finally making me like him now, of all times, when this will be his last season? Why was the Brad Pitt of China so hot? (And why am I now wishing the girls were in Thailand with Tony Jaa?) How is it possible for anyone to act as badly as Eboni did? Why did I actually not hate Laura in this episode, depsite all her efforts to the contrary? So many questions.

Edited by Kosmonaut, May 10, 2012 @ 8:26 AM.

[ZoloftBlob]

Three girls quit this season, maybe production needs to worry more about that and less about trimming the staff. Something is wrong. Either with the pre-production screenings, or the atmosphere on set.

edited- only 2 quit and 2 were seconds from leaving the show when they were let go.

Yeah, this. I accept that reality shows are hotbeds of drama, but the cast in this cycle comes off pretty shaky unstable. And overall, this cycle seems very... cold and unpleasant. If we had one woman quitting, I'd accept that as an abberation, but when quitting is a constant topic being talked about, there's something going on. Now, since both girls who quit were Brits, I will accept that part of the problem is that the British women already appear to having working careers (aka something to go back to) so in some respects, I do think this is a casting problem. Alisha has a job and an agency back home, right? So when the time comes to go out on a roof deck and be fierce for Tyra (and bitch please, has Tyra ever harnessed up for space needle shots?) Alisha has the power to say "this just isn't worth it". I think Louise lost her shit, to a point, but also got fed up with being treated like a stupid puppy soiling the newspapers, and possibly one of the flaws of this show is the blatent ego stroking thats done to get these women on the show "you're better than everyone we didn't choose" and then the whole tear down process where you're a piece of shit in the eyes of the judges if you do anything other than agree... unless they want you to show some personality and if you're unhappy, its a coin toss as to whether Tyra chews your ass publically or just quietly lets you quit. (and frankly I was shocked Tyra didn't let loose on Alisha)

[JDavitt]

I wanted Eboni to take out her stupid ponytails right there and say Thirty-never, NEVER AGAIN.

And yes, it's always part of a reality show that people say they want to go, but this season they seem to be jumping ship for real more than usual.

That photoshoot was insane. Okay, I just typed 'inane'. That works too. And did anyone tell the girls their harness would be photoshopped out? Because that was why some of them looked weird once it wasn't there. Add it back in and it would've made a lot of difference.

I'm not too scared of heights; stood happily on the glass floor of the CN Tower, but that shoot with the wind and the narrow platform had my palms sweaty. Pointless.

[brisbydog]

That Alisha quitting was bizarre. I thought she was doing it to save Eboni and would change her mind once Tyra told her Eboni was gone regardless. I never loved Alisha (she was compeltely annoying throughout her British season and I was in love with Tiffnuh - the winner, and preferred the third placer Joy) but to see her beat down by that photo shoot was just sad

[jeromycraig]

If I were Eboni, I'd have taken my hair out of those stupid pigtails as soon as Tyra revealed the elimination, and said, "Thank GAWD!" Then I'd chain-smoke until my nickname changed to "30FOREVER."

Did I miss something in Laura's bedroom confrontation? Because it seemed like Laura admitted she wanted to have sex with Nicholas Tse, the other girls acted scandalized, and then Laura immediately put on her Freudian slip and yelled, "I WOULD NOT FUCK MY WAY TO THE TOP! HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT?!?!?" and ran away. The only person I heard say anything about sleeping her way to the top was Laura. Either I missed something one of the other girls said, or Laura just totally jumped right into the "Doth Protest Too Much" stage. (ETA: I was pretty much on Laura's side at the beginning, because HOW CUTE IS NICHOLAS TSE?)

Edited by jeromycraig, May 10, 2012 @ 9:35 AM.

[Bebecat]

If they are not even going to show the background of the shot, why do they drag them to the tops of high buildings? Obviously just for the drama they can create within the girls...what a bunch of nonsense...

[Sarraghina]

So there's the double elimination I had heard about. At least, I think I'd heard about one....

Wow, Nicholas Tse was HOT! I don't know that he'd go on my "list", but dayum!

[petramom]

(and bitch please, has Tyra ever harnessed up for space needle shots?)

Of course not. If she had, we'd have seen the photos as Jay Manuel told us about it in great detail.

Although I thought the challenge this week was stupid, I was impressed that the actor guy managed to say something nice about each girl's performance. Even the really shitty ones.