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America has voted, and Jay cannot be made into a supermodel. He accepts it gracefully, and manages not to make a fool of himself. Back at the house, the smack-talkers talk smack. These people are some conniving bitches, man, plain and simple, which makes it so gross that they get the chance go to full-on VIP at New York Fashion Week. This week, there will be no photo shoot. Instead, it's all about the catwalk. They are, of course, overwhelmed with excitement. Ronnie, in fact, cries. Speaking of Ronnie, it's his birthday. And guess what? It's Ben's birthday, too. Isn't that...sweet? They all go out to dinner to celebrate the boys and, when Perry asks each girl to share a personal secret, Jacki shares that she can fart on command. Then they harass her into doing it. In the restaurant. On television. At walk practice this week with Debbie and that other guy from New York Models, the girls are less than impressive. Debbie says that Katy is behind everyone else. The guys are not so great either, apparently, although Ben has improved. When he sees that his private coach, Ronnie, is struggling, Ben stands at the end of the runway and gives him a come-hither look to help. The week has other surprises in store: the models will actually walk in a Fashion Week show! They freak out. The girls do well in their show, and the designer loves Holly, but doesn't really feel Katy and Shannon. After the show, the contestants come back to the house, and when Katy goes to bed, the rest of them play a game where they must vote on who among them is most or least likely to [fill in the blank]. It gets a little ugly between the guys and the girls, and it carries over into the day. They're starting to split into camps and snipe at each other. In the boys' runway show, frankie, Casey, and Ben impress, while Perry and Ronnie are not quite as notable. Back at the gym, Casey, Katy, and frankie are disparaged for not showing the physical results of their diet and exercise. Katy's having some problems -- she's sleeping a lot and not eating right, and her bitchy roommates probably aren't helping. After they've walked in the big shows, they have to come back and do their regular weekly catwalk. This week, they're "rocking the downtown New York look." The models are getting a lot more confident, at least on the runway, but that doesn't help when it's time for the panel to dole out the critiques. This week, they're just as confusing as ever -- Holly's perfect; Jacki is suddenly only good for swimsuits; Ronnie's too good-looking; frankie's stiff; Casey and Ben have improved. Everybody busts on Katy, and they even let the other models jump her ass -- Casey is only too happy to call her out. This is really an evil week -- Katy's back in the bottom three, but this time Ronnie and frankie are with her. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
It's morning in the model house, and Jay and Casey are getting ready to go and face the music, along with Katy, on the catwalk. "Are you ready?" Jay whispers to Casey, who confirms that he is ready, before...rolling off his bed, where he has been sleeping in a pile of chips. I'm sorry, did I say something funny? He was asleep on busted-up bag of tortilla chips, yes, and also wearing a cutoff t-shirt, presumably to compensate for the rapid expansion of his chip-filled gut. In the girls' room, Katy postulates to Stephanie that maybe she will come back with Jay, since she and Jay have both proven themselves save-worthy before, and Casey is new to the block. Stephanie mumbles that, like, Casey hasn't, like, differentiated yet himself from, like, Perry? Not true, unless she means that they're equal on the propensity-to-be-an-ass scale, and if that's the case, there are several people in the house who remain undifferentiated.
Downstairs, much hugging and "no, you're coming back" goes on. Jay tells Stephanie he'll miss her, which is so sweet, and...such foreshadowing, because Jay's going home. But not before the Panel of Extreme Dramaticism where Niki slowly and without emotion reminds the three of them how disappointed the panel has been in them. Katy and Casey are safe, and Jay is sent packing. Unlike his predecessors, he manages to exit gracefully, thanking them for the opportunity. The panelists arrange their faces in what appear to be looks of genuine bittersweetness, but say they feel like America has made the right decision.
Meanwhile, the Bitches Council goes on back at the house during the ever-interesting debate over who will come home. Why they think it would not be Jay, I don't know. No one seems willing to badmouth him, possibly because he's the only nice person any of them has ever met? Stephanie says that Casey has a beautiful face, but hasn't been working very hard on his body and it's beginning to show. "He's getting a belly," she says, causing the guys to go into defense mode and begin ripping on Katy and her eating habits. Ronnie says that Katy eats non-stop, and that when she's not eating, she's sleeping. Ugh, whatever. They show Holly kind of giggling at this, and I hope that's just bad editing. frankie -- sort of subdued, for once -- says that Katy doesn't seem to be embracing this opportunity. At which point Katy walks in the door. "All we heard was Katy's voice," Ben says in an interview, with a look on his face like he's smelled something horrible. "I think the general feeling in that room was disbelief." Ugh. Disbelief like they feel when you talk about how you don't want to have sex with Ronnie? OH, YEAH, I SAID IT. Time for the gloves to come off on all this jackassery. I think most of these kids have forgotten that (a) they're on TV; and especially (b) they are not yet supermodels and most likely never will be, but that even if they should succeed in this alleged "profession," it will be due to the arbitrary whims of others and the quality of the cocaine they sniff in order to stay awake.
Casey comes in, to much fanfare, and says in an interview with, really, the most pitiful abused-puppy look on his face that when everyone yelled out his name he felt "so welcome" like this was his family. Remember when Casey said he lived for a time out of his guitar case? I just remembered that and laughed anew. I wouldn't be nineteen again for love nor money -- it is too embarrassing.
To celebrate these events, frankie announces the current lineup -- four down and nine to go -- and does a little dance while Ronnie and Ben look on in bemusement. Ben says in an interview that he and Jay were "cool" but that he's glad, from a competitive standpoint, that Jay's gone home. He's sure to add that he would not have been at all upset if Katy were to go home, "because, you know, how many chances can you get?" Ben, why can't you just, I don't know, shut up?
In the dude cave, Perry holds court on his favorite subject: how much cooler his bros are than those hos. "The girls' personalities in this house," he says, "a lot of them are on milk cartons. You know? They're missing." God. frankie laughs like it's the funniest thing anyone has ever said. Does no one find it weird how much the boys hate the girls on this show? Surely this is the first time this has ever happened on reality TV, that there will be exactly zero hookups among x-number of young people picked to live in a house. For their part, the girls seem to feel the same way. I suppose it's because they're all too obsessed with themselves to notice the hotness of those around them. Perry drones on, saying something about how the girls are all trying to be too proper: "Like, you just gotta be a free spirit if you want to stand out. That's how stars are made." Is this guy putting me on, or am I putting him on? I renew my dislike of this fool, especially when he asks if Ben and frankie could imagine any of the girls in the competition replacing Niki on the panel. They couldn't, of course, but since at this point a beautiful block of wood could read Niki's lines just as easily as she does, I don't know what they're talking about.
Speaking of line readings, Ronnie cue-cards it up in an interview, saying that they weren't quite sure what the week would hold. But, behold, they are going to Fashion Week. "I about just lost my mind," says Ronnie, and indeed, moments later, he definitely loses his cool, crying after Niki shows up to tell the models that this week is all about the catwalk. There will be no photo shoot, but they will get to sit in the main tent and analyze the models in one of the big shows. Well, who knows when that actually happened; it appears as though Ronnie's crying on a different day than the one on which they arrive there, so maybe the thing with Niki was shot later in the week. Who knows? Most inexplicable: frankie's straw fedora and taxi-cab suspenders. We see various shots of the Fashion Week madness, and it looks truly insane. frankie, for one, is excited about the catwalk-centric nature of this week, and feels it will be his week to shine. Ronnie, still crying, says that he's had to struggle for everything he's ever worked for, and is just overwhelmed. I'd be moved by that, but my heart has turned to ice. Oh, fine, it's sweet -- that is, until Ben pulls Ronnie's head to his shoulder to comfort him, and where I once would have found that charming, now I'm just over it.
Back at the house, the models find out that they'll be going out on the town for dinner to celebrate Ronnie's and Ben's birthdays. Well well well, they have the same birthday? Has any love throughout history ever been so fated? There's an awkward scene in which Ben and Ronnie are sitting on a bed, Ronnie's hand staged on Ben's shoulder, and Ben saying that they're just going to go out and enjoy themselves for the night. "Hell, yeah," says Ronnie, and there's something really awkward about the whole scene that I can't explain -- possibly Ben's wrinkled cobalt shirt and pink tie. The rest of the models sign a big card for the boys (Casey makes sure to do it in his underwear) and get ready for the big night. Before they leave, Ben and Ronnie spend some time in their room working on Ben's walk. All euphemisms and annoyances aside, it's pretty cute and seems to help Ben. He does best with his hands in his pockets: it eliminates that bouncy, side-to-side neck thing that normally happens. Ronnie calls this Ben's "Sgt. Joe, coming to get you" look, and that's accurate. Of course, Ben can't walk on every catwalk with his hands in his pockets, so Ronnie advises him just to imagine that he does, and that helps a little. Finished practicing, Ben goes to put on his coat. "Got your jacket?" Ronnie asks, all wifey, and I begin to defrost toward him (slightly). He's making a mistake being all stuck on Ben, but I think he might actually think he has real feelings for him, and that's sad, especially since, as the weeks go on, Ben looks jerkier and jerkier.
The whole crew arrives at Blue Fin and are taken to a private room for their fancy dinner. Ronnie proposes a toast -- to set aside the competition for the night and just have fun. Unfortunately, as Perry tells us in an interview, part of the fun was Perry's dare to the girls to all reveal one secret. "I wish," he says, barely concealing a Machiavellian smirk, "Jacki would have kept her secret to herself." Um, Jacki, who wouldn't wear a thong on television, tells all of America that her secret is that she can make herself "fart on command." Belying his statement in the interview, Perry immediately shouts: "YOU HAVE TO DO IT!" Jacki vigorously attempts to protest. Oh, girl. Don't make such claims in front of a room full of immature idiots. They harass her into complying, and she does. Perry even makes Jacki turn around with her ass to the table, and she cuts one. I don't know what to say, really, other than to thank God the candle-festooned birthday cake was delivered after this gas release. Sitting across the table from each other, Ben and Ronnie look over and share a meaningful fist-bump. "Make a wish, Ben," says Ronnie, and frankie chimes in that he knows what Ronnie's wishing for. Yes, I'm afraid we all do.
up, walk practice with Debbie and that other bitchy New York Models guy, David. "This is serious," Debbie whines, announcing that none of the contestants is ready yet to be a supermodel. A good model can book a few shows, she says, but a model with "a great walk" can book shows in every different genre. Apparently, Katy is "way behind" everyone else, though how they determine this, or anything else, I have no idea, because they really don't show anyone for any real length of time, particularly Katy. "The girls need to step it up," Debbie says in her weird little-girl voice, and David agrees that the girls were not impressive today. Strangely enough, the one they're most impressed with is Ben, their former walk whipping boy. I guess, from the shoulders-up look we get at him, it does appear that he has improved. Alternately, frankie has regressed. I am afraid Debbie slaps frankie (on the shoulder) at one point and, while I can understand the urge, they don't show us the reason. David says that frankie's face is still "too Fabio," and "blah." I know he justifiably gets the Fabio joke all the time, and I know he's a complete ass, but man, as long as he does not speak at all, frankie is so gorgeous. Ronnie, also beautiful, is falling apart walk-wise as well. "Would you walk like that to get a man?" Debbie asks him after yet another sub-par trek down the catwalk. Ben helpfully goes to stand at the end of the catwalk, saying in a voiceover that Ronnie has been helping him so much with his walk, so Ben decided to return he favor and "give [Ronnie] some motivation." Ben does this by smiling 100-watts at Ronnie and sexily giving him the come-hither gesture. Ronnie can't help smiling, and it helps. Before they leave, they're all given clothes from Bloomingdales -- clothes we never see them in.
After the catwalk practice, the models find out they'll be walking in shows at Fashion Week. Crazy. Did y'all ever watch Style With Elsa Klensch back in the day? She would have flipped her pageboy right off her head to find these nobodies before her on the catwalk. The ladies will participate in the show of a new label called Form. Form's designer, Jerry Tam, says they're proud to have "the new girls" and "the professional girls" all working together. Shannon says that this is the big time, and she's going to go out and have fun with it. More nervous is Holly, who interviews that the competition on the show is one thing, but that the competition in the real world is something else. "Looking around and seeing all these beautiful models," she says, "I really felt the pressure."
On the runway, however, Holly seems to do well. One of the dresses they've put her in is this beautiful fuchsia that really stands out. She has this interesting, tentative walk that is sort of charming, and I think she looks great. Meanwhile, Stephanie is doing this thing that she probably thinks is "intense" but is mostly her just sticking her neck out in front of her shoulders -- Perry does the same thing, and it makes them both look like Lurch. Jacki doesn't seem to be enjoying the experience, and says in a voiceover that she was nervous and felt like she could have done better. At one point, this is obvious when she comes down the runway in like, a black cape and a muffler and hits the end without posing, simply strolling right back where she came from. Katy, too, is nervous, and says she mostly does not want to mess up in front of Tyson. Not that Tyson would have recognized her if she fell right on her face, since the designers have wrapped her head in what appears to be a burkha. After the show, the designer says that he would definitely hire Holly, that she would be perfect for any runway. Stephanie is good, too, he says, but she was hard to work with and needs to loosen up. His bottom two choices, he says, would be Shannon (who is too tall) and Katy (who is too warm and beach-y for high fashion). Okay, now being tall is bad? So, what exactly is it that qualifies someone to be a model? Why don't they just build robots to their specifications-du-jour and roll them out there with the clothes on them?
Back at the house after a long day (but which day? who knows?), the kids arrive to find food and booze. They make sure to show many shots of Katy eating various foods -- what looks like a burrito and then some peanut butter? Following this, she goes upstairs to bed while everyone else stays up drinking and playing a game called "Most Likely To." This game involves taking prepared Bravo labels printed with negative statements and sticking them to each other, in order to manufacture some drama and hurt feelings. It sucks.
Perry appears to be up first. He sticks a label on Jacki that reads "most likely to date a D-list celebrity." Funny, and Jacki seems to take it in good spirit at first, laughing along, until Perry says that, you know, Jacki will probably end up being a D-list celebrity herself, so she'll be a natural. Ronnie is charged with naming who is "most likely to be two-faced." Siiiigh. Weirdly, he chooses Perry. Not that that's not accurate -- I'm just surprised he'd risk calling Perry out and risk making him an enemy. Ronnie sort of says some stuff about how Perry is a thinker and a competitor and how, in this game, that means being two-faced, and Perry seems to accept this as a compliment. (While Ronnie talks, we see that his own chest is adorned with "most likely to have an ugly child." Nice. I can just see the production team cackling as they type these up in their dirty editing bays, wondering how their lives have reached this point.) up, Jacki, who must name the "least likely to improve." Pausing from swigging his beer, Ben oh-so-funnily cracks "she's sleeping" -- meaning Katy, of course. The other boys in the room find this totally hilarious, and Ben congratulates himself on a slam well made. The girls look offended and disgusted, and for that I am pleased. Jacki further goes up about 1,000 points in my estimation when she puts the label on Perry. She gets convoluted, saying that he's less likely to improve because, basically, he can dish it out, but can't take it, and frankie goes on the dudefensive. "That's the most bullshit answer I've ever heard in my life," says frankie, laughing his crazy old-lady laugh. "I didn't care," Perry shrugs in an interview. "I've been doing really well in this whole thing, and I just think she felt like putting a sticker on me, or something." Good attitude, but it doesn't match up with what we see , which is Perry putting a sticker that reads "least likely to win Make Me A Supermodel" on Jacki. "I ain't goin' nowhere," Jacki says, clearly no longer amused, and Perry says, in front of everyone, that he feels like the competition "will come down to an overall personality contest and...I hope it doesn't affect [Jacki]." Jacki shoots him with laser eyes, and in an interview says that she'll prove him wrong. Suddenly, I love Jacki.
The morning, Ronnie wakes up in a contemplative mood. "I was really annoyed with some of the models," he says, "because they're not exactly what they're portraying themselves to be." Huh? Ronnie shares his deep thoughts with Ben, who lounges so naturally in the bed, shirtless with the covers pulled back just-so to highlight his flat stomach. "Perry thinks he's the man right now," says Ronnie. Perry, he goes on, seems to believe he does not need to improve at all. "Perry really is the ringmaster," he adds, surprising me with his insight. He says that he doesn't think anyone in the house really realizes how Perry manipulates a lot of situations, because he's funny and sarcastic about it. "He's Mr. Personality," says Ronnie, "and they all just go along with it, or they forgive him, like, the day." Ben agrees, and Ronnie continues: "You and I just need to be focused on us." Oh, Ronnie.
Later, the boys arrive at the studio of R. Scott French, menswear designer. They are thrilled to find out that they're going to be walking in his show in Bryant Park during Fashion Week. The clothes are all very beautiful and masculine, and in makeup, Ben says he thinks that this is going to be his week. He feels like he and Perry are pretty close, as far as abilities, and that this week, Perry seems more cocky than confident; Ben says that this will give Ben and edge over Perry. I have no idea how cockiness and confidence distinguish themselves when you're walking in a straight line, but whatever. The guys are all nervous -- probably even more so when Tyson comes backstage to tell them, "Don't embarrass me," but Perry says he plans to "hit it with energy." He's talking about walking and wearing clothes. With energy.
The guys do all right on the runway. Casey's walk looks as weird as ever, but his face looks pretty. Ronnie has to wear a sweater and pants ensemble that is nearly identical to a Star Trek uniform (that link is my little gift to you), and he is walking really weird and boxy. His face betrays his nerves, I'm afraid, but his hair looks awesome. frankie -- though they've straightened his hair (and Casey's too) to look very feminine -- does well and, according to Scott, has a good camera look. Perry seems to be too long-limbed for all the clothes -- he's doing the head-forward Lurch thing, scrunching down. Scott says that Perry seemed almost too confident. Ben was right! Speaking of Ben, Scott was pleased with his walk. All of the models had big fun, they say, and are happy with their performances. The footage they show is edited very jerkily, so it's hard to see how they really looked, but in various places on the internet, there is video of the entire runway show, which includes a lot of footage of each model (including Jay, somehow) and by comparison to the rest of the goons walking in the show, our boys look fantastic. Scott bags on Ronnie, calling him too "wholesome," but there is one cornfed guy in there that makes Ronnie look downright swarthy, so I don't get it.
It's gym time, and Clay puts all the models through the wringer. He says he expects Jacki to step up her game, being the most athletic girl, and rips on Katy for smoking. Granted, she has a pack of cigarettes right in her pocket at the gym, which is stupid, and when she tries to laugh it off -- cutely saying that she works just as hard as any non-smoker -- he retorts with a sharp "Quit." Not that I condone the evils of tobacco, but have these people ever seen Kate Moss? Something tells me that the more "super" a model is, the more likely she is to smoke. I mean, hell, they can't eat -- what else are they supposed to do?
Clay kills the models with kickboxing, pushups, and various other rigorous tortures; at the end, he says that three of them are disappointing him with their lack of progress. Katy, Casey, and frankie (to the last's great dismay) are asked to step forward. frankie says that Clay singling him out only makes him want to work harder. Well, he might want to start with those twig arms, then, because he can't even do a girl push-up. Clay says that Katy and Casey seem to be working hard in the gym in front of him, but that neither of them is showing good results in their measurements. Katy says that she's been doing everything she's supposed to do, but that it's not working.
This is the topic of the week, really: that night at dinner, while Katy sleeps again, the rest of them have dinner and discuss her lack of progress. Ben says that Katy isn't doing what she should be, as far as eating and working out go. Shannon points out that the real problem is that Katy genuinely thinks she is working really hard, but not seeing results. Perry wonders what the issue really is, anyway, since Katy's body, if she wasn't a model, would be the envy of everyone. Of course, that's true, but he's talking bullshit; he knows, as Jacki points out, that the modeling industry views size 4 to be fat, so Katy is under a lot of pressure. Hatefully, Perry says he really doesn't care if Katy eats her way off or eats her way on the show, because someone's got to win the contest. His smugness causes Holly to roll her eyes, and Jacki remains silent. All their concerns are confirmed when, moments later, Katy comes downstairs and gets a big piece of cake. The camera zooms slo-mo in as she takes a bite. Dun dun duuuuuuuuuhhhhn! SHE EAAAATS!
We now arrive at the brutal last segment of the program in which the panel threepeats everything, asking the models questions, reviewing the week privately, and then saying it all again when they make the final decisions. It is agonizing. So, the models are back at their regular weekly catwalk, ready to "rock the downtown New York look," whatever that is. Niki tells them they'll need to walk with confidence and attitude and really stand out. Backstage, Perry says that nothing at all is going to get in his way. "I'm going to go as far as I can," he says, "and everyone else can fall by the wayside. That's how you gotta be." Just...whenever I say his name in this recap, if I left it out, remember that the "shut up" is implied. Jacki says she was up late the night before practicing, knowing that even if her walk is good, it can be better.
First out is Holly, who is, frankly, stunning. She looks fantastic, walks fantastic, and works the long skirt she's wearing like she's been doing this for twenty years. She says in a voiceover that her favorite part of modeling is the catwalk. It shows. Perry comes out and [insert standard comments about how he's doing his thing and bringing energy]; [following that insertion with standard insertion of "shut up"]. I can't believe how quickly I have soured on Perry. For the last two weeks, they've shown him at his best, but in this episode he's been unbearable. Jacki bounces out, looking bouncy, as usual. Following her is Katy, who pops her collar, gives her best tough-face and generally looks awesome. I like the way she walks and the way she poses at the end of the catwalk. Naturally, the panel will hate it. Unfortunately, Shannon has been dressed in a most unflattering ensemble, making her appear totally gangly and huge. She looks great in the right clothes, so this is a shame. Stephanie comes out again with that head-down, eyes-up thing and it just isn't working for me at all. However, she says in voiceover that she felt like it was "really, really awesome." Ronnie -- trying something different, apparently -- stomps up and down the runway with his arms swinging. He says in voiceover that he doesn't know what's happened to his walk, and he's worried that it will let him down. He might want to try not taking such huge steps, for one thing; when he goes back up the catwalk, he looks like he's about to launch. Ben comes out and gives them "attitude," though he looks quite a bit like he always has, to me. frankie is , and though he seems a bit hunched, the guy just gives great face. I mean, he is awesome-looking. They let him talk less this week, and it clearly made me like him again -- not enough to capitalize him again, though -- let's not get crazy. Casey looks pretty good. He feels better after having such a bad week last week, and feels like he's showing some newfound confidence.
Everyone comes back out for the hated Q&A. Tyson hands out the feedback from the Fashion Week designers. Holly is thrilled to hear that the designer would hire her again.
Jacki is less happy to hear, suddenly, that she'd only be good for swimsuit modeling. "With New York Fashion Week," Tyson points out, "this is high fashion..." Oh, really? He asks if Jacki has any other walks she can do. Haven't they been complimenting her walk week after week? And haven't they been working with a coach for five weeks? Wouldn't she have mentioned that Jacki's walk wasn't high-fashion enough at some point? Jacki has to remind them that she's never had any training before and that she's working on it. I don't know she keeps from jumping off the catwalk and scratching out the eyes of Cory -- who jumps in with some bullshit about how there are different facets of catwalk in modeling...jackasses, that's YOUR job to teach her that before she goes out there and does it, not AFTER.
Cory moves on to tell Shannon that though she has been doing very well, he's disappointed in her tonight, and that she seemed nervous, even though she was confident. Because that makes sense. Shannon says that she enjoyed the catwalk, and did feel confident; she says it in the kind of surprised tone she always speaks in, and Tyson takes it like she's dismissing what the panel is telling her. "So, what we say doesn't matter," he snarks. "You think you still did good anyway." She says what they say matters, of course, but that she did feel comfortable. I mean, what she needs to do is just nod and be quiet, but barring that, what else is she supposed to say?
They move on to Ronnie, whose heart I can see breaking when he hears Niki say that Scott French would not book him again based on his wholesome look. Jennifer is quick to add that because Ronnie's perceived as classically good-looking and All-American, he'll have to work a little harder to distinguish himself in editorial, where edgier kids are on the runways. I think that's probably the most straightforward thing anyone on the panel has ever said, and Ronnie takes it to heart, saying that he'll work on it, because he wants to be seen as versatile. Tyson rips Ronnie's arm-swinging, and Ronnie says that this week has been kind of a roller coaster, but that he's determined to do better. Tyson seems reluctant to tell frankie how much Scott French liked him, and Cory is quick to jump in and disagree anyway. Which...isn't getting good feedback from the designer what matters most? He asks frankie how he thought he did and, knowing that he's now expected to give a negative answer on himself or be deemed cocky, frankie says he thinks he was stiff on the runway. He wasn't, but Cory thanks him for being honest and says that, yes, he was stiff, and that he was even more stiff here on his home-catwalk. Dude, Cory is starting to bother me.
At the sound of his own name, Casey looks like he's going to wet his pants. However, they all compliment him on taking that kick in the butt from last week and improving on the catwalk.
Also improved: Ben. The feedback from Scott French was very good: he says that Ben was the best walker. "It's ironic," Cory points out, "that your best walk happened to be in front of thousands of people." Fool, every one of his walks is in front of thousands of people! Do you not see the cameras?
Ben's still a little stiff, Cory says, but he's done better. Ben says that he was scared before the show started, but that when he stepped out there and saw the light, "bam, it was like Heaven." Ben, dear, you seriously have the right to remain silent. I hate this part of the show so much.
Niki puts on her sad voice and tells Katy that she seemed distant this week. Katy says, you know, she has a lot going on, and really, carrying around all this hate-baggage from the rest of the models has got to be tiring. Tyson asks whether Katy's willing to make sacrifices, and she says she is. He tells her that the designer said she was girl--door and not high-fashion, and then asks the rest of the models to be honest about what they think. Casey is only too eager to chime in, saying he thinks Katy has a lot of great intentions, but her actions don't always follow through; he busts her for going to the gym and then eating carbs and smoking. He's obviously not forgotten when Katy was forced to throw Casey under the bus a few weeks back, and is looking for a little revenge, but...DUDE, YOU SLEPT IN A SELF-CONSTRUCTED TACO SHELL. Before Katy can light a cigarette and put it out in Casey's eye, Jennifer reminds Katy that she said weeks ago that maybe Katy should go off and do something in an industry that accepts her for who she is, and that she knew Katy would have these problems. Yes, that evil thing you said? No one has forgotten. However, I grudgingly admit that she's right, and wish Katy would just go be a sexy catalogue model or something -- or an actress -- because she is cute, has a great personality and a rocking body.
The panel deliberates. I swear to God, they repeat nearly word for word what they JUST SAID. Ronnie was stiff, and too classically good-looking. Holly really did well. Katy looks fat and is not a supermodel. Casey is doing better, but is still raw. frankie was too stiff and did poorly. Jacki is, out of nowhere, "too sexy" and needs to adapt. Ben is learning and "embracing his fashion side." The best and worst are brought out for the high-fashion high-drama. In the top three, Holly, Casey, and Ben, who they say was the best of the week. Still on the runway are Jacki, Katy, Ronnie, and frankie, and though they drag it out to an infernal degree, Jacki is safe and Katy (AGAIN!), Ronnie (aw, man), and frankie (what?!) are on the chopping block.