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Ben, Perry, and Jacki are up for the vote. America figures it can't make Jacki a supermodel. We all saw it coming. To my great displeasure, she declines to kick Perry and Ben in the nuts. Back at the house, Holly and Shannon, the only remaining girls, are feeling pretty lonely. Everyone is excited to hear that, the day, they'll be going on a surprise "winter weekend." They arrive at a ski resort, where they must be photographed acting like "rich kids" in the snow. Niki is just telling them that the person who does the worst in the challenge will have to go back to New York while everyone else stays in a vacation cabin when Shannon suddenly doubles over in pain. She is carried off on a snowmobile to be attended to, and the rest of the models get dressed up in Ralph Lauren. Ronnie and Perry are paired up, and have to put on these little mini-skis and ski down a hill toward the photog. They fall all over their asses. Perry rips his pants. It's totally ridiculous. Ben and Holly must stand on a sled and try to glide down the same hill. While drinking champagne. Listen, don't ask me. Shannon returns from the sick bay and works with frankie and Casey, running and sliding down the hill. The Miami boy has a few problems, and he is the one sent back to NYC. Lucky for him: the rest of the models are shocked to wake up the morning to their trainer's whistle, and must roll out of bed to have a snow competition. They are split into teams, and told that today's losers will have to return to New York to clean their apartment with toothbrushes. Ronnie, Perry, and Casey take on Shannon, Holly, and Ben. Things get heated when Ben gets super-competitive, making really weird, gay-bashing, woman-hating comments to Ronnie and Casey. Everyone is offended across the board. Shannon, Holly, and Ben have to clean up the house when they get back; then Ronnie tries to make Ben clean up his act by taking him to task over his earlier comments. It's excruciatingly uncomfortable, and Ronnie lets Ben off the hook WAY too easy. The day, the models (minus Shannon, who is now so ill that she has had to go to the emergency room) arrive at the catwalk, where they must finish their walks by stepping on a spinning turntable. It's pretty hard, but they all do okay. Shannon even arrives half-dead, determined to participate. The panel is back to liking Perry and hating frankie, but oh, how they love Ronnie. Ben gets a lot of negative feedback, and Tyson finally figures out his problem: Ben doesn't find himself sexy. They also are displeased with Casey, who they accuse of being too sensitive and then proceed to attack viciously. In the end, Holly is declared the winner of the week, and frankie, Casey, and Ben are put up for the vote. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
What I keep asking myself is: How many more weeks of this? Except, when I ask it in my head, it sounds like this: How many more weeeeeeeeeks of thiiiiiiiiiiiiis? These stupid people are killing my soul. I even like some of them, and pretty much find them all beautiful, but they need to shut up, and soon.
Perry wakes up on the morning of elimination ready to face the music. Do the producers not pay a heating bill for this house? Because this young man is sleeping in a cardigan. He holds his arm aloft and prays in a revival tone: "Model gods, if you're up there...if you can hear me...In the name of GQ, Calvin, Tommy, Nautica, please grace me with your presence. Abercrombie and Fitch." Okay, that's hilarious. Well played, Perry. Now, don't piss me off again, lest I invoke some Members' Only on your behind. "Can't our room stay out of the bottom three?" frankie asks, all mopey. Remember that.
Before the panel go Ben, Perry and Jacki. I can't even decide who I'd like to see leave more, so jerky are they all. Doesn't matter anyway, because as Tyson reminds us, it's out of the hands of the panel, which includes him, Creepy Cory, and Jennifer Starr, rocking her best cheekbone-highlighting Dr. Evil pursed lips.
The tense drums of intensity play as Tyson slowly drags out the announcement of who's getting booted. It's Jacki. Perry puts his hands on his knees and leans down in relief. I am sad, honestly, because Jacki's at least better than Ben, right? Jacki does get a little teary, and is very disappointed. It's terrible to say this, but she's very pretty when she cries. "This is what I was born to do," she says backstage, "and I'm going to continue to do it." Tyson has the balls to look slightly disappointed in the outcome after he trashed her last week.
In the car on the ride home, Perry and Ben revel in their male superiority. Perry snidely says he's sure Shannon's back at the house talking about how Jacki will be coming back. He is exactly right. She thinks it will be Jacki and Ben returning, based on the way the judges chewed Perry out last week. "I feel that Perry's a strong model," Ronnie contributes, but goes on to say that Perry turns a lot of people off with his attitude. "I don't think he turns a lot of people off," frankie says. "I think a lot of people like him, you know?" Aw, frankie, don't worry. Daddy's coming home.
In first is Ben. Ronnie holds up a sign reading "Welcome Home, Ben" and everyone seems surprised, if pleased, to see him. Everyone, that is, except frankie. He puts his face in his hands, obviously expecting to see Jacki come in . "Well, I learned a valuable lesson today," Ben says. "Arrogance is not really a supermodel quality." They all look at the door, trying to decide who the less-arrogant of the possible two could be. With that, Ben calls back over his shoulder: "Hey, sweetheart! Come here, baby!" and Perry runs in to the delighted howls of Casey and frankie. I think Casey also has a "Welcome Home" sign. Ben says in an interview that he wishes Perry had gone home. There can be only one narcissistic buzz cut in this house!
Holly and Shannon link arms in solidarity. "I wasn't expecting another girl to go home right now," Holly says. She says it makes her feel like she's going to have to come out super-strong now, because the boys are trying to take over the whole place. "I feel like I'm drowning," she adds, and I sincerely wish she and Shannon could sneak out, catch a flight to Paris and leave the boys behind to scratch each others' eyes out.
Later, in a totally-not-staged moment, Shannon reads from the chalkboard that they are to be ready to leave tomorrow at 3:30 AM for a "winter weekend." Having been locked up in the house for weeks, frankie explains, they're all pretty excited to get out. I guess that 3:30 deadline got changed, because the boys don't even wake up until 4 AM. "We're goin' on a winter weekend, babe," Ronnie says to Ben, and I wish Ronnie would just get over this fool. Meanwhile, in the girls' room, Holly and Shannon are already dressed and ready. They decide to go back to sleep for however long it takes the boys to get ready. Shannon says that she's spent the entire week feeling sick and nauseated. Remember that.
At the Windham Mountain Ski Resort, the models line up to await Niki's arrival on a snowmobile. I hate these little stunty things. It's so Tyra. She dismounts to tell them that this week is all about being in motion, going fast, and capturing the moment. "A supermodel must keep their face and body in control for every single frame," she says. While she's talking, the contestants have obviously been directed (as they clearly are every week) to give her some animated reactions for the home audience. Ronnie can always be counted on to overdo this. Whenever she says anything, you can hear him going "yyyYEAH!" all Tony the Tiger style, while everyone else sort of mumbles along.
So, the photo assignment this week will be titled "snow motion" and shot by Dennis Golonka, former photo editor for Harper's Bazaar. Dennis does not have a web page, which is tragic, because he is cute and funny. Niki says he has reviewed the models' work, and placed them in groups to photograph based on their looks and personality. Weirdly enough, this does not mean he has placed frankie in a group with a mirror, although if he had...well, I'm getting ahead of myself. Dennis explains that today, the kids will be charged with portraying "rich kids" in resort-y, beautiful Ralph Lauren clothes. Niki is telling them all how exciting the weekend will be, and is just explaining how the model who does the worst in the challenge will have to go home early, alone, when Shannon doubles over in pain where she stands. The only one of her housemates who seems to be even slightly concerned is Ronnie. Niki, in mother-mode, rushes to action. "Shannon, do you feel like you have to throw up?" she asks. "Sometimes, if you eat something bad, it's better just to..." Nice. Please don't talk about throwing up on a show about models. Shannon remains stoic through the whole ordeal, merely wincing when the medic presses her stomach. For some reason, the tension is ramped up by the background sound of...croaking? Interesting choice. I mean, nothing really illustrates an impending medical crisis like the foreboding melody of the North American bullfrog. None of the models, especially Perry, can disguise their pleasure that Shannon appears to be at least temporarily out of the game.
Into styling they go to get all richified. Ronnie notes that this is the first time he and Perry have been grouped together for a challenge and, though they probably wouldn't have chosen to work together, he says it will be interesting to see how they do. Perry admits in an interview that he knew it would be a challenge, since they have completely different personalities. They take a ski lift to the top of a hill where they meet Dennis. "You look amazing," he tells them, and he is right. He says he is hoping these two will be able to work well and bring "strength" to the shoot, in which they'll be working while wearing tiny skis. Perry interviews that he really has never even seen skis up close, being from Phoenix, and my heart melts towards him one degree. I can't even tell you what these little skis are called, because I am from Alabama and have no business even talking about skiing. The one time my friends and I went, on a New Year's vacation, we nearly caused an international incident...or we would have, if we hadn't been lying face down in a snowbank while four-year-olds raced past our heads. I'm not even sure these things he gives them could be classified as skis -- they are tiny and orange and basically prove to be deadly for Ronnie and Perry. They have to ski down a little hill and, as they hit Dennis's mark, appear to be rich-kid buddies, enjoying their day on the slopes together. Dennis notes that both seem a little skeptical of the part where they have to be friends, but they trudge up the hill to give it a shot. Perry can't even stand up on the skis. Before they even get started, he falls all over himself and rips his pants at the crotch. "Just keep that a secret," Dennis tells him, and I laugh evilly to myself as Perry and Ronnie attempt to hit the mark but actually go past it screeching in terror.
The rest of their shoot is much the same. The two of them on skis constitutes a total comedy of errors, and I begin to feel sorry for them as they careen into each other, away from each other, and onto their faces. This goes on so long that Dennis becomes concerned that they won't even get one good shot. Perry and Ronnie, covered in snow, are determined to get it done. Finally, at the very end, they get an excellent photo. Dennis says it even surpassed his expectations.
up, Ben and Holly, who stroll arm in arm to meet their fate. Holly looks supercute, as always. Ben says that after being in the bottom three last week, he decided to take this opportunity to knock the photo shoot out of the park. Yes, well, you might have thought of doing that last week before you were placed in the bottom three. I don't know. This pair's prop is to be a sled, on which they have to stand and glide down the hill. Seeing it gives me terrible Ethan Frome flashbacks. Oh my God, did y'all have to read that in eleventh grade? Tell me you didn't. Thinking of it immediately calls to mind Mrs. Hughes, my awesome teacher that year who warned me that if I did not turn away from my habit of procrastination when it came to paper-writing, I would end up a waitress in a cheap roadhouse. I'm so sad to report that she was wrong.
Ben says he's snowboarded before and feels like he can handle this sled thing, and Holly cheers him on. They do quite well, though every time Dennis makes a suggestion to Ben, he shoots back a "yeahyeahyeah," good natured enough, but seemingly impatient. Holly, of course, is perfect at everything, and her perfection both helps and hurts Ben. It makes him look good, because she looks so good, but compared to her, he fades. They have just mastered the sled when Dennis has a surprise for them. This time, they have to sled down the hill drinking champagne. Out of crystal flutes. It's stupid, but they make it to the bottom without spilling a drop. Dennis calls Holly flawless, but says Ben doesn't quite have the intensity he needs to have at this point.
The final group is comprised of Casey, frankie, and the returning Shannon, who blithely says that the medics told her to just sit down for a little while before she went back to work. She seems to be all right. Casey says in an interview that he and frankie were "really worried" about Shannon. The boy lies so poorly it's embarrassing. The three of them meet up with Dennis, who tells them that their challenge will be to start at the top of the hill and run towards him, sliding at the end. Geez. Though it is the one challenge without a prop, it seems the most dangerous to me. Three people running and sliding is like a recipe for collision head wounds -- not that that would affect frankie too badly. All of them look really great in their clothes, and gamely run, slide, and fall over and over again toward Dennis. Shannon, despite being ill, does very well, even when she cuts her knee bloody on one fall. Meanwhile, frankie and Casey can't get their faces right, despite repeated requests from Dennis to focus on the looks they are giving the camera. frankie, especially, can't seem to vary his facial expression. In an interview, frankie says that he had a problem on this shoot because of his slick-ass shoes, having to work with two other people and slide around holding his body right. Dennis says Shannon looked gorgeous in every shot. Casey, he says, looked dead in the eyes, and the camera is quick to show us a slow-mo shot of Casey standing there looking clueless. frankie, Dennis says, always holds his mouth in a "geeky" expression. Agreed. It's like he is trying to pretend to be happy, and his face ends up looking clownish. Unfortunately, it must be even worse than we what we see, because frankie is the one that Dennis chooses to send home. He cringes to hear this, and receives a shoulder pat from Casey. "I wanted to kick it here in this beautiful place tonight," he says as he trudges away from the group, "but what can you do, you know?" Well, you could have made different facial expressions like the photographer asked...just saying. Really, though, from what we could see, it looked to me like frankie did better than Casey, at least.
Who knows what sort of kickin' goes on back at the cabin, because we see none of it, which I guess is for the best. I couldn't take another little game of pettiness. The kids wake up the morning, relaxed. "No one can find us," Holly says to Shannon. "Not even Clay." WRONG! Clay is coming through the door right now, whistle in his mouth, ready to kick their asses right out into the snow. Evil. "Drop your cocks and grab your socks, sweethearts," he yells. Everyone groans in horror. "What's wrong with him?" Ben asks, in shock. "He's got issues." Remember that.
Ronnie is really trying hard, in every interview, to present himself as someone who can talk on camera. Good strategy, handsome, but it needs a little work. Exhibit A: "Well, so whenever anything is too good to be true," he says as they prepare to exercise, "it usually is." It usually is...true? I believe you meant whenever something seems to be too good to be true there, Mary Hart. But nice try. Clay tells them that today they will be having a snow competition, guided by two team captains, Shannon and Perry. The losing team will have to return to the house and clean it with toothbrushes. Sigh. Well, they have to do something to fill the hour. Can't just having them walking around in pretty clothes and having their picture taken, learning how to be successful models, right? Oh, wait -- yes they can, and I wish they would.
Clay makes them pick teams. Shannon picks Ben first, and Perry chooses Casey. Saving her from being picked last, Shannon chooses Holly . "Yea!" Holly says, weakly, as she shivers over to join her team, forcing Perry to take Ronnie. "We are not cleaning this house, okay?" Perry says, trying to motivate his team. "Well," Shannon shoots back, "you never do, anyway." AWESOME. I love Shannon. Ronnie interviews that he really, really does not want to go home and clean, but part of him sort of wants to sabotage his team because he thinks Perry and Casey deserve to have go home and clean. Evil, but I like it.
The first part of the contest involves the teams moving a cord of wood from one location to a second location yards away. Team Perry wins it by a mile, and this turn of events does something to Ben. As they prepare for the challenge, a relay race, Ben starts shooting his mouth off. "Look, Perry," he says, "we both have two girls on our team, so it's gonna be hard for both of us." Vrrrrt. The needle comes off the record. There are so many elements to this, and to my reaction to it, I almost have no words. "Whoa, Ben," Ronnie says. "You just lost my respect." It gets even worse when, during the challenge, which is to build a column of snow to a certain height, Ben starts making references to Casey as being gay. And not in a funny way -- though that would not have been acceptable either -- but in this awful, scary, macho, boys-in-the-lunchroom tone that is both gross and ignorant. Ronnie and Casey, naturally, are offended, and everyone else is really put off, but they go on with the challenge. Holly and Shannon shoot each other looks as Ben just rants on and on, calling Casey and Ronnie "women" and making "that's 'cause you're gay" cracks when Perry's team laughs that their snow tower looks like a penis. "What man prides himself on building dicks?" Ben snaps. "The one that's secretly gay." Perry's team just goes on winning. They offer up the alternative answer that such men are ones that won't be cleaning the house with toothbrushes, but Ben keeps talking embarrassingly bad trash. "Insults are the key to insecurity," Casey hotly retorts, and here I seriously start wondering if all of these people aren't oxygen-deprived because of the mountain altitude. Their words aren't coming out right. Worse than usual, even. Although, let's think about it. If you translate that literally, from Caseyese into English, it's true that insults are the key to insecurity. I mean, if someone is going around insulting you all the time, it's bound to make you insecure.
What bothers me the most about this whole scenario and everyone's reaction to it is as follows. It isn't an insult to call a man a woman, or to call a straight man gay. What's bad is if it's meant as an insult which, in this case, it is. So, what needs to happen here is (1) someone needs to hit Ben with a shovel; and (2) when his ears stop ringing, someone needs to point out that what's truly upsetting is that he regards women and gay men to be objects of ridicule and that he is using those terms (in the presence of women and a gay man!) to ridicule Casey and Ronnie. Instead, what happens is that Casey and Ronnie are offended by being called gay and a woman, respectively, and no one punches Ben in the mouth, so he just keeps on doing it. For some reason, he has really got it out for Casey. "You can't make a supermodel out of a guy who builds penises in the snow," Ben shrugs in an interview. "That's not respectable in any kind of way." What? Finally, I guess it just gets to be too much for him, and while Holly and Shannon continue to flail around with their ill-fated snow cone, Ben just randomly runs and tackles the snow penis. Team Perry looks on in shock, as does Clay, and Ben, now covered in snow, bobbles around laughing. Someone truly needs to check him for altitude sickness. I have not seen this level of weird testosterone-laden competitiveness since I last attended a six-to-eight year old Pee Wee football game. Ronnie tells the camera that he was so hurt by what Ben was saying, and thought Ben was supposed to be his friend. "He's got something coming for him," he closes, ominously, and the whole crew heads back to NYC.
They return to their nasty, stained, encrusted apartment to find it just as gross as when they left it. Much back-slapping goes on when frankie is reunited with his dudes, and Ben, Holly and Shannon get to work on their dirty job. Holly seems slightly inept at vacuum-cleaner operation, but she looks cute while doing it.
Later, as Ben and Holly lounge in the living room, Ronnie and Casey come in and ask Holly to step out so they can talk to Ben. "What's up with y'all?" Ben asks, all smiles and innocence like he doesn't know what's coming. Ronnie goes full-on therapist on his ass, saying he's "made some observations" of some of Ben's words and behaviors. They were offensive, Ronnie says, whether Ben realized it or not. WHAT? Ronnie. Your little friend meant to be offensive. "What?" Ben asks. "The gay thing?" Casey looks on in silence as Ronnie continues, saying that he, himself, was more offended by that than Casey was. "You took me to a really dark place in my life," Ronnie says. "I went through that shit. I was called names and beaten up. And your saying that, it really caught me off guard and out of left field." Ronnie brings up the thing Ben said about both teams having two women on them. "Just because you're straight and I'm gay," Ronnie says, "doesn't make me any less of a man..." Ronnie's face is red with embarrassment, and Ben sees his chance, turning the smiles back on. "No, no, no," Ben says, "I didn't mean it that way, but I understand how it could have been taken that way." Well, bitch, how did you mean it? Were you trying to compliment them by calling them women? And when do we get to have a meeting where Holly and Shannon come in and kick him in the nuts for the implication that being called a woman is an insult. Hate. Blah blah blah, Ronnie's feelings are hurt, and while I think that this conversation is very important, I feel like they're missing the whole point, which is that Ben is an asshole. Apologies to any assholes out there who may be offended by the comparison. I cringe mightily when Ronnie says in an interview that he realizes now that Ben genuinely meant no harm. Oh, honey, don't sell out ALL the way, okay? I assure you, he meant harm.
After all that bullshit, I am almost excited about getting to the catwalk. Before they make it there, however, we see that Shannon has again been felled by the stomach bug she was dealing with on the slopes. Holly says that Shannon had been up all night throwing up, and that she's going to the hospital now, because it's really bad. We see Shannon, pale as a ghost, stagger out to the car. She says that her health is very important to her, but that she's dead-set on getting back in time to walk.
"Hi, modelsssss," Niki says as the contestants arrive, minus-Shannon, backstage. She reminds them that this week is all about movement. To that end, they'll be walking the catwalk where, at the end, they'll have to step up on a rotating platform and strike three poses before stepping back off to finish the walk. Niki reminds them that designers often do shake things up in this way -- Chanel once used a conveyor belt -- and the models look rightfully nervous. This week, they'll be modeling the 2008 collection from Ben Sherman, a modern take on classic design, to which she says they'll have to bring a touch of arrogance and swagger.
In their practice session with New York Models' David, they all struggle a little with the platform. Casey looks awkward, like a mannequin. Ben tries out various poses that David nixes. "I want you to go back and look in that mirror back there..." David starts. Ben: "And see how stupid this looks?" Exactly. Everyone gets ready and all are backstage when Shannon arrives. They greet her in exactly this fashion: "...Shannon..." She looks like death, and says that she'll have to go back to the hospital after this, but she's there to get on with it.
First out on the catwalk is Holly. She walks beautifully, though she bobbles a little getting on and off the turntable, but her poses are awesome. frankie does all right, and feels good about his walk. , Perry appears looking for all the world like Clark Kent in ridiculously huge glasses. He notes that arrogance from him on the catwalk is something that no one really needs to ask him for. At least he understands himself. Ben comes out in a silver suit, and appears to do well. He looks good, I'll grant him, and says that he feels really good about his performance. Not so good? Casey. Poor thing -- every emotion he has is worn right on his face. He looks nervous, and flubs his poses. Also, the kid needs a haircut, seriously. Back off him with the flat-iron, please, it makes him look greasy. Ronnie comes out and rocks it, completely. He looks fantastic and handles the turning platform with apparent ease. The suit looks like it was tailored for him, his hair is on fire, and he is posing like a mofo. What? Look, I'm just trying to make it more exciting. He's basically walking and standing, but what I'm saying is, he looks good. Last up, Shannon, who knows she's probably doing sub-par, but is just glad she made it there on time to do the catwalk. She has to stop before stepping onto the turnstile, and she looks kind of messy, but she pulls it off.
Back on the catwalk, we have come to the damn Q & A. Niki congratulates Holly on doing a great catwalk and receiving praise from the photographer. Tyson looks reluctant to pass on this information. Jennifer says she always thought Holly looked like a model, but she hasn't been sure Holly had thick enough skin for the biz. Instead of just responding "I can handle it," Holly unfortunately tries to explain just how tough she is, which of course makes her cry. "I'm sorry, I get really emotional," she says, with no trace of self-awareness, and Cory jumps on this like he's just cracked the Code of the Hammurabi. "This is a perfect example of where you need to still learn," he says. "This is a very cruel business." No shit, dude. They move on to Perry. Cory says he looks good, but this wasn't his best walk. Perry takes this in stride (ha) and Jennifer compliments him on setting the arrogance at just the right tone for this week's catwalk. Though he had the hardest time on skis, the photographer says that he did great. Niki asks him who he thinks should be in the bottom three. "This is how it is, and I can't sugarcoat it," Perry says, seemingly reluctant. "It's my boy, one of my BFFs forever, too, in the house. Damn. Frankie." Aw. frankie is shocked. Him saying "too" makes me wonder if he included Casey in this list, as well, and we didn't see it. Niki asks frankie what happened in the shoot, and frankie tries to explain how it went, and that he was "dumbfounded bad, like" to be sent home to the apartment. When asked about his walk, he says he felt like it was good. WRONG! Jennifer says it was the worst of anyone's, that it was boring and had no impact. Cory agrees, saying frankie lacked confidence.
They move on to drool over Ronnie. Cory, in dramatic tones, calls him a force to reckon with. Dryly, Jennifer says that she believes she owes Ronnie an apology. She didn't think he'd be able to break out of the catalogue look, and he seems to have done it. Ronnie is good-natured and thanks her warmly. Ben doesn't fare as well. The photographer's feedback was that he has two looks and only two looks. Yes, and those looks are called "disappointing" and "broke Al Lowe's heart." Ben responds by playing that whole jail-guard card again, and I'm sick of it. Suddenly, Tyson has a revelation. "Let me ask you a question," he says. "Do you consider yourself sexy?" Ben genuinely shakes his head. Okay, that makes a lot of sense. "I knew it!" Tyson says, and Cory agrees that he's hit it on the head. Ben says he's always based his feelings about his attractiveness on how girls responded to him. "And, I mean," he says, giving the panel the big eyes, "I sucked with girls." Oh, come on. Tyson asks him if his wife thinks he's sexy. "I hope so," he says. "She better!" Ronnie, this whole time, looks like he's about to scream "I THINK YOU'RE SEXY, BEN!" but somehow holds himself back. Tyson advises Ben to go home and repeat "I'm a sexy beast" into the mirror, daily. "That's weird," Ben laughs. "That's like, vain, dude." First of all, you know Ben's already saying that to himself every morning, and secondly, WHAT? You are in a competition that could basically be renamed America's SuperVain Person, and you don't get that vanity is part and parcel in all this? Are they still in the mountains, because Ben is somehow dumber than he was yesterday.
It's time to flog Casey. He was a mess. He only did two turns on the table, when he was supposed to do three, and his poses were bad. "You have an amazing look," Jennifer tells him. "You have such a beautiful face, but I just don't know if you are comfortable delivering anything other than the way you're looking at me right now." Oh, SNAP. Jennifer's tough, y'all. She asks Casey if he thinks he might be too sensitive for modeling, and he says he doesn't think so. "I can take the hits," he says. Cory interrupts: "GOOD, 'cause here goes. That catwalk sucked." He says Casey, at this point, should be walking as good as Tyson, and that his photo shoot wasn't good while the crazy snake photo from last week was awesome. Casey admits that this week, he just wasn't prepared and it was his fault.
They all fawn over Shannon's determination to participate through her sickness. She knows her catwalk wasn't great, but they applaud her for coming from the hospital and still doing pretty well. Niki and Tyson agree that she was very, very professional.
The models are sent backstage so the panel can deliberate. As we just heard them say, they're very pleased with Holly's photos and performance on the catwalk. She's doing this like she's been doing it for years which, as Jennifer says, is the whole point. Though they think frankie has grown as a person, they don't think he's living up to his potential. Cory repeats that Perry's usually-great walk was not as good this week. Jennifer calls them on their bullshit, at last. What they're saying is not as good as usual is a reflection of him toning it down, which they TOLD him to do. They return to the subject of Ben's lack of self-sex-appeal. "You have to feel sexy," Jennifer says, "if you're going to sell sex." She doesn't know if that's something they can teach Ben. Everyone is disappointed in Casey's bad week. Tyson says he could read Casey's frantic thoughts, and the whole thing as bad. Ronnie, however, was awesome. Jennifer says she would cast him tomorrow if she was casting Ben Sherman. Again, they're impressed with Shannon's dedication, but Niki and Tyson are less than impressed with her walk. Cory and Jennifer disagree, to the point that they actually roll their eyes, but Niki points out that Shannon's clothes were kind of all over the place and she didn't look great.
Everybody's brought back out on the runway, and we are tortured by a repeat of everything we just heard two times. In the end, Holly is named the week's winner, and Perry and Ronnie are dismissed as safe. Of the bottom four, Shannon is also called safe, and it's an all-dude panel for the first time ever. Thursday, we'll say goodbye to Casey (aw!), frankie (but...hot!), or Ben (YES).