America’s Next Top Model Season 13: “Let’s Go Surfing”

TYRA TAKES THE REMAINING GIRLS TO HAWAII

When their house gets condemned, Tyra sends the models to Maui for the remainder of the competition. The girls meet with surfing champ Buzzy Kerbox for surf lessons to prepare for their first photo shoot challenge, and Tyra surprises them by transforming them into bi-racial models. This week’s guest judge is supermodel Kirsty Hume (#1309).

On last week’s episode the girls met Ant and Lara Spencer from The Insider to learn interview skills. With the aim of teaching them to think on their feet, Ant made life difficult for the models by acting out celebrity interview stereotypes. Ann Shoket arrived and informed them that they would be interviewing Jessica Lowndes as their challenge. To make things harder, their autocues were deliberately cut mid-interview. Jennifer and Erin shined with their improv, while Laura’s dyslexia caused her to clam up, and Nicole struggled to ask appropriate questions. Erin won the challenge and chose Rae and Jennifer to share in her win - an editorial spread for Seventeen.

This week’s photo shoot was replaced with a commercial for CoverGirl. The girls wrote their own scripts and Erin finished quickly, while Laura and Nicole had a hard time and spent hours practicing. Again Jennifer shined, but Erin had to continually fight back tears, while Laura pushed through despite struggling with her learning difficulty.

At panel, Jennifer and Nicole were praised, while Brittany delivered all of her lines flawlessly but failed to show her personality. Sundai and Laura were told they had written good scripts but castigated for their poor delivery. Ultimately Rae and Erin landed in the bottom two; Erin for her incessant crying on-set, and Rae for fading into the background amongst the other girls. Erin was told she has more potential, and with that Rae was eliminated.

“AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL” CYCLE 13 PARTICIPANTS:

Name: ASHLEY (Eliminated in week 6)

Age: 22

Hometown: Chicago, Illinois (currently Brooklyn, New York)

Occupation: Artist

Height: 5′6″

Name: BIANCA (Eliminated in week five)

Age: 21

Hometown: Columbia, South Carolina (currently Washington, D.C.)

Occupation: Student

Height: 5′7″

Name: BRITTANY

Age: 21

Hometown: Livermore, California (currently Santa Clara, California)

Occupation: Student

Height: 5′5″

Name: COURTNEY (Eliminated in week three)

Age: 22

Hometown: Plantation, Florida (currently Fort Lauderdale, Florida)

Occupation: Cheer Instructor

Height: 5′4″

Name: ERIN

Age: 18

Hometown: Kenosha, Wisconsin (currently Spring Grove, Illinois)

Occupation: Student

Height: 5′6″

Name: JENNIFER

Age: 23

Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (currently New York, New York)

Occupation: Model

Height: 5′5″

Name: KARA (Eliminated in week 7)

Age: 19

Hometown: Fort Wayne, Indiana (currently Chicago, Illinois)

Occupation: Student

Height: 5′7″

Name: LAURA

Age: 19

Hometown: Stanford, Kentucky

Occupation: Waitress

Height: 5′6″

Name: LISA (Eliminated in Week Two)

Age: 19

Hometown: Queens, New York

Occupation: Student

Height: 5′5″

Name: LULU (Eliminated in Week Four)

Age: 19

Hometown: Brooklyn, New York

Occupation: Student

Height: 5′7″

Name: NICOLE

Age: 18

Hometown: Louisville, Colorado

Occupation: Student

Height: 5′7″

Name: RACHEL (Eliminated in week three)

Age: 18

Hometown: Woodland, California

Occupation: Customer Service

Height: 5′5″

Name: RAE (Eliminated in week

Age: 21

Hometown: Rochester, Minnesota

Occupation: Homemaker/Mother

Height: 5′6″

Name: SUNDAI

Age: 18

Hometown: Bakersfield, California

Occupation: Student

Height: 5′3″

Banks leads the panel of AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL judges, comprised of leading fashion industry experts. The panel consists of photographer Nigel Barker, runway expert J. Alexander and guest judges including Lauren Conrad and Kim Kardashian who closely evaluate the progress of the models to narrow the field each week.

The winner of The CW’s AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL will be managed by Wilhelmina Models, receive a $100,000 contract with cosmetics giant CoverGirl and appear on the cover and in a six-page fashion spread of Seventeen magazine.

AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL is produced by 10 by 10 Entertainment, in association with Bankable Productions. Tyra Banks is the creator and executive producer along with Ken Mok (”Making the Band”) and Daniel Soiseth (”Hell’s Kitchen”).

Source: The CW Press Release