March
13 'America's Next Top Model: Cycle 10': Meat and potoatoes

Runway lesson: Off to a fire station (oh boy, eye candy!) where the girls have 90 seconds to change into little fireman/exotic dancer outfits. Fatima forgets her shoes and gets a scolding from Miss J. Then they must walk while the firemen watch. See, reality challenges aren’t all bad. Most of them are getting the hang of this walking thing but Fatima clomps her feet “like a Clydesdale,” Dominique tries out some stripper moves; Amis skips and Lauren? Well, she’s just awkward. I think poor Lauren may have trouble walking from her couch to her refrigerator.

Catfight of the week: Aimee calls dibs on the shower so she can lock herself in the bathroom due to her modesty issues. That sets off most everyone since they all have to pee. Whitney jumps to Aimee’s defense and Dominique, Fatima and Marvita get irrationally angry. I have a feeling Dom spends a good portion of her life irrationally angry.

Reward challenge: Cycle 8 winner Jaslene pays a visit to explain the challenge and designer Bryan Bradley from Tuleh is there, along with runway producer Andrew Weir and Seventeen editor in chief Ann Shoket. The girls must do a quick change into their assigned Tuleh outfit and then walk the runway. The winner will appear in an ad in Seventeen with Jaslene for Lot 29. Fatima buttoned her sweater wrong (hey, who hasn’t done that!?) and Lauren looked as if she was running to catch a plane. Lauren gets a harsh smackdown from Jaslene. Everyone else is unremarkable but Katarzyna wins the challenge and chooses Marvita and Amis to join her in the shoot. See, everyone loves Marvita. She’s hard not to like.

Photo shoot: Posing with raw meat, dressed in raw meat at a meat packing plant. Ugh. They’re not going to sell that meat now are they? I may not have steak for a while.

Tyra’s most over-the-top moment: Introducing the judges by singing their names/credentials opera-style

Judges panel: Paulina grasps the obvious parallels between the photo shoot and models being treated like raw meat. Thanks for pointing that out. Amis slept until five minutes before panel and then threw on an outfit that made her look like a 5-year-old allowed to dress herself for the very first time. Miss Tyra, as one might expect, was not happy. Most of the photos are disturbing, frankly, due more to the creepy eye makeup they used on the girls than to the meat bikinis. Anya and Whitney are the first names called and the elimination comes down to Fatima, because of her Shit Zu puppy face in every shot, or Amis, due to general lack of enthusiasm and focus.

Eliminated: Amis. Good riddance.

Favorites: Still Claire, Whitney and Marvita. Also Lauren.

Can’t wait to see her go: Aimee

— Kathy Lyford