The next day, Nicole comes by the house to bring the models their underwater photos. It's attack of the cocky monster again, Branden is positive he'll be this week's winner. The fact that he loves his underwater photo only makes him more confident. Amanda likes her photo, but she looks like a fish caught in the nets. Gabe isn't crazy about his photo, and for good reason. Jonathan's photo is amazing, he definitely went crazy like the photographer asked. Unfortunately, Jonathan may have gone a little too far into the wild and crazy and lost the high fashion model. As usual, Jordan's photo is gorgeous, it doesn't even look like she's underwater. Colin is 80% pleased with his photo, but Nicole thinks he should be way more excited. The supermodel tells him, "I think this photo is going to get you laid, baby." After that comment, Colin promises he'll put the photo on a business card and hand it out to ladies at bars. Salome's photo is actually really great, her fear shows through in a fashionable way.
When it's time for the challenge winner to be determined, Branden is positive he'll be the winner. However, when Cory calls he asks for Jordan. While everyone claps for Jordan's win, you can tell people, especially Branden, are furious. When Jordan is told to pick another model to come to the go-see with her, she chooses Salome. While Jordan says that it's to reward Salome's fearlessness, but Salome suspects Jordan has ulterior motives. "She's thinking with a competitive mind, so she's picking the fattest girl to go with her." The people at the go-see adore Jordan, but aren't thrilled with Salome's curvier figure. Jordan is hired for the go-see, with the client saying "Jordan has the fashion-y kind of vibe that everyone goes for over here." Apparently, fashion-y is now a code word for very thin. Jordan is the third model in a row to book their go-see, so you can tell everyone is improving.
When the models get home it's time for a Supermodel round of beer pong. During beer pong Gabe and Amanda prove they're not only a cute couple, but a good beer pong team. While the night starts our flirtatious between the two, it turns sour after a ping-pong ball hits Amanda in the head and makes a distinctly hollow sound. Jonathan can't help but comment on the hollowness and when Gabe giggles, Amanda flips her lid. She says that she's come around to what everyone else already knows: Gabe is an ass. However, after a few minutes Amanda realized she'd blown things out of proportion with Gabe and apologized to him over and over again. That's when Amanda said the line of death for Gabe, "Hopefully I can stay with Gabe another week."
For this week's runway challenge the models will be portraying the elements. The girls will be portraying fire and sexuality in bright red structural gowns, while the guys will be portraying ice in cream colored suits. Tyson wants the guys to portray the coolest man on the planet, while Nicole wants to the ladies to make the judges feel the heat with a powerful sexy walk that isn't hoochie. To help take the models walk to the next level, a walking coach has been brought in to give the models walking lessons. The judges is amazing and with each note he gives, the models improved their walk tremendously. He even calls Branden out on his cockiness telling him that being the hottest guy from his high school isn't going to get him far on the runway.
It's time for the show, Colin is down the catwalk first and he looks incredible in the suit. His walk has improved leaps and bounds since his first week. Amanda's next and she's a little too swishy in the hips, but has stopped her end of the runway twitch pose. Branden walks with an unpleasant swagger and the judges don't like it, as he walks away Perou calls out, "cocky." Salome looks like a stunning siren, but she got the worst dress for her fuller figure. Sandhurst looks like a walking Ralph Lauren Polo commercial, this guys is just ridiculously good looking. Jordan walks with confidence, but is having issues with the tightness of her pencil skirt constraining her signature walk. Jonathan is stiffer than usual and not as strong on the runway, but there's no way he'll be sent home. Laury has way too much hip swagger on the runway and she could be in trouble tonight. Next up is Gabriel, who is trying his hardest to smile with his eyes. While he succeeds, the real question is will it be enough to impress the judges. Mountaha closes the show and looks fierce as hell and definitely sexy.
The guest judge this week is Brazilian, just like Mountaha, so she greets him in Portugese. Extra points for Mountaha! Tyson tells Mountaha, Salome, Laury, Branden, Jordan, and Gabriel that they have the best and worst performances of the week. This cannot be good for Gabriel, there is no way he did the best, and there's not a chance in hell the judges are going to let him survive a fourth poor performance.
The judges were impressed by Sandhurst on the runway and in his photo, saying it was his best picture to date. Perou tells Salome that while he enjoyed watching her curves on the runway, that that makes her "girlfriend attractive, not fashion model attractive." Way to come across like a bigger bastard than Gabe, Perou! The judges wonder what on earth is going on with Branden and his ever-inflating ego. While the judges appreciated Gabriel's effort and smiling eyes, they said he looked in pain for most of the runway show. Jenny Shimizu offers Laury advice on how to soften her strong features, both on the runway and in her photos. Lastly, the guest judge and Mountaha chat it up in Portuguese, while the other judges commend Mountaha for bouncing back from last week's,performance.
It's time for judges deliberation. Perou thinks that Gabe's photo is "doo doo" (his words, not mine) and the rest of the judges seem to agree. The guest judge doesn't see anything special in Laury, while the regular panel of judges are worried about her fagging performance. The judges all get a good laugh out of Branden's shock for being criticized. Jenny thinks Branden should be sent home for his ego, while the guest judge thought his catwalk was very very bad. Marlon says Salome surprised him in a good way, but that she may have a problem on the catwalk with her curvier figure. Sandhrust receives praise across the board from the judges, who are all shocked he hasn't won a challenge. Lastly the judges thought Mountaha was fantastic and that she had the best runway performance of the night.
The judges have made their decision and it's between Sandhurst and Mountaha for this week's winning performance. Though Mountaha "completely blew the judges away," Sandhurst is declared the winner for finally arriving in photo. I'm really glad Sandhurst finally won, especially since he was selfless this week in helping Salome in the pool. It's good to see kindness and ridiculous good looks pay off.
The bottom three are Laury, Branden, and Gabriel. Though Laury needs to practice softening her face, she's safe this week. So it's another all-guys bottom two, between Gabriel and Branden. There is no way the judges are going to let Gabriel eke out of fourth bottom two, so I hope Amanda is ready to say her goodbyes. The judges tell Branden, he's young and hot but he doesn't need to hit them over the head with it. Regarding Gabe, the judges acknowledged his improvement but basically said it was too little, too late. And with that, Gabriel is sent home, and Branden is hopefully returning to the competition with his ego knocked down a couple notches.
Next Week: a shocking double elimination has the house worried.
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