Thursday 25 June 2009

Britain's Next Top Model: Season 5 Episode Whatever: The One Where The Girls Have Difficulty Pronoucing Anything

So in amongst the technical difficulties besetting us lately, there's also been an element of ennui when it comes to BNTM. I can't imagine ANY of the girls working as professional models and they're all so stupid or nasty or stupidly nasty that there's no redemption for any of them.

Regardless, whilst Lel packed her rucksack and yak for Glastonbury, I settled down to see if anything had improved.

In a word, no. For some reason Whiny Scottish Bint Ashley is still there, Vacant Viola is still confusing the heck out of everyone, and Wannabe Posh Bitch Sophie is still suffering delusions of grandeur. Oh and nice girls Jade and Mecia are still around too.

So, the girls have been packed off to Argentina or more specifically, Buenos Aires. Which none of them can pronouce.

The house they get is lovely and because these girls are ker-raaaazy they all jump in the pool fully clothed! Madness!

*sigh*

First task is an advert featuring a horse, two male models and much talk about how yummy Argentinian beef is. It's all a little bit confusing and not at all helped that they girls have to say a line in Spanish at the end. Whilst sitting on the horse. Having stroked the male models. Did I mention it was a bit confusing?

Anyway, Viola (bless her - her accent is so deliciously bizarre, she sounds like she should be wandering round in a kaftan, wearing a turban and supping on a dirty martini) just completely blanks out and Mecia sounds like Joey in that episode of Friends when he tries to speak French. Somehow Sophie won the challenge, which meant she suddenly thought she was going to win the whole thing. It left me hoping she really doesn't.

The actual shoot this week was out at the salt lakes for some new fangled body lotion. The girls had to get a bit nekkid under a sheet and look alluring while iddy biddy rocks of salt crushed against their skin. Sophie bitched and whined as did Ashley everyone else just got on with it.

It was Jade's shoot though that made me feel uncomfortable. While it's great that she's fighting back against her eating disorder, it sits behind the judges like the white elephant it is, threatening to overshadow proper critique of her photos. Quite simply, she looked far too thin in the photo and she looks far too thin in person. I understand why they included her but I'm not sure about the message that's getting across.

Anyway, in the end it came down to Viola and Ashley. Viola's space cadet routine was the final nail for her and she was sent packing.

Now we're down to the closing stages, my money's reluctantly on Sophie to win so I'm hoping that I'll be proved wrong. Still, at least Lovely Lisa's hair is still all kinds of lovely.

2 comments:

  1. Noooooooo, i hate Sophie, hate her with a firey passion type of hate. I have to go with Mecia for the win because Jade winning wouldn't promote the right thing and she's not put enough weight on yet and I HATE SOPHIE Ashley can't talk and I HATE SOPHIE just NO!

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  2. We don't like Sophie either but she seems most likely to win. Ugh. Still, at least it would continue the tradition of complete bitches for winners...

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