Dominique, Rhodes’ scholar, says going to Rome is like going to a museum. They have old buildings there — really old! Lauren doesn’t fit in with the other girls, but she’s totally psyched about getting this far. Whitney is feeling plus pride at being the farthest-going plus-size contestant. Anya totally biffs when getting out of the minivan. Fatima claims that she’s back, with a bang! Ah, yes, the confidence before the language-barrier meltdowns.
TyraMail comes in the form of a picture of Tyra as the Mona Lisa. The Rome Top Model house is, of course, gorgeous. Katarzyna calls it off the chain. I guess that’s what the kids say these days.
Then Fatima gets sick. So, of course the girls talk about her over dinner. Anya gets sick of the cattiness and decides to bring Fatima some food. Can’t understand half of what Anya is saying, but she seems nice in comparison to the rest of the America’s Next Top Model girls.
The next morning, Lauren gets up before the other girls and is apparently loud about it. Fatima is still sick. Anya thinks the TyraMail, with references to rolling means they’ll go on a river. She admits that things just come to her at times. Okey dokey.
So the girls walk to a piazza and a dude in a Segway rolls up. The girls are getting a Segway tour of the city. Much confusion and falling over ensue. ‘Random’ girls are pointed out to the girls as examples of Italian fashion. It’s simple and sexy. If anyone really believes that these women are random, I’m disappointed in you.
So they meet this famous Italian designer, who decides that the girls aren’t looking Italian enough, so they all get an Italian makeover. Why couldn’t they have met Donatella Versace? She would’ve been about as entertaining as Janice Dickinson. Whitney was all worried that they wouldn’t have clothes her size. They do, it’s false drama. The girls now have to walk for the Italian designer so he can judge there ‘Italianness.’ He calls Anya ‘so blonde.’ Whitney is ‘so American.’ Lauren, of course, goes last. She always goes last with walking. She’s better than she was, but she’s still stiff. He likes Lauren’s legs. Anya wins the challenge, and she gets a red carpet event gown. Whitney is way jealous.
TyraMail! They’re going to be doing the Cover Girl commercial. All Lauren can say is crap. She’s already expecting to suck. Way to be positive, Lauren. She decides later that maybe she should try her best.
They’re shilling Cover Girl Queen Collection blah, blah, blah. Mr. Jay tells them they might be jet lagged, but they need to bring beauty today. Haven’t they been there for a couple of days? Jet lag should be over. It looks like they’re filming in a restaurant because Fatima is getting made up with a wall of wine next to her. Mr. Jay gives them the tip to learn the lines phonetically. I wonder if Anya knows what that means?
Each girl has 30 minutes to shoot a 30 second commercial. Anya looks great, but she sounds horrible. She ends up thanking the crew in Spanish. Katarzyna nails the language, since she knows a couple, but she’s got no personality. Dominique decides she’s going to have as much fun with this as possible. She shouts Brazilia at some point. She’s a train wreck of Jade proportions.
Lauren looks like she’s going to hurl. She can’t even flirt with the Italian actor boy. It’s painful. Fatima knows she’s got to do it, and the director thinks she has the best accent. I noticed the fact that she never looked like she was looking in the right place. Mr. Jay knew Whitney was going to be a problem as soon as she came on set. She’s too much — Jay says she turns into Bitcherina in a snap. Which just makes her mad so she does the next few takes the same way.
We keep panning to Lauren. She’s expecting to go home, but I’m thinking ANTM is trying to psyche us out. Whitney is also nervous because she didn’t get good feedback. It all depends on the judging room.
And like magic, we’re there. This judging room has tons of statues, like are found in every Italian home, I’m sure. Tyra starts by bragging about all of the modeling she’s done in Italy.
Fatima is up first. Tyra feels like she was sewing some sexual chocolate. Mr. Jay said she was the best girl of the day, which makes Tyra scared. Paulina feels Whitney is fake from beginning to end. So does Miss Jay. Tyra thought she did a good job, even though she was over the top.
Anya was laughed at throughout the shoot, but the director thinks she looks most like a model. The judges also can’t stop laughing at Dominique. Tyra call it hootchified, Paulina was scared, but the director was grateful that she brought energy.
Miss Jay has a paper that says Hell To The No to Lauren’s commercial. Paulina was afraid she would do something like this. Katarzyna decided to bring some more personality to the judging by correcting their pronunciation of her name. Paulina thinks she was the best; Tyra thinks she was boring. The cat fight doesn’t last long.
Miss Jay wants to pull 4 names off his jacket today. He’s not allowed, though. Fatima gets high marks. Whitney’s too fake. Anya looks great, but can’t speak. Lauren looked terrified. Katarzyna did well. Dominique was not Cover Girl but the judges enjoyed watching her. Miss Jay thinks she’s a brother.
First up is Fatima, followed by Katarzyna, Anya, Dominique, leaving Whitney and Lauren. Tyra was not psyching us out — Lauren is out this week. She gave up, so she’s getting the boot.
Next week the girls get shot by Tyra and the posing challenge has the girls fighting like gladiators. Gladiator?!
