Anslee is gone, and six girls remain for Cycle 14 of "America's Next Top Model" -- you know, the rustic sheep cycle! This episode sees the girls traveling to New Zealand to do their go-sees and check out the, um, fashion scene. Well, to its credit, New Zealand probably has a seriously ferocious wool sweater industry. Anyway, it’s down to Jessica, Alasia, Krista, Alexandra, Raina and Octomom -- I mean, sorry, Angelea. At this point, Raina, Krista and Angelea have the strongest portfolios, but Alasia just may have the most raw talent in the bunch, and Alexandra, last time I checked,...
- 4/29/2010
- by Leslie Gornstein
- Hitfix
One of a few young mothers in this cycle of America's Next Top Model, Anslee Payne-Franklin, 23, felt she had a lot at stake as she competed for Tyra's title, often saying in her confessionals that she was following her modeling dream in order to give her husband and young daughter a better life. But, as she told me after her elimination on Wednesday, she never could have made it so far if she hadn't also been competing for herself.
See Anslee's final photo in our Antm Episode 7 Photo Rankings: 'Big Hair Day'
As they prepare to fly off to New Zealand for the final stretch of the cycle, the final six also lost one of their most outspoken roommates in Anslee. And while she doesn't deny any of those big blow-ups with her competitors, including the instant classic "frozen veggies" argument with Alasia, there's more to Anslee than the...
See Anslee's final photo in our Antm Episode 7 Photo Rankings: 'Big Hair Day'
As they prepare to fly off to New Zealand for the final stretch of the cycle, the final six also lost one of their most outspoken roommates in Anslee. And while she doesn't deny any of those big blow-ups with her competitors, including the instant classic "frozen veggies" argument with Alasia, there's more to Anslee than the...
- 4/26/2010
- by editor@buddytv.com
- buddytv.com
America's Next Top Model eliminee Anslee Payne-Franklin has said that she appreciated Tyra Banks's remark that she is a good beauty model. The mother from Georgia was booted from The CW competition this week, after the panel praised her facial shots but suggested that she needed to work on modeling from the waist down. Speaking to Digital Spy, she said: "I liked my picture from about the waist up, everything else looked a little awkward to me and I agreed with the judges' critique about that. "It's like Tyra said, 'It can't just be your face, it has to be all of you' and I completely (more)...
- 4/23/2010
- by By Lara Martin
- Digital Spy
If there's ever been a more appropriate metaphor for Antm than this week's photoshoot, I don't know what it is: All aboard the S train, which just shuttles back and forth, back and forth, never really making much of a journey, and always smelling like career failure and boiling garbage. (Trust me.) So it is with Top Model, loathe to break any new ground or move in compelling, fresh directions; instead it just sways to and fro, from Grand Central to Times Square, from ratty weaves to arguments about respect, from annoying "you don't know me" screaming matches to over-enthusiasm for Seventeen magazine.
- 4/15/2010
- by Margaret Lyons
- EW.com - PopWatch
(S14E05) When 'America's Next Top Model' starts off with a statement about drinking pickle juice and bodily functions, you know there will be something really odd about the episode. Anslee continues to cry through most of the episode, but fortunately for her, Tyra isn't done with airing her emotions on the show, and she doesn't even land in the bottom three.
My biggest concern for this show is the fact that Angelea gets high amounts of praise for looking heavily transsexual. I'm not sure if I get her whole appeal. Whereas Cycle 8 winner Jaslene could look drag, she understood her angles and fixed her chin by the end. Angelea still hasn't been given enough criticism about looking more feminine and could be the winner for 'RuPaul's Drag Race.'
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My biggest concern for this show is the fact that Angelea gets high amounts of praise for looking heavily transsexual. I'm not sure if I get her whole appeal. Whereas Cycle 8 winner Jaslene could look drag, she understood her angles and fixed her chin by the end. Angelea still hasn't been given enough criticism about looking more feminine and could be the winner for 'RuPaul's Drag Race.'
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- 4/8/2010
- by Michael Pascua
- Aol TV.
Welcome to the next episode of "Antm," Cycle 14! Anslee is still in the running, and she’s a mom, so it was only a matter of time before she got a letter from her child and started to cry. “It’s like walking around feeling empty,” Anslee blubbers, and she isn’t referring to the typical model starvation. [Full recap of Wednesday's (April 7) "America's Next Top Model" after the break...] Miss Jay meets the girls at Roosevelt Island. The lesson: learning to work with a male model. The guinea pig: Nigel Barker. Each girl has to "meet" him and put him at...
- 4/8/2010
- by Leslie Gornstein
- Hitfix
Could last night's Top Model have been any duller? Somewhere between Brenda's blathering on about her haircut (still?!) and Anslee's clench-jawed perpetual sourness, I slipped into coma. This is just my subconscious typing this now -- obviously no person possessing both free will and the physical ability to turn something off would continue to slog through this season... right? Why is Tyra doing this to us? How can Antm possibly continue for more cycles, when this one is already running on fumes? This week, the modeltestants had to get up on stage, but it wasn't the acting challenge...
- 4/1/2010
- by Margaret Lyons
- EW.com - PopWatch
Oh, here it comes. We’re just far enough into Cycle 14 that the crying begins in earnest. Right off the bat, we get to hear from a model mommy who had to leave her baby for this, like, amazing opportunity. Now taking bets on how long it takes for Anslee to cry. [Full recap of Wednesday's (March 31) "America's Next Top Model" after the break...] First “lesson” for the models this week comes from improv troupe Upright Citizens Brigade, fronted by Jb Smoove ofCurb Your Enthusiasm. Brenda is asked to “volunteer” to perform on stage, followed by Alasia, who cannot...
- 4/1/2010
- by Leslie Gornstein
- Hitfix
If the next cycle of this show doesn't have some kind of compelling gimmick (actual human feelings) or twist (Born Agains vs. Atheists), I think we might have to part ways. A dance-inspired challenge? Excuse me while I try to wrest myself from this coma. Nope, I couldn't do it, coma: 1, Tyra: 0. A blah challenge, warmed-over fights, dated references, and an elimination that arrived by telegraph months ago -- Top Model, why have you forsaken me? Brenda complained that she was having an "identity crisis" thanks to the haircut, and Ren said she was "93 percent sure" she was going to leave the competition.
- 3/25/2010
- by Margaret Lyons
- EW.com - PopWatch
The girls leave their New York home to find a 'Fab Bus' parked outside with season three star Tocarro Jones waiting inside. She tells them they will be split into two teams and tested on their fashion knowledge. Raina is named her assistant because she won the last panel. The Blue Team is Krista, Simone, Angelea, Jessica and Alexandra. The Red Team is Anslee, Tatiana, Ren, Brenda and Alasia. The first team to correctly answer five questions will win. It ends up neck-in-neck at 4-4 between the two teams as Brenda and Simone step up. Their question is who hosts America's Next Top Model in Germany. The answer is Heidi Klum and Simone gets it, securing the win. The blue team's prize - including Raina - is to meet with the reps from Bluefly.com for a go-see, with Simone being named the winning girl. The losing team has to help Bluefly's copywriters weigh,...
- 3/25/2010
- by By Lara Martin
- Digital Spy
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