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America's Next Top Model: British Invasion - Finale Recap

Posted on 05/31/2012 by Gina in Americas Next Top Model

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America's Next Top Model: British Invasion - Finale

 

by Gina Scarpa

 

We're down to the final two, Laura and Sophie, on America's Next Top Model. Will it be an American or a Brit that takes home the grand prize? Only time will tell! The girls meet up with Jay Manuel to shoot their Cover Girl commercial except a lot of the footage for it has been filmed throughout the season - which is pretty cool! We'll get to see their journey in the competition but they're still going to need to nail their reading on camera, as well as their beauty shot.

 

Sophie really nails her script and does well in her photo shoot. She's fun, she's cute, and he looks great with her touched up pink hair. Laura struggles in her beauty shot, as she often does whenever she can't be super edgy or sexy. To make matters worse, she starts to feel really sick and faint. Is it the pressure getting to her? Perhaps not. It's so bad that she leaves the set early to go to the hospital!

 

Back at the hotel, Laura calls her mom and reveals that it was a panic attack. So it was the pressure. When she meets up with photographer Jez Smith the next day, she says she feels like a new person but she still looks pretty fragile to me. The next task for the final two is the photo shoot for Vogue Italia. Of course, Laura flourishes since she gets to play up her sexual side, while Sophie struggles with a more high fashion shoot.

 

Laura gets her second chance at the Cover Girl commercial but her energy seems low and the whole thing doesn't really work. After that, the last Tyra Mail arrives at the hotel, letting the girls know it's time for their Forever 21 runway show. Tyra herself shows up at the hotel to give the girls a last pep talk, telling Laura to believe in her strength and Sophie that she'd want to be her friend if they were the same age.

 

This runway show is pretty cool, but difficult too. They'll be walking in sync with their own holograms, and interacting with it too. Alisha, Catherine, Eboni, and Annaliese are on hand to walk in the show as well! The whole thing didn't end up being an awesome as Tyra touted it but the ending sequence, where they blew the holographic dandelions was pretty interesting to watch.

 

At panel, Laura's feedback is that she seemed forced on the runway, but that her walk is improved. The candid shots in commercial look great, but her scripted lines fell kind of flat.  Kelly wasn't crazy about the beauty shot for Cover Girl, but Tyra loved the sass.  For Sophie's feedback, she came across as elegant on the runway and was very aware of the audience. Sophie's candid shots didn't come out as great, but that's completely not her fault. At least her read was fantastic, as Tyra put it.  Nigel loved the Cover Girl photo and Kelly calls her a superstar.

 

After comparisons and deliberation, a decision has been made.  Tyra announces that the winner of America's Next Top Model is... Sophie!  I'm so happy with the decision but like Kelly said, it's a great PR story.  She was the runner-up in Britain, then come to America and won.  And she has pink hair!  What do you think of the outcome?

 


(Image courtesy of the CW)

 

 

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