ANTM Fatima being the first to be cut? I’m down with that. Whitney winning over Anya? What the fuck? Whitney is gorgeous, funny, and intelligent, but she never really overcame the fakeness that far too often marred her otherwise good photos. Miss Jay (who I hate) may have thought she was powerful on the runway, but in my opinion Paulina was the one who truly got it right: she hammed that runway up like no other. Anya may have had less presence, but she actually seemed like a true model on the runway. She looked like a fucking goddess when she was standing up there with Whitney at the final judging. She also took amazing photos, and her personality was incredible. This show has never had someone with such an amazingly sweet and innocent energy. Anya could do couture better than Whitney, and she was far more relatable as well.
However, I can’t get too upset over the outcome. Despite the fact that I think Anya should have won, I think it’s great a plus-sized model won the competition. Our society is so hard on women to look like toothpicks, as Whitney would put it, and I think it’s a great message to American women that you don’t have to be anorexic to be beautiful (and Whitney is undeniably beautiful). Also, Anya and Fatima both took their eliminations with an incredible amount of grace, and I actually found their final confessionals to be inspiring. They both grew tremendously over the competition and gained a lot of confidence, and I have no doubt that they both continue to model successfully (especially Anya, who is so incredibly talented).
Top Chef
I looooved tonight’s Top Chef. My three least favorites were all in the bottom three, and their less-than-stellar personalities all made for a very entertaining Judge’s Panel. Lisa once again showed that she just isn’t a good chef, and was too defensive during judging. Calling out Andrew wasn’t very classy of her, but I do think she had a legitimate point: Andrew didn’t follow the rules. Spike, once again, was a douchebag. He was arrogant during judging; when they told him his food wasn’t good he shot back with, “in your opinion.” Well, guess what, Spike? They’re the fucking judges, and in the end it is their opinions that matter. Also, they know what they’re talking about, so don’t give them that shit. It was arrogant, childish, and immature. And get rid of that fucking hat already. To top it all off, he wound up in the bottom three with the advantage. As Antonia (I think) pointed out, his picking his ingredients in order to screw over everyone else just meant he hadn’t actually thought his dish through, and that screwed him over in the end (which he fully deserved). Being tricky isn’t going to win you this competition; first and foremost you have to be a good chef.
Finally, Andrew. If he was any crazier I would think he needs to be prescribed some kind of meds. He was even worse than Spike during judging, implying that he knew more about nutrition than the judges and blah blah blah. His speech at the end was also terrible. What the fuck was he even talking about? Pretending that you got kicked off because you played more honorably than everyone else is arrogant and stupid. I was also incredibly irritated when he decided that he went “against the grain” because he didn’t follow the rules. That isn’t going against the grain, that’s being an idiot. Losing your rule sheet and fucking up just means that he obviously wasn’t mature enough to take the competition seriously, and it was about time that he was sent packing.
