TYRA TYRA TYRA

I really can't wait for the good shows to start. Not that reality isn't great, because from looking at my blog I'm sure you realize how much of it I watch. Grey's Anatomy is tonight, and soon LOST, Battlestar Galactica, The Nine which you HAVE to watch, and then my personal favorite (most of the time) 24 in January. Until then, or until someone tells me to stop, I may be forced to talk about the mind numbing reality shows. Of course The Amazing Race doesn't count in my disdain because it's just such good TV.

Anyway, last night we were treated to two whole hours of Tyra. The show started off a bit confusing, with what looked like only 13 or so girls. Usually the season starts out with at least triple that many so Tyra can weed them all out. Miss J was there to greet them at the airport where they immediately had a photo shoot. This was just a fancy way of getting their mug shot for our reference. Turns out, there were more girl, about thirty or so of them. Now, I know models aren't supposed to be the prettiest girls. That sounds like an oxymoron, and it is. Some of these girls are dogs. Woof woof. I actually had to look away from some of them, although Tyra and the Jays thought they were better then sliced bread. Oh, and their bodies. Good God they needed a Good Humor truck to set. STAT!

Unlike last year, with Jade, none of the girls seemed downright rude. A few a little sure of themselves. That's to be understood though, they were just chosen out of what Tyra or someone tells us is tens of thousands of people. Tyra and the Jays knock the girls down to just twenty or so, and they head off for their first photo shoot. It's going to be in the buff, on top of some seedy ass looking hotel. I think maybe they're down by the airport or something.

Most of the girls are down for the nakedness. One girl in particular, whose name I can't remember at the moment, thinks she'll be disowned by her family if she does this and starts crying. I'd be crying too, but not because of that. Because I'm not trying to be naked in front of forty or so people. Plus, because this isn't the best hotel in the area, it's not the tallest, and you can see all the buildings around it. Now, you'd have to have binoculars and/or a telescope to really see anything from another building, but don't tell me some pervert doesn't have that. I guess if you go through all of that trouble in the first place, you deserve to get an eye full.

The other girls try to encourage and rag on the girl for not doing it, and it is quite stupid, if you want to be there, do whatever you have to do. Eventually she gets up enough courage to do it, but only for two frames, then she chickens out. Good for her for overcoming her fear. It just irritated me that it wasn't a fear of showing her body, it was a fear of grandma and grandpa back home. Get over it. Seriously.

Tyra then chooses her thirteen girls. I really don't like ragging on other women, but damn, these bitches are not cute. There's one in particular, Anchal. I put a picture above this. Now, she's not horrible, she's not, but she is not cute either. She does take a good picture, so in person, or at least on TV she's much uglier. Good for her for workin' it though. Ick.

Monique.

When the girls get to the house, the claws come out, big time. Now, it seemed like Eugena would be the bitch of the house. She told us earlier how she liked talking about people behind their back. Yeah, I'm gonna like her. And what I find a little eerie is she looks a lot like Eugenia from Days of Our Lives. Bizarre. Anyway, turns out, she's not the bitch. Monique's the bitch. She seemed really nice during the interviews, something about all her sisters are light skinned and she was always the dark/ugly one. I felt sorry for her, until they got to the house. Apparently, getting 13 women together in one house isn't drama enough for the producers. They took a page from Flavor of Love and didn't put enough beds in the house. This is just messed up, truly. Everyone had a bed but Monique and one other girl. While the other girls left the room, Monique took it upon herself to take Eugena's things off her bed, and then pour water on it. When Eugena walked back in, Monique claimed the bed, saying she peed in it to keep it. Ewe. I was hoping the bitchiness came out, but Eugena fought for a second, but then conceded. What the hell? I want a cat fight. And then later, when the girls were talking about sharing the house, Monique said she couldn't deviate in her routine, and take less then an hour to shower. What a bitch. I'm sorry, I don't like calling girls out like that, but she really is. None of the girls like her. See, this is why I like Flavor of Love. On that show, the girls would get pissed, yell, Flav would come in, review the tape, and give the bed back to Eugena. Not here, Tyra and her crew don't care what happens in the house. That annoys me.

During the challenge, the girls have to make a seemingly male outfit into a female one. Melrose, yes, that's a girl, wins the challenge. The prize is a being treated like a diva during her photo shoot. The photo shoot, always themed around actual Tyra photo shoots, Jay tells us will be the most controversial. Each girl will represent a stereotype of what a supermodel is. A diva, a black woman made to look white, a bulimic, an anorexic, blah blah blah. It's interesting, but the girls are boring. Some of them really hit the mark though. There is a set of twins, Michelle and Amanda, who I'm sure Tyra will change drastically come make-over time. One can't walk at all in high heels, they're both very average looking, but damn they can model pretty well. It's the first real shoot, so we'll see how they do, but I liked them.

Melrose was treated to a nice massage during the waiting around, and she had an assistant. Unfortunately, it seemed all of that went to her head because when it was her turn, she was nowhere to be found. Actually, they found her and she was nit-picking her make-up. Apparently the massage she had messed the make-up up and they had to redo it. That's what she told Jay though, who wasn't having it. He didn't like the idea of waiting 10 minutes for a diva. She wanted to cry, but that would have messed the make-up more and so she sucked at her shoot.

Michelle

When it was time for elimination, most of the girls had pretty bad photos. I mean they looked okay, but nothing like they were supposed to. The girls don't know their angles yet, or the idea of lighting, virtually nothing. The twins did a good job. Tyra really needs to get out of ugly Anchal's ass too. It came down to Melrose because of her awful picture and attitude at the shoot, and Christian, who they thought was just boring. It was Christian who got kicked out. I wasn't sad, but I did think Melrose deserved another change, enough though she's a little long in the tooth.