Location, location, location: There is one bone I have to pick with the producers of America’s Most Smartest Model, Surreal Life and I Love New York: they keep using the same house! I know they have re-roofed the Surreal Life house with some lovely mixed glaze mission tiles and painted the outside a delicious raspberry pink, but having two shows run concurrently in the same setting is a little distracting. There are plenty of houses with glorious views and endless rooms for rent in the Hollywood Hills and the San Fernando Valley (the Valley homes would need a thorough disinfecting swab), so change it up boys because it’s distracting.
Back to the (naked) models. This week the game show aspect kicked in with a Jeopardy style challenge called “Puzzle Me Pretty” and we got to see the masters and slackers of trivia battle it out for important photo shoot accoutrements like make up artists, clothes and props, and some participants suffered from their ignorance and literally did the shoot naked. Pudgy Jesse who’s been called out by Mary Alice and the fashion chorus had to pose au natural, and although he hit the gym for two days it wasn’t enough to mask his bulging middle parts and weak arms. The less he wears the worse his chance of winning. Randy Russian Andre also got shafted in the trivia game when his partner chose lipstick over clothing after he got her lingerie and a make up artist. This caused a colossal campfire screaming match and Andre and Lisa’s chances of prevailing at the photo shoot crumbled with every accusation and insult.
Living to sweat another day: In the end the fancy fashion photographer guided some teams and sabotaged others, and avocado chinned Dr. Pickel charmed the best shot with his sexy nurse Aussie Rachel. This infuriated the red hot Russian who landed in second place after choking his partner with a strand of pearls. Andre pissed of his partner with his attitude, the photographer with his arrogance and Mary Alice with his audacity, who found the picture too violent to reward. Mary Alice knew how upset Andre and Lisa were after the trivia and the choking picture hit too close to home. If these two had gotten along like old school chums they may have won (they did have the more interesting picture) but Andre’s real life rage made the image too creepy for comfort. Jesse was again penalized for his paunch and landed in the bottom two with his partner Erika, but he’ll live to sweat another day in the gym as his saucy short Latina landed in the dumpster of least smartest models.
