Michael Desmond/The CWTyra Airways only seats six, so another hopeful had to go.
Find out which of the aspiring seven who posed their little hearts out on Wednesday's episode of America's Next Top Model was booted (or, in this case, clogged) from the catwalk right before the big trip to...
Amsterdam!
Cycle 11's finalists are winging their way to the Netherlands for more modeling mayhem, which ultimately will include a major runway show, a commercial shoot and, for one lucky gal, the claiming of the title of America's Next Top Model.
But only six are going. Here's how it all went down tonight, starting with the usual Miss Congeniality contest:
So, fresh off of Lauren Brie's seemingly sudden dismissal, the final seven are fretting over their flaws.
Elina Ivanova, who's originally from Ukraine, cries out of frustration because the judges have criticized her for not being open enough, which she attributes to being European. Marjorie Conrad, who's from France, sympathizes. Samantha Potter, from Woodland Hills, Calif., wonders why Elina didn't use the past eight years she's spent in the U.S. getting over the whole immigrant thing.
"I don't have time to worry about immigration and why she's crying over there," Joselyn Pennywell adds helpfully.
The ladies get schooled in showcasing accessories, then get to try it themselves.
First challenge: They don head-to-toe, skintight green suits that will turn them into "invisible models" and, hopefully, make the clothes pop. Whoever makes Nony Tochterman's Petro Zillia line pop the most wins.
Elina feels claustrophobic and starts to panic but then she hears the music, and it's all good. McKey Sullivan makes bat wings with her dress, to the designer's chagrin. Marjorie's dress is down around her waist and Joslyn takes her belt off to make a necklace (very gentleman's club). Analeigh gives her pearls a little tug and the designer really likes it. Samantha awkwardly takes her jacket off then puts it back on. Sheena Sakai tries to make the ruffles on her full-length, flapper-inspired dress flutter. (Yikes.)
Despite her nerves, Elina wins a holiday fashion spread in Seventeen and chooses Analeigh and Marjorie to pose with her. Samantha thinks the whole thing is unfair because she really loves Christmas and Elina is an atheist. (Double yikes.) Then Sheena gives Elina grief about it, too. (Triple yikes!)
It's off to Bel Air to shoot a commercial for CoverGirl. In front of Whitney, last year's winner! And a teleprompter! Five takes apiece. Sounds easy, right?
You can totally tell Samantha's reading off a teleprompter. Elina sounds—surprise, surprise—too controlled. McKey starts wandering out of the frame—"clueless," Jay Manuel calls her. Analeigh is too cute and sounds appealingly conversational. (Joslyn, who's been feeling nauseated all day, vomits into a trash can.) Marjorie stumbles through her first take, rushes through all the rest. Sheena glides through her spot, proving she really likes turquoise (should be enough to get her abroad). Joslyn hams it up, putting emphasis on the wrong words.
"Girl, that is the best CoverGIrl commercial I have seen in the history of America's Next Top Model!" Tyra raves about Analeigh's spot. Someone's going to Hol-land...
But Joslyn and Elina are in the bottom two because, after starting out so strong, neither has been improving lately.
And it's Joslyn who's given the dreaded domestic ticket. Meanwhile, Elina better wake up and smell the tulips, 'cause it's go time.
Surprised? Did Joslyn have it coming, or did she take someone else's rightful place on the chopping block?