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Top Model: Inside Scoop on Who Wins Tonight

Inside sources say tonight's winner "blows away" her competition.

By Kristin Dos Santos Nov 19, 2008 8:54 PMTags
McKey Sullivan, Samantha Potter, Analeigh Tipton, America's Next Top ModelBarrie Hullegie/Pottle Productions Inc

Tonight is the night! The winner will be crowned on America's Next Top Model, securing her spot as the next femme fatale we'll see awkwardly stumbling through "My Life as a CoverGirl" commercials for months to come.

So who will it be? Who is the "obvious" choice?

Here's the inside info sources just spilled...

"It's a clear win. It's not a close tie or anything. The winner blows the other two away."

This is what an insider who works on the show tells me of tonight's finale, adding, "It's the most expensive final runway we've ever done. It is insane."

I'm also told that the winning chiquita is currently on the East Coast, though I'm not sure that helps us since none of the three has an East Coast hometown listed on the CW's Top Model homepage.

Samantha is from Woodland Hills, Calif. (right up the road here from Hollywood); Analeigh is from Sacramento, Calif., and currently living in Los Angeles; and McKey is from Lake Forest, Ill. So, hmmm, she is the farthest east.

McKey still seems the "obvious" choice the Jays hinted about at the start of the season. She has the perfect editorial face, presents herself like a real model and is the most bookable (see: Holland "go-sees") of the three. Plus, we've seen so very little of her up until very recently this season, which tells me they've been trying to hide the obvious.

Analeigh and Samantha are both very likeable, but this isn't a personality or a popularity contest—the judges, not America, will decide. So here's me putting all my money on a McKey win for tonight...

What do you say? Who will win?