10th - Cycle 5 (2005)
Kicking off the top 10 is Cycle 5, by which point the show had found its feet and this felt like the first cycle that had been planned out properly and not quickly rushed together last minute. Twiggy replacing Janice on the panel also gave the show a bit more of a classy touch.
The girls were far from classy however.. we had butch lesbian Kim who tried it with at last half the cast, big lip Sarah who couldnt walk to save her life, Nicole who spent the entire time whining and Bre who spent the entire time clocking her. Then of course there was Lisa, who was just in her own world all together.
When it came to makeovers, Tyra decided to cut Cassandras hair down to just an inch inspired by Mia Farrow in Rosemarys Baby. When asked to cut it a tiny bit more, Cassandra refused and decided to leave the competition all together
Lisa and her crazy antics caused her to come to blows with many of the other girls, one of the most iconic being her fight with Coryn backstage at a photoshoot when Lisa tried to give her unwanted advice. Coryn tells Lisa no one here likes her, especially her and delivers her iconic line, "and what are you doing, alcoholic bitch?". Lisa was truly shook.
That didnt stop Lisa getting drunk every night and running around the house like a loony. There was even that night when all the girls had gone to bed and she stayed out with a glass of wine talking to a bush she'd called 'cousin it'
oh and that time she peed in a diaper on set..
The final 6 girls flew to London where we got the iconic granola-gate where Bre assumed Nicole had eaten a granola bar from her room so poured all her red bulls down the sink
Kim walked in and caught Bre, who jumped her to the ground. When Kim tried to talk to Bre about it the following day, Bre didnt want to talk and certainly didnt want to talk to Nicole.
Later that day at panel, while the judges were deliberating, Bre and Kim carried on their fight backstage where Bre told Kim "you will not win this competition, because you are an ugly person, you have an ugly personality"
Kim was eliminated that day..
Somewhere along the line Jayla decided she hated Nik after stealing Niks 'sleeping with a nightlight' idea in the commercials and gave that really strange confessional where she called her "a stoopid stoopid bitch!"
In the end Bre finished 3rd and the top 2 were Nik and Nicole with Nicole winning. It's generally agreed among fans that Nik should have won this cycle, even Miss J recently said she was the only one who voted Nik to win on the panel.
Cycle ranking: 8/10
