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5th - Cycle 7 (2006)



If there was ever a cycle to go to when you just want some classic antm then Cycle 7 is the one to re-visit. This was also arguably the cycle where Tyra started acting crazy every week. Casting week saw us meeting girls like Melrose who wasted no time getting involved in drama, Eugena who thought the girls on cycle 6 were boring oop.. Monique who seemed pretty normal during casting, twins Michelle and Amanda who looked like some sort of HAIM rejects and loads more.

The girls had to pose topless with long wigs covering their boobs on top of a hotel roof, most of the girls had no problem but a couple of the girls including a religious girl called Ginger didnt want to and kicked up a huge fuss.. eventually she did it and didnt even make the final cast so that sucks for her nnn..

When the girls got to the house, there was 2 beds short and Monique missed out on getting a bed, so she poured water over Eugenas bed to mark her territory and casually sat there. When Eugena came back and asked what she was doing Monique replied "I decided to just pee on the bed today"



For their first photoshoot the girls had to portray model stereotypes and Tyra gave that performance of her acting like a diva (it was probably real). Monique was given the phone throwing model which was obviously a dig at Naomi Campbell



One of the most iconic moments this cycle came when the girls had to do a challenge where they stopped at different floors of a department building and had to choose an outfit on one then do makeup on the other etc, and if they didnt make it back to the elevator in time the doors would shut and they'd be disqualified. The ones who made it to the top got to meet Queen Latifah. Monique got disqualified and back at the house decided to take up the phone booth for hours just to be spiteful Melrose had to pay her rent and the other girls kept trying to distract Monique on the phone by flashing her etc.. In the end Anchal had had it with Monique and stormed in and cut her phone line mid-conversation




Moniques mum gave her this iconic advice..


Monique also trashed the kitchen and stomped on all the girls food.. and then decided (for some reason) to wipe her dirty underwear all over Melrose bed while she was sleeping a MESS! Because she got sick and didnt do the next photoshoot, Monique was eliminated.

Makeovers brought us some of the most dramatic reactions this cycle, Jaeda crying because she didnt want her hair cut short was iconic, Megg was crying because she had to have some sort of weave sown in, AJ made a huge fuss because they wanted to dye her hair from black to dark red and then Monique had that dramatic scene on the toilet crying her eyes out to Mr Jay because she was getting a fresh weave

Anchal had gained criticism from the judges and the other girls throughout the cycle for gaining weight. With this came her loss of confidence, especially after hearing Melrose slag her off in the hot tub saying "as the competition progresses, I dont see her getting more beautiful". The judges got tired of her being unconfident and after she ran out of judging after a judging test, they decided that was a good excuse to eliminate her




this was the same judging test that we got this...


Aside from all the drama, Michelle decided she was gonna come out as gay which upset her twin Amanda because she was worried how others would react. There was that emotional phone conversation with their mum..




When Megg was eliminated, her best friend in the house, AJ, went into her shell the following week and got eliminated despite being one of the front runners up until that point. Brooke was eliminated on her high school graduation day, which was obviously done for the drama.



The final 6 girls went abroad to Barcelona where they had to shoot their covergirl commercials in Spanish with some male models. Part of the commercial was for the girls to kiss their male model, however Jaedas model told her he didnt want to kiss a black girl. This obviously made Jaeda uncomfortable but Mr Jay told her to just do it anyway She was eliminated that week..

At the bull matador shoot, CariDee made a joke to Nigel about removing the pole from his ass from last panel Nigel was fuming and dragged it out way too much (he still comments it on her insta pictures). Michelle sacrificed her place in the competition for Amanda the same week.

The final 2 came down to CariDee and Melrose where they did one of my favourite final 2 runways from the show. Miss J killed it too




CariDee ended up winning and I think overall she was the right winner. Melrose did an amazing job throughout and did great in the final runway but she lacked the likeability that CariDee had.

Cycle ranking: 9/10