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14th - Cycle 12 (2009)

So, getting into the golden era and kicking it off is cycle 12. This was probably one of the more messy cycles but in a good way. This was also Paulina Porizkova's last cycle before she got fired on her birthday

This cycle is probably up there with cycles 3 and 14 as having some of the most arguments throughout, the whole cycle seemed like a war between the groups.



Obviously the most iconic fight was the one that took place after Celia interrupted judging while Kourtney was being eliminated and told Tyra that Tahlia had said she didnt want to be there the whole thing was a huge mess! Back at the house Teyona and Aminat were letting Celia have it on the staircase. Natalie and Allison somehow get involved and Aminat does her iconic "S-T-U-P-I-D!" in Natalies face before Tahlia makes that really cringey speech on the stair case about how she knows this is what she wants to do.. the cast pretty much stayed divided for the remainder of the series.



Then there was Sandra who was in a completely different category all together and seemed to have a problem with everyone her most iconic fight was the one with Celia (of course!) when she keeps shouting "YOURE 25 YOURE 25!". She had plenty of others with Allison, Nijah, Aminat, Natalie and probably everyone else.



her being so oblivious to how messy she was just made it even better. She also randomly picked her nose in the confessional..



The final 6 girls went to Brazil where we saw Natalie eliminated which apparently led to a argument between her and Tyra which never got aired.. hopefully we get some tea on that from Jays chat

The final 2 came down to Allison and Teyona, with Teyona winning. A lot of fans weren't happy about this at the time and felt Allison was robbed. Imo Teyona took some great photos and definitely deserved her win, but Allison did good too, it was pretty neck and neck.

Oh, and we also had this moment...


Cycle ranking: 7/10