With all the walking done, Jonte' has some feedback. Jonte' Jonte' Jonte'! He tells Jessie that she's adorable, but needs to learn to communicate with the audience. He's in awe of Kiara's booty shake, and maybe would at least cup her cheeks if he was straight. Jonte' tells Kristin that she's gorgeous, but has to let the skirt ride if it wants to. Yvonne controlled the stage and knows exactly what she's doing, he says, and Brittany and Victoria get kudos for taking on the hoop. As Jonte' holds up the key to the Tyra Suite and gets ready to announce the winner, Victoria reminds us again that she was groundbreaking -- so groundbreaking in fact that she actually BROKE THE GROUND. She thinks she deserves to win. But she does not. Instead, Yvonne wins for connecting her cooch with the audience. Victoria feels robbed, but Yvonne considers it a victory for the husky girls.
And then just when everyone is hanging out in the club and having a good time, Tyra's dude-in-a-wig BFF shows up. Apparently he is not Zach Galifianakis, but rather "YouTube personality" P'Trique. Tyra always has to take it that one extra step, you know? He delivers Tyra Mail in his signature stupid fashion girl voice: "Tomorrow's challenge will leave you hanging. Make sure you kill the shot, k? Go home and get your beauty sleepies and get ready for tomorrow!" Wow, and here I never thought I'd miss hearing the girls straining at the edges of their literacy skills to read Tyra Mail from a TV screen.
Back at the house, there is a screen up featuring the challenge scores. While Yvonne is at the top with a perfect 10, Kristin and Jessie circle the drain with 4s. Victoria's groundbreaking performance only got a 7. To be a pioneer is sometimes to be misunderstood. One of the girls says, "It's not just their opinion, it's actual, like, numbers." It's actually a numerical value that represents their subjective and likely hastily assembled opinions, but okay. Yvonne is psyched to be in the Tyra Suite, which has a nice bed and also smells good.
Out in the kitchen, Destiny wonders aloud why she got such a low score. Kiara theorizes that maybe it was because she was too sexy and "too stripper." Destiny does not enjoy this comparison, and soon afterwards complains to the other girls about it. Kiara is lurking around the corner while Destiny talks shit about how Kiara talked shit about her, but soon comes in to tell her to talk to her personally if she has a question about something she said. She clarifies that she was trying to help and give constructive criticism, and then tells us that she was actually doing a FAVOR to Destiny, like pointing out that she had something in her teeth. I don't know that that's a really valid one-to-one comparison -- "you've got some spinach in there" versus "you look like a stripper." The whole thing does put me in mind of Simon Doonan's infamous, "I would never say anybody's a ho. I would say that's ho style," shenanigans of yore.













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