ANTM Contestant Disqualified For Bragging About Win On Facebook?
One of the contestants on America’s Top Model Cycle 17 was disqualified for, allegedly, bragging about her win prematurely on Facebook.
** WARNING: POST MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS IF YOU’RE YET TO WATCH THE AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL: ALL-STARS FINALE**
There was some confusion around the time of the original broadcast about who really won America’s Next Top Model: All-Stars.
Over at ONTD, it appears that Allison Harvard was announced the winner, somehow, but then the post was edited (apparent from the comments) to reflect the actual winner of this cycle, Lisa D’Amato.
Then, on Tumblr, there were rumours that Harvard had been disqualified and Angelea Preston won.
However… those rumours were incorrect too.
People.com has done some digging and, it’s apparent from watching the finale online a moment ago, Preston was the one disqualified. The CW issued this statement: “After production wrapped on the current cycle of America’s Next Top Model, we learned information that made Angelea ineligible and she was subsequently disqualified from the competition. As a result, new scenes were filmed to address this for the audience during the finale.”
The final three were: D’Amato, Harvard, and Preston. It would appear Preston was disqualified for bragging on her Facebook.com/AngeleaPreston Facebook page (where a lot of angry/ bemused fans are calling her out about it). Then, after shooting had wrapped, the finale was re-shot with a different winner.
Lisa D’Amato, Allison Harvard, and Angelea Preston were battling for the crown, but after an unusual panel, the judges declared that Preston was disqualified, without saying exactly why, and that D’Amato and Harvard would square off for the title. Eventually, D’Amato was named the winner, but the buzz around the Internet continued to focus on the nature of Preston’s dismissal. There has been speculation, not confirmed, that Preston might have bragged about her victory on her Facebook page before the finale, thus breaking the rules of the competition. – via People.
It does appear that Preston won and then bragged in a November 30-dated Facebook post screencapped in the gallery, below, along with the Cover Girl adverts and runway dresses from the finale. In the post, purportedly from Preston’s Facebook, she says: “716 baby! i am a winner!! i know it.. support me and f**k Angelea haters!! Look at me now b**ch ;P”
Look at me now indeed. If real, the post has since been deleted with remaining entries dated November 28 and December 8 (20 hours ago). She hasn’t commented further, thankfully.
Well, D’Amato won and Harvard, also known as “Creepy Chan,” because of her eyes and popularity on a certain photo sharing board, came second. Again.
In related news, Janice Dickinson says the show’s rigged with Cover Girl picking the winner and staged, pointless “judges deliberations,” she said: “There was a way I experienced being on that show, being conned, thinking that I was actually helping judge a TV franchise, that actually my say had any input. But it really didn’t. Cover Girl are the people that choose the model. Not any of the judges, not what Tyra says. It’s who Cover Girl thinks should win. Definitely on Tyra’s show, it’s rigged.”
Tyra Banks also recently gave an interview confirming she’s being fake on the show: “When I did my show, created my show or whatever, I also created a persona on Top Model. And it’s a character. So when I’m sitting there and I have all this make-up on, and I’m like, ‘Your picture’s not fierce…’ talking all that and reprimanding the girls, that is a character. I don’t do that, like, in real life; I’m passive aggressive. I’m anti-confrontational; I’m even in coaching to learn how to be confrontational. So it’s a character, but people think it’s real. I’m so not sexy. I know how to turn it on for a picture but I’m not sexy in real life.”
