
Previously - Well, J. Harvey's an ass and didn't get around to writing last week's recap and people let him know about it. He's red-faced and should be forced to go down to his hands and knees and be soundly kicked in the bottom by each of you. Nevertheless, Negative Renee? Still negative. Brooke and her hoops? Sent home. Someone apparently was TOO frightened of her grin.
Jael's moaning about Diana and why did they take her away? Whitney reveals that Diana was her best friend in the house, and that she plans to beat all these "skinny bitches" for her. I'm not seeing it, but good luck. We get a flashback to Whitney sobbing her eyes out when Diana got booted. Was there some women's basketball going on between those two? I get the feeling that Diana was very any port in a storm if the person likes her. There's a Tyra mail about smelling sweet or something, and some of the girls (Jael) are jumping around and acting (Jael) crazy. Someone says, "girls, please" and Negative Renee brings her dark cloud of cranky evil into the confessional and tells us how she can't stand any of them. I'm put off by the fact that Renee has taken on this woman of the desert nomad look. She's got a headscarf draped loosely around her, but it's not dulling the savagery of her hatred. I do think she looks ready to build a hut out of some sticks she had transported on the back of a camel, though. She goes on about how much she hates Jael, and Sarah. And she feels Sarah was credited too much for the work she did last challenge. This segues into Sarah talking about how she got to see all of her frames in the last shoot because she won, and how much it helped her. I smell foreshadowing. She talks with Brittany by the giant horizontal Bic outside, and Brittany's hair looks like the dog has been sleeping on it. Seriously, couldn't someone have given her the weave manual?
The girls adjourn to some Indian restaurant where they're greeted by a giant Win, Lose, or Draw sketchpad bearing the name "Lesley Hornby". Dionne, who is swiftly becoming one of my favorites, exclaims, "I don't know who that is!" Dionne really takes a bite out life and finds it fresh and juicy. She would handle being a mail order bride better than Natasha does. Leslie Hornby, by the by, is Twiggy. And she walks out from behind said sketchpad, dressed like she's been working at Over Our Heads on "Facts of Life". We get a Twiggy retrospective and I must say, she was an amazing model back in the day. Anyway, the point of this session is that the girls are going to choose "supermodel secret self" names for themselves. Is that a concept that Tyra's going to market? And who better to assist in the choosing of a model alias than MELROSE! *terrified screams* She comes launching out, looking happy and refreshed from possibly letting Jeremy Piven inside of her. We get a great flashback to Melrose explaining her name to Tyra at the beginning of last cycle aka the "issa" conversation. Love it. And again - Negative Renee is dressing like a damn Bedouin. Why? Is she trying to steal Jael's Grace Jones in View to a Kill thunder?
More of America's Next Top Model Cycle 8 after the jump.
Written by J. Harvey