ANTM Judges INSULTED By Model After Spitting Out Food 

Guys I can’t believe I missed a crucial part of this episode about Nicole 😭😭😭 I will have to film something and explain. But thank you for letting me know.

I love Tyra saying a model has to be humble and likeable. Perfect example of someone who should take their own advice.

You know what I think is insulting to Japanese people? Having these girls have half an hour to learn to speak an ad script in Japanese.

As someone with allergies... expecting a model to eat something without being told what it is or the ingredients can literally harm a model so badly..... this is so dangerous and horrible.

I lived in Japan. A Japanese person isn't going to be offended at someone spitting out an umeboshi seeing as they know it's an acquired taste

This is just brutal! As an actor this is not realistic. All of this is totally unprofessional and tacky. Script changes happen, yes, but learning a language on the spot? Only ANTM. 🤦🏾‍♂️

They made Amanda who had night blindness do hers at night🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ shows that exploit people for profit are the most greedy and unethical subhuman.

Tyra Banks projects SO MUCH of her insecurities, selfishness, low self esteem, and nasty attitude onto these poor girls and she steals every bit of happiness, innocence and purity from them. Tyra Banks needs to be humbled.

The umeboshi thing is ridiculous! Umeboshi is a fermented plum that you eat with rice, it's sour and salty, so i don't know what the "sweet like candy"-thing was about (or whatever they were made to say)... like it's literally not meant to be eaten on it's own! I bet most Japanese people wouldn't even like it if they ate the umeboshi on it's own.

The funny thing is that Yaya is, now, a successful actress

Some competition shows are like "you did good but as we get further we need to be more picky and we think this other person did a little bit better" ANTM is like "hey i know you made it to the top 4 but you have no skill, your personality is bad, also you have identity issues and i hate you."

Amanda (in a recent interview) confirmed that this was a nonsense assignment they quickly made up because the girls were detained at the airport due to not having their documents in order. So their filming time had been drastically reduced and the original assigment couldn't happen anymore.

Hi, person of japanese heritage here. Umeboshi is plum that's pickled? Fermented? It's quite salty and sour, the taste can be quite strong. No surprise and no offense that here she spit it out

I was in several commercials when I was younger (much younger 😉). We didn’t swallow the food. We had a bucket to spit the food into. By the end of the day you’d be sick if you ate the food each take. This was ridiculous. My daughter is a Japanese major. She’s been taking Japanese classes for 5 years now. We love to watch your content when you travel to Japan.

Somebody could've had an allergic reaction to that food, and nobody on production would bat an eye. 🙄 How is someone supposed to just eat a product without any information or warning??? The lengths they go to just for gaslighting.

I like how Yaya's acting career is way better than Tyra's now.

fun fact: norelle went back to japan after the show and lived there for awhile as a real model!!

I have always hated those episodes (even when I was a kid) where they forced the girls to speak in a language they actually didn't know and made fun of them.

If we actors were to swallow the food in commercials and film, we would get sick. You rarely ever swallow the food, unless there absolutely needs to be that shot. You never need the shot of someone swallowing the food in a commercial. Also, production would rather you have tasted the food, or sub it out with something you actually like, before they start filming. They are loud and wrong about how commercials work. The worst part is that Tyra KNOWS this is a lie, because she's done films, shows, and commercials.

I’ve always felt so bad for Nicole this episode. She kept getting “forgotten” about… like what the heck? I’m pretty sure the producers just wanted her eliminated and couldn’t find a good way to send her home since she was doing pretty good in all of her photo shoots and challenges, so they just started to “forget” she was there.

I was learning Japanese when this episode aired I felt so bad for these girls and I have a feeling Mr Yoshi knows more English than he's claiming and Tyra probably told him to pretend. Also Yoshi wasn't even offended when she spat out the food but of course Tyra has to make a big deal out of it.

I love that Yaya went on to act in shows after this. She was definitely one of my favorite ANTM girls! And that hug that she gave to nicole was so sweet. She really fully brought her in to show her love. Love that ❤️❤️

As someone with an eating disorder, this would be a NIGHTMARE. Eating is such a personal thing.

This whole season they have been very ableist against Amanda. She is going blind. She can’t see that well. Out of all the girls they filmed her last, at nighttime? It was lucky she knew the script because I bet she wouldn’t be able to read to cue cards. There was no need to make it harder for her - they could have filmed her earlier but they love it when models fail.

OMG you missed the part when Tyra forgot to call Nicole for her critiques. It was so embarrassing.

my friend has worked on many food commercials, she said never once has she actually had to swallow the food, in fact most of the time when the cameras cut they’re told to spit it out especially when working with fast food like kfc because of how many takes they do so the model spitting the food out after wouldn’t have mattered in a real commercial

So it’s disrespectful for her to spit something that she just couldn’t handle to eat which is not something she can completely control but is not disrespectful for the director to be straight up laughing for a model trying her best to speak Japanese?!?! Its like the models don’t have the right to do anything or express themselves but they can do everything because its justified. Bullies 🤬

Oh Jessica! This was a whole ordeal. This commercial was supposed to be a lot more cooler than this simple Campbell's soup. But the girls got detained coming to Japan, and it was an entire mess. So they were behind schedule, and had to rush with this.

They definitely just made the girls do the umeboshi commercial to humiliate them, I feel like if they weren't hoping for strong reactions to eating the product they wouldn't have made them read lines like "so sweet you'll swear it's candy" etc before they ate it. Setting them up to be shocked by the flavor!

Love how they throw shade at Yaya who's made a career as an actress. They knew she had potential and they tried to (unsuccessfully) crush it.

21:38 the way Janice was chanting, “eat, eat, eat“, shows that all they wanted was to humiliate the girls. Very cult like. “Here drink the blood of the supermodels that have come before you”.

26:55 “Finally you have personality” like what the hell, everyone has personality. Just because you are not expressive or extroverted doesn’t mean you don’t have personality!!! 🙄 personality is nothing more than your characteristics as a person. You can be quiet and reserved and have your own unique personality. I really despise this so called “juries”.

Janice Dickinson has said repeatedly on her show “Janice Dickinson’s modeling agency“ things like, “you’re lucky we’re not on ANTM where I was forced to be the bad guy”. Even though she was quite cruel on her own show, she often took jabs at Tyra and commented how Janice’s mean girl character was all an act

As an American that likes umeboshi, I'M OFFENDED that they advertized something that tastes like a kalamata olive as being 'sweet as candy'. Clearly the English add was written by someone who had never tasted an Asian pickled plum.

"I can barely speak English and you want me to speak Japanese?!?!?" 😂 I can relate too much to this 🤭 Edit: honestly, they should have someone else reading the script to the girls so they could have at least an idea of how it's supposed to sound...

The whole purpose of this challenge was to create drama for the show, it was never a fair shoot for them.

This full episode I think had a lot of behind the scenes drama. In one of Jay’s chats this was the episode where the models got stuck in customs for days because customs thought the show was human trafficking the women. So they had to fly them to Guam (or other US territory) then back to Japan. In Amanda’s confessional producers had her be like “the flight was so long we had to change our clothes!” Meanwhile, I think Jay had scheduled a lavish location to do a cover girl shoot but because the day got missed due to customs, he had like a day to find a location and a concept so that’s why we ended up with this rickety soup commercial on a staircase. It was discussed in the season 3 Jay’s chat and on Anne’s Oliver Twixt chat I think

I wouldn’t be surprised if the producers and Jay lied and the director does speak English and they just wanted to challenge the girls. He was smiling way too hard when he came out 😂

This was problematic when it first aired and even moreso now. Someone would be able to taste the product before shooting the commercial. I'm also over the story arc that Yaya is overly educated and pompous. Her story line was actually quite problematic and racist if you watch the entire season. Oh early 2000s.....

This episode is such a thinly veiled attempt to create “drama” for the show and humiliate the models. Not only is it impossible to learn a language in that amount of time it does feel very offensive and racist as a concept. Not to mention the the MANY problems with forcing someone to eat something unknown to them, against their will. I wish these models could finally get justice for the abuse they endured on this show.

You definitely don’t have to swallow the food on commercials, half of it isn’t real food. Also most models are on a strict diet that wouldn’t allow them to swallow the food multiple times.

My cousin was part of a Campbell's commercial about 8 years ago.... So, for him, they had a person on the street section so they let people go up, have a bite (Which they swallowed) and say anything that came to mind. He got $1,500 for saying one line. But they also got to watch some of the actors doing their part of the commercial. And yes, after each take they spit the food out. Another cousin of mine is a director for commercials and he said any time there's a food /drink product, the actors spit out after each take. Otherwise it can create dietary or health issues.

I am a very picky eater, especially when it comes to food textures. I would not have spat out the food as gracefully as she did😂

Actors don't eat the food when filming commercials, they are spitting it out!!! The gaslighting in this show I swear

As someone with taste hypersensitivity, I feel for Yaya. I have the worst gag reflex when I have tried unpleasant foods (mainly vinegar based) . Force feeding is such a demented form of abuse.

"You're really good in English but the Japanese..." damn it's almost like she doesn't speak it LMAO Also saying it's offensive to not like a food is ridiculous💀especially something that's known to be an acquired sort of taste This entire thing was 100000% just to set the girls up lol

Making someone eat something they don't know it is is very cruel. Also, the people of Japan are very polite - they would never trick a person into eating something that they were not used to culturally. They would explain what it was before having the person try it!

The more I rewatch this show the less respect I have for Tyra and the more I see how she really set girls up for failure for ratings

Mr. Jay said he had throw this shoot together with no budget since the girls were detained in Guam.

The girls were detained at the airport because the Japanese police thought they were sexual workers so they went to an American territory Guam and stayed for 3 days, this messed up their shooting schedule so they came up with this commercial

22:07 I learn Japanese quite a lot, and I think he said 申し訳ない (read as Moushiwakenai), which translates to 'I'm sorry'. Kinda shows that even he wasn't comfortable doing all that, but again I could be wrong.

Jessica: Whoever came up with this concept hates soup and the girls Me: Food in general, the girls AND Japan, apparently

Why couldn't they give them a script written phonetically? Oh yeah, that's too easy.

I’m so proud of YaYa!! She is an amazing actress and she’s done some notable movies and shows. It goes to show that you don’t have to let ANYBODY EVER dim your light! They tried so much but she still shined through everything!✨💜

I've heard the phrase "spit take" which I'm pretty sure comes from eating food on camera but spitting it out after the director calls cut. Food network chef Giada spits out all the food she cooks on camera to keep in shape, because she cooks a lot carbs. It's really not as deep as the judges make it.

ANTM at its best, let’s get offended over a fake commercial, as usual I can’t 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

I've been studying Spanish for a year, and I wouldn't be comfortable doing anything like this in Spanish. It surely wouldn't sound fluent. 😂😂

The last product was the fake kente hat and they wanted her to choose that hat instead she chose the cow girl hat I really felt like Tyra was jealous of yaya

That Umeboshi-commercial was like some strange sorority initiation party-game where the members get to watch the applicants do something disgusting. (Is she really gonna eat it? I can't believe it! She's gonna do it! Oh wow! I can't believe she ate it, that's so disgusting! And so on... Yaya, sorry, you failed the test and have offended our statutes and the proud traditions of Alpha Nu Theta Alpha. We just don't think you belong in our sorority.

M'y Yaya Girl she really survive during the judges they really mean towards her for no reason

The way everyone speaks down to the Japanese people and talks about Japan like its below them always makes me feel weird. It happens every time they are in a foreign place especially when its asian

The only American actor I can think of that had to speak a language they didn't know for filming was Lee Van Cleef. He acted in spaghetti westerns but didn't want to be dubbed over, so he spoke a whole script he didn't understand since he didn't speak a lick of Italian lol. But he had months to learn his lines and as many takes as it took to get them right.

On the rewatch podcast by Dance Moms Kelly and Christie, they often talk about how they couldn't "break the fourth wall" when they were talking about things like acknowledging they were in a show and that's why they had studios out there purposefully coming to competitions to beat them and when they knew something was a producer setup. I would guess similar rules applied on ANTM.

Your commentary is always priceless. I would happily watch you react to every ANTM episode ever!

Jessica, you skipped Nicole's evaluation. 😆 Man, everyone is forgetting Nicole today. Side note, she did that to Nicole on purpose, I believe. I mean they expect us to believe on the same episode, they forgot Nicole TWICE???

Jessica about to call on god when they mentioned the second commercial 😂😂😂

Omg you missed out Tyra forgetting Nicole! Even you forgot Nicole! Poor girl 😢😢

You forgot the part where they forgot Nicole was in the room. And then they call it out after they notice this her getting eliminated

This whole episode is just crazy. I remember watching it when it came out. I can’t believe I used to even watch this show when I was younger.

This is disgusting that they were laughing at them. All of this for ratings too. How humiliating. They knew they didn’t know Japanese. SMH

They asked them to eat a product without caring about whether or not they have allergies to a certain ingredient or more. Like certain food and beverages could be hazardous for anyone with allergies.

Isn’t umeboshi like a topping. You don’t typically eat it by itself because it’s so strong 😭

Yaya's delivery of "PACKED" is just hilarious 😂

I speak fluent Japanese and do interpretation for my job from English to Japanese and from the clips I see in this video the intepretor seems to have taken some liberties with her translation 🤣

This wasn't the original concept for the commercial. There was an elaborate commercial set up. But, the girls got stopped by Japanese customs because they thought that the girls were prostitutes. This was very last minute. The girls are even wearing the robes from the hotel.

I was expecting you to give your take on how Tyra for forgetting Nicole before deliberation. That whole episode was about forgetting Nicole which was flat out cold.

"Another commercial... Ya Allah.. 😩" 😂 "Just send someone home, khalas" I love it when you pepper in Arabic hahahaha❤

I can't believe how blind sided I was when this show came out. I used to love it and loved Tyra. Boy oh boy! She's terrible. Anything for money.

I love these ANTM react videos and you always look so fab! 💁💅

Here in Brazil, sometimes we do have tô it the product. McDonalds, for example, we have to eat both in the test and during shooting. Some have fake food or some sort of substitute, but most we don't really eat anything, just act. Beer commercial, which are the most common for us as actors to book, it's illegal to be shown in a commercial drinking. There can be no drinking on alcohol on commercials.

I’m beyond happy you reviewed this episode 😂😘

I can’t even get through watching ANTM because how they treat the girls like cattle. When I was a kid watching this I thought it was normal treatment. That they were just being teachers but turned out to be bullies. It’s horrible how they got away with it.

Hi, I used to work as a model in Tokyo, so about your last question: Yes, we were supposed to eat food when we were shooting a food-commercial. But we never swallowed it and just took one small bite. Plus, we were able to decide what we wanted to eat. Also, they asked our managements about food we didn't like one day in advance. I'm a huge fan of umeboshi, but I know that many foreign people don't like it - and Japanese people are aware of that, too. So most Japanese wouldn't force you to eat umeboshi in the first place.

Yaya should have won this whole season.

Lmao I remember this episode!! 🤣 When Jessica says わかりません, I'm all like 私も! Also, I'm trying to continue my 日本ご studies, so I'm totally following along with the words I recognize. Love these videos and hope you're having a great week!

I wish she would have told TYRA "you come eat this umabushi"😂

Yaya is so cute

I would like to see Jay do this in the short amount of time the girls had to learn the script! 😆😑 Or Tyra!!!

At this point it’s just bullying the girls. Tyra is the perfect example of a mean girl. Poor ya ya:(

I bet the director really speak English as well 😅

I was in a play once where some of my lines were in a language I didn't speak. The director brought in someone who did speak it fluently to work with me on those lines and coach me through the pronunciation. He gave me (and the one other actor who also had lines in that language) a total of five hours of coaching (1 hour a day for five days) between the two of us actors it was a total of seven lines we had to learn. At the end of our time with him we were at a passible level of saying those specific lines in the language we didn't know. He expressed that he was impressed with us. Compare that to this situation. These girls got, what? a half hour to an hour to practice without anyone coaching them on how to pronounce the words? ANTM isn't here to give these girls experience as a model, it's here to humiliate them for views.

Funnt that Yaya is the one who actually made real movies after this, the one with Anthonio Banderas is really nice and sweet 🥰

Why do these commercial scripts always sound like they came from the dawn of tv advertising, in the 50's. It's like they instruct the writers "give us your most generic shot!"

Umeboshi is such a plant/trick. It's delishes when used as intended, its an aquired taste straight. Like sourkrout, or kimchi, its sour and salted and usually used to enhance a dish. That was such and underhanded set up. Make them eat a sour plum onigiri or something.

This commercial was basically last minute because of the flight issue. Security came and got the girls. After they were all let go and time was taken away. They had to think of this and cancel the photoshoot they had. I'll give them a pass because of the issue everyone had. No one expected it and they tried something. Maybe they could had done something else that was more easy.

So I am guessing this would NOT be how a typical commercial shoot would go, for a professional model doing a serious and professional shoot for a client? That they wouldn't just be expected to show up in a kimono and bright makeup, speak perfectly fluent Japanese and do a commercial for soup? And again, as with MANY of Tyra's photo/film shoots...this probably IS NOT something that would be accepted in a professional portfolio for the girls to show later to REAL clients, yes? This was just done to make them look ridiculous and humiliate them and have the judges criticize them? Wouldn't a model have to SIGN OFF on something like this? Especially if she DIDN'T know the language she was expected to speak perfectly in 30 minutes?

Fun fact they did not just get off the plane. They were actually hold by border control because they thought they were prostitutes. So this whole commercial was kind of thrown together last minute because they weren’t able to be on time For whatever else he had planed.

Jessica, u are so kind. Thank you for always being loving in your critique . No one deserves to b treated this way, let alone for these reasons. We all aspire...but not to abuse.

It’s so annoying when Tyra says “in the real world” ummm in the real world the model has the option to choose. The option is taken away in this show. It’s just amusement for her and the other judges. Disgusting.

Yeah the whole point was to feed them something gross & judge the most extreme reaction to it. Btw I loved their pretty pink makeup. It's like Barbie meets Manga. They all looked cute.