Nigel FINALLY Defends Model Against TYRA During Judging 

When Jade said she’d prefer a taxi you can see Tyra thinking “girl, I wanted you to ride elephants to the Go-sees, but the producers wouldn’t give me the money for it so I had to settle for the next most uncomfortable thing for you”.

I actually had a positive feeling when Danielle expressed herself in a way that reflects her background. I think Danielle showed a lot of strength in her season, like with they pushed her to close her gap. Not everyone can mask their background, nor should they have to.

Thank you for pointing out the assault part, when I was younger and traveled I got groped while getting off a train by a stranger and it was traumatic. People should not make light of assault..no matter how seemingly small

The worst part about it is that Tyra was underage when she started modeling in Paris. I think she was the majority of the time. I really feel awful for teen Tyra who needed more protecting. The fact that she normalized her trauma and uses it as justification to ask for something similar from models is dark.

Tyra doesn't "laugh with her eyes", she just widens her eyes! xD

"Before we see who gets eliminated for NO REASON" 😂 Well someone's gotta go home Jess. There's the main reason.

“You’re holding my bank account prisoner” 😂😂

Even if you get an absolutely stunning shot and the rest are awful, or one awful shot and the rest are stunning, it genuinely doesn’t matter. Whichever photo they choose will be dependent on how production want that week’s feedback and/or elimination to go.

There was a Blueberry phone! It had a short life though, so a lot of people don't remember it.

Looking back this show was so ridiculous and abusive. Tyra took so much advantage of these young women 😢. Now that I am older I am appalled this was ever accepted by society in general.

I definitely did download these images (specifically joanie and jade) to my phone lmao

New quote of the year. "You're always lost and you just hope that one day they stop sending bills to your house." Jessica 2024

Would she complain if Danielle had a valley girl's accent?

I've been to Bangkok multiple times and traffic is wild there. The city was not designed for the amount of cats currently on the road. So I'm not surprised that the girls were late.

"Didn't I tell her to smile with two of her eyelashes?" Lmao I died.

Jessica they are modelling with swimsuit. They are not gonna do that on a temple

I see your neck too Tyra 😂😂😂

"You just hope that one day they stop sending bills to your house" LOL maybe if you do the cover girl voice

I was just cleaning the house, and just had on this season. Phuket was completely destroyed by a Tsunami a year before, and they thought it would be a good location for being Ghoilish? Must have gotten a big discount. And the water is beautiful there, but it’s so rough, everything looks muddy. So Tyra tells them how to model for swimsuits, after they already modeled in swimsuits?! I used to wear Op clothes in the mid 80s. Thanks for believing in me…yawn. And maybe if they wanted Danielle to speak clearer, they could have brought in an acting coach, for all the ladies. Tyra is such a phoney baloney.

Please do a reaction video of Asia's Next Top Model ❤

THE KITTY!!!!! B&w like my baby Kiki😻🫶🏼

Plot twist - they weren't actually in Thailand, they went to a beach in LA

Jessica: whines about how peope who had signed up for a reality show dont get paid for it and that no model nowadays should be shooting on rocks in the sea when it happens all the time Also Jessica: makes absolutely no mention of the fact they were shooting on the beach that was the site of the worst tsunami in history. Jeez, priorities

Think Nigel said it because could it be since it’s getting closer to end they must get to see the best of them to make decisions although I think by this point they already know who

Way too many ad breaks

On a completely different note, the absolute death grip OP swimwear had on me in junior high… oof Edit: Also, rip danielle’s toe

Poor Nigel having a bad day.

I think Tyra resents how hard she had to work to get where she is and takes it out on aspiring models. "I suffered so you have to suffer" mentality. Go to therapy bestie

The fact that Danielle didn't say anything* while Tyra was giving her the "you're still in this competition" speech just strikes me as so... gross? I think gross. Like they're criticizing the way she speaks, her accent, all of that, and I feel like this was the moment where it maybe broke her. That no matter what she did or said, they'd think she was this "dumb hick" because of her accent and not take her seriously. And it's obvious, when you listen to her words and not just her accent, that Danielle is very intelligent and empathetic and could connect really well with a lot of different people. *Or anything she said was edited out, in which case I think a lot of my read of the situation doesn't apply lol

when tyra is "smiling" with her eyes she looks like she's about to kill smb

OMG is hell freezing over? Is it the end of the world? Nigel acted like a human with a heart, and defended a model against those monster judges😮❤️

Tyra brought up assault on the Paris subway as if its totally normal because she let Adrianne (sp?) got assaulted on the go sees in season 1. She's gotta make it seem normal so she can sleep at night.

I like how Nigel seems oblivious to the fact that, saying "relax" to a stressed person isn't going to relax that person.

They probably can't go model at those temples tbh. Maybe in front of and very far away from them but the temples are sacred in their culture and it would be disrespectful to do a photo shoot at the temple.

Remember Adrianne from the first cycle and she was literally assaulted on camera, and nobody even brought that up. Tyra's actual critical thinking is "If I went through it, you can handle it." 🙄

I think the problem with Danielle's accent is actually racism

I see where you're coming from and totally agree that they didn't do my ocean justice. (I'm Thai and was born on an island not too far from where they did this photoshoot.) But if you think you can show skins in temples, let alone doing swimwear photoshoots, honey, you're dead wrong! 😂 (You're Muslim, right? Me too. Think about it as we go to the mosque. Same rule.)

they love telling young black women they look intimidating or aggressive for posing the exact same way as every other model

Remember how EXCITING it was when you could download a magazine to your phone/ -blueberry- *blackberry?!

Tyra saying the judges are concerned with Danielle’s speech was indeed random but it sets up the storyline for the next episode which is Covergirl commercial/photo and Danielle’s speech was highlighted. *Sighs*

I will defend Tyra slightly here & on the basis of Covergirl at this time. Covergirl as well as many other makeup brands were not quick to hire & cast people who did not have that Newscaster type of voice. The exception was if you were British. They have since revamped & have included all accents into their brand. There have only been around 13 Black women who have gotten exclusive covergirl contracts & a few of them come from winning this show, Eva, Danielle, & Teyona. Queen Latifah & Rihanna are the most notable women who have received covergirl contracts, but then they were already celebrities. *With all that being said, that does NOT excuse the treatment of Danielle on this show when it came to her speech & accent. They casted her knowing she's a Black woman from the South with that type of accent. And it would have been amazing for Tyra to defend her & say, yeah we know you don't have the typical Covergirl voice, but the public is going to learn to like it because you are a Covergirl & you are beautiful & what different beauty is about. Tyra had that power at this time to do that.

They don't like that Danielle is from the south of the United States. Some people think that their accents aren't intelligent sounding. I love that people have different accents and I find it so interesting. I wish that media would stop attacking different dialects and accents.

It was a swimsuit client, you can't exactly model the swimsuit in front of a temple or anything else like that without being wholly disrespectful of the culture. They would've needed a different client. Did Jessica review the elephant photoshoot from this season? There's your Thailand scenery representation. :)

in teaching, if you invent a test that everyone fails it is always a failure of test. the entire point of a test is to see the differences between the testers. if they all fail, you cannot see those. you built a bad test.

They were ragging on Danielle's southern accent for weeks on in.

When Tyra mentioned Danielle's speech, she had an issue with her southern accent. She was articulate from the beginning, it was that Tyra doesn't like her accent.

Seems like they didn't really care of Danielle's accent but used this just for drama. I mean, in real world who ever cared of any model having accent? Especially when plenty of models (even the most successful ones) are foreigners and they have heavy accent: Adriana Lima, Natalya Vodyanova, etc. The judges always try to find anything to blame girls for (age, height, weight, teeth, accent) and that's so bad.

I can’t imagine how scared Nigel must’ve been to go up against Queen Tyra. Off with his head😮 😅

I swear that part of me thinks every photographer and fashion director hated Tyra Banks so they put her through the most terrible stuff, and she just thinks that is how the entire industry operates. Also bless Danielle for understanding the gravity of what happened in Phuket.

I love how much they disparaged Danielle through this season, and she's the ONE who I still see working today

Tyra's casual mention of being SAd on the subway was the mindset of such things at that time. As women we juat accepted that those kinds of things were going to happen, it was unfortunately normalized.

Tyra: I’m gonna smile with my eyes Tyra: *eyes widened 😂😭 Tyra you have yourself psycho eyes

Tyra would NOT let up about how much she hates Danielle's southern accent. Plus the fact that in a previous episode Danielle wouldn't let them fully close the gap between her two front teeth.

One thing I'll say about this cycle is that it definitely had the strongest and most memorable competitors. All the girls were so talented and props to them for succeeding through this chaos. 😂

While I agree that more distinctive features of Thailand would have looked nicer (though I feel swimsuits at a temple would be disrespectful), it was about the swimsuits, not the country, right? So them not making a big deal about Thailand makes sense to me, even though it's a long way to go for relatively simple surroundings, it's what the client asked for. It's not about showing off the country or be super editorial or artsy in these ones, even if it makes them somewhat less interesting.

I met jade on a modeling cruise, she was extremely welcoming and gave a lot of good advice. We stan

It’s so annoying how they ignore the responsibility of the photographer to actually get the required image from the model. I’ve yet to see a photographer on this show that I would hire to do anything.

Omg you need to watch the ICONIC covergirl commercial of this season. I think it’s the final 10 or 9 of ANTM 6. You will have a good laugh but the girls are only able to do two takes only 😂

Nigel defending a model? I'm at a loss for words 👀

Image if it was Jade, who said the boat was rocking… Then it definitely would have been received as an dumb excuse…🤦🏻‍♀️

“i need you to smile with your left eye brow” that cracked me up 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Anyone else got the creeps when they heard people can download the pictures to their phone, then right after find out it’s swim wear they are modelling.

I remember I was about 12 when this season was out and Joanie was my fav and when she didn't win I literally cried in my closet 😂😂😂

My face when Tyra said that new models should be SA instead of getting a taxi or other method of transport. I know we view the world very differently now (well, some of us) but for goodness sake Tyra!!!

I wonder if Tyra complained about her potential SA while she was in Paris to the modelling agencies and they were like “meh.” And maybe that’s why her mom started showing up to take care of her…. Also that’s why she reacted the way she did to Adrienne. Because she thought that’s how people should react because that’s how they reacted to her. There’s my conspiracy theory.

Quick Trivia: Furonda, who was eliminated a week prior, also shot for this swimwear brand in Thailand. She has a photo somewhere which is searchable online

Although I understand a wish to see sights of Thailand, the focus of the photoshoot was on nature for a reason. 2 yeas before the season there was a tragic tsunami on those beaches they were shooting at, Jay told about it before the shoot. To me, it's seen on Sara's and Joanne's photos, to some extend in Jade's too with its gloomy-ish dark-ish horizon.

Downloading photos in your phone in the mid 2000´s wasn’t common, not everyone has smartphones. It wasn’t until Apple came with its first IPhone that smartphones took over.

Linguist here-I HATED Tyra’s comments. So disparaging, and completely not useful.

Tyra acts like being a model is the highest aspiration and achievement anyone can ever have. What?

Maybe the models ARE paid thousands of dollars… It’s just not paid to the models. It’s paid to ANTM.

I think part of the point was to showcase Thailands beach beauty after the tsunami.

So...😶+👀=😳(smize?)😂😂😂

Tyra was mad that Danelle had a southern accent

Not only did Tyra gloss over sexual assault, but in Cycle 1 didn't one of the girls actually get assaulted in Paris when they were doing the go-see challenge? Seems like an incredibly insensitive and catty comment to make.

Smizing never made sense to me either 😂 None of Tyra's instructions made it any clearer.

When you look at the other video, it looks like all the tuk tuks (except Jade 😂) were stuck in the same traffic jam. It really seemed like it wasn't their fault

I love how every. single. time when Mr. Jay is introducing the photo shoot with a sponsor, they ALWAYS include a voiceover of him adding in more sponsored content while panning away to the girls. Like you can’t fool me that Mr. Jay actually said “and mobile users can download the photos to their cell phones” while introducing the photoshoot concept lol.

Danielle in this episode eloquently put into words how the water made her feel. She isn't dumb, she has accent because of where she is from. I live in the South but as the child of immigrants my accent is different than the Southern accent, but I have grown up around it my whole life. Very intelligent people I know have a thick Southern accent. I think it's quite charming but I do understand the stereotype of Southerners being dumb.

"you're not getting it Sarah" literally took me out 😂😂😂😂

I understand that you want to see images that make this photo discernibly set in Thailand (like temples) but much of Thai tourism is centred around beach holidays and the tsunami had occurred the year before, which significantly impacted the tourist trade. I think the beach setting is both impactful and appropriate (plus you wouldn’t do a bikini shoot at a temple).

Sometimes I feel ashamed that as a gay kid growing up I really had a crush on Nigel and now Mr. OR Ms J are my type. Not even episodes like this can save Nigel for me, ever.

That covergirl accent at the end LOL hilarious Jessica!

I’ve said this since forever Nigel is a creep and he got away with way too much. The fact alone that he photographs his wife and her twin naked all the time is giving me creep vibe 9000 and some of his comments to the girls are unhinged

This is going to sound like I’m making it up and I’m not. But I have no proof it happened other than me and my dogs all jumping and running away from the windows. There is a severe storm watch in my city right now and right as Nigel defended Jade a huge thunder clap happened that shook my house.

I miss my sidekick so much! Love the way the screen flipped up, so fun

Yah....I agree with u about everything. The thing I think we need to keep in mind is that this is a reality show ABOUT what the audience perceives to be "modeling". It's about ratings n drama..not about developing working models. It's a joke!

The reason they couldn’t take pictures at temples is because it is not allowed. You have to be covered, no bare arms, no legs showing, cleavage, etc. they are very strict because the temples are considered very sacred. They most definitely would not have allowed them to dress in bikinis at the temples. I had a covered up shirt and shorts almost to my knee and they still gave me a wrap skirt to cover up my legs… my husband had to wear a wrap over his arms and shoulders because he wore a sleeveless shirt - this was in 2017

No ones their 'own worst critic' when Tyra's around.

The beach is one of the most boring vistas ever. Like, water, sand and rocks are so unimpressive to me.

Danielle is so pretty naturally they are wild

Jessica, you promissed us you would do a video explaining why in the real modeling world the pictures from the show couldn't be used in a model portfolio (i guess it has to be with the over the top concepts). Please, we need an explanation

They could have chosen a beach with a backdrop of a city scape? It would have shown a bit of Thailand but kept it about the bikinis. They are so casual about p0rn and sexual assault... i can say that as a young girl on subways, men touching me (one peed on me once while i was looking at which stop i needed!) Has only made me more forthright in defending myself and others when i see that behaviour.

I get what you are saying about being in Thaïland and just taking pictures on the beach, but they chose an island who was wipeout by tsunami and showing how it was reconstructing.

Tyra basically said "speak white".

Sara is a doppelgänger of Scarlet Johanson.

You can watch asia’s next top model. Photos are great there. Dramas were mostly caused by the models. Host and photographers actually guides the models.

Here I thought Joanie and Danielle were both being set up to fail and they both made it through, Joanie with a picture they didn't show her taking and Danielle in the bottom not based on her picture but because of the way she speaks.....

Omg Jess! Blackberry was my favorite phone 😂!!!

So random they brought up their discomfort with Danielle’s speech when they should have judged her based on her photo instead.