It’s a low-key night at the Top Model house after the non-elimination. Cori curls up in bed with her teddy bear as the others bad-mouth her downstairs. Rebecca seems to think she’s on Big Brother all of a sudden and attempts to forge some kind of alliance with Tara, telling her, “We just have to beat Tia and Cori.”
The next morning, Tia wakes everyone with a cheery “We’ve got Jay Mail, bitches!”
“Do you have the inner strength to be Canada’s Next Top Model, or are you just a poser?” Jay asks.
“Oh no, we’re doing that effing thing where you gotta pose forever,” Tia complains. Ha, standing still and being silent would be hell for her, wouldn’t it?
Apparently forgetting that she hates orange food, Cori fulfills another Canadian stereotype by chowing down on Kraft Dinner straight from the pot. She informs us via voiceover that—newsflash—the competition is hard, and she doesn’t know if she can take it anymore.
Next, it’s challenge time! After a brief character-building lesson with ex-supermodel Yanka (“character building” apparently equals making unconvincing statements about yourself to a mirror), the girls head to French Connection to act as the store’s window display for an hour. Nolé Marin and Stacey McKenzie, bizarrely dressed in all-black voyeur chic, spy on them from an SUV across the street. They decide that Rebecca is the best mannequin and award her a 30-minute, $2,000 French Connection shopping spree. “My car at home cost $2,000,” Rebecca laughs. “I need a new car.”
Another Jay Mail is waiting back at the house. “As a model, can you stop people dead in their tracks? Well, tomorrow we’ve got you covered,” Jay says. The girls look confused. “Can you stop someone dead and, like, covered,” Tia says. “Maybe we’re gonna be all spooky, all dead-like.”
“Maybe we’ll be dead on a train track!” Cori suggests excitedly. Tara rolls her eyes.
“There’s just so much drama, babe,” Cori complains to her boyfriend on the phone. “I don’t want someone who’s a bitch to become Canada’s Next Top Model. That’s one of the main reasons why I wanna [win], because I’m a genuinely nice person.”
The next day’s photo shoot is sadly death-free; the girls instead shoot a cover try for this very magazine, with editor-in-chief Ceri Marsh and fashion director Susie Sheffman in attendance. Despite being swaddled in a garment resembling Jerry Seinfeld’s notorious puffy shirt, Sinead manages to look adorable. Tara, in a black dress that would be lovely were it not for the clear plastic improbably sewn into its bust, doesn’t fare quite as well, coming across as nervous and stiff. Rebecca and Tia impress the FASHION people by working their unconventional looks, but Cori, dressed in the most normal outfit, doesn’t bring anything new to the table.
When they return home, the girls discover that there’s a second part to Rebecca’s challenge prize: Her boyfriend, Tyler, is waiting for her. He gets to stay overnight with Rebecca in the extra bedroom. Tara is—say it with me now—jealous.
As Rebecca and Tyler enjoy their first of many drinks that evening, Cori invites them to join her in the hot tub. Rebecca declines. “Can I take her up on that?” Tyler asks, as he not so subtly checks out Cori’s ass.
Instead, Rebecca and Tyler ostensibly sleep together (“I would never have sex in the Top Model house,” Cori says primly), then go to a restaurant, where Tyler proceeds to drink a lot, tell Rebecca that she looks seductive with her new haircut and ask if she’s wearing underwear. Despite all this (and an argument in the car), Rebecca brings him back to the house, where they once again retire to the bedroom. Cori decides to take this opportunity to demonstrate what a genuinely nice person she is by leaving racy party pictures of Rebecca and the hockey team in the hallway outside Rebecca’s door, but Tia stops her. It turns out there’s no need to sabotage Rebecca’s relationship: She kicks Tyler out herself. “I just have to focus on this,” she says.
At judging, Cori asserts that she’s not fake despite what the other girls say. This prompts the judges to share the untrue things they’re most tired of hearing about themselves: Jay’s sick of hearing that he fake-bakes; guest judge Stacey McKenzie is not a man; Jeanne isn’t a bitch; Yasmin isn’t rich; and Paul Alexander doesn’t file his fangs.
The “warm and inviting” Sinead is called first this week, followed by Tia, who rocked the retro look on her cover. Rebecca is next, leaving Cori and Tara in the bottom two. It’s Cori’s turn to cry this week (although when is it not, really?), as she’s sent home. “You’ll see me in a magazine or on the runway very soon, I promise,” Cori says, like every other contestant who’s ever been eliminated from a Top Model show.
Next week: One of these girls is finally crowned Canada’s Next Top Model!
Watch Canada’s Next Top Model Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on Citytv.
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Heather writes:
I can't believe that Cori put those photos of Rebecca around. That's just not cool. I'm not surprised she got kicked off at all.
—posted July 16, 2007 at 4:35 p.m.
Anna writes:
I thought Cori looked really pretty in this cover try. But I think Sinead's was the best. It looks the most like a real cover to me.
—posted July 16, 2007 at 7:22 p.m.
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