In order of elimination

(ages stated are at time of contest)

• Christian Evans, 19, from Columbia, South Carolina
• Megan Morris, 22, from San Francisco, California
• Monique Calhoun, 19, from Chicago, Illinois
• Megg Morales, 18, from Los Angeles, California
• AJ Stewart, 20, from Sacramento, California
• Brooke Miller, 18, from Keller, Texas
• Anchal Joseph, 20, from Homestead, Florida
• Jaeda Young, 18, from Parkersburg, Iowa
• Michelle Babin, 18, from Anaheim, California
• Amanda Babin, 18, from Anaheim, California
• Eugena Washington, 21, from Palmdale, California
• Melrose Bickerstaff, 23, from San Francisco, California (runner-up)
• CariDee English, 21, from Fargo, North Dakota (winner)

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Original Airdate: December 6, 2006

The final three meet Jay Manual to shoot their commercial for Covergirl Double Lip Shine, where they meet last cycle’s winner Danielle Evans. First up is CariDee, whose natural enthusiasm shines through. While Eugena once again starts off with bland takes, she finally turns on the charm for a great delivery, while Melrose struggles with her over-preparedness. During their CoverGirl print ad shoot, and CariDee once again shines with her blissful look while Eugena delivers some passionate shots. Melrose, affected by her earlier performance, stumbles.

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Original Airdate: November 29, 2006

The girls travel to a dance studio where they meet flamenco dancer Nacho Blancho, who teaches them the steps of the traditional Spanish dance. While Eugena breezes through the practice, Amanda’s awkwardness becomes apparent.

Later that night, the girls share a dinner with runway coach and judge Miss J. Alexander, before returning to their apartment to rehearse their dance steps. The next morning, the girls arrive at a majestic Spanish villa for their flamenco dance test, decked out in full flamenco attire. Nacho is impressed by Amanda’s improvement but crowns Eugena the winner, who picks Amanda to share in her prize, which turns out to be 3 presents bearing clothes worn at the Custo Barcelona Fall 2006 collection.

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Original Airdate: November 22, 2006

Shaken from her near elimination, CariDee struggles to rebound from an off week. In order to relieve some anxiety, the girls invite their Spanish models from their last commercial shoot over for dinner.

The next day, Tyra visits the girls and has a sit down talk about the dark side of modeling, before the girls meet up with Pancho Saula, the director of Elite Barcelona, who has set up ten go-sees for them to attend all around the city. Eugena and CariDee team up, as do the twins, while Melrose decides to hit the streets alone, a strategy that seems to pay off as she manages to attend the most number of auditions. While the twins get lost and arrive late, hence disqualifying themselves, Melrose easily wins her fourth reward challenge, and she chooses CariDee to share in her reward – a catered dinner at their apartment.

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Original Airdate: November 15, 2006

The girls meet with acting coach Tasha Smith at the Los Angeles Repertory Company for acting lessons, and all took turns performing exercises to learn how to break down their physical boundaries. Each girl then shot their own silent film, acting out the direction given to them. After an emotional day, CariDee was chosen as the winner, earning her a guest spot on The CW’s “One Tree Hill“. The girls then viewed CariDee’s winning silent film, and Tyra surprised them with a trip to Barcelona, Spain.

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Original Airdate: November 8, 2006

The next day, the contestants head to the beach where they meet pro athlete and model Gabrielle Reece where she teaches the girls the art of action modeling while they bump, set and spike to beach volleyball.

The girls get even more physical with Nascar driver Stanton Barrett for a competition where the winner has to take their own shots using a remote controlled camera. Although accidentally denting Stanton’s car, Michelle wins the challenge and picks Amanda, CariDee & Melrose to share her reward. Unknown to them, there is a reward challenge within the challenge, where the 4 girls have to act fast and don as many pieces of clothing within 30 seconds. Melrose won the prize of $10,000 worth of clothes.

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Original Airdate: November 1, 2006

This episode recaps the process that the seven remaining girls have survived, including some never before seen footage.

One such scene was during the very first hour the girls entered the house, when they met their wardrobe stylist Charlie Altuna and makeup artist Sutan, who had with them a “Fashion Trash” bin, and confiscated whatever of the girls’ clothing they deemed “unfashionable”. However, after this abrupt event, the girls were brought to Skylar where they had 5 minutes to shop for “fashionable top model” clothing.

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Original Airdate: October 25, 2006

Tyra picked up her camera and surprised the contestants in their backyard with an impromptu black and white photo shoot where they were asked to express anger while maintaining their sex appeal, but a few girls struggled when burlesque dancer Dita von Teese asked them to get in touch with their sexy side. The contestants were put to the test by walking down the dinner table of Elite Models director Cathy Gould at her dinner party. Melrose won her third challenge and brought Amanda, Michelle, and Brooke for a Seventeen Magazine editorial spread photo shoot as her reward.

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Original Airdate: October 18, 2006

A red carpet challenge with former judge Janice Dickinson leaves some of the girls speechless. Melrose wins the reward challenge, which gives her a night to interview stars on the red carpet as part of Entertainment Tonight’s staff.

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Original Airdate: October 11, 2006

The contestants learn to strike an extreme pose from a contortionist and are put to the test in a high fashion challenge. They must learn to show an extreme pose in designer Bao Tranchi’s clothing, and a piece of jewelry. The winner, Eugena, wins all the jewelry that the contestants were wearing, totaling up to $32,000.

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