Thursday, March 1, 2012

The America’s Next Top Model:Angelea Preston

The America’s Next Top Model all-star season is now over, but even though these season finales tend to be anticlimactic – it’s been a long time since anyone went into ANTM believing that they’re ever going to be famous for anything other than doing the show – what happened Wednesday was strange enough to get some attention.

The finale had proceeded as it typically does, with the three finalists participating in one last location photo shoot and runway performance.  But when it came down to the end of the hour, contestant Angelea Preston was suddenly nowhere to be found. Tyra Banks announced that “unusual circumstances” were at hand, and that Angelea had been disqualified. Lisa D’Amato, who is 30 and thus a lot closer to retirement age for a model than she is to starting a brilliant career, was then declared the winner, with Allison Harvard as the runner-up (the same position she finished in the first time she competed).

The CW issued a statement that addressed the controversy without actually saying what happened: “After production wrapped on the current cycle of America’s Next Top Model, we learned information that made Angelea ineligible and she was subsequently disqualified from the competition.  As a result, new scenes were filmed to address this for the audience during the finale.” The network didn’t say that Angelea was the original winner of the season, though this would seem to be implied by the reshot final scene, and since no one would care if a non-winner had done something worthy of a disqualification.

So what’s going on here? Angelea has yet to say anything (and maybe she can’t – just because she got disqualified doesn’t mean she can’t still be sued), but unconfirmed reports suggest that she might have used her Facebook to spoil the season, perhaps by announcing or implying who the finalists were, and possibly even suggesting she was the winner. Her only response so far came Wednesday night on Twitter, when she thanked her fans for the fact that she was trending.
On the "America's Next Top Model" all stars cycle finale, it came down to Lisa D'Amato, Allison Harvard and Angelea Preston. But at the final judging, only Allison and Lisa were present.

Why? The judges just said that Angelea had been disqualified. But they did not elaborate past that much information. We haven't been able to dig up much either.
Some Yahoo Answers people are saying that Angelea posted "Top Model" spoilers on her Facebook page. Some on Wiki Answers are even saying she said that she won the season, so they re-shot the finale and had Lisa win instead.

We have received an official statement from the CW:
"After production wrapped on the current cycle of America's Next Top Model, we learned information that made Angelea ineligible and she was subsequently disqualified from the competition.  As a result, new scenes were filmed to address this for the audience during the finale."

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