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Top Model Winner Nicole Has a Secret Rendezvous With Robert Pattinson
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So let us get this straight. While millions of fans and hoards of papparazzi around the world are going bat-poop crazy trying to gain access to Hollywood's No. 1 "It" man, a petite little artist who was so shy she used to eat her lunch alone in a bathroom stall just—whoopsie!—bumped smack into him?
'Tis true. Oh yeah, and she also just so happend to win America's Next Top Model.
You know the drill: Along with the title, Nicole Fox receives a $100,000 contract with cosmetics giant CoverGirl, management by Wilhelmina Models cover and a Seventeen magazine cover.
But now apparently there is a new prize: a backstage rendezvous with Robert Pattinson.
We spoke with Nicole this morning, and in addition to dishing the deets on her ANTM victory, she revealed her surprise run-in with the world's most celebrated vampire earlier today...
One Petite Beauty Stands Tall on Top Model Finale
Good things come in small packages.
Before the first-ever petite cycle of America's Next Top Model came to a close tonight, southern belle Laura Kirkpatrick and the unprepossessing Nicole Fox had two more chances to prove that they deserved to be on top.
First came the requisite Cover Girl commercial shoot, which left both girls fighting for their composure as the only words they could get their glossy lips around were easy, breezy and beautiful. (Both ended up with decent takes, but it was torture getting there.)
Then it was onto the runway for a Julia Clancey fashion show.
Off Laura and Nicole went, their dresses billowing, fringe flapping and faces shellacked with shimmer, as Tyra Banks, Nigel Barker, J. Alexander and Eddie Murphy(!) looked on from the audience.
The show—which also featured lucky losers Erin, Sundai and Jennifer—went smoothly and both finalists stalked the catwalk like pros, and tall pros at that!
So who was the last girl standing at the end of cycle 13?
Pick Tonight's America's Next Top Model Winner!
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On tonight's finale, America's Next Top Model front-runner Nicole and Kentucky dark horse Laura face off in their final CoverGirl commercial and runway competition. Who do you think will win the coveted crown?
Most important: If Nicole falls short in tonight's showdown, will Wanda Sue design the wardrobe for her granddaughter Laura's six-page fashion spread in Seventeen magazine?
Finally, what is going on this splendor-in-the-grass picture from tonight's show? Just how close do the two finalists become after all the other girls are gone?
So many questions! Tell us what you think in the comments, predict the winner in the poll and come back tomorrow for all the scoop from our one-on-one chats with both Nicole and Laura.
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Click through our Top Model gallery for one last look at this cycle's girls!
Nicole Crowned Winner of America's Next Top Model
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Oops. Did we speak too soon? The identity of the newest Top Model won't be announced publicly until next week's finale, but based on what we've learned from our eliminee interrogations, we have all but certified the sure thing.
Ever since the premiere of this season of America's Next Top Model, every sign has pointed to a Nicole victory—and when we spoke to eliminated model Jennifer this morning, she tacitly confirmed that Bloody Eyeball will be the show's 13th winner.
Read on to find out what Jen and fellow eliminee Erin dished about the odds-on favorite...
Just Call America's Next Top Model's Miss J "Daddy!"
Typically, the only bombshells on The Tyra Banks Show come in the form of leggy models and busty babes.
We doubt anyone was expecting America's Next Top Model judge "Miss J" Alexander to drop one when he appeared on the show yesterday. Especially not this one.
"I'm a dad," he revealed.
However, his 7-year-old son, Boris, is not his child biologically.
Both he and his ex-boyfriend, Alex, were approached to help a woman get pregnant.
"A French lesbian had asked if we would be sperm donors," he said. "So we thought, 'OK, you want me to do you?' And she was like, 'Oh, I'm not that talented.' So I said, 'OK fine.' So we did a little test tube."
After three tries, the woman gave birth to light-skinned Boris, who is clearly Alex's son.
"I said, 'Oh, Lord. Thank God. No child custody hearings—he's yours," Miss J laughs, although he is still an active part of the child's life.
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"Boris" isn't too bad. What do you think are the Weirdest Celebrity Baby Names?
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How's This for Nutty? Eddie Murphy Will Appear on the Top Model Finale
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The professor is in!
A CW source tells us exclusively that fans of America's Next Top Model will see a certain famous someone they probably aren't expecting on the Cycle 13 finale, which airs Nov. 18: Eddie Murphy.
So is the Beverly Hills cop turned nutty professor the latest guest star trying to fill Janice's or Paulina's shoes as a fourth judge?
Tyra Banks' Top Model Stunt: Racy or Racist?
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Sure it might Halloween with its usual goofy costumes, but we're finding one get-up just plain horrifying.
On last night's America's Next Top Model, Tyra Banks asked contestants to smear on some heavy-duty makeup and pose as biracial women.
Sure, they tried to make it sound exotic by having the leggy ladies look like Tibetan-Egyptian or Batswana-Polynesian women, but, at the end of the day, they were still coated in creams to darken their skin-tone.
This isn't the reality series' first time under fire for racy choices—ANTM had contestants take pictures as different ethnicities back in season four.
And it comes in the wake of Mad Men's Roger Sterling donning blackface at a party, Harry Connick Jr. criticizing an Australian TV show over a sketch by white actors in face paint mocking the Jackson 5 and Madonna admitting she once posed as "Black Madonna," but opted not to use the photos in fear that only a minority of fans would understand them.
You think?
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If that doesn't get your goat, Joel McHale: Male Model certainly will.
America's Next Top Model Fierce Juice: Drink It Up!
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Whew—Bloody Eyeball lives!
Based on the reality-show ratio of camera time to elimination, Nicole's departure seemed certain in last night's America's Next Top Model. The Gollum look-alike let her crazy flag fly (even more than usual), terrifying even choreographer Benny Ninja.
In the end, though, Nicole's "stoner" voice, disappointing photo shoot and horror-show dance routine didn't even land her in the bottom two. Going home instead was, ironically, a professional dance instructor—and the girl Tyra Banks discovered in her studio audience, whom we just chatted up today for scoop...
America's Next Top Model: "I'm the Ringleader!"
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Another petite America's Next Top Model contestant was sent home in yesterday's yawner. Is it just us, or is this cycle seriously short on the dramz? What's in store for us now that one of the most outspoken little spitfires had to pack her petite bags—and the shy girl is doing most of the gossip? Read on to hear what the eliminated model had to say about her fickle foe...and to defend her ferocity.
New Season of Top Model Short on Stature, Tall on Fierceness
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Just so there's no confusion, 5-foot-7 isn't short for a woman. Nor is it short for a season of America's Next Top Model.
If the big turn out—and by "big," we mean frighteningly big drama—for the auditions was any indication, Tyra Banks' troop of lovelies-in-training should be no less tall on talent than previous seasons.
For lucky cycle 13, premiering Wednesday, Sept. 9 on the CW, contestants were required to meet a height requirement of less than 5-7. The shrimpiest is four inches shorter than that (gasp!).
Banks leads the panel of experts, including photographer Nigel Barker, runway expert J. Alexander and a revolving seat of guest judges, including Lauren Conrad and Kim Kardashian.
Without further ado, here's your list of beauties vying for a $100,000 modeling contract with CoverGirl, management by Wilhelmina Models and six pages in Seventeen magazine:
Kim Kardashian and Lauren Conrad Join America's Next Top Model
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America's Next Top Model is getting a little fiercer this year with reality fashionistas Kim Kardashian and Lauren Conrad set to appear in cycle 13 as celebrity judges.
Are they joining full-time to replace departed supermodel judge Paulina Porizkova? Here's what we're hearing...
Why Do Reality Shows Dwell on Total Nonevents?
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Why are reality shows so scripted around nonevents? Do we really need to see Jon and Kate's kids' birthday party? Is that interesting?
—Crie, Hoboken, NJ
To the millions of mommy-fetishists who watch that show, of course it is. Jon and Kate Gosselin viewers identify with the eight kids, sympathize with them. Plenty of fans even think they're somehow friends of the Gosselin clan—swooping onto the Intertubes on pixelated steeds, poised to defend every Gosselin, big or small, just in case, you know, Kate might be watching and want to invite them over.
What's far more interesting is exactly how those birthday scenes—every reality show shot, really—gets selected for filming by crafty producers.
Whether it's a crazy naked pool scene on Top Model or a little person visiting a trainer, each shot is far more calculated than even die-hard viewers may think...
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