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| America's Next Top Model | |
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| Season 3 | |
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| Judges |
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| No. of contestants | 14 |
| Winner | Eva Pigford |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Release | |
| Original network | UPN |
| Original release | September 22 (2004-09-22) – December 15, 2004 (2004-12-15) |
| Additional information | |
| Filming dates | May 10 (2004-05-10) – July 14, 2004 (2004-07-14) |
| Season chronology | |
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The third cycle of America's Next Top Model debuted on September 22, 2004, and was hosted by model Tyra Banks. It was the first cycle to gain partnership with cosmetics magnate CoverGirl and ran weekly commercials during the show named Beauty Tip of the Week with Jay Manuel and Elsa Benítez as well as the CoverGirl of the Week contest.[citation needed] The cast was increased to 14 contestants, and the season's catchphrase was, "Beauty In Progress."
The prizes for this cycle were:
The following prizes had been removed:
The international destinations during this cycle were Montego Bay, Jamaica (for one episode), and Tokyo, Japan, the show's first visit to Asia.
The winner was 19-year-old Eva Pigford from Los Angeles, California, with YaYa DaCosta placing as the runner up.
(Ages stated are at the time of filming)
| Contestant[1] | Age | Height | Hometown | Outcome | Place |
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| Magdalena Rivas[2] | 24 | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | Worcester, Massachusetts | Episode 2 | 14 |
| Leah Darrow[3] | 24 | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | 13 | |
| Julie Titus[4] | 20 | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | Kent, Washington | Episode 3 | 12 |
| Laura 'Kristi' Grommet[5] | 20 | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | St. Louis, Missouri | Episode 4 | 11 |
| Jennipher Frost[6] | 22 | 5 ft 10.5 in (1.79 m) | Pocatello, Idaho | Episode 5 | 10 |
| Kelle Jacob[7] | 19 | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | Lenox Hill, New York | Episode 6 | 9 |
| Cassie Grisham[8] | 19 | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | Norman, Oklahoma | Episode 7 | 8 |
| Toccara Jones[9] | 22 | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | Dayton, Ohio | Episode 8 | 7 |
| Nicole Borud[10] | 21 | 5 ft 8.25 in (1.73 m) | Minot, North Dakota | Episode 9 | 6 |
| Norelle Van Herk[11] | 20 | 5 ft 10.5 in (1.79 m) | Newport Beach, California | Episode 11 | 5 |
| Ann Markley[12] | 21 | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | Erie, Pennsylvania | Episode 12 | 4 |
| Amanda Swafford[13] | 25 | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | Hendersonville, North Carolina | Episode 13 | 3 |
| Camara 'Yaya' DaCosta[14] | 21 | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | Harlem, New York | 2 | |
| Eva Pigford[15] | 19 | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | Westmont, California | 1 |
| No. overall | No.in season | Title | Original air date | US viewers (millions) | |
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| 21 | 1 | "The Girl With the Secret" | September 22, 2004 (2004-09-22) | 3.62[16] | |
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The series began with thirty-four contestants' interviews with Tyra Banks, J. Alexander, and Jay Manuel. The first episode also introduces Tiffany Richardson who successfully became a contestant the next cycle and concludes with the selection of the top fourteen contestants.
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| 22 | 2 | "The Girl Who is Codependent" | September 29, 2004 (2004-09-29) | 4.36[17] | |
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The fourteen contestants were flown to Montego Bay for their first photo shoot, in which they modeled bikinis on a coral reef. Magdalena became the first contestant eliminated from the competition the day after the photo shoot, and the judging session saw Yaya, Kristi, and Toccara gave the best photos while Leah become the second contestant eliminated.
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| 23 | 3 | "The Girl Everyone Thinks is a Backstabber" | October 6, 2004 (2004-10-06) | 5.06[18] | |
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The twelve remaining contestants received makeovers. The week's challenge was in makeup and was won by Norelle. For the week's photoshoot, the finalists shot a campaign for Nivea. The judging session saw Amanda, Nicole, Yaya, Eva, and Toccara give the best photos while Julie becomes the third contestant eliminated from the competition.
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| 24 | 4 | "The Girl Who Sets a Trap" | October 13, 2004 (2004-10-13) | 4.80[19] | |
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For the week's challenge, the eleven remaining contestants walked in a fashion show for Heatherette, with Eva being chosen as the challenge winner. The photoshoot was a campaign for Lee Jeans, in which the models shot together in one group. The judging session saw Ann, Nicole, Norelle, and Toccara gave the best photos while Kristi becomes the fourth contestant eliminated from the competition.
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| 25 | 5 | "The Girl Who Cries When She Looks in the Mirror" | October 20, 2004 (2004-10-20) | 5.07[20] | |
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For the week's challenge, the ten remaining contestants posed as mannequins in a La Perla store window. The challenge winner was Kelle. The photoshoot was a campaign for Dooney & Bourke purses. The judging session saw Amanda, Yaya, and Nicole gave the best photos while Jennipher becomes the fifth contestants eliminated from the competition.
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| 26 | 6 | "The Girl Who Mutilated the Precious Brownies" | October 27, 2004 (2004-10-27) | 5.05[21] | |
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For the week's challenge, the nine remaining contestants climbed fourteen flights of stairs, doing a photo shoot at the top. The challenge winner was Yaya. At the house, Ann and Eva get annoyed at Cassie for leaving her brownies and leftover ingredients on the kitchen counter and Ann decides to write 'Clean Your Sh*t" in her brownies as a practical joke. Cassie gets upset at this and after some investigating, concludes that Ann was the one who wrote in the brownies. Excitement builds up in the house for the imminent confrontation and Yaya decides to wear a t-shirt with the word 'Respeito' on it, a Portuguese word meaning respect, which Yaya feels is lacking in the house. The girls go out for dinner and Cassie and Yaya confront Ann about the incident. Ann and Eva defend themselves by arguing that it was a simply a joke and that Cassie should clean up their dishes and Ann eventually bringing up Cassie's alleged bulimia, angering Cassie further. The photoshoot was a campaign for YJ Stinger energy drinks, which required the girls to jump on a trampoline. The judging session saw Nicole, Amanda, and Eva gave the best photos while Kelle becomes the sixth contestant eliminated from the competition.
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| 27 | 7 | "The Girl Who Forgot Her Shoes" | November 3, 2004 (2004-11-03) | 5.67[22] | |
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For the week's challenge, the eight remaining contestants attended go-sees. The challenge winner was Yaya. For the photoshoot, the models portrayed alter egos. Toccara got into a dispute with the stylist for not providing adequate clothing options for her as plus size model and this encounter negatively affected her performance in the challenge. The judging session saw Eva, Ann, and Norelle gave the best photos while Cassie becomes the seventh contestant eliminated from the competition.
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| 28 | 8 | "The Girl Who is Panic-Stricken" | November 10, 2004 (2004-11-10) | 5.60[23] | |
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For the week's challenge, the seven remaining contestants gave interviews on a red carpet. The challenge winner was Yaya. For the photoshoot, the finalists had beauty shots taken wearing Verragio diamonds and posing with a live tarantula. The judging session saw Yaya and Eva gave the best photos while Toccara becomes the eighth contestant eliminated from the competition.
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| 29 | 9 | "The Girl Meets Taye Diggs" | November 17, 2004 (2004-11-17) | 5.11[24] | |
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The six remaining contestants had an acting challenge with Taye Diggs. The challenge winner was Yaya. The girls were then told by Tyra that they were to be flown to Tokyo, and as the challenge winner, Yaya could fly first class, and chose Amanda to fly first class with her. The girls arrived in Japan and found out they were staying in a capsule hotel. The next day, they shot a Campbell's soup commercial. Not only were they were required to speak Japanese, but they were told that their director, Zente Yoshie, didn’t speak any English. Ann excelled, with the Zente Yoshie‘s translator commenting that her Japanese was “perfect”, whereas Nicole and Eva struggled to speak Japanese. Backstage, Eva told Ann that she hopes Norelle “eats it” during her commercial, which angered Ann, as Norelle was Ann’s friend. During the judging session, the girls were set a test in which they had to read a commercial and eat umeboshi, where Yaya was criticized for spitting out the umeboshi. At judging, the judges forgot to call Nicole forward for her evaluation, prompting the judges to question if she was memorable enough. Ann won the best commercial of the week, while Nicole becomes the ninth contestant eliminated from the competition.
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| 30 | 10 | "The Girl Who Goes Ballistic" | November 24, 2004 (2004-11-24) | 4.54[25] | |
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This episode was an overview of the past nine episodes of the cycle which featured previously unseen footage.
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| 31 | 11 | "The Girl the Lionesses are Hunting" | December 1, 2004 (2004-12-01) | 4.90[26] | |
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For the week's challenge, the five remaining contestants learned and then were tested on their knowledge about the Tea Ceremony. The challenge winner was Yaya. The photoshoot was a campaign for T-Mobile; the models posed in kimono. The judging session saw Eva and Amanda gave the best photos, while Norelle becomes the tenth contestant eliminated from the competition.
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| 32 | 12 | "The Girl Who Didn't Hug Goodbye" | December 8, 2004 (2004-12-08) | 5.20[27] | |
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For the week's challenge, the four remaining contestants attended go-sees. The challenge winner was Eva. For the photoshoot, the finalists modeled an anime-inspired look on a motorcycle. At the judging session, the girls were required to incorporate Japanese Street Fashion: Lolita fashion into their personal style. Yaya was criticized for arriving late and told to leave the pressroom. Amanda gave the best photo, while Ann becomes the eleventh contestant eliminated from the competition in her fifth collective bottom two appearance.
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| 33 | 13 | "The Girl Who Wins it All" | December 15, 2004 (2004-12-15) | 6.47[29] | |
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The top three contestants, Amanda Swafford, Eva Pigford, and Yaya DaCosta shot an ad campaign for CoverGirl. Amanda was the twelfth contestant eliminated from the competition at the penultimate judging session.
Eva and Yaya partook in a Noriko Fukushima fashion show. The final judging session saw Eva crowned America's Next Top Model.
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| Order | Episodes | ||||||||||||||
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| 1[a] | 2[b] | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 13 | ||||
| 1 | Ann | Yaya | Amanda | Cassie | Amanda | Eva | Eva | Nicole | Ann | Amanda | Amanda | Yaya | Eva | ||
| 2 | Leah | Kristi | Nicole | Ann | Yaya | Amanda | Ann | Eva | Eva | Yaya | Yaya | Eva | Yaya | ||
| 3 | Kelle | Julie | Eva | Toccara | Norelle | Nicole | Yaya | Amanda | Norelle | Eva | Eva | Amanda | |||
| 4 | Cassie | Jennipher | Yaya | Nicole | Eva | Yaya | Norelle | Yaya | Amanda | Ann | Ann | ||||
| 5 | Yaya | Kelle | Toccara | Eva | Nicole | Toccara | Amanda | Norelle | Yaya | Norelle | |||||
| 6 | Kristi | Cassie | Jennipher | Amanda | Toccara | Norelle | Nicole | Ann | Nicole | ||||||
| 7 | Julie | Toccara | Cassie | Norelle | Ann | Cassie | Toccara | Toccara | |||||||
| 8 | Magdalena | Nicole | Norelle | Yaya | Cassie | Ann | Cassie | ||||||||
| 9 | Nicole | Eva | Ann | Kelle | Kelle | Kelle | |||||||||
| 10 | Amanda | Norelle | Kristi | Jennipher | Jennipher | Jennipher | Jennipher | Jennipher | Jennipher | Jennipher | Jennipher | Jennipher | Jennipher | ||
| 11 | Norelle | Amanda | Kelle | Kristi | |||||||||||
| 12 | Toccara | Ann | Julie | ||||||||||||
| 13 | Jennipher | Leah | |||||||||||||
| 14 | Eva | Magdalena | |||||||||||||
Casting call-out order and final two are not included.
| Rank by average |
Place | Model | Call-out total |
Number of call-outs |
Call-out average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Eva | 35 | 11 | 3.18 |
| 2 | 2 | Yaya | 36 | 3.27 | |
| 3 | 3 | Amanda | 38 | 3.45 | |
| 4 | 6 | Nicole | 34 | 8 | 4.25 |
| 5 | 4 | Ann | 55 | 10 | 5.50 |
| 6 | 5 | Norelle | 51 | 9 | 5.67 |
| 7 | 7 | Toccara | 41 | 7 | 5.86 |
| 8 | 8 | Cassie | 37 | 6 | 6.17 |
| 9–10 | 10 | Jennipher | 30 | 4 | 7.50 |
| 12 | Julie | 15 | 2 | ||
| 11 | 11 | Kristi | 23 | 3 | 7.67 |
| 12 | 9 | Kelle | 43 | 5 | 8.60 |
| 13 | 13 | Leah | 13 | 1 | 13.00 |
| 14 | 14 | Magdalena | 14 | 14.00 |
| Episode | Contestants | Eliminated | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Ann | & | Leah | Magdalena |
| Leah | ||||
| 3 | Julie | & | Kelle | Julie |
| 4 | Jennipher | & | Kristi | Kristi |
| 5 | Jennipher | & | Kelle | Jennipher |
| 6 | Ann | & | Kelle | Kelle |
| 7 | Cassie | & | Toccara | Cassie |
| 8 | Ann | & | Toccara | Toccara |
| 9 | Nicole | & | Yaya | Nicole |
| 11 | Ann | & | Norelle | Norelle |
| 12 | Ann | & | Eva | Ann |
| 13 | Amanda | & | Eva | Amanda |
| Eva | & | Yaya | Yaya | |
In a 2020 Instagram livestream with J. Alexander, Jay Manuel admitted that the rumours that the contestants were detained in Japan upon arriving in Tokyo were “100% true”. He revealed that the judges had already arrived in Tokyo because they fly ahead of the contestants, but upon arriving in Tokyo, customs “thought they were hookers” and didn’t let them in the country.
Luckily, before they could be detained, production “put them back on a plane, flew them to Guam ... for two days ... and from there the girls got proper visas to enter the country”. J. Alexander also revealed that he was meant to meet the girls at the airport and was left waiting for them for hours because he hadn’t been told what was happening. This left him “mad, angry ... furious” because production “completely forgot” about him and he had travelled for “two hours” from Tokyo to the airport to meet them.
Jay also revealed that the show’s stylist was traveling with the contestants but that in Tokyo, they “don’t have showrooms like in a lot of ... European cities, so she traveled with trunks with the clothes for the photo shoots. But she was also “turned away” at customs, got a “black stamp” in her passport and was sent “back to New York”. However she took her trunks with her and production told Jay “guess what now, you’re styling”. They gave him money and him and J. Alexander had to buy all the clothes for the photo shoots in Harajuku whenever they had a free moment. He joked that after that experience “he never wants to style shoots again”.
Manuel has also admitted that the girls being turned away at customs was the “big disaster of Cycle 3” and “did mess up production”. Due to CoverGirl's partnership with ANTM as of Cycle 3, they had a bigger budget and so Manuel was able to produce a “really elaborate commercial which was what the girls were supposed to shoot when they landed in Tokyo”. He described how he built a “huge set” that took a “week to build” and a got a “famous director to shoot it” but once the girls were sent to Guam, production “tore it all down”. When the girls “finally showed up” in Tokyo, production said they couldn’t give Manuel any more money for a new commercial. Manuel says he was extremely angry and production told him it was his problem, which he claims is “very America’s Next Top Model production”.
Eventually they did the commercial, but the robes that the girls were wearing were actually the robes from Manuel’s and Alexander’s hotel, and they shot it on a “patio” with a “reality cam” and no proper lighting. The commercials ended up being judged “an hour later” and Manuel was “mortified”, saying it “looked horrible” and that he was “embarrassed to even say what happened”.
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