The CW Source: America's Next Top Model: Motion Cameras Bring Out Serious Emotion

Lara (don't call me Laura!) Spencer, host of "The Insider," and Ant, comedian and host of "Celebrity Fit Club," give the girls a crash course in interviewing on America's Next Top Model. The most important lesson for the gals this time around is how to think on their feet...and still look good.

The girls are assigned to interview Ant, who plays all types of characters and the girls must interview him—no matter what he throws at them. It's good practice because then they are told that they will do a two minute interview with a real star—Jessica Lowndes from 90210.

Most cringe-worthy moment
The fun takes place when the director cuts out the teleprompter and the girls have to wing it. Jennifer does really well, and Sundai does too. But poor Laura just freezes...there's stinky, cold silence in the studio. The only utterance that escapes her mouth is a curse word. It could possibly be the longest two minutes of all of our lives.

Erin rocks it: she listened to the actress and was in control of the entire interview. She wins the challenge gets to be in a beauty story in Seventeen magazine -- and she gets to bring two friends, so she chooses Jennifer and Rae.

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Instead of a photo shoot this week, the girls are assigned to star in their own Cover Girl commercial, which they must also write. Teyona, ANTM Cycle 12 winner, shows up to give them advice. Thankfully, she told them what NOT to do, because her Cover Girl commercial last cycle was a bit of a disaster.

Jay walks all of the models through their script, but the director for the day is Nigel, and naturally, that makes the girls even more nervous. Eeks! A judge! Nigel's advice is "be yourself." Nicole started off shaky but pulled through. Jennifer was charming. Laura uses method acting and brought her personality to the shoot. Brittany was robotic. Rae's personality didn't come through. Erin was overconfident and lost it -- she even cried during her post-filming interview. It was a disaster.

Another unpleasant panel
As if panel isn't painful enough, Kim Kardashian joins the three regular judges and throws the whole thing into über pain. Why they bring a "reality TV star" into the one panel where posing isn't key is beyond us. To make matters worse, they didn't bother editing the girls' commercials, and just went with the best take. Some clearly didn't have a best take at all.

Jennifer walks away with the best commercial, with Nicole (!!!) a close second. Laura escapes elimination, despite all of her shortcomings this week. The bottom two end up being Rae and Erin. Erin exemplified the meltdown (the makeup folks had to reapply four times!) and Rae just didn't stand out, personality wise. The judges decide to send Rae home. We're sad for her, but at least she'll be able to see her baby daughter again soon.

Each of the girls had a little (or a lot) of freak-out when it came to the motion camera. How important is it for the winner of ANTM to be good in front of the motion camera? If they can take a good picture, isn't that enough? Or is being a spokemodel/Cover Girl shill the whole point?