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Monday, July 14, 2025

Yugge raises her game on Next Top Model

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So many dou­ble-en­ten­dres come to mind when you hear "Join us as we get wet on the way to find­ing out who will be the Caribbean's Next Top Mod­el," at the be­gin­ning of week 5. (Hint: they're do­ing a swim­suit pho­to­shoot.) But I'll let you come up with those on your own.

Host Wendy Fitzwilliam said this week's chal­lenge was about con­tin­u­ing to strength­en core and bal­ance. The chal­lenge was stand-up pad­dling with leg­endary Ba­jan wa­ter­man, Bri­an Tal­ma.

"It's all about the core, the arms, the bal­ance, and al­so the whole body, be­cause you're out on the wa­ter and you're mov­ing. If you can stand up, you can pad­dle," he said.

Well, some of the girls prompt­ly proved him wrong. Hind­sight is al­ways 20/20 and Yugge lament­ed the fact that she hadn't gone with some of the girls to do the stand-up pad­dling the day be­fore. But she had a good rea­son, and one that's all too com­mon in the Caribbean: she can't swim!

Syn­dey, Lin­da and Mackel­la had prac­ticed be­fore and were re­al­ly con­fi­dent. The girls had to do two heats of four each and the fi­nal four raced each oth­er. As ex­pect­ed, Yugge kept falling off her board. Kit­tisha kept try­ing not to fall off, be­cause she couldn't swim ei­ther. Syd­ney end­ed up win­ning the chal­lenge and the prize of two swim­suits.

One piece, two piece, hot, spicy or sweet? was the Wendy mail mes­sage, which left the girls spec­u­lat­ing about a swim­suit chal­lenge in KFC or Chef­fette!! But no, it was on the beach and the girls were asked to be pret­ty, sexy and al­so ath­let­ic.

Mackel­la and Lia strug­gled, and the pho­tog­ra­ph­er, Ris�e Chader­ton, was dis­ap­point­ed with Mackel­la es­pe­cial­ly not be­ing able to show off her height. She was how­ev­er im­pressed with Nicoya, say­ing that she was able to use her body as an art piece. Chader­ton was im­pressed with the girls over­all, say­ing they re­spond­ed well to the brief they were giv­en.

Tal­ma was guest judge at the judg­ing pan­el, along with Fitzwilliam, Richard Young and pho­tog­ra­ph­er Pe­dro Vir­gil. The judges loved Nicoya's pho­to, al­though Vir­gil said he would have loved a lit­tle more eye con­tact.Fitzwilliam called Kit­tisha's pho­to beau­ti­ful but asked for a lit­tle more ef­fort, and Young said she was one of the few girls who laughed dur­ing the shoot.

Yugge's pho­to showed a beau­ti­ful vul­ner­a­ble fem­i­nine pow­er, ac­cord­ing to Fitzwilliam, and Tal­ma called it an amaz­ing shot. Mackel­la was the first to get a bad cri­tique this week from Fitzwilliam, who said she need­ed to work hard­er at the busi­ness of pho­tog­ra­phy. Vir­gil re­mind­ed her and the rest of the girls that they should be con­scious of every com­po­nent of their body dur­ing a shoot.

The judges ap­proved of Lia's shot, call­ing it edgy and sexy. They al­so told Lin­da that she ex­ud­ed strength, con­fi­dence and pow­er. Young said Syd­ney's pho­to was easy Caribbean, but the judges were a bit dis­ap­point­ed be­cause she hadn't brought more move­ment to the shoot.

Yugge won best pho­to of the week, and Wendy con­grat­u­lat­ed her about step­ping it up as asked. Next was Nicoya, fol­lowed by Lia, Lin­da, Kit­tisha and Ayan­na. Syd­ney and Mackel­la were in the bot­tom two and, as much as Wendy said she hat­ed send­ing peo­ple home, in the end Mackel­la was elim­i­nat­ed.

The dra­ma con­tin­ues next week, as the girls go on go-sees and do a pho­to­shoot with, gasp, snakes!!!


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