Here’s a recap of three reality TV shows from last night, one focused on models, one focused on a farmer and one focused on cooks. Such diversity…

America’s Next Top Model: We start out this week with Whitney in confessional and voiceovers. She is stunned that she was allowed to remain as Katarzyna was sent home. She realizes that she has to relax and not be to posey. She has to bring it on to make it to the final two… — Reality News Online

Farmer Wants a Wife: On this episode, Matt has the girls get down and dirty with some pigs, then takes them out on the town for a wild night of playing bingo with the elderly… — BuddyTV

Top Chef: Speed and stamina were two ingredients the eight remaining chef-testants needed to stay in the competition this week. Dividing into two teams of four and with immunity no longer offered in the Quickfire Challenge the relay race was on… — TV Guide

Last night, reality TV took us to a farm, a kitchen and a runway. How dare people say this genre is a sign of cultural decline?!? It brings viewers into a series of world with which they previously were unfamiliar. It’s educational!

Farmer Wants a Wife: Series premiere. We first meet Matt Neustadt, an evenly tanned 29-year-old who pensively shucks corn and is a decent catch by most standards. Not only is he educated, respectful and owns land, but he’s not half bad in the looks department… Zap2It

Top Chef: Lisa was told her Rice, Corn, Black Beans and Peppers with Avocado Crème and Grilled Shrimp was unoriginal and Mark’s Miso Glazed Turkey Breast was tough, dry and needed sauce. On the upside, Richard is spotlighted again with his “well-balanced” Tuna Steak and Tomatoes with Yuzu Vinaigrette… — TV Guide

America’s Next Top Model: Whitney, who we really like but doesn’t often take the best pictures, won the photo shoot challenge and got to split some shopping prize money with Anya… — Shiny Style

The members of Girlicious were announced on the series finale of Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious last night. Aren’t you just dying to see who comprises this new band? On to the results!

Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious: As the episode begins, Charlye still can’t get over herself.  She’s not sure that she can handle being in a group with Natalie and Chrystina, but Nichole tells her that she’s going to have to adjust to the idea… — Buddy TV

America’s Next Top Model: The girls touched down in Rome and were blown away by what they’ve accomplished thus far. Lauren, as she tends to do every week, explained how she never expected to make it to this point and how she was blown away by it… — TV Guide

Stacy-Ann Fequiere was voted off of America’s Next Top Model last week. But the wannabe beauty isn’t going quietly.

She recently spoke with TV Guide about the elimination, referring to it as “unfair.” What else did she have to say? Here are a few highlights:

TVGuide.com: How did it feel to be beaten by “the invisible woman,” Fatima?
Stacy-Ann Fequiere: I was pissed and devastated at the same time. It was freezing cold, so I was really struggling, and Fatima didn’t have to do it! Since she didn’t have her paperwork, of course we had been sympathizing with her. But then she had to take time out to do her own thing, and that showed a little

TVGuide.com: Did you think it would go the other way when Tyra Banks was being so hard on Fatima during the judging session?
Stacy-Ann: No. I kinda knew how it was going to go. Even though they were chastising her for not having paperwork, once they said they were going to judge her based on her body of work, I knew. That’s why I started crying before they’d even announced which of us was staying.

TVGuide.com: Do you think the judges thought of you as kind of a joke after you hummed your own musical accompaniment to your stripper dance?
Stacy-Ann: Yeah. They kept bringing that up, like it was my theme song! I think they really liked my personality, because that was the reason I got into the house. But when it comes to modeling, I guess I didn’t have that strong, dramatic element that they were looking for. I was too happy.

What, did you think our recaps of Big Brother, The Real World and American Idol completed the review of last night’s reality television?!? Puh-lease! America’s Next Top Model and Top Chef take exception to that notion…

America’s Next Top Model: Camera pans to a body on a pile of crumpled white sheets. It’s Dominique, she’s just waking up, and she looks like…well like Dominique. We get a montage of shots as Dominique diligently applies various CoverGirl products to her face… — TV Squad

Top Chef: Beer! Whoo-hoo! The cheftestants sample a bunch of frothy brew, then pick one variety and make a “simple pleasures” dish that pairs well with said beer. Spike continues to annoy by saying that all beer tastes the same to him… — Zap2It

As viewers know, America’s Next Top Model has featured numerous sexy photo shoots over the last 10 seasons. But did one on March 26 airing cross the line?

Yes, according to the Parents Television Council.

In that episode episode, Anya won a prize after participating in a contest judged by Tyra Banks. Her reward? A one-on-one photo shoot with judge Nigel Barker -  but Anya had to be completely naked for the shoot.

“It is irresponsible for The CW Network to air full frontal nudity on the public airwaves at 8 p.m., and based upon our analysis of the broadcast in question we believe this has crossed the legal threshold for broadcast indecency,” PTC President Tim Winter in a statement.

“This episode portrays a photo shoot where the model is entirely naked; and the nudity includes the model’s pubic region in full view, albeit slightly blurred.”

Aside from airing during the family hour of 8-9 p.m., the nude photo shoot scene lasted more than a minute and the PTC felt it was gratuitous and “intended to tittilate.”

Do you agree with these charges? 

Another day, another reality TV/soap opera connection.

So far this week, we’ve reported on Jillian Michaels guest starring on Days of Our Lives; and the cast of Beauty and the Geek visiting The Young and the Restless.

Now comes word that YaYa DaCosta, the Ivy League-educated runner-up on Cycle 3 of America’s Next Top Model, has landed the contract role of Cassandra Foster, adopted daughter of Angie (Debbi Morgan) and Jesse look-a-like Jacob (both Darnell Williams) on All My Children.

Her first air date is set for April 25.

As Ramiele Malubay fans continue to mourn the loss of their favorite American Idol finalist, a trio of other reality shows aired last night. Let’s see what went down on them…

America’s Next Top Model: the girls broke into two teams, got a GPS enabled cell phone, and had to navigate their way around New York City to try and book gigs with various modeling agencies… — TV Squad

Top Chef: This week’s episode required the chefs to think with both sides of their brain, demonstrating their technical skills as well as their imagination. The Quickfire Challenge was almost more demanding than the Elimination Challenge, and it came with a higher reward giving the winner immunity rather than sending someone home… — TV Guide

Big Brother: As always, we start after the veto meeting. Everything interesting in this segment always comes from the diary room. Although she’s now on the block, Sharon feels safe, but she will miss Josh when he leaves. Sheila feels for the former partners being on the block, as they share a very tight bond… — Reality News Online

Aimee Wright was recently voted off America’s Next Top Model. Which is too bad for male fans because the beauty told TV Guide that she’s gladly have bared it all to win the title…

TVGuide.com: How shocked were you to be eliminated?
Aimee Wright: I was definitely surprised. I didn’t think my picture was bad enough to get me eliminated! Possibly the bottom two, but I didn’t think I was going home!

TVGuide.com: You didn’t want to be naked in front of the girls, but you had to know that you’d have to do the annual nude shoot.
Aimee: I’m comfortable [being nude] as a model. But it is a reality TV show — that part made me a little bit uncomfortable. I look at it differently. On the show it’s, “Here I am to show off my body.” With modeling it’s, “Here I am to sell a product.” I see it as a form of art.

TVGuide.com: Is there a part of you that’s relieved to be out of the house?
Aimee: Oh, yeah. It was very, very stressful, and I was actually losing sleep over what the challenges might be or what the judges were going to say. I was tossing and turning in bed forever!

TVGuide.com: What was it like being in the middle of the catfights in the house? It just seemed like pandemonium!
Aimee: There are always going to be tiffs when you have girls coming together from all over the country and from so many different upbringings. It’s easy to get into arguments. I tried to stay out of the drama and the controversy.

Read the full interview with Wright now.

Aimee Wright’s inexperience on the runway finally caught up with her, as the young, 18-year-old hostess from Spanaway, Wash., became the fifth contestant eliminated from America’s Next Top Model during this week’s broadcast.

“I thought I was going to go pretty far,” said Aimee, in between sobs, after her exit. “I made it farther than a lot of other girls in this competition, but I thought I was going to go farther… I wish the judges knew that I was more mature than they think I am. They seem to see me as just a very naive, young girl. I think they really got that image of me and didn’t think that I was maybe ready for this competition.”

America’s Next Top Model’s fifth 10th-season episode began following the previous panel that saw the elimination of Marvita Washington and the team of judges praising Aimee Wright for her “luminescent” skin.” That didn’t last.

“Coming into this I had never done any modeling or anything like that before, so this whole competition has been such a learning and growing experience,” Aimee said.

It wasn’t enough, though, as Tyra Banks and the rest of the panel ultimately concluded that Wright had gone as far as she could go.

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