Feisty Ufuoma Itoje became the latest girl to be evicted from the Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model competition after the judges were left unimpressed by her naked photoshoot.
Saying she looked 'awkward', the panel unanimously decided she did not have what it takes to make it in the industry.
Despite judge and presenter Elle Macpherson saying Ufuoma's photograph was 'full of charm,' the 20-year-old was ultimately deemed to have the least potential.
Eliminated: Ufuoma was the third girl to be evicted from the BINTM house last night;
She's a beautiful girl, and that's it,' said designer Julien Macdonald.
Grace Woodward added that she was a 'one trick pony' and 'lacked versatility.'
'I like the fact you're smiling, but it’s slightly awkward. You’re a sexy girl but I don’ t think you’re a top model,' she said. 'You're sweet, but verging on the saccharine.'
Guest panellist George Lamb agreed with the decision, saying that if this was Ufuoma's best shot, then she 'wasn't cutting it.'
For all their criticism, Elle had some good qualities to point out in Ufuoma. 'I think she looks really sweet and gorgeous,' she said. 'Ufuoma has a vulnerability, a naturalness.'
Better day: Ufuoma impressed the panel in the Mad Hatters photoshoot;
But Elle's compliments were not enough to save Ufuoma and, after facing Stacey in the bottom two, whom Elle singled out as potentially 'too fragile' for the contest, Ufuoma was told to leave.
Earlier in the show, Londoner Ufuoma had expressed excitement about the nude shoot, saying she 'loved being naked'. In the moment though, she said the wig she was given to wear put her off.
'I was prepared for the nudity, but not for the wig,' she said. 'It kept moving around and I thought it might fall off.'
I just couldn't look natural wearing it - I felt like whatever I did, I looked terrible. I looked like a man.'
'I felt Elle looking at me and just thought, she agrees. After the shoot I said goodbye to everyone - I knew I'd done badly.'
Versatile? Ufuoma was called a 'one trick pony' by the judges, who didn't feel she could make it as a top model;
Through her disappointment, law graduate Ufuoma was sanguine about her departure. 'As soon as I saw my photo I knew I was out,' she said. 'They couldn't put me through with that picture.'
'I'm not too disheartened though,' she said. 'It was really tough in that house.'
'I didn't even have a bed - as Elle's 'lucky number 13' I slept on the floor. It was like camping. As the extra girl added to the house, I felt right from the start that it was the group, then me.
'It was so hard living with the competition day in day out, waking up with them, having no family and friends to support you.' she added.
'There's no television, no music, no phones, no internet. No source of energy other than your competitors. It was a bubble and I couldn't wait to get out.
'The Russians - Anastasija and Juste - had such a strong bond, they were okay. It was as though they were family. They had each other's support. The other girls didn't like it and tried to break it up.
'There was a lot of eye-rolling and sniggering in the house, but the ones that did it worst are the ones that go the furthest.
'I just hope Jessica wins now.'
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