Okay, this one is kind of awkward. Montana is without a doubt one of the most successful models to come out of the franchise (behind Queen Alice, although her portfolio is actually bigger?) and it certainly isn't because of luck. The girl was a disgustingly obvious winner from the minute she showed up on our screens in the premiere episode of cycle 7, and she never really delivered a bad shot. Ever. She was the girl who couldn't walk but runway isn't everything I guess.
Alexandra's portfolio is at least 15x smaller than Montana's - that is an enormous difference, it's true, BUT this is a rankdown based on whatever criteria we want and I am still burning from my mental case decision to cut Simone over Joanna
and I need to go with my gut on this one. Alexandra is clearly not really model potential (she looks old, it's just a fact, and her look is neither commercial or in-vogue for high-fasion shoots) but my GOD was she a goddess on cycle 4. She was just unbelievably fantastic that you actually wanted her to win despite her obvious deficiencies.Back to Montana. I am not going to trash her with her worse-than-expected placement like we've done for the likes of Alien Melissa or Rando Tahnee or Bitch Demelza -- she's just a victim of the duel format. I really loved Alexandra and Montana was at no point my favourite in cycle 7 despite her winner edit. But she's amazing, and that's kind of just a fact? Anyone who says otherwise is pretty obviously super jelly.
This continues to be one of my favourite shoots in the whole series just because the photos of even girls I hate are pretty phenomenal. Also, pink
Usually I will go through the girl's story on their season, mention some highlights, offer criticisms, and revel in any dramz they were a part of. The thing with Montana is that her entire storyline is "received universal praise"/"excelled"/"wowed the judges"/"won the challenge"/"won the campaign" <-- I WISH I was joking. This girl is probably the most boringly obvious winner in the entire show's history - Queen Alice was amazing in that she was for most of her season criticised for being quiet and meek, teased by fellow contestants as well, and then all of sudden decided she wanted to win and just blew everyone away like Taylor Swift shaking off those haterade-drinking bitches. Montana? Meh. No drama. No criticisms. No delicious confessionals by other girls being super angry because they were so fucking jealous. that was saved for the girls she left behind. This is the story of Montana and Cycle 7. Literally Montana.... and then Cycle 7 where the rest of show took place.
What else is there to say about her really? Not a whole lot.
A whole lot of her post show work has been exceedingly dull catalogue work to be honest (which I don't even look at when searching for these images) but there's a LOT of unbelievable work that just doesn't make sense in how it works where it really, really shouldn't
Numbers Chosen:
Numbers Eliminated:
Numbers Saved:
And that's the end of cycle 5! However, there's still the opportunity for either me or Trojan to use our Sarah Murdoch Save and bring one of the girls eliminated this cycle back into the rankdown, and send one of the saved girls packing. Will Trojan use her's?
Cycle 6 will also start very soon, so be ready to nominate when the time comes![/center]
Now... let's hope I get Montana next cycle so I can cut her again, yes? 
Adele's photo was pretty meh, but I mean all of the photos early in cycle 5 were pretty meh and it's hard to really judge them.
