The fifth cycle of America’s Next Top Model featured a repudiation of the exotic and a return to the roots of the wasp super model. Perhaps if even to address the credibility gap the show faces for having yet to produce a discovery.
 
From the first episode you could recognize the button nose and arched eyebrows of Jean Shrimpton or Michelle Behennah. Viewers had to suffer the unbearable possibility that a miscarriage of judgement could entertain a Tori Spelling in Lisa, or an Angelina Jolie in Nik. But ultimately judge Twiggy recognized her own English beginnings in Nicole Linkletter.