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Jared, Van, Heather, Benjamin (redhead)- one of those will be the winner. The rest are drama queens or too young (Giovanni- nice guy but I don't see him lasting).

I'm going to make a guess that the cheating involves the knock off pieces. There has to be a reason Amy put that instagram up and then was made to take it back down very quickly. Passive/aggressive and some lightning fast social media? It went viral before it could be stopped. We already know of two pieces that fit that. what if we were to find out they have been copying looks from other shoppers in Mood or some such?

I have a feeling... that if at the end of the season we line up all of Brandon's challenge looks, we are going to find he is actually very quietly creating a cohesive collection. Bravo if so.

I have two questions: 1- what is up with the harnesses? Are we being played by the designers? First it was Michael and his sex club fetish wear (self described in his bio). Then it was Brandon. All of a sudden, Brandon's a Dom. Then Samantha turns up in one. Swear, if Anaya pops up in straps before the season is over... 2- if you found out you were one of the 100 or so contestants who were going to get the opportunity to go show your work to the in person audition team, would you not make a side trip to NYC and go scout Mood? Seems to me anyone whop was serious about being on this game show would know what fabric Mood has, where it is located in the store, how it combines with other similar fabrics, etc. And if you couldn't get to Mood, wouldn't you do that at your local fabric store? And wouldn't you have about 20 designs stashed away in your brain that you could pull from depending on the challenge? That you knew how to pattern? That you practiced doing in the challenge time? I would.

I didn't phrase that well- rather than "appropriating", let me switch that to "hiding or destroying workroom materials that they are not themselves using so that another designed cannot use it"- accidentally cutting a zipper in half, pouring dye down the sink, that kind of thing. I don't know if that is it, but those two pieces really stood out for me as odd things to incorporate each week.

see thru shirt collection with a sweatshirt top in it? No hair twin- has to be. She would be the one to be "provocative" on the PR runway. The sweatshirt gives it away.

Speculation: last week, Deyonte kept walking around saying "No one has another bottle of teal dye?" after a large amount of supplies were provided for them. This week, Amy gives Aaron a zipper to use. Makes me wonder if the cheating isn't appropriating the workroom supplies. I don't recall any from the first few episodes. Anyone else?

I predicted after the first episode that Liris was going to be the winner this year- a fierce, plus size model. Marie Claire and Lifetime get to be inclusive. Whatever designer has her assigned in the finale will be the winner. So far, that is holding up.

Couple of things: - Did Nina lose a bet? Last week we had blue boa feather sleeves and this week the MTV spaceman dress. Week before was a bedazzled something. - Aaron went from disrespectful see thru bloomers to a cheerleader skirt? I wonder if last week he originally had on no underwear or minimal underwear and they sent an intern to Duane Reade to buy tightey whiteys for the shoot. - who posted that link to the local Michigan newspaper last week? I thought of that and have an honest question- it talked about the twins' father being a local music promoter. Now, if a colleague at my office shows up with the Girl Scout cookie order form, polite office action is to buy a box. Did Katy Perry need to buy a dress offered by the children of a local concert promoter? Asking seriously. Because it has never been mentioned that she commissioned it in any way, nor did she buy a second piece. In fact, it never mentions that she purchased the first one, only that they spent $800 and 5 months on it. Perhaps it was a gift to her and the "cost" was to be photographed in it?

A couple of thoughts: Anaya- I think she does pretty things and she fills a niche that has been previously unfilled from many fronts. I called it back on the Road to the Runway episode that she would be kept long enough for she and Michael the sex fetish guy to be paired for the lingerie challenge. Looks like we're getting a sleepwear challenge instead next week- close enough. Wonder if it will be teams and if they will be partners. Also, by giving her the win last week 1) gave her immunity to get thru to the sleepwear and 2) Marie Claire gets to be inclusive. They won't auf her in the sleepwear challenge- it would be too obvious. She's good for another couple of weeks. I would love to see her do something in a yoga pant/long tshirt combo in a ridiculously luxurious fabric like a cashmere. Deyonte- no way were they going to auf him after sewing thru his finger. And, they couldn't encourage anyone else to help him out with some of the finishing with the amount of twin-helping that's been going on. If the twin helping thing comes to light later, they can't have helping Deyonte hanging out there as well. At least on camera. The Twins- if the TV gods are just, the one with hair and talent will get auf'd first and the shaved head one will have to function on her own. I didn't find no-hair's look to be horrible this week and the red thing by the other one was horrible but so was Kudzenai's. Either/or on that one for the bottom. Kentaro and Amy- I like both of their styles and will enjoy seeing more. Brandon- gonna win it. Spitball spoiler:

Arya and Yara. That's your pairing. Two unconventional women sailing off for pirate mayhem and adventure.

Spitball spoiler- never read a book, just trying to figure out why certain players are still around:

Know what's killing me? I have long game spitballs I want to throw out there so I went over to the speculation thread. Those folks seem to have purposely sook out every spoiler and script leak on the internet. I backed out of there real quick before I saw anything substatial, but dang! where exactly can a non book reader go to toss out some ideas? Not there. What a shame.

Some of them will be kept on to set up the team challenges. I see lingerie with the Muslim modest designer paired with the fetish boy. The older woman professor with Care Bear. I want to see Penis Pocket design some women's lingerie and then make it gender fluid. That button bag is never random. If they were able to build some of the challenges around the designers, it could be interesting.

which are some of the exact reasons I think he's going to be the one sitting on the throne when it is all done. C'mon- the man created his own sigil!

London= Ellen Degeneres Redmond- isn't he Navy Special Forces or something? He has no time for your silly games. Those guys are trained to intimidate and exploit weakness. why would he be different (flip a coin, "no, after you...") on the race?

Does anyone know of a wiki or webpage that tells what happened to the casts after the race? Who got married, who broke up- that kind of thing? Curiosity/nosiness has the better of me.

Yes, I want Justin vs. Rob. But, I also want some folks who are famous here and might not be famous around the world like a team of NASCAR drivers and a team of baseball players or Tim Gun and Zac Posen from Project Runway. Stick shifts with crappy Indian Tatis would be mandatory. I'd like to see some rivalries paired up as teams. Who wouldn't want to watch Gordon Ramsey and Robert Irvine as a team? Find some celebrity superfans and let's go. For charity.

Seriously? A see through corset wedding dress? Why , oh why, did neither Ashley or Candace include THAT in their collection?

How many times have we said over the years that we want to smack some of the stunt casting people because they didn't appreciate the opportunity to be on the Amazing Race and get off the show so someone who wants to be there can be there? I can deal with Justin.

I am a plus size women. I hover the line between 18W, 16W, 16, and 14 depending on the day and the bloat, and the cut of the garment. A few random thoughts concerning Ashley's win- -for the poster above who wondered about fit issues and how you fit a crop top on a plus size model because there is a fat roll so it doesn't lay flat- the answer is, you don't. As in, you don't send down a crop top on a plus size runway. Nor do you send down granny panties under a see through lace skirt or Mexican fiesta flowers. I ask you- traditional size high fashion designers have been pushing the sheer and the granny panties for years. They occasionally get a ladystar to wear one for a promo. But, have you ever seen a normal woman of any size go spend money on and then wear granny panties in public? No, you have not. And if major established fashion designers can't get that going, then Ashley isn't going to get it going with the fat girls. Most fat girls aren't really all that keen on exposing our bodies to that degree. Most Americans of ANY size aren't that keen on exposing their body to that degree. Normal 40 year old women don't wear crop tops or see through skirts or vintage. Why would she think plus size would? I never saw Ashley wear any of those things on her stay at the show. If she wouldn't wear it, why assume anyone else would? - making a collection in seven weeks- we talked about this earlier in the season, that any contestant should have come prepared with the end game already in their head. They should have shown up having designed and practiced with muslin how to do a coat, a pant, an evening gown, etc in one day. They should have had an arsenal in their head of 15 looks that they knew how to do in that time frame and what fabrics would have photographed well on TV. They should have already walked the aisles of Mood or looked at it online to see what they stock, where it is, and how much it costs. They may have even thought of how to present those 12-15 weekly challenges as a cohesive look that showed their POV. Edmund did. I guarantee you that. So one would also assume that they would have had the beginnings of their collection already in their mind as well, with some tweaks to how the judges were skewing, how Lifetime was skewing, etc. Candace could never grasp that Lifetime wasn't interested in black clothes. - what every plus size woman wants is to look fabulous. We are well aware of our figure flaws. The majority of us are taking steps (of varying degree) to lose weight or stay healthy underneath. There are only a miniscule amount of fat girls that want to show off and celebrate their body as it is and they already dress to do that. Those are not Ashley's, nor anyone else's, plus size clients. Take a look around at the well dressed fat women you know or see and you will find some common denominators: very few trendy clothes. Very few cheap fabrics. Very few prints (and it's not that we don't like prints but they are usually coupled with a cheap fabric and a cheap cut of that fabric). What you will see on the well dressed fat girl are solids in flattering colors as fat girls know what colors look good on them and they stick with them. You will see sleeves, usually to the elbow. You will see a wide variety of neckline. What you will also see are absolutely fabulous accessories- a great haircut, good shoes, pretty scarves (with print), statement necklaces and jewelry and fabulous coats.

Justin really doesn't annoy me after I learned he was a radio DJ. Now I just picture Howard Stern on the race with his wife, thoroughly enjoying the experience. Yes, he's still going to be obnoxious, but that's part of radio, and he can't "turn it off' because he's either hard wired that way to begin with or that's what his listeners expect. Howard Stern is reported to be very mellow in real life, until he is interacting with a fan or a public appearance, and then the persona comes back out. I'm going to assume Justin is the same way.

In defense of James Earl and cro-ket- Down here in the South, we have a food dish called croquettes, most commonly a salmon croquette, traditionally served on Wednesday nights if you're Baptist and Friday nights if you're Catholic. It is spelled croquette (cro-ket) food dish croquet (cro-kay) lawn game

Such a tremendous amount of pearl clutching. My goodness! Golly willickers! I didn't say the guy was a drug addict. I said that I was speculating, because something had happened behind the scenes that wasn't being discussed on camera, and the only two things I could think that would cause drama queen Lifetime to not discuss were drugs (legal or otherwise) or a sexual situation. Look- if someone gets an upper respiratory infection, one of the treatments (fully legitimate and normal) are steroids. In addition to clearing up the breathing, they also make you goofy and jittery and unable to sleep. That does not make one a drug addict. It is a side effect of a legal medication. There are other medications that make you lose your concentration or go to sleep. All legal. Not a drug addict. I specifically said that if it were drugs it could be legal and legitimate or of the party favor version. I didn't try to guess, just indicated it could be. People behind me inferred something different and more dire. Go back and look at the original post. It's there, unedited. And whomever upthread with the bullying? FFS- Tim didn't bully. Tim lost his temper, and Lifetime wasn't shy about showing that bit of drama, but they're shy about showing whatever it is that has prompted the Swapnil/Tim/Zac thing. Do your own speculation. I did. I came up with two scenarios. And folks? That's real life workplace. It happens.

Like I said, I'm trying to figure out what has happened behind the scenes to have such a drastic swing- both on his enthusiasm and participation and skill/refinement and then on the other side, such laser focused commenting from Zac and Tim and the production lady. Something off-camera has occurred. And this being the Lifetime version of PR, which has NEVER been shy about broadcasting drama, is holding back. What could possibly be taboo for Lifetime not to exploit? What could have occurred that there are no talking heads from any other participant? That's why I speculated what I did. To me, it was the only logical explanation. The only other logical explanation is that someone made a sexual advance against someone and it wasn't well received (from either direction). Perhaps that might be the more plausible answer. Lifetime, after all, seems to have a limit as to what the discussion will be with regards to sex and the human body, etc. I don't know ya'll. maybe he took a (prescribed and legal) Xanax and took a very long nap and they couldn't say that. I don't know. But there's more than what seems to be shown.