Model Search (season 1)

The fourteen model hopefuls joining ***Model Search***, all met up at the Brooklyn Bridge, and met host Karolina Kulka. Instead of arriving at their house, the models met in front of a warehouse. While the models were confused about the competition, Karolina explained to them that they would take part in a runway show. While the models were backstage, Kylie dealt with a wardrobe malfunction and the stylists had to rush to find an outfit that would suit Kylie.

The rest of the models took part in the runway while the backstage producers settled on putting Kylie last so they could sort out her wardrobe malfunctions. During Jordan's turn on the runway, she tripped and failed to recover from her fall. After the runway, Karolina announces that a scoring system would be implemented, and the scores are revealed to the models. Tuya breaks down because she had only received a 4.2 out of 10 for her performance on the runway, and Jordan also was upset about her scoring. However, for Aziza, she was ecstatic about her challenge win and was awarded with a $10,000 shopping spree.

Back at the house, the models were excited to stay in a lush New York City loft, but Clara and Sabine were left without any beds, leaving them upset about their living accommodations. Clara especially freaked out due to her preexisting back problems, so Anh offered to give up her bed for Clara. After that first night in the house, the models went out separately to see New York City, and bonded. Later that day, the models had a floral photoshoot.

At judging, Aziza's photo was marked with spectacular reviews, the judges also loved Steph and Maya's performances, both on the runway and in their photos. Anh's runway walk was criticized, but the judges all loved her photo that week. Ultimately, with near a perfect score, Aziza took the title of best performance. For Sabine and Tuya, they fell to the very bottom. Sabine's photo was chastised for being unusable for a true campaign, and Tuya's walk and photo disappointed the judges. In the end, Tuya's score beat out Sabine's by just 0.2 points, but she was warned to step it up.

* **Best Performance:** Aziza Jang-Kalu
* **Bottom two:** Sabine Beattie & Tuya Chinbat
* **Eliminated:** Sabine Beattie

### **Episode 2**

**Original Air Date:** January 29, 2017

After the first elimination, the models returned to the house. Immediately, Hanne and Kylie start gossiping about how Tuya deserved to go home over their friend, Sabine. Tuya let out her vulnerability and began to cry as she felt like she didn't deserve to stay. Many girls believed that Sabine should have been allowed to remain in the competition over Tuya.

As a new day came about, the models had a social media challenge trying to sell Maybelline cosmetics to the public. The models had to apply their own makeup and shoot their own photo. Many girls rose to the occasion, but for Jordan, she made up for her disaster at the previous challenge and made it all the way to the top of the pack, but Steph's challenge score was a detriment to her confidence. Back at the house, Steph expressed her concerns, but Natasha gave her false advice due to the fact that Steph placed high the previous week.

The following day, the models participated in a natural, black and white beauty shot. Some performed well on set. A panic attack took the best of Tuya, who had lost faith in herself because of the struggles she came across in both last week's shoot, and this week's shoot. She ultimately was rushed to the hospital to check on her health, however she only had completed half of her given frames.

At panel, Tuya returned to the competition but quickly the positive moment was over as her photo was harshly critiqued by the judges. The judges were concerned with both Aziza and Steph, who were the top performers of the previous week but had two of the weakest photos out of both weeks. Kylie was critiqued for not really caring about the competition, and "sleeping" through it. Alexandra's performance brought her to the top, and was separated by 0.1 of a point from Jordan's performance that week. But for Kylie and Steph, their performances were the two weakest. Despite an amazing week the week before, Steph's score was lower than Kylie's. Steph was sent home over Kylie, who was warned to wake up and start competing.

* **Best Performance:** Alexandra Dumitru
* **Bottom two:** Kylie Howard & Steph Strudwick
* **Eliminated:** Steph Strudwick

### **Episode 3**

**Original Air Date:** February 5, 2017

Coming back to the house, the models found a list of makeovers left behind by Karolina, but they had no idea who got each makeover. The following day, the models were sent to the salon and given their makeovers.

While Alexandra and Natasha loved their makeovers, Hanne, Kylie and Tuya were upset with their transformations and did not accept them as welcomely as the other models. Back at the house, many girls were getting fed up with Tuya's meltdowns and decided to confront her about her, mainly Laura. Both girls got into a huge argument, upsetting Tuya even more.

At their next photoshoot, the models had a sedcard photoshoot to welcome their makeovers and to be natural. At panel, Viktoria began to get fed up with most of the girls who had been underperforming, such as Clara, Natasha and Tuya. Tuya was questioned as to why she had not been performing as well, and Tuya opened up about a tragic event at home, in which her father had passed away shortly before the filming of the show, and her head was not completely in the game. When asked if she had wanted to go, Tuya had not come up with a definite answer.

For Anh, she walked away with a perfect score, followed by Laura who was 0.3 points away from Anh. For Clara and Tuya, the bottom two was where they landed, but Tuya was the third girl to go home. The judges expressed that they sympathized with Tuya's situation, and wished her the best of luck.

* **Best Performance:** Anh Pham Nguyen
* **Bottom two:** Clara Mikkelsen & Tuya Chinbat
* **Eliminated:** Tuya Chinbat

### **Episode 4**

**Original Airdate:** February 12, 2017

After Tuya's departure, the girls felt really guilty about the way that they treated her, and decided to make a pact to be considerate to one another. Especially since at panel, she had told everyone her entire struggle, and why she had been so emotional.

Clara began to open up to her roommates, Jordan and Natasha, about how she did not feel very comfortable in the competition, and how it began to freak her out, especially after landing in the bottom two. She also opened up about her past with anxiety and panic attacks. Kylie opened up about an abusive relationship, and how she coped with it. The girls took this opportunity to let their emotions out, rather than bottle them up, as Tuya did.

The models had a challenge where they had to pair up and style each other, and then walk down the runway.

 Natasha and Laura

Kylie and Karima excelled together, while other pairs got lost and became independent. Ultimately, Karima won the challenge for her walk and styling for Kylie. Kylie also did well, as did Natasha.

For the models' fourth photoshoot, the girls had to model couture gowns and sell the dress while in an abandoned warehouse. Kylie impressed everybody during her shoot, showing that she did "wake up" from the past weeks. Anh and Karima were additional standouts. During panel, Kylie was awarded with high praise from the judges, as was Karima. However, nobody could beat Kylie, who was awarded with best performance. When Clara was called up as seventh place, she decided that the pressure was all too much, and quit the competition. She would have stayed. Aziza, Hanne and Laura were called down as the bottom three. It was revealed that Hanne had the lowest score, followed by Aziza, and Laura was allowed to stay. However, due to Clara's departure, Karolina announced that Aziza could stay as her score was higher than Hanne's, and with Clara, three girls would be going home. Aziza was warned though to pick up the pace. Hanne became the fourth girl to be eliminated.

* **Best Performance:** Kylie Howard
* **Bottom three:** Aziza Jang-Kalu, Hanne Jansens & Laura Szekeres
* **Eliminated:** Hanne Jansens
* **Saved:** Aziza Jang-Kalu
* **Quit:** Clara Mikkelsen

### **Episode 5**

**Original Airdate:** February 19, 2017

After Clara's decision to quit, and the last minute saving of Aziza, Karolina decided to tell the girls that they should not remain in the competition if they did not feel comfortable. The girls were in total shock about Clara's decision to voluntarily leave the competition, however Aziza felt thankful that Clara had given up her spot for Aziza to stay in the competition.

The models had a networking challenge where they had to go around and meet people, however none of them noticed that one of the "guests," or undercover guests, was Karolina's manager. Girls such as Aziza and Karima nailed it, and talked to everyone. However, Anh's social awkwardness and anxiety led her to fail at the challenge, and barely talk to Karolina's manager.

In the end, Karima took home the challenge win, that being her second in a row. She was awarded with a spa day and decided to share it with Aziza, to take the tension off of Aziza's shoulders after narrowly being saved from elimination.

Back at the house, tension grew between Kylie and Natasha, as Kylie felt like Natasha did not deserve to be in the competition, and vice versa. Natasha fired back angry insults at Kylie, which offended her.

The next shoot involved the girls and male models, and they posed in groups of three trying to steal the male model's attention, and be the spotlight of the photo. Karima's week was a complete success, and she was awarded with best performance of the week for both her photo, and her challenge performance. Meanwhile, Kylie and Natasha were clearly outshone by Jordan, and that was to their detriment as they both landed in the bottom two. Kylie's performance spared her, and Natasha was the sixth girl to depart the competition.

* **Best Performance:** Karima Ahmed
* **Bottom two:** Kylie Howard & Natasha Vasilyev
* **Eliminated:** Natasha Vasilyev

### **Episode 6**

**Original Airdate:** February 26, 2017

The departure of Natasha lifted a weight off of Kylie's shoulders, however the models believed that Kylie's focus was nowhere near the other girls. Many of the girls believed that Kylie was not fully invested in the competition, or at least not enough to match the other seven girls.

Immediately after panel, Karolina surprised the girls and told them that they had to leave in the middle of the night. To their surprise, they had arrived at a nightclub and had to do a runway. Most of the girls perfected the runway, with the exception of Anh, Alexandra and Laura, who could not walk well enough to rise to the top. Aziza redeemed herself and won the challenge, with Karima close behind.

After the challenge, Anh decided to call home about her insecurities and struggles with the competition, and opened up to her dad about how she did not feel as if she belonged, with English being her third language. Her father told her to stay strong, however she broke down into tears and did not feel worth the competition. To Anh's surprise, Alexandra and Jordan reassured her and made her feel much better about her position in the competition, and comforted her.

At their photoshoot, the models had to balance on roller skates while keeping their composure and selling bags. Karima's photo yet again earned her a spot on top, while Aziza climbed back to the top at second place. Kylie was placed in the bottom three, but was warned to step it up. Alexandra and Anh were in the bottom two, but it was a teary goodbye as Anh was outshone by Alexandra, and Anh became the seventh model to leave the competition.

* **Best Performance:** Karima Ahmed
* **Bottom two:** Alexandra Dumitru & Anh Pham Nguyen
* **Eliminated:** Anh Pham Nguyen

### **Episode 7**

**Original Airdate:** March 5, 2017

After the elimination, as half of the girls had been eliminated, Karolina told the girls about a huge twist. The seven eliminated girls had not gone home, and they would compete in a photoshoot challenge with the seven remaining girls. The winning team of the challenge would allow the winning eliminated girl to return into the competition, and compete alongside the seven remaining models.

 Alexandra
 Aziza
 Jordan
 Kylie
 Laura
 Maya

Since Clara quit and did not want to return, and Karima won best performance the previous week, she could choose her paired remaining model to work with. Karima decided on picking Jordan. Hostilities arose between Kylie and Natasha, who were paired up. Ultimately, their pairing was unsuccessful.

Many pairs came close. Jordan, Karima and Anh came close, as well as Laura and Sabine, but the pair that was truly successful was Alexandra and Steph who worked extremely well together. As a result of their performance during this challenge, they won the challenge, and Steph was allowed to return into the competition.

As the girls welcomed Steph back, Kylie received a call from home saying that back home, there was a family emergency. Back home, her father was ill. Kylie debated on whether to return home, or wait it out. Kylie's family told her that they did not want to see her give up on her dreams, and they wanted to see her succeed. That was her father's wish.

At the shoot, the girls had to pose nude with powder and keep their composure. Steph nailed her first shoot back into the competition, as did Alexandra and Jordan. Aziza also kept up a great streak. For Maya, she was insecure about posing without any clothing, and nearly refused doing the shoot at all. Kylie's emotions got the best of her, and her eyes began to well up.

At panel, Steph and Alexandra were highly praised for their challenge team efforts, and their individual shots, but Steph took the top performance, coming back into the competition with a bang. For Kylie and Maya, their performances were the weakest of the pack and they landed in the bottom two. For Kylie, her shot wasn't the issue, but her fighting with Natasha put her in the bottom two due to the low challenge score so late in the competition. Maya's insecurities got the better of her, and she was in the bottom for that. In the end, despite the 0.2 difference between Kylie and Maya, Karolina revealed that due to the return of Steph, that both girls would be sent packing in a dramatic twist. Kylie hadn't been showing her true potential, despite the jump in her photo, and that it beat out Karima's, but Karima's challenge was stronger. Maya's performance in the past weeks had been underwhelming and inconsistent, and so she was also sent packing. With Steph's return, this made Kylie and Maya the seventh and eighth models to leave the competition.

* **Best Performance & Returned:** Steph Strudwick
* **Bottom two:** Kylie Howard & Maya Tennfjord
* **Eliminated:** Kylie Howard & Maya Tennfjord

### **Episode 9**

**Original Airdate:** March 19, 2017

The models had a photoshoot.

### **Episode 11: The Finale**

**Original Airdate:**March 31, 2017

* The average score refers to the average of points they received prior to the finale. To avoid unfair scoring as Steph had not received official scores for Weeks 3 through 6, an average was calculated rather than a full, undivided number.

## Results

### **Call-out order**

     Indicates the contestant was eliminated that week.
     Indicates the contestant was originally eliminated that week, but was saved.
     Indicates the contestant quit the competition that week.
     Indicates the contestant won the competition.
### **Scores**

*(Total and average scores on the table only reflect scores calculated from the full sets added during panel)*

     Indicates the contestant had the highest score that week.
     Indicates the contestant was eliminated that week.
     Indicates the contestant was originally eliminated that week, but was saved.
     Indicates the contestant quit the competition that week.
     Indicates the contestant won the competition.