America's Next Top Model - Season 16 Episode 1
The semi-finalists for Cycle 16 head to Los Angeles, where Jay Manuel and Miss J. help Tyra Banks pull a surprise switcheroo before the 14 finalists are chosen and move into the Top Model penthouse. At a beautiful Malibu estate, the models meet model/designer Erin Wasson and learn to walk a narrow runway in a plastic bubble! Top fashion photographer Russell James is on hand for a backstage photo shoot. Finally, André Leon Talley and Nigel Barker join Erin and Tyra Banks on the judges' panel for the first elimination of Cycle 16.
- genus: Reality
- Studio: UPN, The CW, VH1
- keyword: competition, model, fashion show, modeling, photoshoot, reality competition, fashion model, male models, melodramatic, next top model
- cast: Tyra Banks, Drew Elliott, Law Roach, Ashley Graham