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TRUE BEAUTY
Air Date: Monday, January 12, 2009
Time Slot: 10:00 PM-11:00 PM EST on ABC
Episode Title: (#102) "Episode 102"
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CONTESTANTS ARE SECRETLY TESTED NEXT WEEK ON THEIR CHARITABLE CHARACTER, ON ABC'S "TRUE BEAUTY"

Vanessa Minnillo Hosts / Cheryl Tiegs and Nol� Marin Are Judges

"Episode 102" -- In week two, Chelsea Bush escapes elimination and returns to the house to an unwelcoming group of contestants. Hadiyyah-lah Sai'd from Brooklyn Park, Minnesota was the first person eliminated this week. "True Beauty" airs MONDAY, JAN. 12 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on ABC.

Current female contestants are: Ashley Michaelson, a 21-year-old designer's assistant from Rochester, New York; Monique Santiago, a 21-year-old Go-Go dancer from Manhattan, New York; Julia Anderson, a 23-year-old magician's assistant from Dallas, Texas; Laura Leigh, a 21-year-old model from Staten Island, New York; and Chelsea Bush, a 21-year old model/artist from Brentwood, Tennessee.

The men are: CJ Miller, a 26-year-old barista from Los Angeles, California; Billy Jeffrey, a 31-year-old vitamin store owner from Lewiston, Idaho; Joel Rush, a 26-year-old imaging software salesman from Tampa, Florida; and Ray Seitz, a 29-year-old artist from San Diego, California.

This week's challenge secretly tests the remaining contestants on charitable character. They're divided into three teams of three, and will go shopping for a "million dollar look" on Melrose Avenue. The catch? Each team will only have $100 to spend on all their outfits. They can beg, borrow and use their good looks to help them obtain more clothes. They will be judged on their look by Vanessa, Nol� and Cheryl at a club opening the next night. As our teams use their charm and looks to make deals, some are more honest than others, with the judges watching everything from the spy room. Also, while shopping on Melrose Avenue, each team will encounter a woman on the street in a booth asking for donations to a children's charity. Will our cast stop and give?

At the night club, the judges watch each of our beauties step out from behind a curtain and showcase their looks to the crowd. The winner receives a $5000 shopping spree. The bottom two will meet the judges in the Hall of Beauty, where one will be eliminated. But before the two enter the Hall of Beauty, they're each tested separately one last time with our "Final Straw" test. Will they help a bike messenger who takes a nasty spill right in front of them? At elimination, our beauties make their case to remain in the competition. One is safe and sent back to the house; the other will be confronted with his/her bad behavior which, unbeknownst to them, was all caught on tape.

At the end of the season, one winner will be declared, a person who is truly beautiful inside and out, and who will receive a cash prize and a spot in PEOPLE's 100 Most Beautiful People issue.

"True Beauty" is hosted and judged by Vanessa Minnillo, along with judges Cheryl Tiegs and Nol� Marin. Executive producers are Denise Cramsey, Tyra Banks and Laura Armstrong for Bankable Productions, and Ashton Kutcher, Jason Goldberg, Karey Burke and Rod Aissa for Katalyst Productions. The series is a production of Warner Horizon Television. This program carries a TV-14,L parental guideline.

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