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"Kyle might have been threatening to leave America&amp;#039;s Next Top Model, but the one to go home was Candace Smith! After failing to impress the judges with her photo, she was the one asked to pack her bags... but not before she revealed that not everyone in the competition wanted it as much as her! Digital Spy spoke with Candace after her exit to find out how she felt about Kyle&amp;#039;s uncertainty about the competition, whether she&amp;#039;d have cut off her hair to stay, and whether that UK-US rivalry is real:  Can you talk about how you felt after your elimination? &amp;quot;I was extremely sad because to me, I thought it was still at the beginning of the competition - there&amp;#039;s no way I would be going home because my potential was so great and I have a lot of credits under my belt. I was just shocked, I was just surprised that I actually went home.&amp;quot; There were a couple of moments in the episode when you said things like, &amp;#039;I can&amp;#039;t go home&amp;#039; - did you have no idea you&amp;#039;d be the one to go? &amp;quot;Oh yeah, I was completely surprised. You know, Tyra loves my face, Nigel loves my face, pretty much all the judges were in love with my features so I thought, &amp;#039;OK, they love me so much they&amp;#039;re going to keep me around just to make myself prove to them that I&amp;#039;m worthy of being here&amp;#039;. Obviously I didn&amp;#039;t get that chance, but you know, I&amp;#039;m here!&amp;quot; When you were eliminated you brought up that Kyle didn&amp;#039;t want to be there. Were you hoping that she&amp;#039;d be sent home instead or did you just want to let Tyra know? What was your reasoning behind it? &amp;quot;I was a bit shocked because she was on the verge of leaving. She packed her bags up and she was ready to leave, and I felt like someone like me that actually wants it bad and wants to be here should have the opportunity to stay here, whereas she was just like... You never know, next week she might say, &amp;#039;OK, I don&amp;#039;t wanna be here and let me leave&amp;#039; and that sucks for people who really want it, like me. So I was pretty shocked that she actually continued to stay in the competition and someone like me - like I said, I really wanted it - had to leave. It was a bit shocking for me.&amp;quot; It seemed like everyone was getting annoyed with Kyle. Was it frustrating being around someone who didn&amp;#039;t want to be there? &amp;quot;It was extremely, extremely frustrating. Not only me, but other girls in the house also were saying, &amp;#039;Well, OK, if you want to leave, leave! It doesn&amp;#039;t make sense staying here&amp;#039;. She basically spit in Tyra&amp;#039;s face because she wanted to leave. But hey, what can you do? I can&amp;#039;t do anything - it&amp;#039;s out of my hands.&amp;quot;  So how did you feel about Louise leaving the week before? Were you quite pleased she just made a decision and left? &amp;quot;I wasn&amp;#039;t quite pleased with it - actually, me and Louise were kicking it off really good, I was hanging out with her. But honestly I have to say my photoshoot that week was really... it was bad. It was horrible. And honestly, I believe that if she didn&amp;#039;t leave it would have been me that had to leave. So if anything she basically saved me another week.&amp;quot; Did you feel under extra pressure after you thought your photoshoot was bad, then? &amp;quot;Oh yeah, I was under so much pressure. But then at the same time, prior to that week when we shot with the Kardashians, that shoot was really great for me and I thought, &amp;#039;OK, this one will compensate for this week that I&amp;#039;ve done bad for&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; How did you feel during this week&amp;#039;s shoot - did you feel good? &amp;quot;I felt really good! I got on set and I was doing my thing, I was modelling, posing and mentally I was thinking, &amp;#039;OK, I&amp;#039;m giving them different facial expressions&amp;#039;. But I kind of found out when I watched it, I was like, &amp;#039;Oh, maybe not!&amp;#039; But at the same time, I felt that this photoshoot was better than last week&amp;#039;s photoshoot. And I thought, &amp;#039;OK, being that I&amp;#039;m getting a little bit better, maybe they should give me more of a chance&amp;#039;. From week one to now it seems like I was progressing a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, climbing up, and it was too early for me to have gone home.&amp;quot; Do you think you should have been given more time to grow? &amp;quot;Yeah, definitely. I should have remained in the competition because you&amp;#039;re not going to become a great model over a period of a couple of days. You need time to build and progress and that&amp;#039;s what the show is about - building and progressing. And I was obviously not given that chance to build and progress.&amp;quot;  Tyra joked in panel that she should have cut your hair off like Azmarie&amp;#039;s - would you have done it to stay in the competition? &amp;quot;Oh my God! Honestly, honestly, honestly, I know the shape of my head and it does not look good with a baldie look, honestly! I was afraid to take Alisha&amp;#039;s haircut - one short side, one long side. Cutting it all the way off? I don&amp;#039;t know, man. It was a little too drastic.&amp;quot; Maybe you had a lucky escape! &amp;quot;Maybe so, man! I don&amp;#039;t know! Or maybe it could have done me justice, who would have known? But I just believe that look on me... it wouldn&amp;#039;t have worked out!&amp;quot; We also saw you getting feedback from the focus group in the episode. That looked so tough! What was it like? &amp;quot;Oh man, the focus group was harsh! These people, they don&amp;#039;t really care about your appearance or what you think. They just tell you how it is, what it is. Honestly, it&amp;#039;s just preparation. I thought, &amp;#039;OK, if I can take this then I&amp;#039;m ready for the real modelling industry, I can handle criticism&amp;#039;. I just took it as constructive criticism. It didn&amp;#039;t break me, I just took it to mould me and shape me as a better model.&amp;quot; So, the rivalry between the British girls and US girls - is that real or just for the cameras? &amp;quot;For the photoshoots and the challenges, there was a rivalry. At that moment it was a competition. But other than that we all got along. We were all just laughing, telling stories, telling jokes, hanging out. Sometimes the UK girls would hang in the US room or us US girls were hanging in the UK room. It was just pretty much the photoshoots and the challenges when we&amp;#039;d butt heads.&amp;quot; What was it like eating that British food a couple weeks ago, though? &amp;quot;Oh my God. I just can&amp;#039;t believe some UK girls actually eat that stuff! It was so disgusting. Honestly, I did not want to eat anything - I did not want to eat one thing on that plate. It was just disgusting. Thank God we had Seymone, because she pretty much ate everything. If it wasn&amp;#039;t for her, honestly, the UK girls probably would have won that challenge!&amp;quot;  What was it like living with the other girls? There are some strong personalities. &amp;quot;Yeah. This is actually my first time living with roommates, let alone 13 other females. To me it was actually a fun experience. We all got along. It was different personalities but at the same time, when arguments occurred it was more the laughs that mattered. We were living in a big mansion, a nice pool, a jacuzzi - what can I complain about?&amp;quot; Is it right that you applied for the show eight times? &amp;quot;It was actually seven times I auditioned over a period of four years... To me, this is actually the best cycle because it&amp;#039;s a huge, huge twist to it, UK vs America. And Top Model has never had a twist like that before. I&amp;#039;m just grateful to experience this kind of Top Model.&amp;quot; Did it live up to your expectations? You must have had an idea what the show would be like. &amp;quot;Yeah. The US girls didn&amp;#039;t know that it was going to be US vs UK until we actually met the girls and then J announced, &amp;#039;Look at these other girls, they&amp;#039;re going to be your competition, it&amp;#039;s going to be US vs UK&amp;#039;. Us Americans, we were shocked, like, &amp;#039;What is going on? This is just insane&amp;#039;. We were just big eyes, wide mouths, &amp;#039;Are they serious?&amp;#039; But honestly I&amp;#039;m glad they did this.&amp;quot; So who do you want to win the competition? &amp;quot;Hmm! I don&amp;#039;t know, that&amp;#039;s a tough one! Definitely, of course I want a US girl to win. It would be so embarrassing if one of these UK girls come in and win the competition. It would make us US girls look bad, so definitely a US girl! I would probably say Laura... even Azmarie. Az is a superb model. She is amazing as a female model, she does so great as a female model, and also as a male model. She&amp;#039;s like a double threat. Yeah, it would have to be either Laura or Az!&amp;quot; America&amp;#039;s Next Top Model airs Wednesdays on The CW. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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