Week six in the feminism camp of fighting suffragette Heidi Klum - and the makeover fan club has to put up with the first disappointment of the evening on the home sofa after just a few seconds: Thomas Hayo is not in this episode either.
Little hope, then, that the Denglish representative of the GNTM empire could finally be completely restyled this year.
Wear a piece of clothing that is not black, for example.
But even without Mr. Attitude, there are more tear duct hyperfunctions today than with Boris Becker when he fetches bank statements.
The 21 remaining candidates first make their way to the unofficial GNTM capital of Los Angeles, budget-friendly in economy class.
Heidi Klum does not take over the tour guide personally – or she has entrenched herself in first class like a diva.
As soon as the machine makes its first contact with the ground at LAX, Sophie performs Katy Perry's LA anthem "California Girls" with little confidence in the lyrics and with a manageable probability of a world career as a pop star.
Fortunately, the plane has already reached its final parking position.
An emergency landing with the entire GNTM squad on board would certainly have caused unnecessary fuss on the German newspaper boulevard.
Viola is rather disappointed about Los Angeles, a place of longing: "The Hollywood signs are just letters that stand on a mountain." Oh yes?
What did she expect?
That film stars like George Clooney, Brad Pitt or Leonardo DiCaprio took turns spraying letters on the mountain panorama of the Hollywood Hills in their private jets?
As a welcome to the city of angels, Heidi Moses-Klum does not share the red, but at least the sea of tears and sends her overstimulated aspirants in two groups to different destinations.
The first group leisurely gondolas into the obligatory model mansion, where they script-safely freak out, as if you could swap an infinity pool for a college degree.
Models on the brink of makeover meltdowns
The second bus heads for a different goal: the makeover.
Katy Perry clone Sophie is right back at the operating temperature stop and announces: "Bitch, the makeover episode is the hottest ever, everyone tunes in." The hottest always: The sentence has so much potential, Capital Bra might bring it coming out as a single soon.
Nevertheless, TikTok phenomenon Sophie is slightly worried: "I want to stay blonde.
Blonde is a personality.” That's true.
Who doesn't fall head over heels in love the moment a full-time romantic smacks your underwear off your body with a sexy, "I love your personality, you're so blonde!"
But Heidi still decides who gets which hair color: "This year we have fewer candidates for makeovers, but more radical changes." There are still no plastic surgeons on site, just a few hair and make-up Artists from various GNTM beauty partners.
As if by chance, various hair care products and electronic styling accessories get more airtime for the rest of the evening than Laura, Lena and Julia combined.
To loosen things up, Heidi chats a little with Liselotte and tells her in an intimate moment that her husband Tom Kaulitz is very often compared to Aquaman (played by Jason Mamoa).
Liselotte looks as if she wants to say: Yes, of course, and Karl Lauterbach with Brad Pitt.
In order to make a de-escalation offer to the new models, who are panicking about their hair, Klum then chats from the GNTM sewing box: "Makeovers have never gone wrong." Well.
Some call it so, others so.
It is uncertain whether Theresia Fischer or Zoe Saip, for example, share this conclusion.
Theresia's transformation marathon ended as Dolly Buster, Zoe had to complete the rest of her season as Dieter Bohlen.
A similar fate is blooming today for Vanessa.
She briefly announces that she "definitely didn't want short and blond" and then gets: short and blond.
Finally a glimmer of hope for fans of Angela Merkel: The Prince Valiant look is back.
After her hair has already lost seven-eighths of its length, it is dyed too green to be on the safe side, despite the fact that it has recently turned blonde.
Vanessa is only so enthusiastic: "Inside I freaked out." But that's still better than snapping on the outside.