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Title: Hannah, Isis Both Go On 'Top Model'
Post by: Shana A on September 25, 2008, 06:24:55 AM
Hannah, Isis Both Go On 'Top Model'
By Roger Catlin
on September 24, 2008 11:51 PM

http://blogs.courant.com/roger_catlin_tv_eye/2008/09/hannah-isis-both-go-on-top-mod.html (http://blogs.courant.com/roger_catlin_tv_eye/2008/09/hannah-isis-both-go-on-top-mod.html)

"I'm really sad right now. I feel like I might have disappointed my family. But I know that they're already so proud of me. Just the idea that I'm here I mean, that's huge. I mean, I'm from Alaska. I never thought I'd be here."

No, not a concession speech from Sarah Palin, but rather a farewell speech from Hannah, the first of two hopefuls cut from "America's Next Top Model" Wednesday.

The other to go was the show's most dramatic entry - Isis, a pre-op transgender model who first appeared on the show last year as a homeless person in the background of a photo shoot.