The guys bare all. Don Benjamin, Chris Schellenger, Mike Scocozza, and Marvin Cortes visited BuzzFeed to give us the behind-the-scenes dirt on filming this season.
Shoot days were long. Like, REALLY long.
The photo shoots breeze by when you're watching Top Model on TV, but for the models involved, they took even longer than you might think. "Oh my God, we were there for like 13 hours at least every day," Don said. "We’d get up at five in the morning, get home at midnight." Mike added, "They make it seem like it was so quick, but really it was just all of us hanging around all day."
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Don's most painful challenge was walking the runway down a building, and not just because he's afraid of heights.
"The harness they had us wear was tearing my balls up, straight up," he admitted. "Like when I got done, I could barely walk."
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Marvin hated the paint shoot, because he was fighting with just about everyone at that point.
We saw some of that drama play out on the show, but it got pretty bad in the house. "At that time, I think I was only talking to Don," Marvin revealed. "I wasn’t really clicking with anybody, because everybody had ganged up on me. Which I didn’t care about. But at that point, the tension was pretty intense. I know for Chris [H.], he felt it more."
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Chris S. getting kicked off might have something to do with the fact that he was paired with the two tallest guys for his final shoot.
"In most photo shoots, you have an apple box or they cheat it in some way, but in the photo I got eliminated with, I had Mike and Jeremy, who are both like, 6’6, 6’7 dudes," Chris said. "I look five feet tall. It’s kind of hard to bring your energy that big."
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