Tale of Two Winners | EP 3
Curse of: America’s Next Top Model
iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
We explore one of ANTM’s most infamous controversies. Angelea Preston won the All-Stars season of America’s Next Top Model. Later, she was stripped of the title, and her win was given to Lisa D’Amato. But what really happened behind the scenes? Angelea and Lisa tell very different stories. We hear from the models at the center of ANTM’s messiest win and discuss the contestant contract that enabled it all.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | We've all heard about A&TM's controversies, |
| 0:07.6 | race-swapping challenges, dangerous photo shoots, |
| 0:10.6 | and we'll get into all that later in the season. |
| 0:13.4 | But I want to tell you about one controversy |
| 0:15.6 | that only the real fans know about. |
| 0:18.2 | And it's the most telling of them all. |
| 0:20.4 | It happened to one model who told me her story. |
| 0:25.2 | I'm Angelie Preston. |
| 0:27.3 | I am from Buffalo, 716 all day. |
| 0:30.9 | People made memory from America's next time model, Cycles 12, 14, and 17. |
| 0:36.9 | The original winner of Cycle 17 17 All-Stars, period. |
| 0:43.2 | But if you look it up, Lisa DeMato is the official winner of Cycle 17. |
| 0:49.1 | So what happened? |
| 0:51.0 | Well, to understand Angelis' story, the first thing you need to know is how hard she worked to even get cast on A&M. |
| 0:59.6 | It was Angelie's dream to be on the show. She auditioned three times before making it. |
| 1:05.5 | The first time, Angelie didn't even get a call back. The second time, Angelie sent in an audition tape. The producer called me was like, we want you to come to New York, New York City, had never been to New York. So I go down there and I had nowhere to sleep. I was just a girl with a dream. Like, come on, let me just go down here. This is my chance to see the casting director. |
| 1:29.9 | Slept in the Port Authority in the stall. |
| 1:30.9 | It was so gross. |
| 1:32.8 | Yes, I was so hungry. |
| 1:34.4 | So hungry for it, girl. |
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