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Every season, it all comes down to Bryant Park.

Nine months after they marched their 13-look collections down the runway at Fall Fashion Week, Althea Harper, Irena Shabayeva and Carol Hannah Whitfield stood quaking before Heidi Klum & Co., waiting to hear who would be named the winner of Project Runway's much-delayed sixth season.

Of course it looked as if time was going to run out, garments were going to go unfinished and each woman was going to float away on a river of tears (mixed with other fluids, in the virus-stricken Carol Hannah's case).

But, wouldn't you know, all three ladies, competing in the second all-girl finale in a row, showed classy, polished and, for the most part, extremely wearable collections at the couture extravaganza in NYC.

And for the spoiler-avoiders among us, it seemed like anyone's game.

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Good things come in small packages.

Before the first-ever petite cycle of America's Next Top Model came to a close tonight, southern belle Laura Kirkpatrick and the unprepossessing Nicole Fox had two more chances to prove that they deserved to be on top.

First came the requisite Cover Girl commercial shoot, which left both girls fighting for their composure as the only words they could get their glossy lips around were easy, breezy and beautiful. (Both ended up with decent takes, but it was torture getting there.)

Then it was onto the runway for a Julia Clancey fashion show.

Off Laura and Nicole went, their dresses billowing, fringe flapping and faces shellacked with shimmer, as Tyra Banks, Nigel Barker, J. Alexander and Eddie Murphy(!) looked on from the audience.

The show—which also featured lucky losers Erin, Sundai and Jennifer—went smoothly and both finalists stalked the catwalk like pros, and tall pros at that!

So who was the last girl standing at the end of cycle 13?

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Sure, Tom Colicchio's got much respect for the five who made it this far on Top Chef and it was a pleasure watching them all cook.

But only four made it out of tonight's episode alive after an especially meaty quickfire round and an elimination challenge inspired by the Olympics of culinary arts, the Bocuse d'Or.

While the fantasy foursome of Bryan and Michael Voltaggio, Kevin Gillespie and Jennifer Carroll was planted in people's minds weeks ago, you could bet that surprise contender Eli Kirshtein wasn't going to let them just whisk past him into the semifinals.

Not to mention the fact that Jen's been sliding in recent weeks, Kevin's not one for classic French technique and Brian and Michael could just as easily self-destruct by getting too fancy for their own good.

And we heard that there was an upset brewing...

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A.J. Jewell's death may have been an accident, but it was a preventable one.

The death of the former fiancé of Real Housewives of Atlanta's Kandi Burruss has been declared a homicide by Georgia's Fulton County medical examiner's office, which confirmed earlier speculation that the street fight Jewell got into on the night of his death was exacerbated by his sickle-cell anemia.

"Although Mr. Jewell died of complications of his underlying natural disease conditions, the complications would not have occurred if he had not experienced the extreme exertion that was part of the physical altercation," stated the report, obtained by the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

"Due to the active involvement of another person, the manner of death is classified as a homicide."

But if you think the report brought any sense of closure to Jewell's still-grieving family, well, think again.

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Win some, lose some.

Rebecca Meyer, the latest competitive dieter to be eliminated from The Biggest Loser, revealed tonight on The Jay Leno Show that, though she didn't win, the grueling experience was more than worth it.

And not just because she lost more than 100 pounds.

"Daniel was my best friend, is my best friend, and after leaving the show we talked for, like, five, six-hour conversations and then...he told me he had feelings," Meyer said of fellow castmate Daniel Wright, a refugee of season seven who returned for season nine to "finish what he started" and then got the boot a week ago.

And even though he still isn't the Biggest Loser, he at least won Rebecca's heart. (And no wonder she cried so hard after last week's elimination...)

"Daniel and I have gone through the same thing," she told Leno. "I mean, he's gone through an even more intense version of it, and I fell in love with my best friend."

How perfect for two people who definitely deserved a sweet treat.

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Rebecca didn't go the distance on The Biggest Loser, but such is the reality-TV way. Find out whose run on Dancing With the Stars ended tonight, as well, right here.

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They've jived and jitterbugged, waltzed and rumba'd—all with an eye on lifting the disco-ball trophy on next week's season finale of Dancing With the Stars.

Mya and her "tutti-frutti booty" distanced herself from the pack Monday, scorewise, while Donny Osmond suffered an early stumble that left him playing catch-up all night. Making up the middle of the pack were Joanna Krupa, who's handled Derek Hough's standout choreography like a champ, and Kelly Osbourne, whose biggest competitive hurdle all season has been her own nerves.

Though it's hard to believe any of them had time to rehearse, what with all the sound bites they're expected to provide and David Bowie impressions they must do.

But tonight, after a dance sequence from Nine and performances by Leona Lewis, Alicia Keys and the Bee Gees, the competition was eventually whittled down to three finalists.

By the will of the people, who obviously love an underdog...

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It's done.

"I no longer work for Rachel, we separated. We are divorced. I'm not in touch with anyone. It's done," Taylor Jacobson confirmed exclusively to E! News in her first interview since leaving the employ of stylist to the stars Rachel Zoe.

Despite spending two years as a main character on Bravo's The Rachel Zoe Project, Jacobson says she won't miss seeing herself on the show.

Because she never watched it!

"I never watch it ever. Never, ever, ever! I've never seen a whole episode, I've seen clips but that's all," Jacobson revealed to E!. "It wasn't entertaining to me because it was just my job and it was just being filmed so I didn't see a reason to watch it."

Jacobson says she admires artists like Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, and hopes to get into more music-related projects. As well, she's already moved onto new TV ventures, such as contributing her expertise  to E!'s New Moon-themed installment of Fashion Police along with Giuliana Rancic and Louise Roe.

Check out Taylor in action in the above clip as she turns her discerning eye on Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.

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Watch E!'s Fashion Police: New Moon and check out the gorgeous goings-on in our New Moon Premiere gallery.