In 2011, Angelea Preston rose to the top. It’s about 3 weeks.
“When I got called up to the All-Star game, I just wanted another chance,” the Buffalo, New York, resident explained to E! magazine. “Dirty Rotten Scandal: America’s Next Top Model” special will premiere March 11 at 9 p.m. “Then I won the show. I couldn’t believe it. I thought, ‘Oh my God, I can take this opportunity and make my dreams come true.'”
Instead, as she details in a two-part documentary exploring ANTM’s checkered legacy, she was informed weeks after being crowned the Cycle 17 winner that the episode would not air. Because Preston remembers being told she was disqualified for “engaging in sex work,” which violated the moral clause in her contract.
The final was reshot and Lisa D’Amato was named the winner over runner-up Alison Harvard.
“It really hurt at the time,” Angelia told E! News in which she reflected on her “very, very painful” experience in an exclusive interview ahead of the premiere of Dirty Rotten Scandals. But, “I’m on a path now where I thank God, in a way, that you all took that away from me.”
Now a broadcast journalist and mother of a 13-year-old son, she explained that she wanted to “actually get the word out” about her story in hopes of helping those who needed to hear it.
