"America&x27;s Next Top Model" Alum Joanie Sprague Gives Her Hilarious Take on the Tyra Banks Photo Shoot Challenge Rachel McRadyTue, February 24, 2026 at 7:40 PM UTC 0 Joanie Sprague poses at construction site. joaniesprague/Instagram (2) America's Next Top Model alum Joanie Sprague humorously recreated the viral Tyra Banks challenge at a construction site, blending her modeling and carpentry careers Sprague reflected on her time on the show, acknowledging its challenges but choosing to focus on the positive experiences The viral challenge highlights controversial moments from the show, which...
"America's Next Top Model" Alum Joanie Sprague Gives Her Hilarious Take on the Tyra Banks Photo Shoot Challenge
Rachel McRadyTue, February 24, 2026 at 7:40 PM UTC
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Joanie Sprague poses at construction site.
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America's Next Top Model alum Joanie Sprague humorously recreated the viral Tyra Banks challenge at a construction site, blending her modeling and carpentry careers
Sprague reflected on her time on the show, acknowledging its challenges but choosing to focus on the positive experiences
The viral challenge highlights controversial moments from the show, which were revisited in the recent Netflix docuseries Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model
Joanie Sprague is showing off her modeling skills 20 years after she competed on America's Next Top Model.
The 44-year-old former reality star and model, who competed on cycle 6 of the hit show, now works in construction and carpentry and decided to combine her past and present careers to give her hilarious take on the viral Tyra Banks challenge.
"You told Tyra your father was injured in a construction accident and this is your next photoshoot," Sprague wrote on a video of her posing at a construction site.
In the clip, Sprague strikes a series of funny poses while wearing jeans and a blue hoodie and standing on a small ladder. She uses several pieces of wood as props as the ANTM theme song plays in the background.
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The viral online challenge pokes fun at some of the reality competition show's most controversial decisions, which were highlighted in widely discussed Netflix docuseries Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model.
In one scene from the docuseries, former contestant Dionne Walters shared that her mother was shot and paralyzed when she was a kid, and she was later forced to do a photo shoot where she pretended to be the victim of a shooting.
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Sprague was made to undergo extreme overnight dental surgery to fix her snaggletooth while filming. When the documentary premiered on Netflix earlier this month, Sprague said on Instagram she doesn't "hold any grudges, even though I could," from her time on Top Model.
Joanie Sprague (formerly Dodd) on cycle 6 of 'America's Next Top Model.'
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"It is important that contestants share their experiences and finally be heard," Sprague wrote on Instagram. "They did a lot of messed up stuff to us, that's for sure."
She added, "America's Next Top Model was a monumental part of my life. Sure, I didn't go on to be on the cover of Vogue, but I still feel my career in modeling was successful enough. I traveled the world, met amazing people and parlayed myself into other things, all because of the momentum the show gave me."
Noting that she will never get another opportunity to participate in such elaborate photo shoots, Sprague praised the "incredible, over the top production."
Twiggy, J. Alexander, Tyra Banks and Nigel Barker on America's Next Top Model Cycle 5.
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As for her takeaways from the show, Sprague noted, "Twenty years later, I choose to be grateful. I am still here, doing great things. I don't hold any grudges, even though I could. I choose to look back with kinder eyes and will cherish the good moments, people and experiences."
Some of the other challenges girls on the docuseries alleged included on-camera sexual assault, eating disorders and being blacklisted for their association with the show when they went into the modeling industry.
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Published: 2026-02-24T20:00:59Z on Source: MANUEL MAG
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