This week, the top ten girls will travel by bus from the luxurious model villa to their new domicile, a wrecked motel somewhere in the desert between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. This ProSieben version of Bates Motel seems creepy even to Vivien: "It reminds me of horror movies." And she doesn't even know that Kristian Schuller is nearby.

At the same time, Ida, Selma and Nicole, the squadron's climate officers, fly from Los Angeles to Düsseldorf and back for a half-hour casting. Ida and Nicole return home to the top model campus empty-handed, but with a climate balance like the RWE local recreation area Lützerath, favorite Selma has at least one job in her luggage. In addition to catastrophic CO2 footprints, the long-haul trip also includes the campaign for a Düsseldorf fashion house that sounds a bit like a Hamburg shipping company.

The Peek & Cloppenburg staff responsible on site is visibly excited. In any case, the first sentence that the casting manager, who is strictly dressed in a grand hotel maid look, says to the camera: "My name is Birgit Marketing." Although, maybe marketing is her real last name. Then I would like to expressly distance myself from my previous sentence.

Fear of extremely spontaneous climate change

After the audition, Selma in particular has a good feeling: "That really bucked!" Jacked - this is the code for "In the overall consideration, I like the situation at a satisfactory level". She is right and will be the new face of summer. As usual, everything we see today was pre-produced months ago. In the meantime, Peek & Cloppenburg has filed for insolvency. So will Peter Zwegat be a guest judge this week? Meanwhile, colleagues from "Manager Magazin" report that some creditors consider the insolvency, which was accompanied by all sorts of dubious circumstances, to be planned – and that it would be associated with billions of dollars in risks for the German taxpayer. There is a great deal of indignation. Are we all paying for Selma now? It should be clear to the Selma haters and top tax rate payers that causal links between Selma and the bankruptcy are difficult to prove scientifically.

Back in Nevada, Heidi's favorite photographer this week, Kristian Schuller, takes part in a shoot with the finalists while Klum is afraid of extremely spontaneous climate change and wears an inflatable boat in the desert in the color of the world-famous shit emoji. With the accompanying druid hood, she looks a bit like the main actress of the new "Star Wars" movie "Obiwan Klumnobi – The Empire Had Struck Back". Successor to the blockbuster "The Attack of the Klum Warriors". There are more orange balls on the desert set than at the training of the Dutch national team. This also inspires Klumnobi. She seems to have found a follow-up use for her time after the season and is working on a comedy program: "The last few weeks we've had a lot of funny shoots, today we're making art!" In Paris, Laurence des Cars, the director of the Louvre in Paris, almost laughs at the Mona Lisa.

Despite jet lag, Selma is immediately up to operating temperature, even in the sandy ball pool. She remembers the important advice of juror legend Bruce Darnell with presence of mind: "The hand-bag must be as thick as a lamb!" This also applies analogously to Selma's shooting dress: "It's important that it's alive." Now all that's missing is the right model look. Fortunately, Kristian Schuller is nearby and gives some useful tips: "Please focus on Heidi or the cactus." In any case, something with nasty spikes. Or as you would say on Twitter: The cactus or the poop chick. Klum remains professional and sings praises for Somajia. Unfortunately, Karel Gott has already passed away, otherwise he could premiere the duet "And this bee I mean is called Somajia" together with Klum in the finale. The best singer in Bergisch-Gladbach even has duet experience. Snoop Dogg is still recovering from last season's "Chai Tea with Heidi."

For the Final Walk on the following day, the Berlin designer Esther Perbandt has arrived. She always manages to make her runway models look as if they wanted to escalate their frustration at Berghain after a failed casting for the second season of "Wednesday". Or as Perbandt himself says: "My fashion is tough." So it's a home game for Olivia: "I'm the definition of Taff!" At home on TV, Annemarie Carpendale, Daniel Aminati, Rebecca Mir and Viviane Geppert, the previous "Taff" presenters, are already trembling. Perbandt presents herself as a true feel-good feminist. Young women are often taught that they should be calmly self-confident. But not too self-confident either, as Perbandt knows: "Loud doesn't necessarily mean front." Which could also be the quintessence for a quality analysis of social media comment columns.

After her highly successful week so far, Selma also wants to score points on the runway: "I want the walk to run." And I want to feel the feeling. But Selma's walk is still mediocre. She overlooks the perceptive yellow on yellow marker for her final pose and completes a quick lap of honor through half of Nevada. Klum has to loudly call her to order just before she reaches the city limits of Las Vegas. But Sister Katherine is also struggling: "My legs were too wide." An attitude that is unfortunately not necessarily considered problematic in the modeling industry. In the end, Klum sends transgender model Mirella home. From a diversity point of view, there are still a curvy and a best-ager model in the running. Let's see how much longer. See you next Friday in any case. Then I'll be back!