For the first time in VNTM, the creator of Top Model franchise, Tyra Banks appeared as a special guest judge in the final show on January 8, 2012.

First two unveiled are designer Đỗ Mạnh Cường and make-up artist Nam Trung via their famous quotes.

By that, I choose this place to convey my all enthusiasm to fashion, modelling career in Vietnam.Right at the end of the first-season finale, it was confirmed that the show has been renewed for a second season.

Hunting Model was the other event in which selected audience prominently on behalf of producers had the right to invite featured candidates in ordinary life for auditioning.

The first challenge of this cycle was to learn how to walk properly as a top model herself, and the coach was no other than the head judge Xuan Lan.

They had to embody different characteristics below: During evaluation, Phương Anh and Thùy Trang was praised, as the judges was impressed with their chemistry in group shot.

On the other hand, Kikki was criticized for awkward mouth while Thùy Dương was harshly mentioned her unprofessional attitude towards make-up artist.

At panel, Trà My, Dương Dung, and Lê Thuý's photos showed the judges their tremendous improvements.

This week's challenge for the girls was to dress up as high fashion mannequins and then, pose inside a crowded mall as well as on a busy street.

Most of the girls were distracted by the people passing by; only Thùy Dương was praised for her ability to highly concentrate on doing the challenge, so she was announced the winner.

For the evaluation photos, the girls had to pose underwater and all but Lê Thúy got criticized right on the set for not being confident and focusing.

On the other hand, Thanh Thủy and Phương Nghi were being criticized again for not making any progress; Hoàng Oanh's worse performance was also mentioned.

Hoàng Oanh landed in bottom three with Thanh Thủy and Phương Nghi as well for the judges felt that her photo did not meet their expectations.

Later, judge Nam Trung announced the group with African dolls theme the challenge winner for being well cooperative.

This week's elimination photoshoot involved the girls portraying a very hot issue of the society right now, which is domestic violence.

The girls were brought to a grand theater where they met a nationwide actor Thành Lộc who challenged them to act according to a given situation.

While the other girls struggled with their performances due to lack of experience, Trà My, Phương Anh and Thùy Trang impressed Thành Lộc most.

Arriving home after a busy working day, the remaining 6 girls were cheered up when they received LaLa's mail telling them to pack their belongings and be ready to head to Tây Nguyên where all of this week's episode's activities took place.

Lê Thuý, with a background as a volleyball player, easily finished all three rounds in the fastest time; she was announced the winner of the first main challenge.

While Trà My surprisingly excelled the shoot with many creative poses, Nguyễn Tuyết and Phương Anh could not step out of their comfort zones.

At panel, Trà My was praised for her couture picture and her significant image-change from a teen girl to a very attractive woman; hence, she was the first call out of this week.

Lê Thuý got the second best photo, but she was criticized by the head judge Xuân Lan for giving bad attitude during the shoot and other activities.

Landing in the bottom two were Nguyễn Tuyết and Phương Anh, Nguyễn Tuyết because the judges felt that she started to lose her model look and also easily got distracted, and Phương Anh for the judges felt she got weaker week after week as this is her third consecutive time being in the bottom two.

The casting places include DMC's which belongs to the head judge Đỗ Mạnh Cường, Valenciani's, and Kelly Bùi's fashion boutique located around Ho Chi Minh City.

Also, the host mentioned all the photographs of final four will appear in Her World Vietnam's January 2012 issue editorials like prize for their such efforts during the whole journey.

Ms. Thúy Nga from Elite Vietnam responded through an interview with VTC News about qualification of a Top Model.

She thought the competition is possibly considered a game show of recreation, so in this point of view audience should be softer and get funnier when watching.

If the judges worried about someone's potential or they don't feel quite comfortable with finalists' behaviours they are able to disqualify them rather than shout at and trash them.

[20][21][22] And to cast member, for example, Lê Thúy's crying prior to overcoming troubles, the request from Xuân Lan for contestant Lê Phương to praise her attractiveness over landscape, Khánh Linh's eligibility for VNTM only by jumping to swimming pool during cold weather or times of hardly reasonable circumstances turn viewers confused.

Representative of producers, Ms. Quỳnh Trang expresses daring to file lawsuit against Hoàng Oanh, Phương Nghi and another contestant (pointedly Thùy Dương) for spoiling and leaking info before the date on which they were officially evicted.