Rock of Love Charm School - Episode 10
Brandi M. Wins Charm School! Destiney is Charm School Runner-Up
Dec 21, 2008
In the previous episode of VH1's Rock of Love Charm School, the Charm School cast took part in a challenge to create a personal "brand" and a unique T-shirt design for Christian Audigier, designer of the Ed Hardy and Smet clothing lines.
Destiney won this "branding" challenge, which marked the start of Heather's visible decline. Heather's break-down comes to a head during the expulsion ceremony, where Heather begins by pointing the finger at the other girls' faults. Eventually, a tearful Heather admits that she's been numbing her emotions with a daily dose of marijuana for the past decade. And now that she's in Charm School and away from the drugs, all of those suppressed emotions are bubbling to the surface, creating a violent overflow.
With apparent regret, Sharon Osbourne shows a bit of tough love to Heather, who is sent home and eliminated from Charm School. Though a kind Sharon vows to get Heather the help she so clearly needs to get her life in order.
The Series Finale for VH1's Rock of Love Charm School
Just Brandi M., Destiney and Lacey remain in the running at the start of Charm School's episode 10. The Charm School cast is given a challenge: collect items on Sunset Boulevard for donation to a Los Angeles homeless shelter. Each item - pens, tampons, winter coats, bicycles, bottled water, and T-shirts, to name a few - is given a dollar value. The girl with the highest value of the collected donations wins the challenge.
Just when the girls think they're about to set off for the challenge, there's a twist and a scantily-clad Megan, Heather and Brandi C. strut into the room. Each girl is paired with her nemesis for the donation collection challenge: Brandi M. is paired with Megan; Destiney is paried with Brandi C. and Lacey is paired with Heather. So not only do the Charm School girls need to collect donations for the homeless, but they must also work and collaborate with a less-than-favorite person in order to win the Charm School challenge.
Paired with Heather, Lacey is enthusiastic about the challenge - more so than any of the other girls - and she's more than willing to put aside past differences with Heather to work toward a common goal of collecting donations for the homeless.
Unfortunately for Lacey, she's overcome with passion for the challenge and she starts yelling at and berating citizens who refuse to donate items to the homeless.
Meanwhile, Destiney and Brandi C. also forget past arguments and they too work to collect as many donations as possible. And while Brandi C. is enthusiastic and energetic about the task, Destiney seems to lack commitment.
And then there's Brandi M. and Megan. At the offset, Megan decides that her goal is to sabotage Brandi M. so she's not only unhelpful - she's downright harmful to Brandi M.'s chances of winning the challenge (and immunity at the final Charm School elimination.) Megan's tactics are actually quite amusing. She sets off to seek the lowest value donations (pens, at 5 cents a piece - and she gets more than 50!) and she leaves donations behind. Megan even decides to put her donated items in Lacey's donation bin, though a very aware Brandi M. catches her in the act and works extra hard to counteract Megan's sabotage.
In the end, Brandi M.'s efforts pay off - she wins the "Thou Shalt Help Others" challenge and immunity, giving her a 50-50 shot at the title of Charm School winner and the $100,000 prize.
So Who Wins Charm School?
At the end of the "Thou Shalt Help Others" challenge, Lacey is eliminated; largely due to her behavior which left Sharon Osbourne and the Charm School Deans wondering if Lacey's apparent transformation was genuine.
On the final day of Charm School, Destiney and Brandi M. are invited to Sharon Osbourne's beach side home in Malibu for lunch and it's there that they receive their final assignment: each girl must write a speech about why she would be picked at the Charm School winner.
Destiney's speech is clearly sincere and heartfelt; she talks about how her father's death opened her eyes about what's important in life, adding that Charm School has helped to transform her into the woman she's always wanted to be. Destiney also explains that she wants the $100,000 to attend design school, inspired in part by her work during the challenge where she created a T-shirt for Christian Audigier's clothing line, Smet.
But Brandi M.'s speech earns her the $100,000 prize, along with the title of Charm School winner and graduate. Brandi M. wins Charm School when she rips up her speech and decides to "speak from the heart" about how Charm School has given her a feeling of self-worth and optimism. After a few minutes of thought, an emotional Sharon Osbourne thrusts the Charm School diploma into Brandi M.'s hands.
But Brandi M. wasn't the only winner of Charm School. Charm School Dean Daniella Clarke was inspired by Destiney's hunger to learn design. She offers Destiney an internship with her company, Frankie B. Jeans.
Looking to read more episode summaries for Charm School? Check out the Charm School Page!
Rock of Love Charm School fans can also look forward to Rock of Love Bus, where Bret Michaels will return to look for love yet again. Rock of Love Bus will premier at 9:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 4, 2009. In the meantime, check out the Rock of Love Bus Cast Profile and check back soon for episode summaries on this new reality show series!
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