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Shandi Sullivan Became “The Girl Who Cheated”
America’s Next Top Model Cycle 2 finalist Shandi Sullivan, who had a boyfriend back home, was filmed in bed with a male model who had been partying at the contestants’ house in Milan, as seen on the March 16, 2004, episode titled “The Girl Who Cheated.” Shandi stated in the 2026 Netflix series Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model that she was drunk and blacked out—and believed producers should have intervened.
“I think after getting out of the hot tub and whatever happened after that,” Shandi mentioned in the series, “I think they should’ve f–king, like alright, this has gone too far, we’ve got to, like, pull her out of this.”
Also featured in the ANTM episode: Shandi crying the next morning, calling her boyfriend to confess to cheating and contacting the model in Milan to ask if he had any STDs.
When asked about Shandi, Tyra Banks remarked in Reality Check, “I do remember her story. It’s a little difficult for me to talk about production because that’s not my territory.”
Executive producer Ken Mok stated in the documentary, “We treated Top Model as a documentary and we told the girls on day one that we’d go over the rules with them. There’s going to be cameras on you 24/7, day in and day out, and they’re going to cover everything, the good, the bad and the in-between.”
Tyra added, “I’m not head of story; that’s Ken Mok. But I did become a master editor. It’s important for people to know that we didn’t put everything on TV.”
E! News reached out to Tyra and Ken for comment but did not receive a response.
