Lenox Tillman rose to prominence after competing on America's Next Top Model in 2021. However, she is better recognized for a tape of Tyra Banks grading her sexy concept challenge than for her performance in the competition.
After watching Lenox's embarrassing video, Banks can be seen expressing her complete discontent before criticizing harshly.
"It is so bad, I want to give you a zero," Banks says. "But that's not possible, so I give you a one."
@lenoxblu marking my territory because i earned it after that ordeal #antm #isurvived ♬ original sound - 🌟
It's the lowest score ever awarded on the show, and the words have spread throughout the internet in numerous ways. Individuals using the audio in lip-dub skits on TikTok, where people reminisce about their horrible life decisions, is the most known example.
It quickly became a popular format on the video-sharing platform, with Charli D'Amelio, Joe Jonas, Ashley Tisdale, and Noah Beck among those who posted videos.
As they reveal part of their background, they can be seen lip-syncing over the audio of Banks' review of Tillman's performance.
Jonas tweeted a photo of himself high at Coachella, while Charli D'Amelio shared a photo of herself with transparent braces and black rubber bands. Tisdale and Beck both posted identical photos, with the former presenting a photo of herself in a revealing gown at a premiere and the latter a carefully manipulated college soccer photo.
Where Is Lenox Tillman Now?
Tillman worked with NEXT Model Management after her time on America's Next Top Model. Her modeling career, however, did not take off, and she has already ended it.
She uses TikTok and occasionally publishes there, generally in response to inquiries directed at her.
She released a short montage of herself and her girlfriend on various travels in August 2021, with Barry Louis Polisar's "All I Want Is You" playing in the background.
While Tillman has told various anecdotes about her time on reality TV, she has kept her personal life private. Her current location is unknown due to this, as well as a lack of information on her life.
It Is So Bad I Want to Give You a Zero
Tillman has shared several anecdotes about the audio, which has gone around the internet in many formats, in multiple TikTok videos.
She used the aforementioned video format in one of her posts, lip-syncing to Banks' words as a video of her performance being judged played in the background.
She was frank in another about whether she would change anything about the scenario.
"No, I don't think I would have done anything differently," she said. "At least for that scene, no. No."
"I did my best. I gotta cut myself some slack. I was 19 and very insecure and shy and overwhelmed. Tyra got pissed because I was being disrespectful, which is probably fair."
Tillman went on to discuss her terrible performance, admitting that she had never kissed someone before and was very uncomfortable with the "very sexual" footage taken.
"I was very uncomfortable doing things with guys and it wasn't my thing," she added.
