The competition heats up as “America’s Next Top Model” returns, featuring male and female aspiring models competing for a career-launching prize package.

During a photo shoot on the streets of Hollywood, the semi-finalists have to pose while the public votes on them.

The models have to compete in a vertical runway down the side of a building in the pouring rain.

The models get a lesson in chemistry as they pose alongside sexy supermodels Alessandra Ambrossio and Rob Evans in a risqué photo shoot.

The models have their balance tested when they have to walk on a spinning runway during a turntable challenge judged by the editor-in-chief of Nylon Magazine, Marvin Scott Jarrett.

Two of the models get overly confident, but end up booking no runway shows, which shatters their self-confidence.

The models get tested at a commercial shoot to do ridiculous requests with a fake director played by comedian Reggie Watts.