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America's Next Top Model - Cycle 15 of America's Next Top Model had its share of drama and controversy from the very start when a promo for the show featured Tyra Banks appearing to over- enthusiastically endorse an extremely thin model. It's only fitting, then, that the model in question survived the perils of competition and made it to the finale. Nineteen-year-old Ann Ward, a 2009 graduate of Prosper High School, will compete against Chelsey Hersley, 23, of Boise, Idaho, for the title of America's Next Top Model at 7 tonight on The CW. Ward is the front-runner going into the finale. Despite the judges' critiques that she's too shy, she ranked first among her competitors for five weeks in a row, a Top Model first. Ward, billed on the show as hailing from Dallas, also had to dispatch three competitors from her home state: Liz Williams and sisters Chris and Terra White, all of Arlington. Tonight, the two finalists will shoot a CoverGirl commercial, a ch...