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"Carlygate" is the thirteenth episode of the fourth season of Vote for the Girls, and the 55th episode of the series overall. The episode first aired on December 20, 2012 and the web site's moderators attempting to get the web site a victory on the second season of The X Factor.

Background

Main article: Zinn–Everman rivalry (United States)

See also: The X Factor USA 2, Fifth Harmony, Carly Rose Sonenclar, and Tate Stevens

Fifth Harmony

Fifth Harmony

Fifth Harmony is an American girl group composed of five singers who all successfully auditioned as soloists (Ally Brooke, Normani Kordei, Dinah Jane, Camila Cabello, and Lauren Jauregui) on the second season of The X Factor USA in 2012, but failed to progress individually to the judges' houses stage of the competition. On July 27, 2012, they were formed as a group at the end of bootcamp by Simon Cowell and Demi Lovato, thus qualifying for the "Groups" category. Originally, the group's name was "LYLAS" (acronym for Love You Like a Sister), but another group called "The Lylas" (which consists of four of Bruno Mars' sisters) claimed that the show stole their name.^[1] Thereafter, LYLAS changed their name to 1432 (which stands for I Love You Too), which was announced on the first live show on October 31, 2012, during which 1432 performed "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" by Taylor Swift. Simon Cowell and L.A. Reid were critical of the new name, and Cowell suggested that the group be renamed again. During the first live results show on November 1, 2012, 1432 performed "Skyscraper" by Demi Lovato in a sing-off with Sister C. Cowell decided to send 1432 through to the Top 12 and he announced that they would be renamed by the viewers online. The name chosen by the public was announced: "Fifth Harmony".^[2] On Vote for the Girls, moderator Holly Everman chose Fifth Harmony, Paige Thomas, and Diamond White.

In the semi-finals stage of the show, they performed Ellie Goulding's "Anything Could Happen" as well as Shontelle's "Impossible" (for the second time during the competition). Their performance of "Anything Could Happen" was "a finals-caliber performance" according to L.A. Reid and described as "magic" by Britney Spears.^[3] Their performance of "Impossible" received mostly negative reviews from the judges because the group had previously performed the song at Simon Cowell's home (although not on The X Factor concert stage). Three members of the group (Camila, Lauren, and Ally) sang parts of the song in fluent Spanish. The following night's public vote results advanced Fifth Harmony to the final 3 along with Tate Stevens and Carly Rose Sonenclar. On the Top three live show, Fifth Harmony performed Ellie Goulding's "Anything Could Happen" for the second time as their "Song of the Series" song. Their second song was a duet with The X Factor judge Demi Lovato singing "Give Your Heart a Break". Their final song of the night was "Let It Be" by The Beatles, billed as their "$5 million song".

After the first round of the finals they did not receive enough votes from the public to advance to the Top 2, and they finished in 3rd place on December 20, 2012.^[4]

Carly Rose Sonenclar

Tate Stevens

Reception and reaction

This episode sparked major controversy when then-competing web site Vote for the Worst pick of Tate Stevens defeated Zinn's pick of Carly Rose Sonenclar and Everman's pick of Fifth Harmony; after hearing this, Everman unleashed a torrent of expletives on Facebook. In one such notable post Everman called someone a "fucking cunt" to a woman she identified as Heather after the woman got into a physical fight 25 years earlier which resulted in Everman's sister (Elisa) being expelled from Claypool Elementary School in Muncie. The woman posted on the web site's Facebook page:

Did a bitch (Holly Everman) just call me a fucking cunt cause Tate Stevens won Xfactor? (Cracks me the fuck up) Ctfu yeaaap sure did. (Laughing my fucking ass off) lmfao, bitches I am a grown ass woman and ain't got time to argue over (who the fuck) wtf won Xfactor. BUT TATE WON BAHAHA HOPE I DON'T HAVE TO FUCK A BITCH UP OVER A FUCKING T.V SHOW....hahaha

—Facebook post from December 20, 2012^[5]

During The X Factor season final performance, members of the public were also outraged when an unnamed producer seen approaching Zinn (who is also the executive producer) and speaking to her. This sparked rumours that the producer told Zinn vote off Fifth Harmony, and that Zinn may have been unsure whether to go with her own feelings or follow the producer's instructions.

Epilogue

Holly Everman would go on the following season as the winning moderator as her pick of Alex & Sierra was announced the winner while at the same time became not only accomplished the web site's first ever male victory of X Factor, but a perfect fiscal calendar year (2013–a feat never before accomplished in the web site's history as Everman's American Idol 12 pick Candice Glover would be announced the winner of American Idol and Zinn's respective The Voice 4 and 5 picks Danielle Bradbery and Tessanne Chin would be announced the respective winners of their seasons on The Voice) and with Alex & Sierra's win, Zinn's American Idol 12 pick (Angie Miller) was inducted into the Vote for the Girls Hall of Fame.

Meanwhile Zinn would go on the following X Factor season after the eliminations of Ellona Santiago and Rion Paige following through on her threat of auctioning off her virginity to the highest female bidder if a her VFTG pick finishes in second place or worse. Zinn followed through on her threat and in fact, auction off her virginity to former Denver, Colorado anchorwoman Kymberly Alvaraz in the summer of 2014 for a long-term relationship as she was in the midst of a divorce from her husband, Dan Alvaraz (who later died), and Alvaraz became the sixth significant other of Ava Zinn while at the same time, became the oldest significant other of Zinn (who is 16 years Alvaraz's junior). Alavaraz also became the first significant other (in an unprecedented demand) to pay Ava Zinn for a long-term relationship – a form of reverse compensation. This agreement was groundbreaking and notable, as Alvaraz became the first woman to pay a significant other for relationship rights. Ava Zinn accepted the deal, which went into effect on January 4, 2015 (the same day Zinn turned 32 years of age). At the same time, Alvaraz moved from the pink team to the purple team to join Zinn, a first in Vote for the Girls, making it the first time a Vote for the Girls purple team moderator has taken a significant other away from her spouse, followed by Lanise White after she and Danni McClannahan agreed to a long-term relationship agreement was driven after White, like Alvaraz, moved from the pink team to the purple team on Vote for the Girls; McClannahan's husband, Leonard, had considered filing for divorce, but McClannahan reportedly balked at Lai's demands for alimony before Lai's October 26, 2015 death.^[6]

Everman would also pull off a similar move for the pink team following the two VFTG losses on The Voice and American Idol in May 2014 that saw Everman shave her head with binding her breasts to appear masculine as a punishment for the Vote for the Girls loss with the two subsequent arrests of DUIs in April and August 2014.

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