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You Wanna Be On Top, Tyra?

March 26, 2008
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Tyra Banks
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Word on the street is that Miz Tyra Banks is getting a little tired of baby-sitting 18-year-old drama queens from Middle America all day, and she wants to ditch her post on America’s Next Top Model to focus her energies on her talk show.

She’s also reportedly feuding with Jay Manuel.

“It’s gotten so bad that Tyra and Jay aren’t speaking,” says an insider. Um … doesn’t Tyra Banks executive produce Top Model? And doesn’t Jay Manuel not executive produce Top Model? It seems that if they were feuding, Tyra wouldn’t be the one to go. I call bullshit on this part of the story.

Continues the source: “Tyra barely interacts with the contestants and only wants to show up on judging day.”

Dude, can you blame her? Do you want to interact with the contestants of America’s Next Top Model? I mean, except for in a sex way? It’s become painfully, almost comically, clear over the years that this show is a farce when it comes to producing actual top models. The most famous of the show’s graduates is Adrienne Curry, who went on to the fame and success of marrying a Brady and scoring a spot on not one but two additional reality TV shows. If I were Tyra, I, too, would be a little bored of trying to keep a straight face while teaching these girls how to tilt their chins just so, a skill which will certainly come in handy when they return to their jobs at the K-Mart in Tuscaloosa.

Says another source: “She’s really throwing all her weight behind her talk show. She’s putting lots of pressure on her staff to keep her show on the map. She had Barack Obama on, she had Hilary Clinton on — she got a taste of playing with the big boys and now ‘Top Model’ seems to detract from her big plans.”

Tyra had no comment on the story. She’s ignoring the whole thing, hoping that this little 10-cycle career misstep doesn’t interfere with her plans to moderate the 2012 Presidential debates.

26 CommentsLeave a comment

  • The contestants are such whiney bitches, I don’t blame Tyra. Jay Manuel owes his career to Tyra, how soon they forge!

  • o tyra if u stop this show i’ll die!!! i love it!!! (even tho they are all a bunch of whiney bitches) i agree w/ pinkey..

  • Stick with American’s Next Top Model, Ty Ty. We only watch your talk show for a good donkey laugh.

  • She is hottt. This show has ran its course so widen the “Tyra Banks” brand. I think the girls they pick for the show are NOT attractive. I see way hotter chix on the streets of NYC everyday.

  • don’t forget about Elyse! Although she’s not a media whore like Adrian Curry, she’s still working and actually booking jobs. Oh, and Yoanna House (sp?) got big for awhile on style network. and some girl still does neutrogena ads.

    but it ended there. lol

  • tyra is such a bitch! i hate her show, i tried to watch it, especially when i thought the topics might be interesting, and it just sucked HARD, she is so terrible at interviewing, and then she always manages to talk about herself about some topic. i mean i cant beleive this show hasnt been canceld yet. stick with ANTM it’s the only good thing you got.

  • Perhaps you’ve miscalculated Tyra’s ambitions. In 2012 she will finally be old enough to run for president and ty ty will ‘work it to the white house.’

  • I totally agree with Priscilla. She is always finding a way to talk about herself….She is so damn annoying. I know its her show but geez, Why have any guests on the show if all she is going to talk about is herself? And she acts all stupid and idiotic, Which I think is so people will be like “Oh she is a model and still acts all goofy, how cute!!!” when really its like “Shut the fuck up bitch, your a damn fool”. thats how I feel anyway. And I think she is reliving her model days through ANTM. She is so pathetic. I just dont like her. And I think she is rude to some of the guests on her show. Bitch. =) ♥

  • shes not the best talk show host, admit that. its hard to take her seriously as much as she really really really really wants you to.

  • <> BA HA HA HA GOOD ONE!!

    ….And the saddest/scariest part is, this chick woud read that and think it is not only a great idea, but that she is capable and up to the task. Tyra is DELUSIONAL. She clearly believes she is the second coming of Oprah. Tyra is inarticulate, classless and arrogant. ANTM is where she belongs, and The ONLY PLACE she belongs, now that the modeling career is over.

  • dont stop ANTM!! its the best show ever and if we dont have new seasons they will just replying the old seasons! pleasee dont stoppp!

  • Modeling is a passion, those of you who think that it is a joke could not understand unless you look at your own passion and compare it. Is there nothing that you absoluetly love and want to spend your life doing? Get the hint. Tyra Banks is an incredible woman who has done incredible things, the only reason why she talks about herself so much is because she has had so much life experiance so you BITCHES who think that she is the one with the problem need to get up off of all yous asses and do something else cause talking about tyra as if she has more issues than you is one hell of a lie. We all have issues and little things that arent so hot, so get the fuck off of her problems and try fixing yours. Modeling is my passion and dream and if I could get a chance to work with tyra…well lets just say that would be an amazing unique and fully incredible oppertunity.

  • tyra is smart she knew modelling was not forever so she decided to use her brain inside of her body love her she is to be admired