The CW has cancelled its long-running reality series America’s Next Top Model. It will end on Dec. 4 with the conclusion of its 22nd cycle, as the show calls its seasons. The show debuted in 2003, and is the first of the major network legacy reality series to be cancelled. Over its 12-year life, it spanned …
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On the eve of the debut of America’s Next Top Model cycle 22, Tyra Banks has shattering news for those who still watch The CW competition: the end times are near. Yes, the parade of hotness and hot messes known as Top Model may be ending soon, at least according to a completely noncommittal thing …
America’s Next Top Model cycle 21 cast member Mirjana Puhar was murdered Tuesday along with her boyfriend and another person. She was 19. A teenager was arrested; The Charlotte Observer reports that “[p]olice believe a triple homicide on Norris Avenue a mile north of uptown discovered Tuesday was drug-related and that the suspect, Emmanuel Jesus Rangel, 19, …
America’s Next Top Model cycle 22 will happen this year, though The CW hasn’t yet officially announced its return. Despite announcing the return of eight of its scripted series today, the network said nothing of its marquee reality franchise, but the network’s president later confirmed its future is not in jeopardy. The series’ format will remain the same: female …
Joining the list of women who say Bill Cosby sexually assaulted them is former America’s Next Top Model judge and long-time reality TV star Janice Dickinson. Janice told Entertainment Tonight that Cosby raped her in 1982, and that “drove me to a life of trying to hurt myself.” She said she did not report it because “I was embarrassed and …
Friday’s episode of Top Model featured two kinds of homophobia: an admission by a contestant that he’d once been involved in anti-gay violence, though he did not frame it that way, and another contestant just being outright homophobic by saying one man The episode was titled “The Guy Who Wears Heels” because gay model Will …
J. Alexander, also known as Miss J, will return to judge America’s Next Top Model for its 21st season. He was fired two years ago along with Nigel Barker and Jay Manuel. “His name says it all. I’ve missed ‘Miss J.’ and am elated he’s back. I know Top Model fans will rejoice!” executive producer, …