Nicole Fox is America’s next next next next next next next next next next next next next top model, winning the short model cycle of America’s Next Top Model. She joined other winners in near-immediate obscurity and non-top model status after beating Laura Kirkpatrick in a final runway show involving wind, rain, and other elements, …
Creating a reality competition that’s all about herself has worked well for Tyra Banks: The America’s Next Top Model creator and judge was the top-earning female in prime time TV last year, making an estimated $30 million from June 1, 2008, to June 1, 2009, according to Forbes. The rest of the top 10 consists …
In an interview that aired on Nightline last night, Tyra Banks talked openly about everything from the racism she experienced as a young model to her weight and hair. But she refused to talk about two past judges of America’s Next Top Model. Most recently, fired judge Paulina Porizkova criticized Tyra for her tardiness and …
Fired judge Paulina Porizkova will be replaced on America’s Next Top Model by a weekly guest celebrity judge, including modeling expert Lauren Conrad and supermodel Kim Kardashian. A CW press release says the show “welcomes guest judges from the fashion community during cycle 13’s search for America’s Next Petite Model,” a reference to its search …
Top Model judge and photographer Nigel Barker said his fellow judge Tyra Banks is as nutty in real life as she is on TV. In an interview with the New Zealand Herald, he was asked about Tyra’s persona, and he said, “I tell you, it’s one and the same. It’s actually who she is.” The …
After last weekend’s stampede/riot at auditions in New York, Top Model producers issued rules and hired security to ensure that didn’t happen at Dallas auditions. But while there was no stampede, there was a random scream, and people had problems following the rules–including the people hired to enforce the rules. Among the rules were ones …
Tyra Banks has issued a new self-centered statement about the stampede of models that interrupted auditions Saturday, and it noncommittally says that new auditions may be scheduled, but only because it serves Tyra’s purposes. While the first statement from Tyra and Ken Mok just talked about the near-riot and said Tyra was “concerned by the …