Tyra Banks

Tyra’s Plus-Sized Modeling Competition

source: Top Model Gossip

Tyra Banks has launched a competition to find the next top plus-sized model, but it’s not what you think. This competition isn’t a plus-sized only cycle of America’s Next Top Model, but rather an independent contest being run through her talk show and website. The “Fiercely Real Teen Model...

Published Tue, Jan 26

America's Next Top Model: Plus-Sized Teens Wanted for Tyra Banks' "Fiercely Real" Modeling Competition

source: BuddyTV

Tyra Banks may have been successful in her search for the petite America's Next Top Model during Cycle 13, but who's to say she won't push the envelope further?  The 36-year-old talk show host has announced that she's cooking up yet another scheme of hers for an upcoming modeling competit...

Published Tue, Jan 26

Fierce bitch is fierce

source: Tyra Banks in ONTD, Gawker, NYPost, Defamer, et al.

Top designer Alexander McQueen has hired Tyra Banks' protege as the face of his spring/summer 2011 collection. Nicole Fox, who won Bank's reality contest America's Next Top Model last year, will feature on print and multi-media ads for the Brit.

Published Mon, Jan 25

America's Next Top Model: McKey Sullivan Surprises Teen Cancer Patient with a Visit

source: BuddyTV

We're used to hearing actors inspiring people, but models have been doing so as well.  We've seen Tyra Banks do her share, giving a chance to the contestants of America's Next Top Model.  Just the same, those who have gone under her tutelage on the series have been an inspiration to aspiring m...

Published Thu, Jan 14

Tyra Banks Scored GLAAD Award Nomination

source: Top Model Gossip

She’s up for Outstanding Talk Show Episode for the episode about gay teen exorcism. America’s Next Top Model also picked up a nomination for cycle 11 last year, when Isis King became the show’s first transgendered contestant. Post from: Top Model Gossip

Published Tue, Jan 12

'America's Next Top Model' and 'The Tyra Show' Snag NAACP Nominations

source: BuddyTV

It's never over for Tyra Banks.  Even though her talk show is holding on to its last legs, the influential model and host has something better.  She's apparently a recipient for the 41st NAACP Image Awards, along with America's Next Top Model and one of its contestants.

Published Mon, Jan 11

'America's Next Top Model' Winner Nicole Covers 'Seventeen'

source: BuddyTV

Per her prizes promised by host Tyra Banks, America's Next Top Model cycle 14 winner Nicole Fox graces the cover of Seventeen magazine this month, and looks lovelier and more like a real model than ever before! The mag went behind the scenes of her photo shoot to catch up with Nicole about li...

Published Mon, Jan 11

TV's next top diva? Not Naomi Campbell

source: Tyra Banks in ONTD, Gawker, NYPost, Defamer, et al.

Naomi Campbell has pulled out of a money-spinning job hosting a reality TV show. Naomi, 39, was due to front a new series of Britain's Next Top Model but turned it down at the 11th hour. What was missing was a real diva supermodel, a British equivalent to US host Tyra Banks.

Published Sun, Jan 10