Tyra Lynne Banks has many talents to add to her list of accolades including media personality, actress, singer, model and entrepreneur. Banks is the creator and host of the UPN/The CW reality television show. America’s Next Top Model, co-creator of True Beauty, and once hosted her own talk show, The Tyra Banks Show. While these are are things most people know about Tyra Banks, here’s some things you may not know. 1. Tyra Banks…
By Connie K. Grier Lights, Camera, Action…Click, Click, SNAP! The sounds preceding the entrance of beauty Tyra Banks, former model, has capitalized on the highs, lows joys and heartbreaks associated with being in the modeling interesting. According to the news vehicle EuroWeb, Tyra will be launching the Next Top Model in Africa series in Africa. “ It’s about time someone recognizes the beautiful women overflowing in Africa,” stated Britney Walker, writer…
by Barry Burch Jr. So the news is in – platinum recording artist Beyoncé was supposed to receive the role of Disney’s first-ever Black princess. The only problem, they call her Queen B, not Princess B, and when she was asked to audition, she illustrated exactly what that means. She did not audition and therefore she did not receive the role. The actress came out on top for the role of princess, despite so many…
Tyra Banks often talks about being bullied and teased about her appearance when she was a teenager and now she is using those experiences to her advantage. The former supermodel turned television personality just sealed a deal with ABC to bring a scripted show to the network. Her upcoming television series “Fivehead,” will be based on her experience as an awkward teenager who had a low self-esteem and then went…
Supermodel Tyra Banks tweeted yesterday that she had finally gotten her business degree from the Harvard Business School. The former Victoria’s Secret Angel is now the recipient of an Ivy League degree at the age of 38. Banks, who had originally given up college for modeling, said that she owed it to herself to finish school. Banks posted a picture on Twitter, taken by her mother, of her posing…
Taking a page from the “Eat, Pray, Love” author’s playbook, Tyra Banks took a trip to Asia and found a new love. “It’s a total long-distance romance,” a source reveals to PEOPLE of Banks’s new Balinese love interest. “But it’s a big deal.” Banks, who split with longtime boyfriend John Utendahl last fall, had gone to China shortly before the holidays to tape the latest season of “America’s…
In spite of last Wednesday’s finale of “America’s Next Top Model: All Stars” making headlines stemming from the dismissal of contestant Angelea Preston, former judge Janice Dickinson isn’t shocked by the show’s recent controversy. “CoverGirl are the ones who choose the model — not any of the judges. People don’t know that!” she revealed in an interview on Janice TV at FilmOn.com. “When I found that out, I…
We might all think that Tyra Banks keeps it together all the time, and she normally does. But she recently spoke candidly about how the stress in her life hit her in a tough place – on her scalp. During an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Banks revealed that “I got a little alopecia from the stress.” By “the stress,” Banks was referring to the time she spent writing her…