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  • Tyra Banks, winner of the Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show/Informative, poses in the press room at the 36th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards at The Orpheum Theatre on August 30, 2009 in Los Angeles, California
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    Tyra Banks, winner of the Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show/Informative, poses in the press room at the 36th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards at The Orpheum Theatre on August 30, 2009 in Los Angeles, California

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    Tyra Banks keeps it fierce at the 4th Important Dinner for Women in New York City on September 23, 2009

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    Tyra Banks hits the red carpet at the 2009 BET Awards in Los Angeles on June 28, 2009

 
 

UPDATED: Tyra Banks Ending Talk Show; Will Focus On Film Production Company

Tyra Banks

December 28, 2009

NEW YORK, N.Y.

Tyra Banks is ending her daytime TV talk show.

The supermodel-turned-TV-mogul announced she that she will wrap up her talk show at the end of its current season – its fifth — this coming spring.

“This will be the last season of ‘The Tyra Show,’” she wrote on her Web site. “I’ve been loving having fun, coming into your living rooms, bedrooms [and] hair salons for the past 5 years.”

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Tyra Banks Finally Addresses ‘Top Model’ Bi-Racial Photo Shoot Controversy

Tyra Banks and Nicole from ‘America’s Next Top Model’

November 19, 2009

NEW YORK, N.Y.

Tyra Banks spoke out for the first time on Wednesday about the controversy that was sparked late last month after six contestants on “America’s Next Top Model” were made to look bi-racial for a Hawaiian photo shoot.

In a nearly nine-minute speech at the start of Wednesday’s “The Tyra Banks Show,” the TV talk show host and “ANTM” Executive Producer revealed that the headlines prompted by turning her contestants into different races was difficult for the star.

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‘America’s Next Top Model’ Causes A Stir After ‘Bi-Racial’ Photo Shoot

Nicole from ‘America’s Next Top Model’ is turned into a bi-racial model for a photo shoot

October 29, 2009

LOS ANGELES, Calif.

Weeks after an Australian variety show made headlines around the world after a group of white performers donned blackface to perform as the Jackson brothers, Tyra Banks is making headlines herself for turning her latest “America’s Next Top Model” candidates bi-racial for a photo shoot.

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Tubey Awards Winners Announced

Alyson Hannigan, Neil Patrick Harris, Cobie Smulders, Josh Radnor of CBS’s ‘How I Met Your Mother’

September 14, 2009

NEW YORK, N.Y.

This summer, Bravo’s Television Without Pity asked TV junkies to cast their votes for the best, worst, most improved and just plain craziest characters, series, moments and more from the 2008-2009 season. And after a record-breaking 2.4 million votes were cast, the results can finally be revealed!

Access Hollywood also participated in this year’s Tubeys, with five categories of our own. The results… after the jump.

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Tyra Banks: ‘I Wish I Was More Of A Diva’

Tyra Banks attends the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C. (May 9, 2009)

September 08, 2009

NEW YORK, N.Y.

Tyra Banks may have gone from model to reality TV mogul, but she isn’t quite where she wants to be.

“I wish I was more of a diva,” Tyra told Tuesday’s “Nightline” while talking about cast changes on “America’s Next Top Model.” “I wish [I] was harder, I wish I didn’t care so much about being the nice girl all the time. Because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness … so I wish I had a little bit more ‘oomph’ in me.”

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Tyra Gets Ready To De-Weave

Tyra Banks backstage with her Emmy at the 36th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles on August 30, 2009

September 07, 2009

LOS ANGELES, Calif.

Tyra Banks is getting back to her roots for the season debut of her TV talk show, and she doesn’t mean that as a figure of speech.

On Tuesday’s fifth-season premiere of “The Tyra Show” on the CW network, the former supermodel goes on-camera with unadorned hair. Or as Banks puts it, “no wigs, extensions, no nothing.”

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‘America’s Next Top Model’ Returns With Some Fierce Hollywood Judges!

Tyra Banks

August 04, 2009

LOS ANGELES, Calif.

“America’s Next Top Model” returns and with a Hollywood makeover and a few “small” changes.

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Tyra Banks To Guest-Star On ‘Gossip Girl’

Tyra Banks

August 01, 2009

LOS ANGELES, Calif.

Tyra Banks is heading from reality television to “Gossip Girl.”

The “America’s Next Top Model” and “The Tyra Banks Show” host will star in an episode of the third season of the popular CW drama this fall – but not as herself, a rep for the show confirmed to Access Hollywood.

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