Tyra Banks has broken her silence on several clips from “America’s Next Top Model” that have resurfaced on Twitter and have not aged well.
The major video that caused Banks to respond was from season 6 of the show, in which she tells contestant Dani Evans that she would never become a model because of the gap in her front teeth.
“Do you really think you can have a CoverGirl contract with a gap in your mouth?” she said in the episode, which originally aired in 2006. “It’s not marketable.”
Evans ended up winning the season and went on modeling for brands like CoverGirl and Sephora and magazines such as Elle and Essence. She posted a video on Instagram, explaining how the viral moment was played up for TV. She said producers hadn’t told her that Banks wanted the gap in her teeth fixed, and their tense conversation was actually...
The major video that caused Banks to respond was from season 6 of the show, in which she tells contestant Dani Evans that she would never become a model because of the gap in her front teeth.
“Do you really think you can have a CoverGirl contract with a gap in your mouth?” she said in the episode, which originally aired in 2006. “It’s not marketable.”
Evans ended up winning the season and went on modeling for brands like CoverGirl and Sephora and magazines such as Elle and Essence. She posted a video on Instagram, explaining how the viral moment was played up for TV. She said producers hadn’t told her that Banks wanted the gap in her teeth fixed, and their tense conversation was actually...
- 5/10/2020
- by Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
You wanna be on top?! Tiffany Richardson didn't win America's Next Top Model in cycle four, but she did leave a lasting impression. As fans of the reality TV series will remember, Tyra Banks uttered these infamous words to Tiffany: "I was rooting for you! We were all rooting for you." Believe it or not, but that iconic moment happened 15 years ago. So here's how things went down: After weeks of challenges, photo shoots, hearing judges' critiques, Tiffany seemed to be disconnected from the competition. That became more evident during the episode, "The Girl Who Pushes Tyra Over the Edge." Even more shocking? That week was a double...
- 4/13/2020
- E! Online
SNL is adding to its roster of funny people. Three new cast members were announced on Thursday, adding Chloe Fineman, Shane Gillis, and Bowen Yang to the cast for season 45. Yang was hired as a writer in 2018, and has now been promoted to featured player, making the Chinese second-generation immigrant one of the first Asian cast members in the show's history. As noted in Deadline, Rob Schneider is a quarter Filipino and Fred Armisen is a quarter Japanese. Pre SNL, Yang was known for his funny lip sync videos on Twitter, including one where he emulated Tyra Banks' famous speech to Tiffany Richardson about how we were all rooting for her on Antm. Even Tyra Banks said it was...
- 9/12/2019
- E! Online
Remember the girl who pushed Tyra Banks over the edge? It was more than a decade ago when Tiffany Richardson received the wrath of Banks on America's Next Top Model and unexpectedly became a subject of numerous memes, but now the former model hopeful reveals how she really feels about Banks and what viewers didn't see during the controversial moment.
- 1/31/2017
- by editor@buddytv.com
- buddytv.com
Fans of America's Next Top Model are some the loudest and proudest in reality TV history. At its height, Antm was one of Upn's top rated programs. It also has the honor of being the first program to air on The CW after the networks' merger. From Tyra's iconic match-off with Cycle 4's Tiffany Richardson ("I was rooting for you, we were all rooting for you!") to the crowning of the show's very first deaf winner, Cycle 22's Nyle Dimarco, there's plenty that Antm fans will fondly remember. We asked Antm fans what they'll miss most about the groundbreaking modeling series, and we received a flood nostalgic responses.
- 12/11/2015
- by editor@buddytv.com
- buddytv.com
With 22 cycles of America's Next Top Model under her designer belt, Tyra Banks has definitely had her fair share of glorious moments, from the first smize to last year's final Ty-overs (not to mention how she unflinchingly reinvents the English language in new ways each cycle).
Below, our picks for the most epically, well, Tyra moments in Antm history.
9. When Tyra shut down Denzel's homophobia in cycle 21.
After bad boy Denzel Wells proclaimed he would be embarrassed to lose the competition to a "dude who wears heels" (i.e. competitor Will Jardell), Tyra quickly took him down, making it...
Below, our picks for the most epically, well, Tyra moments in Antm history.
9. When Tyra shut down Denzel's homophobia in cycle 21.
After bad boy Denzel Wells proclaimed he would be embarrassed to lose the competition to a "dude who wears heels" (i.e. competitor Will Jardell), Tyra quickly took him down, making it...
- 8/4/2015
- by Lena Finkel
- People.com - TV Watch
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