Tyra Banks
American model and television personality, Tyra Lynne Banks was born on December 4, 1973 in Inglewood, California. One of the most recognizable models in the world, Tyra Banks is the host of her own talk show and the creator and host of the popular UPN/CW reality television show America's Top Model.
Tyra Banks started modeling as a junior in high school and was quickly whisked off to Paris to strut her stuff on the catwalk for world-renown designers like: Chanel, Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Tommy Hilfiger and Yves Saint Laurent.
A trailblazer in the industry, Tyra Banks is the first African American woman to ever grace the covers of Sports Illustrated, GQ and Victoria's Secret, and in 1997 she received the prestigious "Supermodel of the Year" award by VH1.
Tyra Banks made her feature film debut in John Singleton's 1995 action/drama Higher Learning, and has since appeared in such notable flicks as Love & Basketball, Coyote Ugly, Halloween: Ressurection and Life-Size, co-starring alongside Lindsay Lohan.
An accomplished model, actress, television personality and businesswoman...Tyra is a woman of many talents. Fierce!
You can find bloggers talking about the lovely and talented Tyra Banks at sites like TyraBanksFan.com.
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Video ~ Ludacris’ Official Twerk Team (How Low) Rihanna Bares Her Assets + Amber Rose Shops With Her Girlfriend [ SandraRose ] You too can smell like crawfish casserole Beyonce [ Crunk&Disorderly ] Jay-Z to take Beyonce’s Last Name [ EarToDaStreetz ] Tyra Banks Quits Talk Show [ RhymesWithSnitch ]8 hours ago -
First Oprah, Now Tyra Banks? All Our Daytime Chat Divas Are Quitting Television!
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We already knew Oprah was going to upset the natural course of the universe by ending her television show in 2011 , but now Tyra Banks is also throwing cosmic destiny to the wind, announcing she, too, will shut down her eponymous chat fest this season in Spring 2010. But what about our theory?! CONTINUED » ...10 hours ago -
First Oprah, Now Tyra Banks? All Our Daytime Chat Divas Quitting Television!
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We already knew Oprah was going to upset the natural course of the universe by ending her television show in 2011 , but now Tyra Banks is also throwing cosmic destiny to the wind, announcing she, too, will shut down her eponymous chat fest this season in Spring 2010. But what about our theory?! CONTINUED » ...10 hours ago -
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Ew! What happened to Pete Wentz ? What are the biggest headlines of ‘09 ? Is he turned on? Try smelling him. So what’s Tyra gonna do now ? The best moisturizers for your bod . Marc Jacobs wears Speedos. And looks damn good doin’ it.10 hours ago -
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Tyra Banks has announced, a la Oprah, that she will be quitting her talk show at the end of the year. That sound you hear is the entire world saying, "So?" Tyra, honey, just because youre a rich black woman with a big head--in your case literally and figuratively--doesnt make you Oprah. Kate Gosselin has, ...10 hours ago -
Arts Roundup: Hollywood Graveyard Season Edition
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Hello! A lot of the new movies you’ll see in 2010 will be old , the New York Times reports. Like, 2008 old! This is because: 1) January falls right after the deadline for Oscar eligibility, so it’s a natural graveyard for films that the studios had hoped would be a lot better (like The Lovely Bones , and (one ...10 hours ago -
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1. What are the most significant cultural works of the past decade? [via Chicago Tribune]2. Banksy is at war with a fellow street artist named Robbo after deliberately spraying over his 24-year-old work in North London. [via Daily Mail]3. “2010 has a number of things planned including new material from Nine Inch ...10 hours ago -
Tyra Banks Show canceled by Tyra Banks
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Tyra Banks has announced that the fifth season of her show will be the last season of her show. That means no more episodes of Tyra dressing up in a fat suit. No more episodes where Tyra makes us squirm with discussions of bodily functions and weirdness that we really dont want to think ... MakeUsHot.Com found this ...13 hours ago -
Well if Oprahs Doing It... [Copycat]
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Tyra Banks is to end her talk show in its fifth season, in spring. She plans, apparently to go into movies to bring "positive images of women to the big screen." Tyler Perry is involved somewhere. Inevitably.13 hours ago -
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Rene Zellweger ’s already chummy with Bradley Cooper ’s mommy! - Just Jared Charlize Theron is VERY brave to go out like this! - Socialite Life Ice T ’s wife Coco in a bikini = YIKES! - The Superficial Charlie Sheen didn’t have to spend too long in the clink! - Holy Moly! Kanye West was a ...14 hours ago -
Tyra Banks Ending Her Talk Show
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Another one bites the dust. Just one month after Oprah Winfrey announced she would be ending her 25-year reign as the most influential talk show host of all time, Tyra Banks said she plans to throw in the towel as well. The 36-year-old model-turned-media-mogul tells People magazine, ‘”This will be the last ...15 hours ago -
Tyra Banks announces wrap up of talk show
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Supermodel Tyra Banks has made up her mind to wrap up her talk show. “This will be the last season of ‘The Tyra Show,’…. I’ve been loving having fun, coming into your living rooms, bedrooms, hair salons for the past 5 years,” the New York Post quoted her as telling People mag. The 36-year-old beauty ...16 hours ago -
No More Tyra Show
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Tyra Banks gave the nation a shock on Monday when she announced that “The Tyra Show” will be ending in the spring of next year. The 36-year-old announced the decision in a post on her official website, saying that the current 5 th season of the Emmy-award winning daytime talk show on CW will be the last. Banks ...17 hours ago -
Tyra Banks to Give Up Talk Show; Spend More Time Talking With Herself
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Tyra Banks. Photo Courtesy The CW Tyra Banks and her forehead announced that they are leaving her talk show at the end of the 2010 season. It will be her 5th and final season. She had her highs (the whole looking thicker in a bathing suit) and her lows (the whole fat suit thing was lame) and somewhere in between, ...18 hours ago -
Tyra Mae Quitting Daytime TV; "This is the last season!"
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Tyra Banks’s daytime chats with movie stars and presidential candidates will soon be no more, as her self-deprecating jokes about her outsize “fivehead” brow will come to an end and her celebrated fat suit will go back into the closet for good.In an interview with People.com, the Web site of People magazine, Ms. ...19 hours ago -
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Google Hooker View - City Rag Best Celebrity Twitter Pics Of 2009 - Pop Eater Vanessa Hudgens Suing Over Nude Photos - F-Listed Kanye’s Future’s So Bright, He’s Gotta Wear Shades - Holy Moly Jude Law & Sienna Miller Are Splashin’ Around - Popbytes Tyra Banks Is Pulling An Oprah, ...19 hours ago -
To Focus on Movies, Tyra Banks Pulls the Plug on Her Talk Show
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Announcing the ending of The Tyra Show, the former model reveals that she is looking forward to the launching of her New York-based film production company. myanti posted 117 minutes ago from celebrity-mania.com Find more top entertainment news, videos, and blogs on ShowHype: Television , Tyra Banks19 hours ago -
Tyra Banks Announces End of Talk Show
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Via PopEater first Oprah, and now this?!? Tyra Banks has decided to end her oft-zany but always entertaining talker, ‘The Tyra Show,’ next year. The supermodel-turned-TV multitask-er (she also helms ‘America’s Next Top Model’ and ‘True Beauty’) revealed the sad news. "This will be the last ...20 hours ago -
Will You Miss Tyra?
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There are some lingering questions left to ask following Tyra Banks’ unexpected announcement that after five years and two Emmys the model turned talk show host is abandoning her daytime series . The first being what’s the real reason she’s dropping the show? Could she not focus on developing her life-long ...20 hours ago

