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Word on the street is that Miz Tyra Banks is getting a little tired of baby-sitting 18-year-old drama queens from Middle America all day, and she wants to ditch her post on America’s Next Top Model to focus her energies on her talk show.

She’s also reportedly feuding with Jay Manuel.

“It’s gotten so bad that Tyra and Jay aren’t speaking,” says an insider. Um … doesn’t Tyra Banks executive produce Top Model? And doesn’t Jay Manuel not executive produce Top Model? It seems that if they were feuding, Tyra wouldn’t be the one to go. I call bullshit on this part of the story.

Continues the source: “Tyra barely interacts with the contestants and only wants to show up on judging day.”

Dude, can you blame her? Do you want to interact with the contestants of America’s Next Top Model? I mean, except for in a sex way? It’s become painfully, almost comically, clear over the years that this show is a farce when it comes to producing actual top models. The most famous of the show’s graduates is Adrienne Curry, who went on to the fame and success of marrying a Brady and scoring a spot on not one but two additional reality TV shows. If I were Tyra, I, too, would be a little bored of trying to keep a straight face while teaching these girls how to tilt their chins just so, a skill which will certainly come in handy when they return to their jobs at the K-Mart in Tuscaloosa.

Says another source: “She’s really throwing all her weight behind her talk show. She’s putting lots of pressure on her staff to keep her show on the map. She had Barack Obama on, she had Hilary Clinton on — she got a taste of playing with the big boys and now ‘Top Model’ seems to detract from her big plans.”

Tyra had no comment on the story. She’s ignoring the whole thing, hoping that this little 10-cycle career misstep doesn’t interfere with her plans to moderate the 2012 Presidential debates.

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Poor JC Chasez, he was on Tyra earlier today, and was completely grilled about Lance Bass the whole time..

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Gary Coleman and his 22 year-old wife on Tyra Banks talking about sex, money and their relationship.

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Check out Danielle Fishel talking about her DUI on Tyra.

Part II of the interview is after the jump.

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Tyra Banks had models doing a homeless photo shoot on America’s Next Top Model yesterday and it hit pretty close to home. You know because Tyra pretended she was homeless for a day. I’m sure in between breaks of being homeless she was fed $50 lunches flown in from France, but whatever. Tyra knows what it’s like to live in filth. See that doorag she was wearing while begging for change? I think it cost $10 from Mervyn’s. Mervyn’s?! Ick!

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I’m not sure what’s going on here, but if Tyra Banks is involved, I bet it has to do with something boring and/or useless. Like women’s rights.

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We just got an e-mail from a guest on The Tyra Banks show who said that she was treated very rudely by Tyra’s staff and had an awful experience. She said:

Just found your Webside and read about how cheap Tyra Banks is…..and I have to agree…My 11 year old daugher and myself have been on her Show last week,and we got lied to and humiliated….Tyra is a fake and very mean,she is so cheap we did not get to meet her befor or after the Show and my Child who idolises her did not even get an Autograph!!!!! How rude.

[Sent via e-mail. We will not publish the sender’s first name until we get confirmation that it’s ok.]

This guest of Tyra’s isn’t the only one who was left feeling used and humiliated after an appearance on Tyra’s show. Despite all the female empowerment Tyra preaches, there are other guests who also felt hurt and betrayed after an appearance on her daytime talk show, one of whom was a cancer victim who was forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement when she complained to staff.

39 year-old single mother of two, Jodi Hughes, has stage 4 cervical cancer and Lupus. She was on Tyra’s show for a scheduled makeover set up by her children. Her kids were not allowed in the studio when she was getting the makeover, and were left to sit on the curb for hours without ever being fed or checked up on. Her ten year-old boy is even legally blind. Hugh’s makeover was just a new dress, makeup and very painful hair weave that left her with severe complications. She was told exactly what to say about how Tyra made her feel like a woman again, but all she felt was tired and used. Then she got dropped off at the airport with her kids eight full hours before her plane left.

Jodi, who lives in Bettendorf, Iowa, says things went bad the minute they stepped off the plane in Los Angeles to tape the show.

Jordan, 17, and Nick, 10 - who is legally blind - were left sitting on a curb outside the studio lot for hours with no food, no phone and no money while Jodi underwent her “transformation” - which included nothing more than the services of a professional makeup artist, a new dress and a cheap, painful hair weave, she says.

Tyra’s producers scripted her lines for the show, Jodi says. “The producers told me to say: “Thank you, Tyra, for making me feel like a woman again.’ That was the most humiliating part.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, February 18, 2008]

Hughes had to get the extensions surgically removed in the emergency room when her scalp became infected. She said she spent months growing out her hair after chemo and that the extensions ruined it. She may not have had it the worst though, there was another makeover recipient on the show with her, a woman with handicapped arms. Her prize for going on the show was a purse! Hughes is quoted as saying “All they kept telling her was: ‘You should be grateful - that’s a $500 purse!’”

Hughes was a guest on Tyra’s show in 2006, but she wasn’t able to tell her story until now. When she complained about it, she was served with a gag order from Tyra’s lawyers that kept her from talking about her terrible experience for a full year.

This makes me so mad I cannot tell you. It only takes some common courtesy to make sure people are fed and comfortable before they go on your stupid television show. Just talk to the kids, make sure they get subs or some soda and sandwiches, and let them sit inside. Ask the guests if they want extensions in their hair before you do it. And for God’s sake don’t give a purse to a woman without arms! That’s asinine.

Tyra Banks is shown at fashion week on 2/4/08, thanks to PRPhotos.

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Fabian Basabe, who’s blog hurts my eyes (paragraphs, man), wrote yesterday that former supermodel Tyra Banks pooped her pants at Fashion Week. Basabe was working an interview in the tents when Tyra’s entourage kicked him out claiming “Tyra Banks messed herself and needed to change.” Supposedly, this happens quite often because Tyra already had a spare set of clothes around.

That’s disappointing. Now she’s not only a fat ass, but her bowels will empty themselves at moments notice. Sleeping with her must be fun. Imagine banging her after a big dinner only to have your bed turn into a brown slip and slide before climax? I know I can. It’s getting me all hot and bothered. All this of course makes the video up top even more disturbing.

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Tyra Banks takes … er … a fashion risk at the BET Awards.

It looks like a peacock ate her.

Trying to cover up our middle much, Tyra?

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“I’d go to work and women would be crying in my arms on the talk show. But then I’d go home and put my key in my door and … nothing: no friends, no husband, no children. I feel so full when I’m at work but so empty when I come home.”

Tyra Banks, in the new issue of Essence.