On the heels of Tyra Banks's announcement that The Tyra Show is ending after 5 seasons, all the juicy behind the scenes deets are beginning to leak.
And not surprisingly, working for the model was difficult!
According to a former crew member "There had been high turnover of employees for years. She and the higher-ups on the production staff could be extremely brutal. She really is a diva."
Tyra Banks, a diva??? Get out!
An industry source says everything had to be done her way.
Well, to her credit, it is The Tyra Show. And whatever she demanded her employees to do couldn't have been completely wrong considering she won two Daytime Emmy awards.
But while she may have been the boss-bitch on set, her communication skills off-set are worse because there's rumors going around that TyTy told the press about the show ending before she told the staff!
Ouch!
And it wasn't the first time she pulled something like this. The source revealed:
"When the show moved from L.A. to New York, several staffers weren't even directly told about the change - they heard through the grapevine that it was going to move locations. Even so, a lot of those people gave up their lives on the West Coast so they could continue working for the show. Now they're out of luck."
Yikes!
If this is what she does on the small screen could you imagine how she'd act while overseeing a movie!?
Tyra Banks has announced that the current and 5th season of The Tyra Show will be its last!
The former supermodel says, "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."
Instead, TyTy will be focusing on her production company, Bankable Studios, that is currently looking over several potential projects to bring "positive images of women to the big screen."
Tyra has been encouraged by filmmaker Tyler Perry and of course Oprah Winfrey to "redefine beauty for women in film," says a source. "With Oprah's big announcement this year, I think that gave Tyra the confidence to get out there and follow her longtime dream of film producing."
We don't think TyTy has ever been lacking in the confidence department!
America's Next Top Model and True Beauty will still carry on even though The Tyra Show is ending. Tyra writes to her fans on her website:
“There’s a lot cooking right now and a lot of fire burning in my heart. And I salute you my amazing family of viewers; without you there never would have been a Tyra Show. I really love you all.”
We're smizing for her, but where are we going to get our daily fix of crazy now?!
Look out Tyra Banks! The Cookie Monster is looking to bite into your chocolate cheeks! Or at least caress them for a second or two!
AWKWARD!
Tyra had the Street gang on her show recently to indulge in some adult conversation.
Banks took the opportunity to ask Elmo to inspect her hair for weave tracks with his 20/20 vision.
That's when Elmo got a little hungry and tried to take a bite out of Tyra's neck and Cookie decided to grab some goodies for himself by grabbing on to her tush. They are monsters afterall!
And all of this is still less odd than the episode where she televised a live colonic!
On Tyra's show Tuesday, Miss J Alexander dropped a bomb on the world - he's the father to a 7-year-old son named Boris!
What?!
While promoting his book, Follow The Model, Miss J explains that he and his ex-boyfriend acted as sperm donors to a French lesbian.
He recalls: "A French lesbian had asked if we would be sperm donors. So we thought, 'OK, you want me to do you?' And she was like, 'Ooooh, I'm not that talented.' So I said, 'Okay fine.' So we did a little test tube."
Wow!
Though not the boy's biological father (his ex, Alex, is), Miss J takes a very active role in the boy's life and insists that some small part of him must have snuck in there. In his book, he writes: "The experience has enriched my life beyond imagination…He insists on wearing nice shoes. I think somehow my fashion genes must have slipped in there."
We're sure his book will sell just a little bit better now with this (non)SHOCKER attached to it!
Leave it to the Tyra Show to find Lauren Williams, who will give the deets on what it's like to be born with two vaginas!
"I've got two uteruses. Just one to each (fallopian tube), then they go down to two cervixes, and then it did go down to the two vaginas," said Williams, who was diagnosed with the deformity when she was 25.
Uh, how did you not figure that out before?!
She even believes she has two periods!
"I think so because my periods generally last about 21 days…When I was a teenager I had really heavy periods…I would have to change pads every hour."
Ewww!
But, she can still have kids!
"The doctor in England said pregnancy wise, it should be okay…if I do get pregnant it should push the other uterus over to one side and keep it out of the way. Me and my partner would need to plan on using condoms just in case I got pregnant in the other one," continued Lauren.
We have so many questions, but we almost don't wanna know the answer!
Watch the clip (above) to see a preview of Friday's Tyra - and the girl with double the yonis!
And whoever he brings home afterward will at least be cleaner than any of those prostitutes he picks up on the street!
We kid, we kid. Eddie Murphy has to be on his best behavior for this gig - his daughter will be there.
It has been confirmed by the CW network that Eddie will be appearing in the finale episode of America's Next Top Model, airing in November.
The final runway challenge for the Top Model contestants finds them walking in show with Eddie's daughter Bria Murphy. Tyra Banks and her gang will join Eddie in the front row of the event to watch the final two contestants walk it out.
A little screen time for Eddie couldn't hurt. A little boast to his career couldn't hurt either.
Some sneaky sis (or bro!) took a little behind-the-scenes video of Madonna's MDNA tour rehearsal in Tel Aviv this weekend and has shared some incredible footage!
Part of Madge's setlist is her iconic homage to self-love, Express Yourself, but in her 2012 version, she is spicing it up by mashing it with Lady GaGa's similar anthem, Born This Way.
Yeah, you're not going to want to miss this!
Ch-ch-check out the video (above) to hear Madonna sing BOTH Express Yourself and Born This Way!
