This the kind of challenge Tyra would be forcing to the ANTM girls /LPFQd4krBbįrom racially themed photo shoots to strange and laughably difficult modelling challenges, the viewers had a lot to say.īanks issued an apology on Twitter, saying she never meant to offend anyone. Nah how did Tyra get away with this LOL /XrguUvgWFh People were shocked by many of the show’s segments that did not seem to age well. But the thousands of mentions weren’t all praise for the modeling mogul. #TyraBanks quickly became a trending topic on Twitter in the late spring of 2020. In the midst of quarantine boredom, the relic from the early 2000s was released on multiple streaming platforms, and people began watching again. VH1 brought the show back less than a year later, with Banks replaced as host by singer Rita Ora before she returned for Cycle 24. So for 24 cycles, young women – and, beginning in cycle 20, young men – from all around the country have flocked to malls, camera phones and more recently the internet to let Tyra and viewers know why they deserve to be “America’s Next Top Model.”Īfter its extreme popularity for nearly two decades, the CW made the decision to end the show in April of 2018. “’America’s Next Top Model’ was created - I created it - to introduce diversity and inclusion into a world that was pretty much not representing that or representing it in the most minute ways,” Banks said.

She wanted to create a show that would take a group of girls with a passion for fashion, and over the course of three months, turn one of them into the next big thing in the modeling world.īanks told the Hollywood Reporter that her inspiration for the show was the lack of diversity in the industry around her. In the early 2000s, world-famous supermodel Tyra Banks had an idea.

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