Tyra Banks Addresses 'America's Next Top Model' Controversies (Exclusive)

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Tyra Banks struggles to watch old episodes of America’s Next Top Model after receiving backlash over a number of controversial moments.

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Tyra Banks is taking blame for the America’s Next Top Model moments that have made her “cringe.”

Tyra Banks is opening up about the “America’s Next Top Model” backlash.

Tyra Banks says she still cringes over her past insensitive comments made on "America's Next Top Model." A clip from 2006 resurfaced earlier this month, showing Banks, the modeling competition show's creator and former judge/host, pressuring Cycle 6 contestant Danielle Evans to get dental surgery to close the gap between her two front teeth. Banks apologized on her own talk show at the time and did so once again weeks ago.

Tyra Banks has been getting a lot of backlash for her past on America’s Next Top Model! While at the time, some of the things she did and said were not considered that bad in society’s eyes, to a much more progressive and aware 2020 world, the resurfaced videos look like she was really crossing all the lines! Now, the host and former supermodel is addressing the criticism she’s been getting! During an interview for ET, Tyra opened up about the controversial videos taken from the earlier seasons

Wanna be on top?  For 24 straight seasons (sorry, cycles) hundreds of thousands of runway rookies very much did. Leggy natives of Joliet, Illinois and Grand Forks, North Dakota turned up to the America's Next Top Model set to the learn the art of the smize and the booty touch and, most importantly, how to build a career in fashion á la host Tyra Banks, who very much dominated the field from 1996 (the year she first appeared on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue) onward. 

So much for wimmin empowering wimmin! It’s taken a while for the penny to drop but we’ve had time on our hands to root about in the archives during this lockdown and it turns out Tyra Banks is nothing short of a mean girl bully.

, , and now Jay Manuel have been back in the headlines lately—in part because people are revisiting the reality show, which is now streaming on Hulu, and pointing out its problematic elements.Recently, Banks addressed some of ANTM's insensitive" moments after people started discussing them on Twitter. "Been seeing the posts about the insensitivity of some past ANTM moments and I agree with you," she .

Jay Manuel is speaking out.

You wanna be on top?! Those famous words will remain apart of pop culture history, thanks to the hit competition series, America's Next Top Model. But despite the glitz and the glamour the Tyra Banks run-show highlighted throughout the years, it wasn't always a fabulous experience behind-the-scenes.

Following the release of resurfaced clips from America’s Next Top Model which many have criticized Tyra Banks for, former judge Jay Manuel is speaking out.

By Elizabeth Wagmeister

While quarantining during the COVID-19 outbreak, many of Us have a whole lot of extra time on our hands. To stay entertained, there’s a chance you might be taking TV-binging to an entirely new level by rewatching buzzy shows like America’s Next Top Model.