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Diva-Meter: Tyra Banks Reeks of Attitude

EOnline.com - Found Jul. 2, 2009
Frank Micelotta/, Jamie McCarthy/ If you'd asked us a while ago who's the bigger diva-like be-yotch, Beyonc or Tyra Banks, we might have had to

Posted on July 2, 2009, 12:02 pm

Committed Megan Fox transforms lovers

Sydney Morning Herald - Found Jul. 1, 2009
Harry (10) Ellen Degeneres (9) Carla Bruni (8) Naomi Campbell (6) Gisele Bundchen (5) Heidi Klum (4) Tyra Banks (2) Maria Sharapova (2) All...
Megan wants her beau to have tattoo - Times of India
Committed Megan Fox transforms lovers - The Age
Fox makes lovers get tattoos of her face - LiveNews
Megan Fox wants her prospective boyfriends to tattoo her name or ... - NewKerala.com
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LiveNews

Posted on July 1, 2009, 11:45 am

Empty Nest Powerhouses

Daily Beast - Found Jun. 30, 2009
A profile of Rogers in The Wall Street Journal's magazine was accompanied by a smoldering photo that would give Tyra Banks a run for her money.

Posted on June 30, 2009, 8:50 am

BET Awards Honor Michael With Help From His Music, Family and Moves

POPSUGAR - Insanely addictive. - Found Jun. 29, 2009
50 Photos ? Images include: Marlon Wayans, Zoe Saldana, Kanye West, Amber Rose, Joe Jackson, Tyra Banks, Alicia Keys, Ciara, Soulja Boy...

Posted on June 29, 2009, 7:00 am

Beyonce, New Edition, Maxwell To Perform Michael Jackson Songs On ...

Billboard - Found Jun. 28, 2009
Also schedule to appear are the O'Jays, Alicia Keys, Wyclef Jean, Tyra Banks, Taraji P. Henderson, Idris Elba, Sherri Shepherd, Anthony...
Michael Jackson's Father Attends BET Awards - ABC News
BET Awards Undergo Changes after Jackson Death - TheCelebrityCafe.com
Another Two Jackson Tributes to Take Place Today - TheCelebrityCafe.com
BET Awards to pay tribute to Jackson - Digital Spy
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Modesto Bee

Posted on June 28, 2009, 3:56 am

Tune In... BET AWARDS '09 - Featuring the Brightest Stars of Music, ...

Reuters - Found Jun. 24, 2009
Young Jeezy, Trey Songz and Tyrese, With Appearances by The O'Jays, Alicia Keys, Wyclef Jean, Tyra Banks, Taraji P. Henderson, Idris Elba...
Tune In... BET AWARDS '09 - Featuring the Brightest Stars of Music, ... - Houston Chronicle
Tyrese, Taraji Henson join BET Awards 09 - Examiner.com
Tune In... BET AWARDS '09 - Featuring the Brightest Stars of Music, ... - Forbes.com
Tune In... BET AWARDS '09 - Featuring the Brightest Stars of Music, ... - Houston Business Journal
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Posted on June 24, 2009, 10:43 am

Georgia man sentenced in NYC for stalking Tyra Banks

Urban Mecca - Found Jun. 22, 2009
A Georgia man who was convicted of stalking TV host Tyra Banks Brady Green, 39, of Dublin, Ga., must also stay away from the former supermodel for

Posted on June 22, 2009, 5:40 am

Georgia Man Convicted of Stalking Tyra Banks

TheCelebrityCafe.com - Found Jun. 19, 2009
Tyra Banks, the host of 'America's Next Top Model' and 'The Tyra Banks Show,' said that she fears for the safety of her family, fans, staff...
Man sentenced for stalking Tyra Banks - Sunshine Coast Daily
Man sentenced for stalking Tyra Banks - The West Online
Tyra Banks' Stalker Brady Green Gets Probation, To Attend Project ... - Post Chronicle
TYRA'S STALKER SENTENCED TO PROBATION: B... - EURweb
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EURweb

Posted on June 19, 2009, 12:30 pm

Dave on Demand: They just wouldn't leave

Philadelphia Inquirer - Found 1 hour ago
... merica's Next Top Model. Two words that will live in TV infamy: Tyra Banks. Sex and the City.
Dave on Demand: They just wouldn't leave - Philly.com
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Posted on July 4, 2009, 1:22 pm

49 Minutes With Levi Johnston

New York Magazine - Found 11 hours ago
Tank arranged for Levi to appear on The Tyra Banks Show, Extra, and CBS The Early Show and to be photographed shirtless, with Tripp, for GQ...

Posted on July 3, 2009, 3:42 am

Tyra Banks Biography

Tyra Banks
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Tyra Banks

Born Tyra Lynne Banks
December 4, 1973 (1973-12-04) (age 35)
Inglewood, California, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Model
Talk show host
Years active since 1993
Salary $23 million (2008)1
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)2
Website
www.TyraBanks.com

Tyra Lynne Banks (born December 4, 1973) is an American media personality, actress, occasional singer, former model and businesswoman.345 She first became famous as a model in Paris, Milan, London, Tokyo and New York, but television appearances were her commercial breakthrough. Banks is the creator and host of the UPN/The CW reality television show America's Next Top Model and is co-creator of True Beauty. She also hosts her own talk show, The Tyra Banks Show.

In 2009 she was honored by Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) with the Excellence in Media Award.

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Early life

Tyra Banks was born in Inglewood, California, the daughter of Karolyn (née London), a fashion manager and NASA photographer, and Donald Banks, a computer consultant.36 The couple divorced in 1980, when Banks was 6 years old. However, the relationship between her parents, and between her and her brother Devin Banks (born 1968), stayed friendly. Later, Carolyn married Clifford Johnson; she now goes by Carolyn London-Johnson. Banks attended John Burroughs Middle School and graduated in 1991 from Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles. She was accepted by colleges such as USC and UCLA for television producing.78

Career

Modeling

Banks began modeling in the 11th grade.9 She later went to Paris, France to do some runway modeling. Within Banks' first week in Paris, designers were so entranced by her presence on the runway that she was booked for an unprecedented twenty-five shows - a record in the business for a newcomer. She has done extensive print and/or runway work for fashion/advertising giants, such as Anna Sui, Coors Light, CoverGirl, Badgley Mischka, Bill Blass, Cynthia Rowley, Chanel, Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Donna Karan, Gemma Kahng, H&M, Isaac Mizrahi, Maria Snyder, McDonald's, Aislinn Dubois Modeling Agency, Michael Kors, Milk, Nicole Miller, Nike, Inc., Oscar de la Renta, Pepsi, Perry Ellis, Randy Kemper, Richard Tyler, Rifat Ozbek, Swatch, Todd Oldham, Tommy Hilfiger, Victoria's Secret and Yves Saint Laurent. She has appeared on the covers of high-fashion magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and Elle.

Banks was the first African American woman on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.10 In 1997, she received the VH1 award for Supermodel of the Year. That same year, she became the first-ever African American chosen for the cover of the Victoria's Secret catalog.11

Banks retired from modeling in May 2005 to concentrate on her television career. She walked the runway for the final time at the 2005 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

Aside from modeling, In 1998, Banks authored a book entitled Tyra's Beauty, Inside and Out. The book was advertised as a resource for helping women to make the most out of their natural beauty.12

Move into television and film

Banks' television career began on the fourth season of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, in which she played lead character Will Smith's old friend Jackie Ames. She made seven appearances in the series. Other TV credits include Felicity, MADtv, Nick Cannon's Wild 'n Out (in which she was featured as a special guest host and team captain) and The Price Is Right (guest-starring as a "Barker's Beauty"). She also appeared as a guest in the animated talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast in an episode entitled "Chinatown."

Currently, Banks can be seen on television as the hostess, judge and executive producer of The CW Television Network show America's Next Top Model. In addition, she hosts The Tyra Banks Show, a daytime talk show aimed at younger women, which premiered on September 12, 2005. The show features stories about everyday people mixed in with celebrity interviews, much like the early format of The Oprah Winfrey Show. Under the slogan "Every woman has a story...and it happened to Tyra too," Banks promotes her show using emotional flashbacks to her own childhood and adolescence. Many of the episodes deal with issues facing women today. Banks and other experts give women advice on fashion, relationships and more. The first two seasons of the show were recorded in Banks' hometown of Los Angeles but, beginning with the fall 2007 season, the show moved to New York City. In 2008, Banks won the Daytime Emmy Award for her work and production on The Tyra Banks Show.

In late-January 2008, Banks got the go-ahead from The CW Television Network to start work on a new reality television series based on fashion magazines called Stylista. The show premiered on October 22, 2008.

Banks' first big screen role came in 1994 when she co-starred in the drama Higher Learning. She went on to co-star with Lindsay Lohan in the Disney film Life-Size, playing a doll named Eve who comes to life and has to learn how to live in the real world. Other notable roles include Love Stinks (1999), Love & Basketball (2000), Coyote Ugly (2000) and Halloween: Resurrection (2002).

Music

Banks has appeared in several music videos, including Michael Jackson's "Black or White", Tina Turner's "Love Thing", Mobb Deep's "Trife Life" and George Michael's "Too Funky" (with fellow supermodel Linda Evangelista). In 2004, she recorded her first single, "Shake Ya Body," which had a music video featuring the final six contestants on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 2. The video was world-premiered on UPN, but the single turned out to be a failure. On America's Next Top Model, Cycle 2 Banks said, "Singing has been a passion of mine for a long, long time...six years on the down low - been ducking in and out of studios cutting tracks." Later, on her talk show, she said, "I can't believe I wasted six years of doing something that I didn't finish...I was almost able to release my album T.Y.R.A., but since my music career hit rock bottom, I quit."cite this quote

Though "Shake Ya Body" was a failure, record producer Rodney Jerkins told Jet magazine in 2004 that Banks "has what it takes to pull it off...she had a hungriness to want to be in the studio all the time. Some people want to be divas in the studio and work for three or four hours. You had to tell Tyra to stop, or she will keep you going."13 As for her voice, Jerkins said, "People will be shocked. She can really sing. She's like between soprano and high-alto. I challenged her vocally. I pushed her, but not too far. I pushed her where vocally it fit the track."13

Banks released a single with NBA player Kobe Bryant, entitled "K.O.B.E.," which was performed on NBA TV. She also has a single on the soundtrack to Disney Channel's Original Movie Life-Size called "Be A Star." She is credited with performing the theme song to America's Next Top Model.citation needed

Personal life

She devoted an entire show to the subject of "Professional Athletes and the Women Who Love Them" on her talk show in November 2006. She is also the godmother of Ming Lee and Aoki Lee Simmons and Kenzo Lee Hounsou,14 the children of her friend, Kimora Lee Simmons.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1995 Higher Learning Deja
1999 Love Stinks Holly Garnett
2000 Love & Basketball Kyra Kessler
Life-Size Eve Doll TV movie
Coyote Ugly Zoë
2002 Halloween: Resurrection Nora Winston
Eight Crazy Nights Victoria's Secret Gown Voice
2007 Mr. Woodcock Herself Cameo
2008 Tropic Thunder Herself Cameo
2009 Hannah Montana: The Movie15 Herself in Women's Shoe Department Guest appearance

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1993 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Jackie Ames TV series (credited as "Tyra")
  • Where There's a Will, There's a Way: Part 1
  • All Guts, No Glory
  • Father of the Year
  • Blood Is Thicker Than Mud
  • Fresh Prince After Dark
  • Take My Cousin... Please
  • You've Got to Be a Football Hero
1999 Felicity Jane Scott TV series
  • A Good Egg
  • Kissing Mr. Covington
  • One Ball, Two Strikes
Just Shoot Me! Herself TV series
  • Nina Sees Red: Part 1
  • Nina Sees Red: Part 2
2000 MADtv Katisha Latisha Parisha Farisha Johnson TV series
  • Episode #5.25
  • Episode #5.17
Since 2003 America's Next Top Model Host Reality TV series created, judged and hosted by Banks
2004 American Dreams Carolyn Gill TV series
  • Chasing the Past
All of Us Roni TV series
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Since 2005 The Tyra Banks Show Host Talk show

References

  1. ^ Miller, Matthew (2008-06-11), The Celebrity 100: #68 Tyra Banks, Forbes.com, http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/53/celebrities08_Tyra-Banks_L5FY.html, retrieved on 2008-09-10 
  2. ^ "Tyra Banks Height - how tall". http://www.celebheights.com/s/Tyra-Banks-576.html. 
  3. ^ a b Jason Clark (2008). "Tyra Banks:Biography on MSN". MSN. http://movies.msn.com/celebrities/celebrity-biography/tyra-banks/. Retrieved on 2008-07-18. 
  4. ^ "ABC News: Tyra Banks Experiences Obesity Through Fat Suit". http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/BeautySecrets/story?id=1280787. 
  5. ^ "Tyra Banks On It - Forbes.com". http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2006/0703/120.html. 
  6. ^ "Tyra Banks Biography". FilmReference.com. http://www.filmreference.com/film/26/Tyra-Banks.html. 
  7. ^ "Tyra Banks: America's Next Top Mogul". http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20178169,00.html. 
  8. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1225232/
  9. ^ Hirschberg, Lynn (June 1, 2008). "Banksable". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/magazine/01tyra-t.html?ei=5124&en=6a5e98a9634a54f6&ex=1369972800&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink&pagewanted=all. 
  10. ^ "Tyra Banks Profile". FMD-database. http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/models/Tyra_Banks. Retrieved on 2008-06-11. 
  11. ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n7_v52/ai_19383832/
  12. ^ "Tyra Banks and Books". http://www.newyorktimesbestsellerlist.org/reviews/tyra-banks. 
  13. ^ a b Christian, Margena A. (March 1, 2004). "Tyra Banks: creator of TV's 'America's next top model' tells why singing is her next move". Jet. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_9_105/ai_114007282. Retrieved on February 23, 2007. 
  14. ^ http://www.tv.com/the-tyra-banks-show/professional-athletes-and-the-women-who-love-them/episode/908358/summary.html
  15. ^ "NewsChannel 5.com - Nashville, Tennessee - 'Hannah Montana' Film Scenes Shot In Cool Springs Mall". http://www.newschannel5.com/global/story.asp?s=8391689. 

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