Tyra Banks Show
As an icon in the international, cultural, and entertainment communities, Tyra Banks has broken down barriers to become one of the most admired and watched individuals in media today.
Banks is on a mission to provide avenues for others to reach their ultimate goals. In her words: "I'm passionate about inspiring people to fulfill their own dreams and fantasies through entertainment that is engaging, uplifting, and of course, fun! This is my dream realized."
In spring 2008, Banks appeared on the cover of The New York Times Magazine in a piece titled "Martha, Oprah, Tyra; Is She the Next Big Female Branded Self?" and Entertainment Weekly featured her on the cover saying "America's Next Top Mogul." In the same year, she was honored in Hollywood Reporter's "100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment," Entertainment Weekly's "25 Smartest in Television," Glamour magazine's coveted "Women of the Year," and came in at #1 on Forbes "Primetime TV's Top Earning Women" report. In 2007, Banks was saluted as a trailblazer and received a BET Honors award for her work in media alongside Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons and other notables. Also in 2007, Banks was placed in Time Magazine's "Most Influential People in the World" report for the second year in a row. In 2006, Forbes profiled Banks on their highly-anticipated "Celebrity 100" report for the first time.
Media Mogul Tyra Banks
The Tyra Banks Show (also known as and shortened to Tyra) is an American talk show hosted by Tyra Banks.
It premiered on September 12, 2005 in front of a live-to-tape audience at CBS Television City in Los Angeles. The series was created to fill in the empty slot after The Ricki Lake Show was discontinued.[citation needed] In summer 2007 the show moved to New York City where it is filmed in the Chelsea Studios which was formerly occupied by Ricki Lake.[2] and is now recorded in front of a live-to-tape audience at Chelsea Studios in New York City. The final five all-new episodes from Los Angeles were aired the week of September 3, 2007 and followed by the 3rd season premiere on following week, September 10, 2007 in New York City. The fourth season began on September 8, 2008.
While the show covers a variety of topics, there is a sensationalized focus on current issues facing women, with often special episodes on America's Next Top Model. The show is aired in many countries, and is also available on XM Satellite Radio's Take Five channel in both the United States and Canada. In recent years, it has taken on a format similar to shows such as Maury and The Jerry Springer Show, covering topics such as people with odd psychological problems, among other subjects.
On December 19, 2007, the show was renewed an additional two seasons in syndication, 2008-2009 and 2009-2010. However, in November 2008, Warner Bros. announced the program would move to The CW network's daytime block in September 2009, with both an archive episode and a current-season episode airing daily. As The CW already airs ANTM, the move is seen by network officials as a "strategic alignment of interests for [The CW's] stations" as both shows will now air on the same channel nationwide.
Tyra Banks Show
Tyra Banks Show
Tyra Banks Profile
Birth Name: Tyra Lynne Banks
Birth Date: 4th December, 1973
Age: 35
Birth Place:Inglewood, California, United States
Profession: talk show host, actress, model, singer, businesswoman
Height: 1.78 m [5feet 10 inches]
Tyra Banks was born to Donald Banks [a computer consultant] and Carolyn [NASA photographer and fashion manager], though her parents separated when she was just sixteen years of age. Her early schooling was from John Burroughs Middle School and she graduated from Immaculate Heart High School, located in Los Angeles in the year 1991. She further went on to attend colleges for television production like the UCLA and USC.
Tyra got into modeling when she was in the 11th grade and went to create a record for a new comer in Paris when she got a twenty - five shows contract within one week of modeling in Paris. Tyra has done lot of modeling work for some big names like CoverGirl, Christian Dior, Swatch, Tommy Hilfiger, Pepsi, Chanel etc and many more.
She even featured on the covers of fashion magazines like Elle, Vogue and Cosmopolitan. In 1997 she was crowned the title of VH1 Supermodel of the Year. She also bagged certain distinctions which no African-American had achieved before. Finally she retired in 2005 from modeling after walking on the ramp last time during the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
On television Tyra, appeared on many shows like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Felicity, Madtv etc.
She now focuses all her attentions to the hit reality TV show America's Next Top Model, in which he is the hostess, judge and also the executive producer. She also is working on a day time talk show named The Tyra Banks Show for which she won the Daytime Emmy Award in 2008. Another show, Tyra has created is titled Stylista which is also a reality TV show.
On the big screen, Tyra featured in films like Higher Learning, Life Size, and Coyote Ugly etc.
This multifaceted woman has also penned down a book named 'Tyra's Beauty, Inside and Out.'
On the music front, Tyra Banks has done many music videos which include Tina Turner's Love Thing, Michael Jackson's Black or White and George Michael's Too Funky, to name a few.
Having a passion for music she sang for the first time, "Shake Ya Body" but it was not quite successful. Apart from that she has sung the song "K.O.B.E.," with Kobe Bryant, the NBA player, "Be A Star" for the movie Life-Size.
Though Tyra had a past with NBA player Chris Webber with whom she stayed for three years up till 2004, she is now living with her friend and model Amber Rivers in New York City.