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Tyra was honored with her own wax figure at Madame Tussaud's yesterday in DC. The wax Tyra is unbeweavably lifelike! • Matt LeBlanc's ex-business manager, Camille Cerio, is suing the Friends star for payments she says she's owed. Apparently Cerio's asking for a chunk of the $100 million in royalties LeBlanc earned from Friends and Joey. Holy Jesus that's alotta money! • More celebrity justice news: Rob Lowe's former nanny Jessica Gibson denied every allegation made against her by Lowe and his wife Sheryl. According to her cross-complaint, Gibson, "did not flirt with or seek romantic or sexual attention from Rob Lowe." [Dlisted, E! Online, TMZ]
Unbeweavable
Was anyone else not really feeling Tyra's Blair Warner look at this weekend's Daytime Emmys? Glamour has a TyTy hair retrospective (girlfriend has been kinda looking insane for the last 15 years), but we put our favorite one after the jump. [Glamour]
rag trade
David Beckham's New Armani Ad: Yes.
- Bex bares (almost) all for Armani once more. After the item, People earnestly queries, "Tell us: What do you think of David Beckham’s ads?" Eager to see the conversation this generates. [People]
- The previously-discussed Italian Vogue featuring only models of color hits European newsstands next Thursday! "In a reverse of the general pattern of fashion magazines, all the faces are black, and all the feature topics are related to black women in the arts and entertainment." [New York Times]
- Tyra Banks is one of said black models. (Click to see awesome pix.) [Fashionista]
- Tyra's new show Stylista: OBVIOUSLY BIGGEST THING OF THE SUMMER. [Fashionista]
- "Soften your image" for only $99! Michelle Obama's View dress at Donna Ricco! [Donna Ricco]
The Onion A.V. Club interviewed The Soup host Joel McHale, who gave us some unsurprising insight into Tyra Banks' sense of humor…and her understanding of "fair use" material. Says Joel, "It's people like Tyra who don't get it and don't like [The Soup]. She's the only one that tries to stop us. 'Stop using our clips' and stuff. But it's fair use for a week, according to news rules. You can use 20 seconds of anything the week it airs." [The Onion]
the week that was
After This Week, We Never Want To Hear The Words "Manolo" or "Cosmo" Ever Again
- Unless you're living in a closet on Mars, you know that the Sex and the City movie premiered today.
- Slut Machine live blogged it wearing flip flops and eating some skittles. Suck on that, Louboutin wearers.
- The only part of the Sex and the City franchise that we're not sick of is Pat Field and her fabulous, gay, Payless lifestyle.
- Tyra Banks revealed her plans for world domination in the New York Times.
- TyTy sort of looked like a Bratz doll on that Times Mag cover; Bratz are also involved in world domination schemes
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Tyra Banks Wants Us To Feel Better About Ourselves So She Can Feel Better About Cashing In On It
"I think I was put on this earth to instill self-esteem in young girls," Tyra Banks tells Lynn Hirschberg, who wrote this Sunday's New York Times Magazine cover story on the model turned mogul. And that's what she's been telling the rest of us for the past five years since ANTM debuted. Throughout the lengthy article, Tyra — who named her company Bankable Productions — seems to be justifying her crossover success and subsequent mega-wealth. ("Banks makes an estimated $18 million a year, and her net worth is around $75 million.") She'd have you believe that, ultimately, she's in this media game to help out 18 - 34-year-old women. How fitting then, that that happens to be the exact demographic coveted by advertisers! It's not so weird that we question whether someone is only interested in"instilling self-esteem in young women" when that someone built her empire on a competition-based reality show about modeling. What is weird is that Tyra feels the need to couch her seemingly endless career goals in humanitarianism, as though her ambition needs to have a heart as big as her weave. The answer is that she knows if she doesn't say that shit, she'll look like a money-grubbing asshole. The question, however, is: Why aren't women allowed to be as shamelessly mercenary as men?
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You Wanna Be On Top
The New York Times Magazine is on a roll with its Jezebellian cover subjects. This Sunday, the cover story is about Tyra Banks, and naturally we were absolutely stoked, but our hearts practically fell out of our butts when the press release informed us that among things, the profile will cover Tyra's "275 smiles from 'angry but still smiling' to 'flirting with boyfriend.'" Which smile do you think she's using in this photo? Our guess is "Bratz chic." (Click image to view larger version.)
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Tyra: The First Annual Fiercee Awards
Yesterday, Tyra held the first annual Fiercee Awards, in which TyTy gave awards out to girls from past cycles of Top Model. The "awards" were actually more like backhanded compliments (Ugliest Cry, Biggest Makeover Meltdown, Worst Fall). Not all the girls turned up for it. Actually, it was kinda like the People's Choice Awards, where only presenters and winners showed up. (Except for Jade and Jael. They were nominated for several things, and it was a shutout.) Here are some highlights: Saleisha said she "never ever" got used to that horrible mushroom cap hairdo, Jade was salty, Jada cared way too much, Natasha is still awesome, Joanie maybe got fake tits, Joanie's teeth cost ANTM $30k, Jaslene seems to be struggling with literacy, and the clip of Shandi's BF screaming,"You had SEX!?" still makes us LOL. Clip above, and a list of the awards, nominees, and winners, as well as screen shots of all the girls who showed up, after the jump. More »
model memories
A Look Back At Tyra's 500 Episodes
Tyra has a lot to celebrate: Today marks the 500th episode of her talk show, which, we learned this morning, has been nominated for a Daytime Emmy (this year in a different category, "talk show/informative" instead of "talk show/entertainment"). TyTy was a guest on The View today, and she let us know that New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has christened April 30 "Tyra Banks Show Day." (Unlike Mariah Carey, however, Tyra is not getting her signature colors shown on the Empire State Building.) So in honor of this very special occasion, we've compiled some of our favorite clips from Tyra's Emmy-nominated third season. Pack your bags, y'all, we're going after the jump. More »
rag trade
Nina Garcia And ELLE: In? Out? Or In?
- You knew this already, but Project Runway judge/style tome author/ELLE fashion director Nina Garcia has parted ways with the magazine that made her. At least, ELLE has yet to tell anyone the rumors are false.
- Our sources say Garcia came in Friday morning around the hour fashion people usually get to work Friday morning, and was gone with all her earthly possessions by lunch time. Her assistants apparently cried all day, packing the rest of her things.
- New rumors are starting to surface that she's "in talks" with ELLE regarding some sort of position there.
- We suspect the fact that ELLE fashion news director Anne Slowey and creative director Joe Zee are getting their own Tyra-produced show this fall doesn't exactly make for a great environment. (Coupled with the fact that the magazine's fashion coverage has gotten a million times more interesting since Zee came on board.) But these are just our speculations. Know anything? Drop us a line! [WWD, MediaBistro, NYMag]
- And in other very important world news, Project Runway guest judge/style tome author/ELLE covergirl Victoria Beckham's denim line DVB has been dropped by Kitson and Fred Segal. Um, anyone else seeing a trend here? [News of the World]
clips
Tyra Talks To Teens Who Have Sex At School
Today on Tyra, teenagers as young as 13 discussed how they have sex on school grounds, sometimes even giving BJs in the classroom while the substitute teacher is sleeping. As one can imagine, Tyra was appalled and gave some of the kids a stern talking-to, but perhaps more disturbingly, she also went into unnecessary detail with some of the parents on hand, pointing out repeatedly that their kids are sexual beings. It was definitely a big cringe-fest for everyone. Then Tyra asked a teenage lesbian to discuss the specifics of her trysts in the back of the classroom during movie days. The kid did such a good job, it sounded like she was reading a Penthouse Forum letter out loud. Clip above.
dirt bag
Did Heath Ledger Father A Love Child?
- Is there a Heath Ledger love child? When Heath was 17, he dated a 25-year-old woman who gave birth to a baby girl after the relationship ended. [People]
- Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were married in the French Quarter Wedding Chapel on Saturday. [Star]
- Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt did not get married and were not even in New Orleans. They were in Texas, where Brad is shooting a film. [People]
- Sarah Jessica Parker's 5-year-old son James is an Obama supporter. [People]
- Amy Winehouse's husband, Blake Incarcerated, was attacked by fellow inmates in prison because they were convinced he had a secret stash of heroin. Blake has failed three drug tests while in Pentonville Prison and spends a lot of time in solitary confinement. [ONTD]
