Tyra Banks News

The Hills' villain-in-chief, Spencer Pratt, and plastic girlfriend Heidi Montag have fully refueled their long-standing feud with Lauren Conrad.

During a taping for Tuesday's upcoming episode of The Tyra Banks Show, Spencer Pratt says he is "100 percent" sure there is, or at least was, a Lauren Conrad sex tape:

"I know for 100 percent fact it did exist. 1,000 percent!"

Tyra Banks asked if Spencer Pratt had actually seen it.

"I would never watch that!" Pratt replied. "I would rather throw up... but I know for a fact, and I would take a lie detector test."

The Heidi-Spencer / Lauren Conrad feud continues!

The alleged Lauren Conrad sex tape supposedly co-starred her boyfriend at the time, Jason Wahler, who recently got his own show, 22 and Taken.

Heidi Montag â€" who appeared alongside Spencer Pratt on the show â€" is also claiming the tape was "not a rumor. From what I have heard from confirmed sources, her ex-boyfriend was going around trying to sell it."

She said she hasn't seen it either, shockingly.

What do you think? Is there, or was there a Lauren Conrad sex tape? Or are Spencer and Heidi just bringing this up again for publicity?

Having shot down rumors that she's leaving her own show, Tyra Banks gives good face at Friday's First Annual Fiercee Awards. Yes, that's Fiercee spelled wrong.

The New York event pays homage to past contestants on her show, America's Next Top Model. It does not imply a celebrity endorsement from Christian Siriano.

Tyra Banks: Happy, doing her thing and staying on America's Next Top Model.

Amid reports that she is leaving America's Next Top Model, Tyra Banks was all smiles Wednesday, filming a car commercial in New York City with singer Toni Braxton (not pictured). What do you think? Is Tyra leaving the show?

  Tyra Banks is rumored to be stepping down from America's Next Top Model.

America's Next Top Model without Tyra Banks would be like Survivor without Jeff Probst or Britney Spears without the pink wig. Okay, scratch that last party.

What we're trying to say is that it just doesn't make sense that Banks might leave the show, but MSNBC says Tyra is unhappy at the helm and her days as the head honcho of America's Next Top Model may in fact be numbered.

Tyra Banks is apparently "over it" and wants to focus on her talk show. She's also not getting along with co-star Jay Manuel. Stunning.

A Top Model source said:

"It's gotten so bad. Tyra Banks and Jay aren't speaking. Tyra barely interacts with the contestants and only wants to show up on judging day."

Tyra Banks wouldn't comment on the rumors. We'll see if there is any truth to them or if this is pure America's Next Top Model gossip.

Ashton Kutcher and Tyra Banks are teaming up to produce a reality show. The former, of course, is responsible for Beauty and the Geek; while the latter is the brains behind America's Next Top Model.

ABC has ordered 8 episodes of the series.

"The as-yet-untitled project will feature contestants competing in a beauty pageant. Naturally there's a twist, but the network has requested that the concept remain under wraps because the show hasn't started production," The Hollywood Reporter states.

Phony, pathetic, desperate-for-attention Tyra Banks was hooked up to a lie detector on her talk show earlier this week. It was part of a promo for the new game show, Moment of Truth.

"Now I know that there are some of you out there who question a few things about me.  That's why I've climbed into this hot seat so I can clear some things up once and for all in my own moment of truth," said Banks as she was strapped into the lie detector.

The Moment of Truth host Mark Wahlberg asked the America's Next Top Model creator and lead judge if she thought every winner of the show deserved to take home the title.

"I have gotten out-voted for girls on America's Next Top Model who have gone home," she answered.  "But I have never gotten out-voted when there was a winner.  I have always voted for the winner that won."

LIAR, the machine buzzed!

"What's up with that machine!?  Hindsight is 20/20 y'all!" explained Banks, adding she only questioned her final decision of America's Next Top Model winners after seeing some of the season's exploits during editing.

Do you buy that explanation? Do you like Tyra? 

America's Next Top Model is not enough for Tyra Banks and Ken Mok.

The duo behind that series has received an eight-episode order for a new show and will begin production in April for a launch in late spring or summer. The show, which the CW unofficially describes as The Devil Wears Prada meets The Assistant, is eyed as a potential companion piece for America's Next Top Model.

"It is a competition show about aspiring assistants looking to become assistant editors at a fashion magazine," Mok said. "At the same time they're trying to prove themselves as aspiring fashionistas, that they have a sense of style and savvyness, all the things to make it in the fashion world."

In each episode, the contestants will compete in a pair of challenges, an individual competition and a team competition, in which each squad will submit a page for "The Book," a mock edition of the magazine.

The losing team's page will end up in the trash, while one of its team members will be eliminated. The page from the other team will be included in "The Book." The winner of the competition will land a job in the fashion industry.

Indeed, Jaslene Gonzalez has big shoes to fill.

While Tyra Banks made it clear she was just fine with the way she looked back in January, the America's Next Top Model producer and host doesn't mess around come bikini season.

Us Weekly talked to her trainer, Martin Snow, owner of Trinity Boxing Club, and found out how he helped Isiah Thomas' possible girlfriend get her figure back to fierce.

US: What kind of moves do you do with Tyra Banks?
Martin Snow: I have a boxing gym so I basically do the moves with her that a fighter would do. She tends to get bored just doing conventional stuff. She has an athletic body, so I just try to bring it out. She responds very well to exercise. I do old-man Charles Atlas workouts. Stuff that old-time fighters used to do to get in shape.

SCOOP NOTE: A different kind of fighter, Sean Stewart prefers a program of drinking a lot and just going wild.

US: What kind of client is Tyra Banks? Is she really motivated?
MS: She is fantastic. She is very driven and works hard and is super nice. If someone is really enthusiastic, that charges up the trainer. I have to motivate someone, but then I get motivated again.

US: When she came to you six weeks ago, did she have a specific area that she wanted to workout?
MS: We don't target-train people. If you train like an athlete, a byproduct of that will be looking good. She will do what it takes to get in shape.

US: What is a typical routine?
MS: I bring her over to the park. We will do some warm-ups, some running drills, a parachute run, where I put a parachute around her and she runs with it. We will do some medicine work where she will take heavy medicine balls and run and chase after them, and throw them at at different angles. We challenged these guys to handball but they punked out. Handball is great. And then we do kettle bells. I bring them out to the park. They are fantastic tools. For women, they are awesome. They target the core and you can do it every day. She is getting a pair for home and for work.

SCOOP NOTE: Heidi Montag got a pair of something else recently.

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In a candid TV Guide interview, Tyra Banks talks about Wednesday's finale of America's Next Top Model, braving the dating game, and the prospect of adopting kids one day soon.

TV Guide: Can you give us any hints about the season finale of America's Next Top Model?
Tyra Banks: For the fashion show, we decided to do "the evolution of woman."

She starts off as slightly primitive, then she evolves into this kickass, power woman. The Sydney Opera House is the backdrop.

TV Guide: This season Cassandra got frostbite on a shoot, and Natasha was badly burned by a curling iron. Do you have any modeling injuries?
Tyra Banks: I have scars on the backs of my arms from dressers in Paris scraping me with pins as I was taking a shirt or gown off. They pin you to death [to make it fit], and then pull it off really fast to get to the next outfit. I've also been burned on my eyelid and forehead by a curling iron.

TV Guide: Ouch! Did you ever experience the emotional pain that the girls go through in the America's Next Top Model house?
Tyra Banks: I used to live in a model's apartment in New York City. A girl woke me up in the middle of the night because she thought I stole her alarm clock. I was very insulted. I'm like, "I can afford a hotel â€" I stay here for the camaraderie." So what they do on TV, I've been a victim of that stuff.

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As a kid, Tyra Banks described herself as a "tall beanpole freak" who did not think she was beautiful. No wonder people don't take kids seriously.

The 5'10" knockout went on to become the first African-American to grace the covers of GQ and the iconic Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.

After becoming a mainstay for lingerie brand Victoria's Secret, Tyra Banks blazed a trail beyond the modeling industry by serving as creator, producer and judge on America's Next Top Model.

But, it was with her own talk show, The Tyra Banks Show, in 2005, that she really became "far, far more than just a body in a bathing suit" according to Time, who has twice listed Banks as one of their 100 Most Influential People in the World.

The supermodel mogul and Russell Simmons pal works with teenagers at her camp, Tzone, helping young women build self-esteem, and launched her "So What" campaign that promotes positive body images for women.

All that is fairly common knowledge. But here are five fun facts about Tyra Banks that you probably weren't aware of...

1. The runway veteran admitted to having cellulite and wearing control-top undies. "My silhouette looks fine, but... I have dimples in the backs of my thighs," Tyra Banks tells People.
2. Tyra appeared as one of the morphing faces at the end of the 1991 Michael Jackson video "Black or White."
3. "I've been afraid of [dolphins] ever since I was 8 or 9," Tyra Banks says. "I have dreams that I am in a pool and there are dolphins bumping me and I'm frightened."
4. Even though she used to model lingerie, Banks used a butt double to stand in for her nude scene in the low-budget movie Larceny.
5. After being the first African-American model featured solo on the cover of Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue, Tyra Banks revealed some interesting modeling secrets. "The oil on our bodies reflects muscles that aren't even there... I don't really have muscle tone, but it looks like I do on the cover because of the oil."