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Tyra Banks Officially a Harvard Alum

Kate Schwartz — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:30:29 CST

Harvard's alumni ranks have gotten a little more Us Weekly worthy. Supermodel/would-be finder of America's next top model Tyra Banks is now the owner of a diploma from Harvard University’s Executive Education Owner/President Manager Program. It's a mouthful, but it doesn't translate into a master's or doctoral degree. Instead, it...

Larry King: Freeze Me

Kevin Spak — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:04:14 CST

Larry King doesn’t believe in an afterlife, and hence wants to be frozen when he dies, he reveals in a new special airing tomorrow night. Dinner with the Kings sees Larry sit down with a gaggle of celebrities—namely Conan O’Brien, Tyra Banks, Shaquille O’Neal, Seth MacFarlane, Jack Dorsey, Quincy...

15 Odd, Awful Celeb Rappers

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:10:00 CDT

Sometimes otherwise-talented celebrities—here's looking at you, Eva Longoria—decide they really need to rap … terribly. Jezebel rounds up 15 unlikely rappers who really should not quit their day jobs. Watch a sampling in the gallery, or click here for the complete list. Yes, The Situation’s awful self-titled debut...

Mother Sues Tyra Banks Over Daughter's Appearance

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:18:11 CDT

Mommas, don't let your babies grow up to be ... 15-year-old girls who go on Tyra Banks' show to proclaim before the world that they're sex addicts. A Georgia woman is suing Banks for $3 million, claiming her daughter made the appearance without her permission and that the show last year...

Tyra's Apology Is BS: Janice Dickinson

Evann Gastaldo — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:55:00 CDT

Tyra Banks is full of it, says Janice Dickinson. Banks, who recently apologized for an America’s Next Top Model promo in which she appeared to gush over an ultra-skinny model, claimed she hadn’t seen the spot before it aired. BS, claims Dickinson, a former Top Model judge. “Excuse me, but...

Tyra: Skinny Girls Have It Tough, Too

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:20:00 CDT

Tyra Banks apologized for a controversial America's Next Top Model promo in which she appeared to gush over a super-skinny model, but says she wants to expand "the definition of beauty—EVERY kind of beauty"—including the extremely tall, thin kind. The model in the promo "was experiencing her own...

Tyra Banks Loves Super-Skinny Model

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:20:00 CDT

Tyra Banks may have once famously told her body critics to kiss her fat ass …but now she appears to be quite enamored with a ridiculously skinny America’s Next Top Model contestant. “Obviously the footage has been cut, so maybe what Tyra really likes about her is her walk or...

11 Animals Celebs Fear

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:54:45 CDT

Sam Greenspan wants you to know that celebrities are, indeed, just like you. “But only if you have peculiarly irrational fears of flightless birds or farm animals,” he writes on 11points.com , where he offers up 11 strange celebrity animal phobias: Adolf Hitler, et al : He is joined by Genghis...

RIP, Daytime Talk Shows

Kevin Spak — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:08:45 CDT

Why did Tyra Banks pull the plug on The Tyra Banks Show even though its ratings were still steady? Probably because she sensed that daytime talk shows in the confessional Oprah-inspired mold are dead, writes Jessica Grose of Slate . Fifteen years ago, daytime TV was full of these shows, from...