Posts Tagged ‘Tyra Banks’

Sasha Grey Tyra Banks Condescension Video Corner

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In order to commemorate 21-year-old porn star Sasha Grey's mainstream debut in The Girlfriend Experience this year, let's revisit Grey's 2007 appearance on The Tyra Banks show. Grey appeared on Tyra at age 18, after having spent eight months working in the porn industry. While I generally find porn kinda boring, Tyra is so out-of-control [...]

Levi Johnston Hits Tyra, Victimizes Self

And we've got the whole, non-white-trashy thing on tape:
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Sarah Seltzer for Reproductive Health Reality Check wonders if Levi is a "victim" in the Palin spotlight. "The Internet is buzzing over Levi Johnston's appearance on Tyra yesterday to 'break his silence,' and providing us all with a reminder that patriarchal policies like abstinence-only education hurt young [...]

Levi Johnson on Tyra Banks

There are no words. [Via].

Tyra Banks Loves LGBT Community, Self

Has Tyra earned an award from the LGBT community?
Later this month, Tyra Banks is set to receive a GLAAD Media Award for "Excellence in Media" for her work with the LGBT community on the Tyra Banks Show and America's Next Top Model. Last year, Banks famously paid for ANTM contest (and D.C.-area local) Isis [...]

The Morning After: Anniversary Leather Edition

* Metro Weekly opines on 25 years of Mid-Atlantic Leather weekend.
* Tyra Banks finds the one woman who has never heard of Sarah Palin.
* Tiger Beatdown tells you who's faring better this week—chicks or dudes—based on evidence culled from extensive personal experience crack reporting a Google alert she's set up for "women than men". But [...]

Tyra Banks Gives Gift of Sex Reassignment

Tyra Banks is prepared to grant transgender America’s Next Top Model contestant Isis King the gift that keeps on giving: An all-expenses paid sex reassignment surgery. Banks will surprise King with the gift on her show tomorrow, US Weekly reports. King, the first transgender individual to compete on Banks' model show, hails from Prince [...]

Local Transgender Woman Will Not Be America’s Next Top Model

Isis King, the first transgender woman to compete to be America's Next Top Model, has been booted from the show, The Advocate reports. The 22-year-old King, "a pre-operative transgender woman," was the fifth of 14 finalists to be eliminated this season. King's exit [...]

America’s Next Top Model Judge to Address Congress on Cute Issue

Nigel Barker, British photographer and frequent judge on Tyra Banks reality television program America's Next Top Model, will address members of Congress today on the slaughter of baby harp seals. Barker, who memorably said of one would-be Tyra, "if conceited drag queens are 'in', she's got a shot at being America's Next Top Model," counts [...]