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This is next-level fierce: Dancing With the Stars has tapped Tyra Banks to replace Tom Bergeron as host. The announcement comes roughly 36 hours after ABC confirmed the departures of the ABC dance competition’s longtime host Bergeron as well as co-host Erin Andrews. Banks’ reign will begin with Season 29, slated to bow this fall (view ABC’s complete fall lineup here). In a statement, the erstwhile America’s Top Model host said, “I’ve been a fan of DWTS since its beginning. The fun mixed with raw emotion, seeing celebrities push past their comfort zones, the sizzling dance performances. It’s always transported...

Transgender model/activist Carmen Carrera will star in the eight-episode series. VH1 is continuing to serve as a voice for the transgender community. The Viacom-owned cable network is teaming with Tyra Banks for docuseries TransAmerica, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The eight-episode docuseries will chronicle a group of Chicago women united by the shared experience of being transgender. The series is described as an earnest look at a group of millennial women -- who happen to be transgender -- living, loving and building their careers. The series will explore how their sexuality impacts their lives. Model/activist Carmen Carrera will lead the...

A Georgia woman is suing Tyra Banks for $3 million after she said her 15-year-old daughter appeared without her permission on an episode of Banks’ talk show about teen sex addicts. In a lawsuit filed Oct. 8 in federal court in Atlanta, Beverly McClendon claims the show contacted the teen on her cell phone after she responded to a request on the show’s website seeking "sex addicts." The girl was then picked up from her home in Georgia in a limo and flown to New York, where she was put up in a hotel, all without her mother’s knowledge, the...

Supermodel turned authoress, Tyra Banks, thinks that Sarah Palin is a hater - no, not on President Barack Obama, or the Democrats, but on Tyra Banks?!? Tyra Banks is said to be furious that on the very same day that she announced she is releasing her first novel, Palin announced she too has another book coming out. “Miss Tyra doesn’t like sharing the spotlight with anyone,” a source told PopEater. This was meant to be the day the whole world was talking about Tyra and her first novel Modelland.Now it’s all been ruined by Sarah Palin announcing her second book...

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This is the best we’ve seen Tyra Banks looking in a while. The former top model looked stunning while attended the 36th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.

Levi Johnston, ex-fiancee of famous teen mom Bristol Palin, admitted to Tyra Banks in an interview set to air Monday that the couple was not always practicing safe sex and says they shared a bedroom on occasion. Johnston talks about his relationship with Sarah Palin's daughter next Monday on "The Tyra Banks Show." In a preview, Johnston tells the host that he and Bristol were practicing safe sex, and agrees that her pregnancy must have resulted from some sort of 'wardrobe malfunction.' But when pressed by Tyra, he admits that they used protection "most of the time" -- but not...

She knew? You betcha, says the baby daddy of Sarah Palin's grandson. The Alaska governor most likely was aware before her daughter, Bristol, became pregnant that the teenager and her hockey hunk boyfriend were having sex, Levi Johnston said in a bombshell new interview. "I'm pretty sure she probably knew. Moms are pretty smart," said Johnston, 18, the father of the governor's first grandchild, in an interview that will air Monday on "The Tyra Banks Show." Johnston said he and Bristol Palin practiced safe sex "most of the time."

America's Next Top Model host Tyra Banks says she is "concerned" after an audition for her show ended with six people injured and three arrests. Thousands of modelling hopefuls were queuing outside a hotel in Manhattan, New York, when bedlam broke out. Police cancelled the audition but could not say what had sparked the panic. Banks and the show's producer Ken Mok said: "We are concerned by the events. We still don't know all the details of what triggered the incident."

Clinton Chooses Dancing Over Singing Monday, January 14, 2008 Dancing, singing or modeling? Hmm. Asked to choose what reality TV program she would prefer to compete on, Hillary Rodham Clinton chose the popular "Dancing With the Stars." "In my dreams I would be on 'America's Next Top Model' but in reality I would have to choose my limited talents and of them dancing is better than singing," Clinton said Monday during a taping of "The Tyra Banks Show." "You do not want me to sing." That was an apparent reference to her off-key rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner," which has...