Tyra Banks faces harsh backlash following traumatic America's Next Top Model Netflix documentary: 'There’s no way she can redeem herself!'
'She literally just made excuses the entire time'Tyra Banks is facing harsh backlash following the release of the Netflix documentary, Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model.
The three-part series interviewed Banks, executive producer Ken Mok, as well as some of the judges and contestants on the show. ANTM, which enjoyed a whopping 24 cycles between 2003 and 2018, has been accused of being problematic and controversial.
As the show continues to make headlines, many people were able to finally have their say on topics, from controversial shoots to relentless body-shaming.
Tyra Banks on Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model documentary
In the doc, Tyra is pressed to address several things, from forcing Cycle 6 winner Dani Evans to having a gap in her teeth closed to Keenyah being harassed on the set of a photoshoot.
While she took accountability for a few things, such as the ‘race-swapping shoot’, viewers are still not pleased at all.
During the second episode, Cycle 2 contestant Shandi Sullivan was filmed with an Italian model, where it was portrayed that she cheated on him while drunk.
However, in her own words, Shandi said she “blacked out” for a whole of it and realised in the morning that “something was wrong”.
While getting emotional, Shandi said that producers should have stopped filming and helped her.
Shandi revealed she “kept demanding” to leave the show after it happened. However, production wouldn’t let her. She said she wanted to phone her boyfriend, Eric, but they refused to give her a phone. However, conveniently, they managed to find one when she said she wouldn’t film for the show.
She also alleged that cameras followed her to the doctor, which never aired, and claimed they filmed her confronting the Italian model about STDs and protection.
Hitting back at production, Shandi said: “Why can’t you ask them yourself? Why do you have to film this?”
When asked to address the Shandi situation, Tyra seemingly brushed it off. Despite being the executive producer of the show, she said it was down to production, which she claimed wasn’t her “territory”.
Elsewhere, she insisted viewers were demanding that she elevate the show with more stunts and outrageous scenes.
‘You have no idea what we have planned for Cycle 25’
In the same doc, Tyra teased that America’s Next Top Model will be returning to our screens for Cycle 25.
“You have no idea what we have planned for Cycle 25,” she said, hinting that it had been picked up again.
Despite being a huge hit, viewers were turned off by the idea that Tyra might be bringing it back. Especially after many contestants were left scarred from their experiences.
‘She’s crazy’
“Tyra shamelessly promoting cycle 25 after we just watched 3 episodes of traumatised girls. She’s crazy,” one user wrote on X.
“Tyra Banks takes absolutely no accountability, states production isn’t anything to do with her but was an executive producer, then promotes Cycle 25. This woman is actually delusional. I hope this backlash gives her a wake-up call,” another person shared.
“Tyra Banks is the kind of person you cut ties with and never speak to again. Not ever. She is not a good person and everyone is better off without her around them. She is poison. [Bleep] Cycle 25, I hope it crashes and burns with her in it,” a third remarked.
“Yeah Tyra Banks still don’t give a damn and it shows she literally just made excuses the entire time. I knew it when she first came on the camera with that smug [bleep] smile talking about we asked for this. People who aren’t sorry really don’t apologise,” a fourth said.
Meanwhile, a fifth echoed: “It’s clear Tyra Banks is using this documentary as a way to plan her comeback but there’s no way she can redeem herself. Like no way lmao.”
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