Tyra Banks has admitted that she wishes she a harder person, as often people mistake her kindness as weakness.

Speaking to ABC’s Nightline in advance of the new series of ANTM, Tyra said:

“I wish I was more of a diva. I wish I was harder. I wish I didn’t care so much about being the nice girl all the time,” she said.

“Because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness… so I wish I had a little bit more ‘oomph’ in me.”

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Chaos has erupted at American Next Top Model auditions in a New York Hotel.

Thousands of people were queuing to try out for the hit reality TV show when panic broke out and people were forced to abandoned clothes and belongings to escape the scrum.

The scenes resulted in six people injured and three arrests. Police went on to cancel the auditions and sent everyone home, they could not confirm what the cause of the panic was.

For the 13th series of the show producers are looking for models below average height and a maximum height of 5′ 7″ set for auditionees. I wonder if these scenes are proof that woman as well as men suffer from the aggressive ‘Short Man’s Syndrome’ that we hear so much about?

With more makeovers, melodrama and mayhem than ever before, the tenth series of LIVING’s smash-hit modelling reality show, America’s Next Top Model, continues this week. Now 11 stunning young hopefuls remain in the competition for the Next Top Model crown.

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With more high heels and hissy fits than ever before, the ninth series of one of LIVING’s best loved reality shows, America’s Next Top Model, draws to a close this week. 13 gorgeous girls have battled it out for the Next Top Model crown and the prizes of a modelling contract, a $100,000 deal with Covergirl cosmetics and a spread in a magazine that come with it.

Having whittled down the hopefuls to the final three, its now time for the judges – supermodel Tyra Banks, 60s star Twiggy, fashion photographer Nigel Barker and runway coach J Alexander – to pick the winner.

After last week’s shock elimination of Bianca, this week’s series finale sees the final three – Chantal, Jenah and Saleisha – shoot a commercial for Covergirl lipgloss in China. Although each of the girls manage to secure a good take in the end, Jenah’s attitude lands her in hot water with photoshoot manager Jay Manuel, and Saleisha becomes so frustrated when she fluffs her lines that she has to take five minutes to cry! Next it’s time for the first elimination of the episode, but just to make it that bit tougher Tyra asks each of the girls to evaluate their competition before announcing who is going home. Read more & comment »

With high heel and hissy fits aplenty, the ninth series of the smash hit reality show America’s Next Top Model continues exclusively on LIVING this week. Hosted by supermodel Tyra Banks, the show follows 13 girls who are competing to win a top modelling contract.

The final four girls are still in China this week, where they are each given a traditional costume and told to update it
for a challenge. Deciding to do all she can to ensure a spot in the final, Bianca tries to throw Jenah off her game during the contest. Will her cunning plan work?

This week’s photoshoot takes place at the Great Wall of China, where the girls must pretend to be fighting to make it over the wall. With each wannabe desperate for a spot in the final, nerves are running high – especially when the week’s extra-special photographer is revealed. It’s Tyra! Read more & comment »

Last night we saw Heather’s departure from America’s Next Top Model. No one could really have been surprised, as the girls had to find their way around Shaghai for ‘go sees’ with various designers, Heather spent the majority of the day wandering, lost, around the city. When she finally got back to base she was forty minutes late and automatically disqualified from the challenge.

At the end of the epsiode when Tyra Banks revealed the bottom two girls, Heather found herself paired with Jenah, and though Tyra admitted that the pair often took the best pictures out of the whole group, both of them had personality problems which may stop them succeeding in the business. Jenah survived, but will have to watch her caustic tongue and sarcastic wit in future, Heather was not so lucky!

Next week we will see the girls in Shanghai, where Tyra will be directing their photo shoot on the great wall of china. I only hope that Bianca doesn’t last too much longer, her cocky attitude is beginning to grate on my nerves!

So this week’s America’s Next Top Model showed the remaining girls getting to take part in a shoot for Enrique Iglesias – Tired Of Being Sorry music video.

Lisa and Heather were both awarded ‘featured’ roles in the video, and at the end of the episode we were shown a one minute preview of the finished video. Here’s what it looked like.

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I hold my hands up! I love America’s Next Top Model on Living, I can’t get enough of the bitching and the fighting and the ever critical Tyra Banks.

Most weeks the girls seem prepared to do anything to stay on the show, they bitch, they scheme and they collectively hate the girl who wins each weekly challenge. So I was shocked tonight to see one of the most gorgeous girls I have ever seen decide to throw it all away and leave the show.

Check out the clip above to see Ebony throw it all away, simply because she has a problem with people telling her what to do….silly girl!

The hotly anticipated ninth series of America’s Next Top Model, presented by the inimitable Tyra Banks, did not disappoint with its double bill on LIVING last night, Monday 4th February at 9pm and 10pm. The episodes gave LIVING, the exclusive broadcaster of the show in the UK, its highest rating launch episode ever. The first episode in the double bill averaged 535,000 viewers[1], up a massive 132,000 viewers since the previous highest launch episode for Season 8. LIVING fans also stayed around for the second episode, with 418,000 seeing the girls whittled down from 33 to the final 13. Read more & comment »

With more shrieking, sulking and super-high stilettos than ever before, the ninth series of one of LIVING’s best loved
reality shows, America’s Next Top Model, starts exclusively this week. 13 gorgeous girls are striving for the Next Top
Model crown and the prizes of a modelling contract, a $100,000 deal with Covergirl cosmetics and a spread in a magazine
that come with it. Hosting proceedings is Tyra Banks, with 60s star Twiggy, fashion photographer Nigel Barker and
runway coach J Alexander helping her judge which of the girls are high fashion rather than high street.

The show premieres with a double bill, where the spectacular opening episode sees the 33 semi-finalists meet at a port in
San Juan, Puerto Rico where they discover they will be spending the next week aboard a luxury cruise-liner. The girls’ first
task is to walk the runway wearing a lifejacket, and while some of them impress with their natural ability, others fail
miserably. J Alexander even declares that Heather “looks like [she] should be digging up clams” when he sees her odd,
clumpy, hunchbacked walk. Cattiness is the order of the day at dinnertime when, after a misjudged joke, Ebony refuses to
apologise and instead states: “Bitches bite back. I know I’m fabulous. What, do I intimidate you?” Read more & comment »

Hot on the heels of the incredible third series of Britain’s Next Top Model, the global phenomenon that is America’s Next Top Model is back. After its highest rating America’s Next Top Model episode ever on LIVING for series seven’s finale, averaging almost a million viewers, it’s time for series eight. The competition, presented and judged by the one-and-only Queen of the catwalk Miss Tyra Banks, intensifies as the 13 finalists fight to turn their dreams of becoming a top model into reality. Read more & comment »