Janice Dickinson Blasts Tyra Banks

The battle for who’s chargeable for the adverse results of America’s Next Top Model has reached a fever pitch. While Netflix’s current docuseries Reality Check supplied a considerably polished have a look at the franchise’s historical past, a rival documentary is promising to strip away the filter. In a blistering new interview for E!’s upcoming collection Dirty Rotten Scandals, mannequin and former decide Janice Dickinson launched an assault on Tyra Banks, claiming the present was much less of a modeling competitors and extra of a platform for humiliation and torture designed to feed Banks’ ego.

Dickinson, now 71, served as a decide for the primary 4 seasons of the hit actuality present. Known throughout her tenure for her sharp tongue and brutal honesty concerning contestants’ weight and look, she now claims that her persona was largely manufactured and mandated by the present’s creator, in response to Daily Mail UK.

“The producers, particularly Tyra, have been begging me to be harsher and merciless, like Simon Cowell was on American Idol,” Dickinson shared. She alleges that whereas she took the warmth for being the imply one, it was Banks who was pulling the strings behind the scenes.

In the footage for Dirty Rotten Scandals, Janice Dickinson pulls no punches, labeling the now 52-year-old Banks a “hardcore b***h.” Dickinson claims that Banks’ remedy of the younger ladies on the present was rooted in a deep-seated competitiveness and jealousy.

According to Dickinson, Banks typically focused Black contestants particularly, performing out of a worry of being eclipsed by a youthful technology.

“She would go more durable on the Black women on the present due to competitiveness and jealousy and her being older than these younger ladies,” Dickinson alleged. She additional critiqued Banks’ “powerful teen mother” persona, stating that Banks didn’t truly care concerning the women’ confidence or careers. Instead, Dickinson claims, “America’s Next Top Model actually tortured these women for Tyra’s ego. I used to be there and I noticed it… they left the present fully depressed and depleted whereas she acquired so wealthy.”