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Tyra Banks Says She Is Going To Do ‘Normal Work’ In Her New Office That Has A Bakery And Planetarium

Tyra Banks Says She Is Going To Do âNormal Workâ In Her New Office That Has A Bakery And Planetarium

Prepare to feel really bad about your office. Tyra Banks new office complex in Manhattan, which will be in the same building as her new leadership center for girls, sounds pretty amazing or fierce rather. It is under construction right now but when it is done the 30,000-square-foot building will have a bakery, a “wellness center” (we’re not sure what that means exactly but we’re sure it will have smoothies), a studio space, and a planetarium (what every office needs.) Add a few Oompa Loompas and this could be Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. More »

Crush Links: ANTM Loses Iconic Judges

Crush Links: ANTM Loses Iconic Judges

Nicki Minaj is still “traumatized” from her kiss with Madonna at the Super Bowl. (Celeb Dirty Laundry)

• In honor of 4/20, celebrities who have no problem lighting up every once in a while. (Celebuzz)

• Brad and Angelina will be walking the red carpet at Cannes right after they got engaged. Pretty good timing, eh? (Lainey Gossip)

• If you donate to President Obama‘s campaign, you could win the chance to have dinner with him and George Clooney. (The Stir)

• Not that we were still watching America’s Next Top Model, but it sucks that Tyra Banks fired Nigel Barker and Jay Manuel as judges. (Have U Heard)

• Lindsay Lohan and her enabling father Michael Lohan were involved in yet another bar brawl last week. (Celeb Dirty Laundry)

America’s Next Top Model All Stars Recap: A Winner Is Crowned, Sorta

America's Next Top Model All Stars Recap: A Winner Is Crowned, Sorta

Here’s the thing about reality competitions: as much fun as they are most of the way through, they always kind of bore me by the end. Sometimes I don’t even watch Top Model season finales. (I know. But I feel like this is a safe space.) Anyway, the finale of Top Model’s first All Stars cycle was reasonably entertaining, although the biggest twist happened off-screen. I mean, Tyra had Angelea killed, right? Just want to make sure we’re all on the same page. But more on that in a bit. More »

America’s Next Top Model All Stars Recap: Thumb Sucker

America's Next Top Model All Stars Recap: Thumb Sucker

In Wednesday night’s thrilling penultimate episode of America’s Next Top Model All Stars, we learned what vengeful goddess Tyra’s endgame really was—why she assembled these familiar faces and spirited them away to the enchanted island of Crete. If you’d guessed it had something to do with filming a glorified commercial for her bestselling novel Modelland, you’d be Tiresias, the blind soothsayer. But let’s backtrack a bit. More »

America’s Next Top Model All Stars Recap: Greek Salad Tragedy

America's Next Top Model All Stars Recap: Greek Salad Tragedy

When an episode of Top Model begins with one of the contestants talking about how she’s never gotten best photo but how she takes comfort in all her adoring fans, you know she’s not long for this competition. And let’s be real, Shannon—your refusal to pose in underwear was never the noblest of causes. Changing lives, one fully-clothed photo at a time. But hey, I’m probably just bitter that I don’t get thousands of emails from girls calling me a role model. I get a couple emails a week telling me I’m an asshole, though, so I kind of know how it feels? More »

America’s Next Top Model All Stars Recap: Viral Videos

America's Next Top Model All Stars Recap: Viral Videos

Every once in a while, America’s Next Top Model is so batshit, I have very little to say about it. What can I add to an episode in which the contestants were forced to make “viral” videos? (I put “viral” in quotes, because they didn’t actually make viral videos. Relatedly, Tyra Banks doesn’t know what “viral” means.) The entire conceit was absurd, and I love how this was presented as a reasonable challenge and not something insane Tyra cooked up while smoking the finest “pot ledom.” More »

Can Entertainment Tonight Stop Pretending The ‘Melissa Gorga In A Fat Suit’ Story Is Anything But A Ratings Stunt?

Can Entertainment Tonight Stop Pretending The 'Melissa Gorga In A Fat Suit' Story Is Anything But A Ratings Stunt?

Dear Entertainment Tonight: The gig is up. You don’t need to hide behind a sociological study and say that Melissa Gorga donned a fat suit in order to find out if overweight people get discriminated against. This is stupid because a) of course they do, and b) we all know it and shouldn’t have to go through the motions.

Nope–it’s much more likely that Melissa’s people are trying to humanize her. More »

America’s Next Top Model All Stars Recap: Honey Blood

America's Next Top Model All Stars Recap: Honey Blood

Some pretty amazing things happened on Wednesday night’s episode of America’s Next Top Model All Stars: Allison gave us Honey Blood, Lisa learned to challenge her inner NeNe, and Bianca fellated a pickle. Oh, and two contestants went home. All that and a visit from Kathy Griffin? My Top Model cup runneth over with fierceness. And you know that shit is hard to get out of the carpet. More »

America’s Next Top Model All Stars Recap: Coco Rocha Angles

America's Next Top Model All Stars Recap: Coco Rocha Angles

At some point while they were planning this season of America’s Next Top Model, the producers must have decided that by this point in the cycle, several of the contestants would be at each other’s throats. And so we got a perfectly timed episode built around aggression, with the models playing flag football and then participating in a bitch fight-themed photo shoot. How did they know these volatile personalities would erupt when forced into competition with one another?! More »