Tyra Banks stopped by NBC’s The TODAY Show Tuesday to chat about the hair-raising and wig-free fifth season premiere of her Emmy-winning daytime talk show, airing later today on The CW.
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The biggest forehead in daytime TV is still unattached — for now, at least. Two-time Emmy Award-winning talk show host Tyra Banks is shooting down rumors that she is set to wed her longtime boyfriend, Manhattan businessman John Utendahl.
Tyra prompted rumors of her engagement after photos surfaced showing her wearing a gold ring on her ring finger — the former supermodel has since revealed the ring as her class ring.
“No diamonds! Its like 10-carat gold!” Tyra joked Monday.
A rep for the model-turned-media mogul has confirmed that Tyra is not engaged to Utendahl.
“It’s her high school class ring,” her rep insists.
Tyra has been romantically linked to Utendahl since 2007.
Tyra Banks has given fans a sneak peek of what she looks like without her trademark lacefront wig.
On Tuesday, the Emmy-winning talk show hostess Twit Pic’d a photo of her natural hair. The former supermodel has declared September 8 “National Real Hair Day,” and has vowed to appear on camera with her natural hair uncovered during the fifth season premiere of The Tyra Banks Show next month.
Tyra also vowed to reveal her natural hair for the fifth season premiere of her daytime talk show next month.
“This season on The Tyra Show we’re taking it to the next level and getting more real than ever before by encouraging women everywhere to own and rock what they’ve got and be proud!” the Emmy-winning former supermodel says. “For the Season 5 premiere, I will be doing just that – no fake hair, I’m rocking my REAL hair. This will all be going down on Sept. 8, which we’re declaring National Real Hair Day! We welcome everyone to go natural with me!”
She later added via Twitter: “no ponytails, no ballet bun head. hair will be out and free!”
The Tyra Banks Show returns to the tube Sept. 8.
Tyra Banks will guest star on the upcoming third season of The CW’s Gossip Girl, premiering next month.
Entertainment Weekly sources report that the Emmy-winning former supermodel will show up in Episode 4 as actress Ursula Nyquist.
The yearbook photo –it’s the most important picture a teenager takes. In recognition of the graduating Class of 2009, MTV.com has compiled a collection of high school yearbook photos — featuring some of our favorite celebs.
Check out now thirtysomethings Kanye West (Class of ‘95) and fashionista talk show hostess Tyra Banks (Class of 1991) as high school seniors.
Emmy-winning talk show hostess Tyra Banks was photographed on vacay in Hawaii with her New York businessman boyfriend, John Utendahl, over the weekend.
Teyona Anderson, a 20-year-old “country girl” from New Jersey, was crowned the Most Fierce of Them All on Wednesday night’s dramatic Season Finale of America’s Next Top Model Cycle 12, beating out blonde beauty Allison Harvard on the catwalk in a Rosa Cha Fashion Show.
As the winner of ANTM, Teyona will be managed by Elite Model Management, she’ll receive a $100,000 contract with cosmetics giant CoverGirl, and she’ll also appear on the cover and a six-page fashion spread in an upcoming issue of Seventeen Magazine.
A Georgia man has been convicted of stalking former supermodel Tyra Banks.
On Thursday, a judge in New York convicted Brady Green, 39, of stalking, harassment, criminal trespass and attempted aggravated harassment, according to the Associated Press. Green faces up to 90 days in jail when he is sentenced on June 18.
Tyra testified that she feared for her own safety in open court Wednesday.
His lawyer is planning to appeal.
Supermodel and Emmy-winning talk show host Tyra Banks testified in court Wednesday that an alleged stalker left her in fear for her safety.
Brady Green, a 38-year-old Dublin, Georgia man, is charged with stalking, harassment, and criminal trespass for stalking Tyra from coast to coast.
Last year, Green was arrested outside the Manhattan studio where the former model’s Tyra Banks Show is taped.
Brady Green faces up to 90 days behind bars if convicted.
