Tyra Banks 'Not A Friendly Lady'; Ex 'America's Next Top Model' Judge Reveals She Was 'Always Late'
Janice Dickinson told Kaitlyn Bristowe about Tyra Banks' alleged behavior when they worked together in the early years of "America's Next Top Model."
On the June 18 episode of Bristowe's "Off the Vine" podcast, the now-69-year-old supermodel spoke about her modeling career, including her relationship with Tyra on the reality show.
"She's not a friendly lady," she claimed.
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"Well, I just tortured her. If she [were] gonna be mean to the girls -- I saw her ploy, just so I could remain under the radar -- I would tell her things like, 'I did Vogue, you did Elle.'"
Dickinson added that Banks was allegedly tardy, saying, "She was always late, keeping us waiting for hours and hours."
When the podcast host asked how the "Life-Size" star got away with it, she responded, "It was her show. She was the EP. She claimed she created it. But she did not. I met the guy who created it."
Interestingly, Bristowe was on "Dancing With the Stars" in 2020 when the "Higher Learning" star was the host of the ABC show.
"I was on 'Dancing With the Stars' and she was the host... She did make one phone call to me and was really nice. But then otherwise, I didn't talk to her," she said.
"You're too beautiful for her," Janice chimed in, claiming, "She does not like beautiful women like you guys."
A source close to the "ANTM" production gave a word to the New York Post about Janice's comments, saying, "It's sad and childish that Janice is trying to drag Tyra, but unsurprising as she has a history of speaking negatively about her."
Meanwhile, the reality competition's Season 23 winner, India Gants, talked about her previous interaction with the catwalk icon, who now goes by BanX professionally, in a TikTok video posted in April.
"Tyra Banks told me that if I told anybody that I'd won 'America's Next Top Model' before it actually aired on TV, that they would fly me back, reshoot the finale, and have the other girl win," she claimed.
"She was trying to make that very, very clear to me."
