As Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model prepares to unpack the show’s past controversies, the fashion reality competition series could make a return.
In the three-part Netflix docuseries, which debuts Feb. 16 on the streaming platform, ANTM creator and host Tyra Banks teased that she might bring back the show for Cycle 25, eight years after the last cycle concluded on VH1 in 2018.
“After the show, I had so many different ideas for my life. I’m obsessed with pivoting. And I live in Australia now,” says Banks in the third episode of Reality Check, according to Entertainment Weekly. “I feel like my work is not done. You have no idea what we have planned for Cycle 25.”
Directed by Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan, Reality Check features interviews with Banks, producer Ken Mok and judges Jay Manuel, J. Alexander (aka Miss J) and Nigel Barker, as well as former contestants and winners, like Whitney Thompson, Giselle Samson, Shannon Stewart, Shandi Sullivan, Dani Evans and Keenyah Hill.
At the height of her own modeling career, Banks launched America’s Next Top Model in 2003, hosting a series of challenges to find the next big face in the fashion industry, launching the winner’s career with a contract at a top agency, a spread in a major magazine and $100,000 contract with cosmetic brands like CoverGirl.
With fans revisiting the series in recent years, the show has come under scrutiny for its handling of sexual harassment, body-shaming, multiple instances of blackface and, of course, Banks’ infamous elimination scolding of Tiffany Richardson.
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