'The Tyra Show' To End After Season 5, Banks to Pursue Film Career
'The Tyra Show' To End After Season 5, Banks to Pursue Film Career
Meghan Carlson
Meghan Carlson
Senior Writer, BuddyTV
After five seasons on air and two Daytime Emmy awards under her belt, Tyra Banks is once again following in Oprah's footsteps, and closing up shop on her daytime talk show.

"This will be the last season of The Tyra Show," Banks tells People. "I've been loving having fun, coming into your living rooms, bedrooms, hair salons for the past 5 years."

The Tyra Show will wrap filming Season 5 this spring, and then close its doors for good.

Banks will then focus on her next goal: launching Bankable Studios, a film production company which she plans to use to bring "positive images of women to the big screen," an 'industry insider' tells People.

"My next huge steps will allow me to reach more women and young girls to help us all feel as fierce as we truly are," Banks says, keeping in tune with her other latest launch: her global BIO (Beauty Inside and Out) campaign, which aims to "expand the definition of beauty" for women around the world.

"With Oprah's big announcement this year, I think that gave Tyra the confidence to get out there and follow her longtime dream of film producing," People's source went on, who also claims that Oprah and filmmaker Tyler Perry encouraged Banks to pursue her big-screen dreams.

But fret not, ANTM fans. America's Next Top Model will return for its 14th cycle this February, along with Banks's ABC show True Beauty. So there will be plenty of Tyra to go around while we anxiously await any upcoming film projects.

What is your reaction to this news? Will you miss The Tyra Show--even just as highlight moments on The Soup?

Here, in memoriam, is my favorite crazy moment EVER from The Tyra Show. Post yours in the comments if you have 'em!




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