{"id":225791,"date":"2026-03-01T12:03:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T12:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/janice-dickinson-antm-tortured-these-girls-for-tyra-banks-ego\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T12:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T12:03:36","slug":"janice-dickinson-antm-tortured-these-girls-for-tyra-banks-ego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/janice-dickinson-antm-tortured-these-girls-for-tyra-banks-ego\/","title":{"rendered":"Janice Dickinson: ANTM tortured these girls for Tyra Banks&#8217; ego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-03-01\" datetime=\"1772366616\" pubdate=\"\">1 March 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/janice-dickinson\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,janice-dickinson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Janice Dickinson<\/a> has slammed Tyra Banks as a \u201chardcore b****\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Janice Dickinson: ANTM tortured these girls for Tyra Banks&#8217; ego<\/p>\n<p>A decade after the pair worked together on America&#8217;s Next Top Model, Janice, 71, has claimed Tyra encouraged her to be cruel to the contestants and claimed Tyra was particularly harsh on Black models.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on E!&#8217;s Dirty Rotten Scandals, Janice said: \u201cThe producers, especially Tyra, were begging me to be harsher and cruel, like Simon Cowell was on American Idol.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTyra didn&#8217;t want any competition. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe went off on one girl and it was so frightening that I was going to get up and hold her down. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cShe would go harder on the Black girls on the show because of competitiveness and jealousy and her being older than these young women.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cShe was always trying to be this tough teen mum to the girls but she didn&#8217;t know them, she didn&#8217;t give them enough confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nJanice also claimed that the show \u201ctortured these girls for Tyra&#8217;s ego\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: \u201cThey left the show completely depressed and depleted while she got so rich. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cAmerica&#8217;s Next Top Model really tortured these girls for Tyra&#8217;s ego. I was there and I saw it for four seasons. She was a hardcore b****.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, it was recently revealed that Tyra Banks refused to speak to Jay Manuel when he returned to America&#8217;s Next Top Model.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe 52-year-old star brought the 53-year-old makeup artist on board as a creative director when the series first launched in 2003, but he decided to move on eight seasons into the show.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn new Netflix documentary Reality Check: Inside America&#8217;s Next Top Model, Jay recalled emailing Tyra to thank her for the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe revealed: &#8220;She didn\u2019t respond. It was probably the longest three days ever.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;And she ultimately wrote back just three words. &#8216;I am disappointed.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;After that email exchange, all communication just stopped. It should\u2019ve been the opportunity to have a heart-to-heart, but that did not happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nHigher-ups at network UPN convinced him to return for one more cycle while they tried to figure out his replacement.<\/p>\n<p>\nReflecting on that period, he told PEOPLE magazine: &#8220;Tyra chose not to speak with me at all while the cameras were off. When they were on, she&#8217;d speak to me.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;After [trying to leave], I did cycle nine, which was &#8230; torture for me. I was so broken by the end of that cycle because of the mental torture of what was going on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/janice-dickinson-antm-tortured-girls-tyra-banks-ego-1438418.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 March 2026 Janice Dickinson has slammed Tyra Banks as a \u201chardcore b****\u201d. 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