‘ANTM’ alum Sarah Hartshorne says Tyra Banks looked bothered over contestant hug

Tyra Banks used her renowned eyes America’s next top model Cycle 9, after a competitor gave an impromptu hug to the model on the set, former Candidate Sarah Hartshorne remembers a new revealing book.

The moment took place in the final series of selection of actors in cycle 9, the Alun based in New York recounts in its newly released memories Do you want to be at the top? A memory of makeover, manipulation and not to become the next America Top Model.

When Banks reduced the list of hopes of the models to the last 13 candidates in the episode of September 19, 2007, the first finalist, Mila Bouzinova, approached Banks and made him hug after being Casé, writes Hartshorne.

“Mila Bouzinova advanced with confidence, turned her hair over her shoulder and Serra Tyra. Tyra looked at someone off camera and rocked her head,” wrote Hartshorne, before adding that a backstage crew member, then shouted, “more hugs” to the distribution.

“She continued to read names. Some girls were already crying when she started, and with each name, they were crying louder,” recalls Hartshorne, adding that she was crying “like a horse” in excitement when Banks called her name.

“I looked in her eyes and I thought, God, I can’t wait to sleep“She writes.

Weekly entertainment has returned the time of cycle 9, and the part involving the alleged reaction of Banks to the embrace of Bouzinova that Hartshorne recalled is not present in the last modification of the program.

Later, this cycle, Bouzinova – which now goes by Lyuda, and directs its Lean Mission training program – has become the first competitor to be eliminated in episode 2 after having failed to impress the judges on a photo session on the theme of the dangerous effects of smoking.

EW contacted Banks, Ken Mok developer and producer, as well as Bouzinova for additional comments.

From Top model Friends his latest cycle to date in 2018, fans (as well as many competitors) have reassessed the popular culture of the series of modeling competitions of the POP series, with many vocalizing online the criticism of judges of certain body types as well as photo challenges that loaded cycle 4 and cycle 13 of models with the port of makeup to darken their skin and portray women of different races.

“I kept saying:” You put me in BlackFace “,” said Jennifer and said to EW in an oral story in 2023 for the 20th anniversary of the show. An, who is Asian, also alleged that the crew of the show was pinning the hair “so that they could” do my hair “to advance her representation of an African woman.

At the time, Mok refused to comment, while representatives of creative management Jay Manuel and producer Laura Fuest Silva did not respond to the multiple requests for EW comments. A representative of the banks, however, underlined a previous declaration of the model.

“I want to be very clear: I do not put my” best models “in black. I am a black woman. I am proud. I love my people and the struggle that we have crossed is continuing, and the last thing I would never do, is to be part of something that degraded my race,” she said previously. ” Top model And was offended by the photos because they did not understand the real story behind them or even if you saw the whole episode and you were always offended, I really apologize because it is not my intention. My intention is to spread beauty and break barriers. “”

Banks addressed a decline earlier this year, during an acceptance speech at 2025 Essence Black Women in Hollywood Ceremony.

She started her speech by telling the crowd that the world has “no idea how much we fought to bring diversity [America’s Next Top Model] At a time when it did not exist, showing different beauties at a time when the world was like: “What?” She throws this? What is this?'”

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The banks continued: “We fought and we had trouble, but we did it. Did we understand?

While EW previously confirmed that Banks did not intend to bring Antm Back in the near future, because the show was never officially canceled after the final of Cycle 24 on VH1 in 2018, EW also reported exclusively in May that banks will sit for an interview to be included in a next series of Netflix documentaries surveying the history of the show.

Hartshorne Do you want to be at the top? The book has now been released.