Tyra Banks to Be Interviewed on Camera for America's Next Top Model Documentary Series at Netflix

Tyra Banks is set to appear in the upcoming America's Next Top Model documentary for Netflix.

via: EW

EW can report that Banks, who fronted 23 of the popular modeling competition show's 24 cycles between 2003 and 2018, sat for an interview for the multi-episode Netflix documentary series that will premiere on the streaming service at a future date.

Other participants have not been announced, but will include figures who were part of the original TV show. The docuseries — from Netflix and EverWonder Studio — will chronicle a wide range of topics from the program's multi-cycle run.

EW has reached out to representatives for Banks, Netflix, and EverWonder for comment on the news

The 51-year-old fashion icon rarely participates in longer-form projects about ANTM, though she did appear on stage at the 2025 Essence Black Women in Hollywood and, though she admitted to saying "some dumb s---" on the reality show, she also championed her team that "fought to bring the diversity to that television show at a time where it didn't exist."

After rising to prominence as an international supermodel who posed for both high fashion and commercial brands, Banks translated her successful modeling career into TV stardom as creator, producer, and host of America's Next Top Model when it debuted in 2003.

Across several network shifts (the show moved from UPN to The CW in 2006, and again to VH1 in 2016), ANTM lasted for 24 total cycles, with Banks expanding her TV empire to include The Tyra Banks Show talk series in the process.

Since its premiere, however, the show underwent a public reevaluation amid the coronavirus pandemic, with some fans posting scathing critiques of the show's judging, photo challenges, and more.

In a 20th anniversary oral history on the show's wildest moments, 14 contestants spoke with EW in 2023 about their time on the show, with stories ranging from on-air sexual misconduct to contestants wearing dark face paint to switch races for two photo shoot challenges.

Many viewers criticized the shoot in hindsight, though cycle 4 model Keenyah Hill told EW at the time that, "There's a big difference between us being artistic and having fun with photo shoot ideas and different parts of our aesthetic," emphasizing what she feels is a clear line between the cycle 4 shoot and malicious intent behind blackface.

"If there's a [non-Black person] who goes out on Halloween, painting their skin brown and making a mockery of it, then it's blackface, and making a mockery of [Black people.] Those are two different things; look at the context," she said.

In a statement to EW at the time, a spokesperson for Banks said the intention of the shoot was to combat an industry where "lighter skin and straight hair were pervasive beauty standards," which "perpetuated deep insecurities within women." The spokesperson maintained that such shoots were "meant to be a moment celebrating and spotlighting underrepresented ideologies of beauty — textured hair and darker skin — on a global scale."

While ANTM was never formally canceled, it hasn't aired a new season since cycle 24 ended in 2018. Last year, a source familiar with the situation told EW that Banks had no current plans to bring the show back for a 25th season any time soon.