Tyra Banks is cutting the talk.
Tyra Banks on The Tyra Show. She has announced she's leaving her talk show couch behind to focus on producing movies.
The former supermodel told People.com that she is ending her popular daytime talk show, The Tyra Show, in spring 2010.
"This will be the last season of The Tyra Show," Banks told People.com. "I've been loving having fun, coming into your living rooms, bedrooms, hair salons for the past 5 years."
Banks had been among the names mentioned as potential heirs to the throne being vacated by talk show empress Oprah Winfrey, who announced in late November that she is abandoning The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2011, after 25 years.
Banks appealed to young women in part with a focus on body and beauty issues. The model host once famously donned a fat suit that made her unrecognizable and then shared her shock with viewers over how differently she was treated.
Banks intends to focus on launching a New York-based film production company, Bankable Studios, that will bring "positive images of women to the big screen," a source told People.com.
"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.
The source elaborated that filmmaker Tyler Perry and Winfrey had provided support for Banks' decision. "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," the insider told People.
Banks will remain a small screen presence on her modeling reality competition show, America's Next Top Model, set to enter its 15th season in February, as well as her show True Beauty.
SOURCE: New York Daily News
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