'Dancing With the Stars' Makes Huge Change Ahead of Season 32
Find out why the former supermodel is hanging up her 'Dancing' shoes for good.
Tyra Banks left Dancing With the Stars after hosting the competition show for three seasons, she announced Friday.
"I feel it's time for me to really focus on my business and entrepreneurship, but also producing more TV but behind the scenes," Banks, 49, told TMZ. "So, you know what? I think it's time to graduate from the dance floor to the stock market floor."
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The America's Next Top Model star explained that her passions lie behind the camera, not in front of it.
"I think my heart, my soul is into my business, it's also into producing new TV," she said. "I really, really want to focus on my business and you can't do that hosting a show, so you'll see me creating things, not just hosting."
Banks made her DWTS debut in Season 29, which aired in 2020.
Banks made some highly publicized gaffes during her tenure on the competition series, chalking it up to "live TV."
She recently launched an ice cream brand, SMiZE & Dream, in the United Arab Emirates and is focused on bringing the brand stateside.
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Banks told Entrepreneur in 2021 that when she had a choice between launching The Tyra Banks Show or an ice cream brand at the time, she opted for the show—which went on to win two Daytime Emmys, but that the dairy dessert business was always in the back of her mind, even in her swimsuit and lingerie modeling days.
"I don't know if it's my mother that has put this inside of me, but I feel like everything that I've done is always for a reason, even when I was modeling. Yes, I wanted to be on the covers of everything, but then it went from being about 'me, me, me', to 'we' and about understanding what I represented as a Black woman," she said. "Understanding what it represented, me as a Black woman on the cover of a magazine, and a little girl seeing me and being, 'Wow, I didn't know I was beautiful, or that I could be anything [that I wanted to be],' I realized it was bigger than me."
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