America’s Next Top Model Cycle 12 premieres this Wednesday at 8pm on the CW, with a special 2-hour episode. To celebrate this, Tyra Banks is hosting a toga party on her talk show that same day!

Paulina Porizkova and J Alexander will be there, along with former ANTMers Analeigh Tipton (Cycle 11), Joslyn Pennywell (Cycle 11), Bre Scullark (Cycle 5), Renee DeWitt (Cycle and more will come celebrate with Tyra and her audience. There will also be a sneak peek at all the drama that will go down in the first episode that very night.

Casting directors from ANTM are also going to randomly choose 5 girls from the audience to come to round two of the Cycle 13 auditions, complete with VIP access to the New York semifinals.

Tyra is also making “the biggest announcement in ANTM history” that day! My guess? She’s announcing that Cycle 13 will be the search for the short model!

You can watch the video preview here. Check your local listings for then The Tyra Banks Show airs near you!

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Tyra Banks and the winner of Project Runway 4, Christian Siriano, made special guest appearances on this week’s episode of The Biggest Loser. The final five contestants were treated to makeovers, courtesy Tyra and her Glam squad. They met with Christian and went shopping at Macy’s for new clothes.

Here’s the video of the contestants appearing on The Tyra Banks Show, which was part of their makeover prizes. The video is a bit low quality (can you hear the instant messaging beeps in the background?) but it’s not too bad.

You can find the rest of the Tyra episode on Youtube. I think this is pretty smart cross-promotion on Tyra’s part. She’s all about self-esteem and confidence and being healthy and that’s what the contestants on The Biggest Loser go on the show for.

The stars of Twilight stopped by The Tyra Banks Show last week to talk about their new film and sudden fame. Tyra spent the episode talking in a British accent and even got Robert, who plays Edward the vampire, to bite her neck.

The episode airs November 28, but you can see the biting clip here.

Tyra and Robert also filmed a few scenes on the streets of New York. I’m not exactly sure what they are doing, but they seem to be having a lot of fun. I guess I’ll have to tune in on the 28 to find out.

I haven’t seen Twilight yet, but I want to! Have any of you seen it? What do you think?

More photos below the jump!

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Earlier this week on The Tyra Banks Show, Tyra Banks had the stars of Twilight, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner as guests. Tyra, being Tyra, asked Robert, who plays Edward, to bite her neck. He happily obliged, despite her ridiculous accent.

The episode will air on November 28. I wonder if Tya did the whole show in that accent!

Isis King, the transgendered contestant who appeared on this cycle of America’s Next Top Model is being given the gift of a lifetime-the sex reassignment surgery she so desperately wants, NY Daily News reports.

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Tomorrow on The Tyra Banks Show, Isis talks about her issues as a transgendered person and as a model. Dr. Marci Bowers makes an appearance, according to Just Jared, and offers to pay for Isis’s surgey. Rumors are flying that it is Tyra who offered, but according to a rep from the show, that information is false.

Throughout her stint on ANTM, Isis was very open and honest about her situation and frankly admitted the only thing holding her back from the surgery was the cost. Gender reassignment surgery can cost upwards of $300,000.

If you want to see this big revelation, or just to see Isis on Tyra’s show, be sure to tune in tomorrow! You can see the preview here.

This video is a very small part of the America’s Next Top Model Cycle 10 reunion that was held on The Tyra Banks Show on Wednesday. It focuses on winner Whitney Thompson and what she has been up to since the show ended.

The video quickly glosses over every non-Whitney aspect. I really wish I could have seen the whole thing, but this is better than nothing!

Whitney talks about how awesome it is to be a role model and to help people improve their body image. She also talks about her new dog and how she went about adopting him.

The little girl Tyra is holding is Claire’s daughter. So cute!

Tyra Banks made an appearance on the Today show yesterday morning. The look at how Tyra examines skin bleaching in the African-American community and how some people are even putting bleach on their children. Tyra did this as a segment for her talk show and it’s crazy stuff.

Tyra sits in with Today and chats about how Tyra felt when interviewing the boys who get bleached daily, how she tried–and failed–to connect with their mother, how she first discovered this phenomenon and why she decided to put it on her show.

I have to give major kudos to Tyra for recognizing that she is what is socially accepted to be beautiful and that she is lighter skinned. This seems to be a topic she’s researched thoroughly and seems to care quite a bit about.

On May 14th, the same day that the America’s Next Top Model Cycle 10 finale aired, Tyra Banks aired the Fiercee Awards, which celebrated the girls of Top Model past and present.

neo made a really interesting comment earlier, in that if Tyra truly wanted to celebrate the girls, the categories for prizes would have been more positive. Instead, they come across as mean-spirited and really undermine the “model” aspect of the show.

What do you think? Were these categories fun and light-hearted? Or just further proof at what a parody of modeling ANTM has become?

The Fiercee Awards, which celebrate the contestants from the ten cycles of America’s Next Top Model will finally make it to the air! The segment, which was filmed almost a month ago in NYC, will be part of the Wednesday May 14th episode of The Tyra Banks Show.

Top Model winners like CariDee English, Saleisha Stowers, Jaslene Gonzalez and Nicole Linkletter will present awards to the cast members for categories like “Ugliest Cry,” “Makeover Meltdown,” “Craziest Phone Call,” “Worst Walks and Wipeouts” and “Most Dramatic Exit.” They will also present a lifetime achievement award for the “fiercest” contestant ever.

My question is how they will turn this into an annual thing? Honor each cycle individually? That seems silly.

EDIT: Nominees below the jump!

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Joel McHale of Talk Soup made fun of Tyra Banks for when she and Alicia Keys slammed poetry. It’s pretty funny.

Apparently this made Tyra pretty angry. According to an interview Joel did with Entertainment Weekly, Tyra tried to prevent Talk Soup from showing the clips.

Do you think Tyra needs to lighten up?