Tyra Banks Says She’s Leaving Dancing With The Stars ‘It’s Time’

Tyra Banks Dancing with the stars The days are over, Yahoo Entertainment can confirm.

The supermodel said she will not be hosting the reality show after three seasons.

Disclosure submitted to TMZsaying, “I feel like it’s time for me to really focus on my business and my entrepreneurship, as well as producing more TV – but behind the scenes. I think it’s time to graduate from the dance floor to the stock exchange floor… from the dance floor to the stock market.” Meeting Room “.

Realizing it was breaking news, she said, “Wait, wait, wait — drop the mic.”

Banks, who was interviewed as she was leaving a grocery store, was asked if she was actually leaving the show, which moved from ABC to Disney+ last year.

She replied, “Don’t you think it’s about time? Yes, I think it’s about time.” I’m an entrepreneur at heart… I think my heart and soul is part of my business, it’s also to produce new television, which we’re working on. We have a new business proposal coming soon. But, I really, really want to focus on my work, and you can’t do that hosting a show. “

Banks, who also served as the show’s executive producer, said she would create stuff, not host stuff because she’s “crazy, crazy, crazy focused on business.”

The show, which is expected to air its 32nd season this fall on Disney+, has yet to make an official announcement. However, Banks’ departure source confirmed to Yahoo.

Banks first joined the show in 2020, Season 29, replacing longtime host Tom Bergeron, who’s been there since the beginning, in a big change. Bergeron has had different hosts over the years: Lisa Canning (season 1), Samantha Harris (seasons 2 – 9), Brooke Burke (seasons 10 – 17) and Erin Andrews (seasons 18-28).

Bergeron said in a 2021 interview that when he was fired, it wasn’t the show he left that he joined. He said that she had changed a lot, and not for the better, in his opinion.

Banks, who said she’s been a longtime fan of the show, initially directed it solo. Last season, Alfonso Ribeiro co-hosted the tournament. Last season’s judges were Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli, Derek Hough and Lynn Goodman. (Goodman retired at the end of the season.)

Banks rose to fame as a model in the 1990s and quickly achieved supermodel status. I branched out early on, and worked on television (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) and in the movies (ugly coyote)and establish a long-running competition chain (America’s Next Top Model(In addition to launching a daytime talk show)The Tyra Banks Show). Hosted by the “smize” queen America’s Got Talent one season before Dancing with the stars. She owns a production company, authors books, has a beauty line and completed the Owner/President Management Program at Harvard Business School in 2012. She currently has an interactive show, Earth modelwho teaches people how to model in a day, and has launched the Smize & Dream ice cream line.