Tyra Banks

American television personality

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January 2025 Banks' home in Los Angeles was destroyed by a wildfire while she was in Australia.
2024 Returned to the runway after retirement to walk as the closing model in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
March 2023 Decided to leave Dancing with the Stars after three seasons to focus on business commitments.
2021 Guest stars as an Inglewood Mayor in the TV show Insecure
2021 Banks collaborated with musician Todrick Hall, recording a song called 'Fashón' for his album Femuline.
2020 Tyra Banks founded Smize & Dream, a boutique ice cream brand inspired by her childhood memories of eating ice cream with her mother Carolyn on Friday nights. The brand initially sold packaged ice cream in California and later expanded to pop-up shops in Los Angeles, Dubai, Washington, D.C., and Sydney.
July 2020 Announced as the new host of Dancing with the Stars.
2019 Tyra Banks was nominated for Favorite TV Host at the Kids' Choice Awards for her work on America's Got Talent
2019 Came out of modeling retirement to pose for one of the three Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue covers, marking her third cover 22 years after her first. Announced her new modeling name 'BanX'.
2018 Co-authored a book with her mother Carolyn London titled 'Perfect is Boring'.
December 2 2018 Starred in Life-Size 2, which premiered on Freeform.
2017 Becomes a recurring advisor on The New Celebrity Apprentice
2017 Tyra Banks was nominated for Choice TV: Personality at the Teen Choice Awards for her role in America's Got Talent
2017 Hosts America's Got Talent for its 12th season.
2016 Tyra Banks appeared in Drake's music video for 'Child's Play'
August 2016 Tyra Banks began teaching as a guest lecturer on personal branding at Stanford University, expanding her career beyond modeling and entertainment into academic instruction.
January 2016 Banks and Erik Asla welcomed their son York Banks Asla via gestational surrogacy after struggling with infertility.
2015 Banks hosts FABLife talk show
2015 Launched 'tyra.com', an interactive cosmetic e-commerce website.
2015 Tyra Banks hosts the Daytime Emmy Awards
2015 Tyra Banks appeared in her own music video for 'BOOTYful'
2014 Banks founded the cosmetics brand Tyra Beauty after completing a non-degree certificate program at Harvard Business School. She conducted a casting call to select original beauty models: Melody Parra, Monique Hayward, Katy Harvey, and Marita Gomsrud.
2013 Collaborated with fashion photographer Udo Spreitzenbarth to transform herself into 15 different supermodels, showcasing her versatility and creativity.
2012 Harvard professor Rohit Deshpande prepared a case study on Banks's company, Bankable Productions, for use in future OPM program coursework.
February 2012 Completes a nine-week course at Harvard University's Owner/President Management non-degree extension program.
2011 Banks enrolled in the nine-week Owner/President Management Program (OPM) at Harvard Business School.
October 2011 'Modelland' topped The New York Times Best Seller list.
September 2011 Published her novel 'Modelland', which was intended to be the first of a planned three-part series.
September 16 2011 The final rerun of The Tyra Banks Show aired on The CW affiliates, concluding its syndication run.
March 2011 Tyra Banks launched her fashion and beauty website 'typeF.com' in collaboration with Demand Media.
2010 The show was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for 'Outstanding Talk Show Episode' for the episode 'Hell to Pay – Gay Teen Exorcism' during the 21st GLAAD Media Awards.
2010 The Tyra Banks Show began airing reruns on weekdays from 3:00–4:00pm on The CW affiliates during the 2010-2011 television season.
2010 Re-signed with her former modeling agency IMG Models, continuing her professional modeling career.
2010 Tyra Banks began dating Norwegian photographer Erik Asla during this decade.
May 2010 Banks announced her plans to write a novel called 'Modelland', which would be based loosely on her modeling experiences.
May 28 2010 The Tyra Banks Show concluded its run.

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