ANTM Doc: Tyra Banks Is Only Sort of Sorry
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More from Hung Up this week: Moonstruck, Klute, Before Sunset, the 1994 Little Women, the bar scene in Out of Sight, and the line “Do all lovers feel like they’re inventing something?” from Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Hung Up’s favorite romances.
In the new Netflix docuseries Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, the team of creatives behind the controversial reality show gather to apologize for some of its worst moments … kind of. After a series of apologies1 and non-apologies2 in 2020, Tyra Banks, EP Ken Mok, and co-hosts Jay Manuel and Nigel Barker reconvene to set the record straight. Yes, Top Model could be bad, goes their position, but so was the rest of the early 2000s. (Runway coach Miss J Alexander doesn’t really apologize for anything. Lol.) There were photoshoots mimicking gruesome murders and eating disorders, and the runway shows were closer to obstacle courses than catwalks. That infamous race-swapping shoot happened not once but twice.
Speaking on camera about the series, Tyra Banks sounds more entrepreneurial than regretful. She is making her best attempt at spin.
