"Be Quiet Tiffany!" Speaks Out

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Tiffany opens up 11 years later: Good read. Here's excerpts.

 

 

Since Tyra Banks yelled “We were rooting for you!” on America’s Next Top Model, it’s become one of the most iconic moments in reality TV history, and one of the most inescapable GIFs on the internet. Now, more than a decade since Banks flipped on contestant Tiffany Richardson, the former model hopeful reveals what viewers didn’t see, how she feels about Banks, and how far she’s come.

 

 

It’s now been 11 years since Banks flipped the script on Richardson and showed viewers a side they hadn’t seen from the supermodel before. “I would not take anything from her career … but she’s a human,” Richardson said in a phone interview with BuzzFeed News in late 2016. “I went into it thinking Tyra was ****ing God. … To actually see her and the vibe is completely different. It was just weird.”

 

 

After they received their feedback, they’d then be sent out of the room to let the judges deliberate, a process that took six to eight hours in its entirety. Eventually, the contestants would stand before the judges again and Banks would call each “safe” woman by name until there were only two left standing, one of whom would be eliminated.

The schedule would leave the women physically and mentally exhausted, on top of being largely separated from the world outside of Top Model.

 

 

According to Richardson, the argument was “1,000 times worse” in reality. She was hesitant to elaborate, but when pressed for more details, Richardson said she recalled Banks yelling at her, “You can go back to your house and sleep on your mattress on the floor with your baby,” in front of the other judges, contestants, and crew members. Richardson wouldn’t reveal further information about what may have been edited out of Banks’s tirade, but that particular comment, she said, “stayed in the back of my mind.”

Epley didn’t remember the “entire wrath of Tyra,” but she said it seemed like Banks “went above and beyond to break Tiffany down.” Brower agreed, saying more bluntly, “It was definitely harsh … almost like Tyra wanted her to be devastated when she got eliminated, and when Tiffany was not acting that way, it’s like she just lost it. … There was a lot more anger there, especially in the beginning.”

 

 

In September 2005, Banks invited Richardson onto The Tyra Banks Show for a Top Model reunion special, but it was during a second visit to Banks’s talk show in January 2006 for a tell-all episode when Richardson felt like their relationship was over. (Telepictures was unable to provide BuzzFeed News with a review copy of the Tyra Banks Show episode in question.) In the interview, Richardson said, she opened up about her issues with Banks, saying Banks always focused on the negatives in her life. After the taping, Richardson’s grandmother wrote a letter to Banks, calling the talk show host out for always portraying Richardson in a bad light, and sent it to The Tyra Banks Show. Richardson couldn’t confirm if Banks herself ever received the letter, but she said she never heard from her again.

 

 

 

 

Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelblackmon/we-were-rooting-for-you-we-were-all-rooting-for-you?utm_term=.clbokDeGL#.fpyvzbjKg

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Scandalous 

[Haroon 49,685]

Eeek that's really mean if this is all true  I'm kinda unsure what to think though because the show made me love Tyra Banks and all she's done, but then there's so many things that have come out of the woodwork about how she is when the cameras aren't on and stories from both fellow judges and the contestants themselves  It's hard to know what to think or what to believe  

[Red 97,489]

I always thought Tyra was a huge c.unt, this is like, Exhibit Y.

[Dorothy Gale 7,575]

I must admit I found this funny back in the day, but this definitely makes me look at it in a different light. Reality competition shows need a reality check sometimes, it's just tv, no one should feel attacked. 

[Batwings 12,860]

I've heard a lot of crap about Top Model over the years. I remember reading that all the contestants were coached to freak out and act really excited whenever Tyra comes on set. I've also read that in actuality, it was the sponsors (namely Cover Girl) who chose the winner each season. Multiple contestants have complained about selective editing over the years as well. I used to be obsessed with Top Model back in the day, but I finally stopped watching when it just got crazy over the top silly and became less and less about actual modeling. 

[Babel 41,308]

Even if they edited out a lot of the stuff happening to make Tyra look better, she still looked to me like a complete bitch. Who did she think she was to yell that way at another person? 

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14 minutes ago, Batwings said:

I've heard a lot of crap about Top Model over the years. I remember reading that all the contestants were coached to freak out and act really excited whenever Tyra comes on set. I've also read that in actuality, it was the sponsors (namely Cover Girl) who chose the winner each season. Multiple contestants have complained about selective editing over the years as well. I used to be obsessed with Top Model back in the day, but I finally stopped watching when it just got crazy over the top silly and became less and less about actual modeling. 

That is reality show 101 tho lol. People who go on it seem to forget it's television and despite it's name, the producers have next to zero concern in showing the actual reality. 

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Dang.

Yeah, it was obvious there was a lot of stuff edited out. When Tyra says "You come in here with a defeatist attitude...", you can hear an abrupt cut which makes it obvious that she had a lot more to say.

 

I can recite the whole tirade word-for-word. I feel bad for Tiffany but I find myself randomly reciting parts of it (what we heard on TV) all the time.

 

 

 

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[ComeToMama 4,351]

Well, yikes.

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Super model being a kvnt irl? Surprising

I heard Naomi Campbell is even worse irl 

 

[Ooolong 4,440]

I feel no sympathy in regards to the intense schedules while filming, it's a huge reality competition show. What do you expect ?

However, if what she claims Tyra said is true, her comments were extra and uncalled for. The bits we saw on TV were appropriate, but not this. 

Spoiler

Judging by that picture, I'm assuming her modeling career didn't go far .

 

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I'm sorry Tiffany had to go through that, but that's just the way reality TV works - they collect hours and hours of material and then use a few clips to tell an alternative reality.