The forthcoming fifth season of The Tyra Banks Show will be its last, the host told People today. “I’ve been loving having fun, coming into your living rooms, bedrooms, hair salons for the past 5 years," said Banks. According to People, who scored the exclusive report, Banks will leave to work on launching Bankable Studios, her film production company, and focus on bringing “positive images of women to the big screen." True to form, Banks was motivational in her parting words: "My next huge steps will allow me to reach more women and young girls to help us all feel as fierce as we truly are," she said. (more...)

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Jesse Ventura's promotional blitz for his new truTV show Conspiracy Theory has been a strange but entertaining mix of made-for-soundbite quotes, stabs at his former employers, and earnest political commentary. In his appearance on last night's Joy Behar Show, he touched a nerve when he bluntly asked if President Obama "really run the country" given his escalating commitments in Afghanistan. He also stormed out of The Opie and Anthony Show after being heckled by comedian (?) Jim Norton over his antiwar stance. (more...)

Hey Upper East Siders Internet Readers, Mediaite here, welcoming you back from a dreadfully drab and dour few months away from the glamorous life of New York City's most fabulous fictional teens. While the Gossip Girl kids were falling in summer love and wearing their Hamptons whites out east, we were stuck in sticky downtown, launching a website and working all day. But who better to keep us occupied through the Gossip-less Dog Days than the media's own elites, as glittery and pretty as our prep school friends? Like the Waldorfs, Humphreys and van der Woodsens, even August humidity can't get their hair to frizz and they all love a good scoop. (more...)

video So get this: a woman with two vaginas -- that's right, TWO VAGINAS -- that's right, vaginas, which is a naughty word -- is appearing on The Tyra Show today, presumably to talk about the fact that she has two vaginas. Wait, why is this not-actually-all-that-rare condition getting so hyped up? (more...)

video When The Wire's Julito McCullum appeared on Tyra Banks' afternoon talk show for a segment about President Obama's effect on the academic goals of young black men, he says he was asked by a producer to act like he had no interest in going to college. (more...)

video CNN, 9:06pmET (Tuesday): We missed this on Tuesday, but there were so many jaw-dropping moments in Larry King's interview with Tyra Banks we had to put up something. The chyron here spoils the big surprise - Tyra reveals her real hair! But what we don't get from the image is when she forced King to touch it. Also - Tyra's past life as a 'fat person.' (more...)

Meghan McCain -- John and Cindy's eldest -- has made the most of her father's loss last November, racking up media appearances with the ambitious fervor of Levi Johnston. In addition to interviews with Larry King and Rachel Maddow, McCain scored a six figure book deal and used a guest-hosting gig on The View to implore critics of her body to "Kiss my fat ass!" But the 24-year-old has also positioned herself politically as a forward-thinking conservative, using her column at The Daily Beast to voice her support for gay marriage and women's rights, leading many to pit her as the future of the Republican party. Her next issue? Hair extensions! (more...)

There's a veritable cat fight happening on the Internet, and women's eyeballs are at stake. Model-turned-entrepeneur Tyra Banks is throwing her hat into yet another ring today, launching Tyra: Beauty Inside & Out, her online women's magazine. The site goes live today at 5 p.m. with a feature that will let visitors have their say in fast-tracking one application for the 14th season of "America's Next Top Model" — sort of a 'let us judge you on the Internet now, so we can judge you on TV later' play, and great for traffic. (more...)