She’s out! Tyra Banks introduced she was leaving her position as host of Dancing With the Stars after three years to pursue her different enterprise endeavors.
“From the ballroom to the board room, child!” the mannequin, 49, instructed TMZ in an interview revealed on Friday, March 17, about her exit from the truth dance competitors. Keep studying for particulars about Tyra leaving DWTS.
Why Is Tyra Banks Leaving ‘Dancing With the Stars’?
“I’m an entrepreneur at coronary heart … I believe my coronary heart, my soul is into my enterprise,” the America’s Next Top Model creator defined, including that she’s “loopy targeted” on her ice cream model, SMiZE & Dream. “It’s additionally in producing new TV, which we’re engaged on … however I actually, actually wish to deal with my enterprise, and you’ll’t do this internet hosting a present. But you’ll see me creating issues not simply internet hosting issues. So we received some large issues.”
When Did Tyra Banks Start Hosting ‘Dancing With the Stars’?
Tyra grew to become host and government producer of DWTS earlier than season 29 in 2020 after longtime cohosts Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews had been ousted. She was joined by Alfonso Ribeiro as cohost throughout season 31.
The California native didn’t reveal if she would keep signed on as government producer after her exit, however she did tease that she can be maintaining her hand in tv.
“I really feel it’s time for me to actually deal with my enterprise and my entrepreneurship. And additionally producing extra TV — however behind the scenes,” she mentioned. “I believe it’s time to graduate from the dance ground to the inventory market ground.”
When Tyra grew to become host of the truth dance present in 2020, she mentioned she had been “a fan” of the sequence because the “starting.”
“The enjoyable blended with uncooked emotion, seeing celebrities push previous their consolation zones, the scorching dance performances,” she wrote in an announcement on the time concerning the present shake-up. “It’s at all times transported me to my days of turning it up 10 notches on the catwalk. Tom has set a robust stage, and I’m excited to proceed the legacy and placed on my government producer and internet hosting hats.”
It was no secret that Tom, 67, and Erin’s exits from the present had been lower than amicable, with Hollywood Squares alum claiming that there have been “personnel modifications behind the scenes” that led to the choice.
“Those folks and I didn’t see eye-to-eye about how greatest to current the present,” the previous America’s Funniest Home Videos host mentioned throughout an look on late comic Bob Saget’s podcast in 2021. He famous particularly casting political personalities was some extent of competition.
Tom mentioned he felt like DWTS must be “an oasis, for 2 hours each week, from all the nonsense and the divisiveness occurring proper now, and let’s not put political folks in there,” however different producers didn’t agree.
