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Tyra Banks Kisses Talk Show Goodbye

The Tyra Show to end after fifth season in spring 2010

By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 28, 2009 10:01 AM CST

(Newser) – Tyra Banks is pulling an Oprah: The Tyra Show host will end her daytime talk show—which brought everything from televised colonics to Tyra in her bathing suit to America's living rooms—at the end of this season to focus on a film studio she’s starting. “I’ve been loving having fun” during her five years on the show, Banks tells People, but “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.”

Bankable Studios, which Banks will turn her attention to once her show ends in spring 2010, aims to bring “positive images of women to the big screen,” says an insider. Banks, whose talk show won two Daytime Emmys, will still be prominently featured on the small screen thanks to reality competition America’s Next Top Model and ABC show True Beauty.

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Tyra Banks introduces Serena Williams as one of Glamour magazine's 2009 Women of the Year during an awards ceremony at Carnegie Hall in New York, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)

In this Aug. 30, 2009 file photo, Tyra Banks holds the award for outstanding talk show informative backstage at the Daytime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)

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