Today is one of those days where I’m glad to be a woman, but also very confused about being a woman. You see, tomorrow Tyra Banks is having a woman on her show who has two vaginas. You read that right. The reason I’m confused is it’s been a long time since sex ed, and I think a lot of us tend to use the word “vagina” to refer to much more than what’s actually the vagina. It’s sort of an all-encompassing term. Luckily, Tyra goes over the nitty-gritty with the woman, Lauren Williams, and they chat about all the things that Lauren has two of, and exactly what kinds of issues that leads to.

It’s a “Tyra Show” international exclusive, meet the woman who was born with two vaginas in an episode scheduled to air on Friday, November 6th. Lauren Williams, who is now 29 years old, was born with two vaginas.

Lauren Williams: “I’ve got two uteruses. Just one to each (fallopian tube), then they go down to two cervixes, and then it did go down to the two vaginas.” Williams, who was diagnosed with two vaginas when she was 25-years-old, also believes she has 2 periods.

Lauren Williams: “I think so because my periods generally last about 21 days…When I was a teenager I had really heavy periods…I would have to change pads every hour.” Tyra also questions Williams on her ability to have children and was amazed by her answer.

Lauren Williams: “The doctor in England said pregnancy wise, it should be okay…if I do get pregnant it should push the other uterus over to one side and keep it out of the way. Me and my partner would need to plan on using condoms just in case I got pregnant in the other one.”

Tyra Banks: “You’re the only pregnant woman that can get pregnant while pregnant.” Tune in to find out what sex is like for Lauren and what 2 vaginas looks like!

[From The Tyra Show’s promo email]

Since the vagina is the opening (I quadruple checked that), that means Lauren has two openings. And that’s what confuses me – how did she only get diagnosed at 25? I can understand how she wouldn’t know about the inside business with the uteruses. But most women start going to the gynecologist around 16. And doctors do check even little kids to make sure everything looks alright down there. How could no one have spotted the two openings until she was 25?

Lauren says in the video that she thinks she has two periods because it starts off really heavy, then sort of peters off, then starts all over again. Her phrasing makes it sound like she’s almost never completely without a period. That sounds just miserable to me. She can get pregnant so that’s good. It seems like the only huge negative is the constant menstruation.

I can’t stand Tyra and make it a policy to never ever watch her show. But I will abso-freaking-loutely be staring intently at the T.V. tomorrow. I need to know about how sex works. Can her partner choose Option A or Option B? How does she explain these things to him? It reminds me of the time my very quirky sixth grade biology teacher told my class about how snakes have two penises, and they can alternate. When we didn’t believe her she pulled one out of its formaldehyde jar and showed us. I really hope no one ever makes that comparison to Lauren. I’m not making that comparison. I’m just saying her story reminded me of that story.

Hey, but at least she’s just got one fallopian tube per uterus. I think?

Ugh. Here is Tyra Banks dressed up like Kim Kardashian for Halloween. Not only did she dress up like Kim, she attached herself somehow to two cut-outs, one of Khloe and one of Kourtney. First point: Who the f-ck dresses up like a Kardashian for Halloween? Are any of those girls iconic or relevant enough to dress up as them? Nope. Ty-Ty just wanted to dress up like some “pretty” so she wouldn’t have to get herself all uglied-up. I will give Tyra some begrudging credit – that wig is flawless. It looks just like Kim’s hair.

Second point: Why is the Khloe cut-out so huge? Granted, Khloe is a big girl. But she’s not Godzilla, for goodness sake. I hate being put in a situation where I feel like I have to defend any of these do-nothing morons, but some of the stuff with Khloe does bother me. Yeah, she’s not the prettiest girl, and she’s a very big girl. But she’s not the devil and she’s not grossly unattractive or anything. Tyra could have chosen to make the Khloe cut-out a lot more proportional, but instead she wanted to make sure she looked small.

Anyway, Tyra’s Halloween episode airs tomorrow, Friday, October 30th, 2009 (preview here). According to the press release, “Tyra, who will participate in THREE costume changes, will transform herself and channel three real life TV personalities… Tyra channels Kim Kardashian and uses life size cut outs of Khloe and Kourtney to round out her Kardashian clan costume.” Eh. Whatever.

What is about television that rewards some of the most annoying people ever? It boggles the mind how people like Ryan Seacrest, Simon Cowell and Mark Burnett are consistently rewarded for the most boring, repetitive, lowest-common-denominator programming ever. It’s in this vein that Forbes Magazine has released their list of the top-earning women of primetime television. Guess which monstrosity is the top of the heap? Oh, yes. Tyra Banks. Her estimated earning for the past year are $30 million – that for America’s Next Top Model as well as her daytime talk show, which is weird. If they’re counting daytime stuff, Oprah should be on the list. But nevermind.

The number-two (and I mean that in every way) slot is filled by none other than Dame Katherine Heigl herself, although she might have tried to withdraw from the list at the last moment citing bad material that could have affected Forbes’ analysis. I jest! Katherine made so much last year because of Grey’s Anatomy and because of all of the film work she’s gotten. Radar has more, including the rest of the top ten:

Forbes have released their prime time top earning women list and there’s a few surprises in there!

Heading up the list is Trya Banks, with an estimated annual earnings of $30million. Tyra earns the majority of her money from the hugely successful America’s Next Top Model and her daytime talk show as well as various TV cameos.

Second on the list is Grey’s Anatomy cutie Katherine Heigl earning $18 million for her turn as a TV doctor as well as her role as leading lady in films such as The Ugly Truth.

The rest of the list reads:
3. Marg Helgenberger – $9.5 million
4. Eva Longoria Parker – $9 million
5. Mariska Hargitay – $8.5 million
6. Julia Louis-Dreyfus – $8 million (tie)
6. Maura Tierney – $8 million (tie)
8. Tina Fey – $7 million
9. Marcia Cross – $6.2 million
10. Jennifer Love Hewitt – $6 million

[From Radar]

Jennifer Love Pear Ass makes $6 million this year? How is that even possible? I thought The Ghost Whisperer was just some crappy, “nobody watches the Pear Ass”, weepy, faux-supernatural drama. But the Pear Ass is getting paid, for real. Other than that… meh. I love me some Mariska Hargitay and Tina Fey, those ladies deserve their paychecks. The only other “what the hell?” person on the list for me is Eva Longoria. Isn’t Desperate Housewives pretty much done? Does anyone even watch that crap anymore? And people have finally come to their senses and realized that Eva really isn’t as hot as she thinks she is, thank God. So why the huge paychecks?

Cynthia McFadden tried to pierce Tyra Banks’ beatific supermodel demeanor when she pointedly asked her about the firings of both Janice Dickinson and Paulina Porizkova from America’s Next Top Model last night. The Nightline reporter was swiftly blocked by Banks’ faithful publicist despite her protests.

“Both Paulina Porizkova and Janice Dickinson, when they left the show, were not very nice about you,” McFadden said, mispronouncing Porkizkova. If the basic stumble over her fellow former supermodel’s last name was a source of glee for Tyra, she did not let on as she smiled with her eyes and seethed with her soul.

“Let’s not go there,” her publicist interjected.

“I am going to go there. I am going to ask that question,” said McFadden before the interview faded to an audition scene. McFadden had lost this battle, but not for want of trying, as ABC’s editing was sure to show.

[From The Huffington Post]

That’s the first time we’ve seen Tyra stab with her eyes as opposed to smiling. Porizkova was famously dumped by Banks on her 44th birthday with our current economic status given as the reason. Although, Paulina had other ideas about why she was shown the catwalk out of there.

“The reason I was told I was fired was because, it seemed that ‘America’s Next Top Model’ has gotten too fat and they needed to cut some fat and the fat was me,” Paulina recounted. “So I figured it was either that or my gigantic huge ego. Which I wasn’t aware of before I was told by the producers that I have an ego problem.”

[From The Huffington Post]

Paulina has also gone on record as to her dislike of what she perceived as Banks’ diva behavior. Hey, she’s got a talk show and 14 models to give insane conflicting advice to every ANTM cycle, you’d be running late, too!

“I must admit I was having a little bit of an issue with Tyra being late for every judging,” she told Billy. “It’s six hours later and I feel like I am being told my time is not as valuable as hers. They pointed out that I should shut up and be grateful for the job and that Tyra is really busy.”

“I think that my little hissy fits about ‘Well, we are all here on time. Why can’t she (Tyra)?’ didn’t go over all that well,” added Paulina, who replaced the previous judge, supermodel Twiggy.

[From Yahoo!]

Dickinson was fired earlier on in the show’s run, after cycle four. She is also known for carrying a grudge against the recently unwigged Banks. Then again, Dickinson is crazy and probably also bears a grudge against the mailman and parking meters.

Top Model will reportedly use a rotating cycle of guest judges this cycle, including Lauren Conrad and Kim Kardashian. This cycle’s premiere last nightfeatured supermodel Chanel Iman as the judge.

Here’s Tyra at the Daytime Emmys on August 30th. Images thanks to WENN.com .

For those of you who enjoyed the premiere of America’s Next Top Model (aka The Tyra Banks Ego Destroyin’ Hour) last night, you are probably wondering the same thing as we are. What happened to couture’ wearing for Jesus, “that was my catwalk, meow” stepping, grandma’s lucky floppy hat wearin’ Amber?

Jesus’ shortest cheerleader (this cycle of ANTM is only featuring girls under 5’7 in some sort of Tyra attempt to give validation to short girls who crave modeling careers despite that being sort of an oxymoron in the fashion industry) was the stand-out crazy last night. Amber, 18, was called down to join the final 14 at the end of the first hour of the CW’s top rated program despite giving off a serious need for Thorazine and a designer straight jacket (“No, Amber, you’ll be hugging yourself in this beautiful canvas top with straps for Jesus, sweetie! Just think of it as a fashion show except it’s in a locked psych ward!”).

But when Ty Ty’s Demeaning Fest commenced it’s second hour, the Oceanside, CA native was nowhere to be found. They even brought back a girl with horrific eyebrows (eyebrow threading is scary) who had been shown the door to take her place! Mr. Jay (you might know him better as the silver-haired, orange smeared gay Oompah Loompah who functions as Tyra’s “art director” for the photoshoot) told the gals that Amber had to bow out for “personal reasons.” What were those reasons?

The CW hasn’t released a statement as to why Amber was absent from the competition so suddenly.

The incredibly loony Amber was fully for Jesus, which she exhibited by howling his name every five seconds. Did Jesus come down from the heavens above and tell her to hold up on exploiting his name for a reality show? Even Jesus recognizes that the CW isn’t the most prestigious network. Either that, or Miss Amber got herself committed somehow. Probably for the best. Check the video above.

It’s obviously not eyebrow raising for me to tell you that Perez Hilton lied about something. If Perez said the sky was clear, you should assume donkeys and medium-sized cattle are falling out of large, thunderous clouds as we speak. If Perez said fish don’t need air to breathe, you should immediately round up a team of friends and the largest nets you can find, because those fish are drowning! It’s got to be a lie; I don’t care how logical whatever it is he says. It’s a lie.

Last week Perez went after Demi Moore’s 15-year-old daughter Tallulah for wearing some incredibly inappropriate and revealing outfits in public. At the time I took Perez’s side, but ONLY because Demi Tweeted over and over again that he was a pedophile and a child pornographer, which was clearly not the case when you look at the pictures. So not only were her statements ludicrous, but she let Tallulah dress that way. And I said it then and I’ll repeat it now –I’d rather support a pack of rabid wild gophers than Perez, and would gladly have been on Demi’s side if I could have found any excuse to be.

Well it seems Perez (and his lies) have given a great reason to officially join Demi’s side (though not the part about calling him a pedophile). A few weeks ago he filmed an episode of Tyra Banks’ show and promised not to make fun of celeb’s minor kids for six months. Which he then broke a few weeks later.

Did Tyra Banks make a deal with the Devil? The model hosts controversial celebrity blogger Perez Hilton on “The Tyra Show” season premiere Tuesday and asks him not to bad-mouth celebrities under the age of 18 for six months.

“When you’re a kid, especially the kid of a celebrity, I don’t feel that they should be put in the public in a way to be made fun of. I feel they should be protected,” Tyra says on the show, which airs on the CW at 4 p.m. She asks Perez to comply for a year, and he reasons that they should compromise on six months.

In return, Tyra invites Hilton to appear on one episode of “America’s Next Top Model” as a guest judge. Ironically, the episode — which was shot on Aug. 18 — goes live just a few days after Perez caught major heat from Demi Moore for doing exactly what he promised Tyra he wouldn’t: targeting minors.

A few weeks ago, Perez linked pictures of Demi’ s 15-year-old daughter Tallulah partying on his Twitter page an unflattering shot in which she’s wearing a low-cut top (with closed eyes) while out partying in L.A. Mama Moore ain’t amused. “Clearly Perez Hilton isn’t taking violating child pornography laws very seriously,” Demi tweeted of the photos on Thursday. “He might not but there are a lot of people who do.”

“Expect a letter from my attorney, kitten” the controversial blogger shot back, accusing the actress of “defaming” him. Kirstie Alley chimed in defense of her friend: “I don’t condone men who ridicule and sexually degrade minors!” Not surprisingly, Perez says he will be taking legal action towards Alley and anyone else who “slanders” him. Hmm, we’ll see how tough he is when Bruce Willis hears about this.

[From the Daily News]

Once again I’m left hating Perez more than ever. For another thing, I really can’t stand Tyra Banks. But compared to Perez, she’s coming off as all class. And that’s a very responsible request for her to make. And he’s a douche for needing to attack celeb’s kids soooooooooooo badly that he actually tries to negotiate with her over it. But obviously he just wanted to get his way and be on ANTM. Hopefully they haven’t filmed yet and won’t let him be a part of it.

And the Post is right – as scary as Demi and Tyra and Kirstie Alley ALL are, I would be seriously, seriously afraid of Bruce Willis if I were Perez Hilton.

Here’s Perez in June at the Much Music Awards and hosting Summerbash in Chicago. Images thanks to WENN.com .

The Daytime Emmy Awards were held last night, and Ellen DeGeneres is no longer the Hollywood elite’s darling. Ellen lost to Rachel Ray for best “entertainment” talk show, and the ladies of The View won for best hostesses, ending Ellen’s four-year reign as undisputed champion. The ladies of The View missed out on their winning moment though – none of them showed up for the show. I guess they assumed they would lose, and although I could say something nasty about why they should have lost, all I can think about is how much it would suck to actually win something and you haven’t even shown up. Meanwhile, other winners included: Tyra Banks (for “informative” talk show), The Bold and The Beautiful (best drama), Christian LeBlanc (for his lead role in The Young and the Restless) and Susan Haskell (for her lead role in One Life To Live). Here’s more from Rachel Ray’s win:

Rachel Ray has taken the crown traditionally worn by Ellen DeGeneres: the TV chef won the Emmy for best talk show, an honor that for the three previous years has gone to DeGeneres.

“I’m just thankful to have a job in the recession and be working,” Ray said after her win at Sunday’s 36th annual Daytime Emmy Awards, held at downtown Los Angeles’s historic Orpheum Theater and aired on the CW network.

On the red carpet before her victory, Ray told PEOPLE that she lacked an acceptance speech. “You know, I’m so bad at memorization and our show is completely unscripted, so I’m just going to go up,” she said, “and if something nice happens like that then we’ll just go with our gut.”

“I love daytime television,” informative talk-show category winner Tyra Banks said at the podium. “I learned the birds and the bees from watching [General Hospital's] Luke and Laura. I learned my ABCs, 1-2-3 from Sesame Street. This [Emmy] is for the women out there that do not feel beautiful … that do not have time to do their makeup … This is for you guys.”

Backstage, Banks said, “I was a little fearful, honestly, that we wouldn’t necessarily win this year because last year was so huge – ‘Kiss My Fat Ass!’ was heard around the world.”

The View’s Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd were named best talk-show hosts, over such formidable competition as Ray, DeGeneres and Live! stars Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa.

Other winners included Who Wants to be a Millionaire emcee Meredith Vieira, for best game-show host, and the often-overlooked The Bold and the Beautiful, for best daytime drama.

While Ugly Betty’s Vanessa Williams hosted the show (and stopped it with an opening musical number), the best line of the night came from a familiar, if not very attractive, face. After a lifetime achievement award was presented to Sesame Street, which will soon turn 40, Cookie Monster said: “It’s not only a great honor, but it’s delicious … Wow, that tastes even better than a Latin Grammy.”

[From People]

How in the world is it possible for Rachel Ray to have this kind of fan base? I know I’m not the only one who wants to scream at the sound of her voice. But apparently people love her. Her and Tyra Banks. I just don’t get it. As for Ellen, her show did end up picking up four Emmys, just not in any of the big categories. Ellen had been predicted to sweep – so is this a harbinger for the primetime Emmy Awards, coming on September 20th? I hope so. Even though I love 30 Rock, it would be cool to see some new shows take home big prizes.

Shown at the daytime Emmy Awards are Ellen and Portia, Jennie Garth, Tyra Banks, and Thorsten Kaye with Susan Haskell. Credit: WENN.com. Rachel Ray is shown at a different event on 6/3/09

Tyra Banks, needing a new hook to get people to keep tuning in to her show, decided that she’s going to show her real hair. And that’s supposed to get you to watch. I’m not sure what Tyra’s real hair is supposed to look like, but unless it’s something shocking, that, in and of itself, isn’t enough to get me to drag out the old rabbit ears and watch her show.

Tyra Banks is saying “So long!” to her lovely lengthy locks temporarily. The supermodel-turned-television mogul will ditch her bouncy mane for the season premiere of “The Tyra Banks Show,” a rep for the talk show confirmed to Access Hollywood.

Tyra will reveal to viewers her “natural hair” on the program’s Season 5 premiere, which is set to air September 8 on The CW.

“This season on ‘The Tyra Show’ we’re taking it to the next level and getting more real than ever before by encouraging women everywhere to own and rock what they’ve got and be proud,” Tyra said in a statement. “For the Season 5 premiere, I will be doing just that – no fake hair, I’m rocking my REAL hair.”

Tyra is hoping her de-weavement will encourage others to show off what their mamas gave them.

“This will all be going down on September 8, 2009, which we’re declaring National Real Hair Day,” Tyra’s statement continued. “We welcome everyone to go natural with me!”

And the star will also be stepping out of her tailored clothes too. She recently ventured to Union Square in New York City, to tape a segment for her show while dressed in a flesh colored body suit and just a scarf on her head.

[From OMG]

Tyra’s whole publicity stunt is over getting women to be proud of their real hair. Which, I’m a fan of. First off, as I’d previously admitted, I had a disastrous run-in with Sun In last summer, and have about ¾ of the hair I used to, at most. So I’d really appreciate it if all those fakers out there quit walking around with what looks to be insanely thick hair, but is in fact just some sort of weave or extension. They make me seethe with envy, and for some reason I am totally incapable of telling if women’s hair is real or not unless it’s super obvious. So I’ll just sit on the train glaring at some random girl because she’s got hair for days. So for the first time ever, I’m behind something Tyra Banks is doing, because it will help my own vapid insecurities.

But seriously, if Tyra indeed revealing her natural hair for the show, she sure isn’t doing it until the day of filming. Because in these pictures it appears that she’s wearing a wig with a headscarf over it. And also, note how all the other women are baring their bodies in flesh-tone underwear and bras (shudder)? Tyra’s covered from head-to-toe. I’m just saying, stop telling everyone else to be comfortable with their bodies when you’re not with yours. And I’m trying to give her the benefit of the doubt with the hair and assume she really will be without any fake hair when her show premieres. But that sure as hell wasn’t the case in Union Square yesterday.

Here’s Tyra busting a move in Union Square yesterday. To see pictures with all the ladies in their bras and underwear and Tyra still in a full bodysuit, click here. Images thanks to WENN.com .

Though Tyra Banks loves to hear herself talk about empowering women, togetherness, unity, and a bunch of other over-used, trite phrases, she seems to have a really hard time putting her money where her mouth is. Literally. Last week she fired “America’s Next Top Model” judge Paulina Porikova, who had been a fan favorite. Actually, it seems like nearly all of the judges are “fan favorites” compared to Tyra.

Janice Dickinson says Tyra has a habit of promising judges tons of money, but then when it comes time to pay up she fires them instead.

Add ex-America’s Next Top Model judge Janice Dickinson to this week’s rant over Paulina Porizkova’s exit.

Dickinson, surprisingly booted from the show several years ago, says she is none too surprised about Porizkova being escorted away from the very seat she occupied.

“That’s how Tyra rolls,” Dickinson shared with MTV news at the American Idol finale Wednesday.

“Tyra rolls like that, she likes to fire people just about when she’s promising them large amounts of money, they get the axe, like I did…. then she takes the money and runs.”

[From Examiner.com]

Tyra has a hard time keeping women judges on the show. But not judges in general – the guys have been there for ages. Tyra’s really only got a problem dealing with other women, which makes it clear just what garbage all of her “empowerment” crap really is.

While we all love Tyra Banks for her efforts in helping to bridge the gap for women of color, plus size models and recently transgendered models, the daytime and reality diva has raised eyebrows with what I like to call Janice’s rotating chair.

It is no secret that Janice was the “Simon” (if you will, American Idol) of “America’s Next Top Model”. She told the models exactly what she thought, no holds barred, unapologetic and often times sliced deep into their self esteem. But we loved Janice for that. She was real and let’s just be honest… it sold.

It seems that every couple seasons the “Janice Chair” swings around and dumps its latest occupant. First it was Twiggy, now it’s Paulina Porizkova.

Yes, there might have been budget cuts (as noted in Tyra and Kevin Mok’s statement earlier this week) but “noted photographer” Nigel Barker retains a spot every season as does Ms. Jay, Mr. Jay and occasionally Nole Marin. Therefore, it’s easy to think that there’s something to Janice’s chair….the chair that is more often than not reserved for the former supermodel chick with attitude.

[From Examiner.com]

I find Tyra so insufferable as a person – and on her talk show – that I can’t even watch “America’s Next Top Model.” Which is too bad, as it’s one of the few reality shows I find semi-interesting. And she doesn’t even bug me that much on ANTM, but just knowing what a horrible person she actually is makes it impossible to enjoy it. Even though she does a slightly better job of hiding it on this particular show than on her talk show. Tyra clearly has a problem sharing the attention with other women. She knows how to talk a good game and say what you want to hear: whether it’s her female audience or her female judges. But when it comes to actually following through, Tyra takes the money and tells female empowerment to shove it.

Here’s Janice Dickinson grabbing lunch from Judi’s Deli in Beverly Hills on May 22. Images thanks to Fame Pictures .

All the real drama is going on behind the scenes at America’s Next Top Model. Of course it is… did anyone suspect anything else? After Paulina Porikova was fired – by phone - from being a judge on ANTM, there’s been a catty war of words between Paulina and Tyra. First, Tyra’s people were trying to make it clear that Paulina was not fired for anything to do with her personality or attitude. Tyra claimed that the economy is bad (it is) and ANTM is facing a limited budget these days (which might be true). Thus, some of the “fat” had to be trimmed from the shows production costs. Like, say, Paulina’s fat contract.

Apparently Paulina doesn’t have any confidentiality agreement, or she doesn’t care if it’s enforced, because both Star and the National Enquirer have some funny quotes from Paulina. Star reports that Paulina is saying she was fired because the producers told her she had an “ego problem”. If that came from Tyra, that’s the funniest thing in the world:

Did Paulina Porizkova get the ax because of the budget… or her big ego?

Last week the America’s Next Top Model judge announced she was leaving the mannequin competition after one of the producers told her she has an “ego problem,” but a rep for the show says it’s all about the Benjamins.

Earlier today Top Model executive producers Tyra Banks and Ken Mok issued a statement saying Paulina wasn’t fired because of her ‘tude.

“The current state of the economy has forced shows to make major budget cuts industry wide,” the statement reads. “America’s Next Top Model is not immune to these financially challenging times. We’ve had to make significant cuts in every area of the production and, unfortunately, Paulina was a casualty of these cuts. Tyra, who pursued Paulina to join the show as a judge multiple times, was incredibly saddened by the decision the show was forced to make. We really enjoyed working with Paulina, and we wish her all the best in her future endeavors.”

This story differs from the one Paulina is spinning.

“The reason I was told I was fired was because, it seemed that America’s Next Top Model has gotten too fat and they needed to cut some fat and the fat was me,” Paulina told The Late, Late Show’s Craig Ferguson. “So I figured it was either that or my gigantic huge ego. Which I wasn’t aware of until I was told by the producers that I have an ego problem.”

[From Star Magazine]

The National Enquirer’s version of events is just as funny. Paulina says that if ANTM’s producers are really concerned about money, perhaps they should make sure Tyra shows up on time. Paulina claims that one of the biggest financial wastes of ANTM is the thousands of dollars the crew is paid to wait around for none other than Tyra Banks. Is it too old-school to say “Oh, snap!”?

Tyra deep sixes Paula from Top Model, cites economy. Paula charges “BS!”

Porizkova, the Czech born beauty was recently let go as a judge for the reality contest after a year on the skein. Paula alleged she was pink slipped for an “ego problem” with Tyra..

But Banks and show runner Ken Mok said “We’ve had to make significant cuts in every area of the production (because of the economy) and unfortunately Paulina was a casualty of these cuts.”

But Paula doesn’t buy that line – countering the producers could have saved moolah if Tyra wasn’t tardy!

“I shouldn’t say this because this sounds bitter, but if Tyra came in on time, they would save somebody’s salary,” Paula said. “If she actually showed up on time for the judgings and they didn’t have to pay a lot of overtime, they would save a lot of money.”

Ladies, we suggest you settle this by stepping into the ring for a pay-per-view catfight.

[From The National Enquirer]

Paulina came in after Janice Dickinson and Twiggy, and by far Paulina has been my favorite of the old-school model-judges. She’s funny, and she’s mean when she needs to be. ANTM contines to be a ratings success, and advertisers still support the show. So crying poverty doesn’t really make much sense for the producers. Also, Tyra is one of the executive producers on ANTM, and I suspect Paulina’s firing may have had more to do with a clash of personalities than with finances. Most likely, Tyra pulled rank on Paulina for several reasons, of which we’ve only gotten a glimpse of.