Bye, Ty: Tyra Banks announces she’s leaving ‘Dancing with the Stars’ – National | 24CA News
Tyra Banks is buying and selling the ballroom for the boardroom.
The American TV persona introduced she might be leaving her internet hosting gig at Dancing with the Stars after three seasons on the competitors present’s helm.
Banks, 49, dropped the bomb to TMZ on Thursday. While leaving a Whole Foods in Santa Monica, Calif., Banks mentioned she might be switching profession gears to give attention to being an entrepreneur.
“I’m really focused on business,” Banks informed TMZ.
She mentioned she needs to give attention to her constructing her model — an ice cream firm known as Smize & Dream — and on producing extra tv, although from behind the scenes.
“I think it’s time to graduate from the dance floor to the stock market floor,” she mentioned. “From the ballroom to the boardroom!”
When requested instantly if she actually could be leaving Dancing with the Stars, Banks responded merely, “I think it’s time.”
“I’m an entrepreneur at heart,” Banks defined. “My heart, my soul, is into my business. It’s also into producing new TV, which we’re working on.”
She mentioned it will be unimaginable for her to give attention to her entrepreneurship whereas internet hosting the competitors present.
Banks took over Dancing with the Stars internet hosting duties in 2020 after Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews left the present. Bergeron, 67, had been internet hosting the dance program since its inception in 2005. Andrews signed on in 2014.
Banks has appeared in a big swath of well-liked tv sequence through the years. She created the immensely well-liked competitors present America’s Next Top Model, which premiered in 2003. She has additionally hosted The Tyra Banks Show and one season of America’s Got Talent.
Season 32 of Dancing with the Stars is prone to air on Disney+ in mid-to-late September.
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