Tyra Banks seems a little bit distant to ANTM contestant

I thought something was up! Who hasn't noticed Tyra's obvious lack of involvement in these later cycles?

From LA Times, on 27 March 2008

'America's Next Top Model': postmortem with Aimee

I read yesterday that Tyra barely interacted with the models at all this cycle. Did you sense that she worked with you less than the girls on other cycles?

A little bit just because I had seen in other cycles that she had sit-down time with the other girls one on one. But she's a celebrity: She's got a lot on her plate and she did do the runway teach so she did as much as she could with the time that she had. I learned a lot from her, especially how she really goes for it. She's not afraid of what other people think of her. That's something I definitely need to learn myself because I kind of hold myself back because I'm afraid of what other people will think. I just really need to get out there and let go.

But you still were asked to scream every time she came in the room?

They didn't tell us, "Go scream," but they really wanted excitement out of us. We were excited to see her as well, and there was so much energy and excitement and tension, so it was sort of a release.

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