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1. Oprah Winfrey
Initially The Oprah Winfrey Show was just another talk show when it debuted in 1986. But what made it stand out and rise above the rest was the show’s host. Now The Oprah Winfrey Show is only a small part of Oprah’s empire, and in 2011, will cease to exist in its current format. But not because the show is cancelled, Oprah is moving onto something bigger than her own show. She’s starting her own network, appropriately called OWN.

2. Arsenio Hall
The Arsenio Hall Show revolutionized late night television. Just ask Bill Clinton who many say would have never won the 1992 presidential election had it not been for his surprise appearance on that show.

3. Mo’Nique
Unlike Arsenio, The Mo’Nique Show has a lot more competition in that late night slot. But the Oscar-winning comedienne has been able to hold her own against, pulling in her own unique audience on BET. While the rest of America was tuning into the drama of the late night talk show wars between Conan O’Brien and Jay Leno, plenty others tuned them out and tuned into Mo’Nique.

4. Tyra Banks
A show about service as much as it was celebrity, through The Tyra Show, Tyra used her beauty and brains for good. What Oprah is to the stay-at-home moms of America, Tyra was to the teenagers of America who came home after school and needed a big sister to understand them.

5. Wendy Williams
The popular radio DJ has successfully taken her format and gift of gossip to the small screen. Though Vh1 would air her radio show, The Wendy Williams Show has shown the queen of talk radio can also sit down on a couple of comfortable couch chairs and ask questions with the best of them.

6. Whoopi Goldberg

The moderator of The View is fearless and isn’t afraid to call it like she sees it. And if someone else is calling it like she sees it on the show, she’s not afraid to retort or even walk away.

7. Montell Williams
As a former Marine, and a victim to multiple scoliosis, Williams — an Emmy Award winning talk show host — used his show as a platform to bring awareness to various social issues in an aggressive style.

8. Star Jones
The controversial panel member on The View during it’s early years was one of the sharpest and most entertaining women on the panel.

9. Tavis Smiley
Many people were shocked when BET let Tavis Smiley’s contract as host of BET Tonight expire, but the charming media personality has landed on his feet. Now the host of his very own PBS show, Tavis Smiley, Smiley is doing what he does best, interviewing the people we’ve always wanted to talk to ourselves, asking them the questions we’ve always wanted to ask.

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MTV and BET(excluding Tyra) have the sexiest women on television. With diverse backgrounds and ethnicities they are all beautiful!

Here is the full interview in low definition  if you have time…

Following Oprah Winfrey and Bonnie Hunt’s announcements that they’re stepping away, Tyra Banks is the latest to leave the talkshow game.

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Banks told People.com that this would be the last season of the Warner Bros.-produced “The Tyra Show,” with the talker ending its run in the spring. The host said she wants to focus on her production shingle, Bankable Studios, and see what future bigscreen projects can promote positive images of women.

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Banks will continue with the CW’s “America’s Next Top Model” and ABC’s “True Beauty.”

After the next Oprah Tyra Banks grabs a handful of 50′s actual butt, he shows off the $25,000 in “booty” that he walks around with in case he needs to “buy something.”  Interesting habit for a dude that once made a song called “How To Rob.”

Here is what a former Tyra Banks guest wrote about her show.

I know I am hated all over right now. But as someone who is on this website I hope you understand that this was for television purposes only..

We were told how to act and what characters to portray. I am not done with the Tyra yet I will be going back. I have been in contact with other members who were on the show and we constantly talk about how the producers never warned us about the out come, but we knew already but still it would have been cool if they warned us.

We were put on the show to bring in great ratings and that’s what we did despite us looking like total as*holes.. Trust me I am hurt by what I have said and all of the peoples feelings I’ve hurt but i am no where close to how I was portrayed on the show. My best friend is darkskin and I call him my brother…

He recently made a video response saying how its crazy what people have to do just to get seen but i told him not to post it because I did sign a contract with the show and i didnt read it so I dont want to be sued….

You should know the show is scripted. There are plenty of the other cast members on this site. Many of the cast members were picked off of acting websites and they are really great people.

I KNOW IT SUCKS WHAT I DID BUT ALL OF US WERE DESPERATE TO GET OUR START AND FACES SEEN. I will be doing plenty of other things soon.

Here is the actor on Tyra’s Show

Here he is explaining that he is an actor

According to TMZ.com Tyra Banks’ former assistant is suing the model and TV host. Richard Thomas filed a claim in L.A County for $5, 820 insisting she owed him back wages for “services rendered as assistant and advisor.”

The loophole is that Thomas must ask Banks for the money prior to filing suit, but he can’t find her.

Come on, Tyra, we know you just won and Emmy and you’ve  got to have much stashed in a mattress somewhere.

Tyra Banks was on a photo shoot in SoHo in NYC and showed off those curves she defends so much. Peep the photos:

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VIA EUR:

The Georgia man charged with stalking talk show host Tyra Banks was sentenced on Thursday to one year of probation, and must not contact the former supermodel for two years, reports the New York Daily News.

Brady Green, 39, was also ordered by the Manhattan Criminal Court judge to complete an anti-stalking course.

Sporting a shiny brown suit to the courthouse, Green declined to speak to the press after the sentencing. His lawyer also refused to address the media. Banks was not present in court.

Green developed what prosecutors called an “unhealthy obsession” with Banks while watching the show in his hometown of Dublin, Ga. In March 2008, Green showed up at the Chelsea studios of “The Tyra Banks Show” just hours after making a cross-country bus trip.

He told staffers he was a friend of the host even though he had been placed on the program’s “do not admit” list after sending Banks roses and repeatedly calling her assistants.

Banks testified against him in April, saying she was “terrified.” Her staffers had to barricade themselves in her dressing room when Green tried to slip past security.

“I fear the safety of my staffers. I fear the safety of my family,” the beauty testified.

Green said during the trial he only wanted to score tickets for the show.

He made some noise that didn’t fare well with Tyra and company. Check out these safer ones below:

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For the first time in a bajillion years, Oprah Winfrey is not ranked No. 1 on Forbes’ Celebrity 100 list of the world’s most powerful stars. Also for the first time ever, the annual list includes a sitting Commander-in-Chief.

Based on media exposure and career earnings over the past year, the Celeb 100 title-holder is now Angelina Jolie, who jumped to the top from third place last year. She made just $27 million, but Forbes says the actress wields more power than any other entertainer due to high-profile turns in such hit films as “Wanted” and “Kung Fu Panda.”

Winfrey is still the list’s richest celeb, with $275 million earned last year, but she ranks No. 2. Madonna came in third, trailed by Beyonce ($87 million), Tiger Woods ($110 million), Bruce Springsteen ($70 million) and Steven Spielberg ($150 million).

Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt came in at eighth and ninth place, respectively, while Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant takes the tenth spot ($45 million), due in large part to endorsement deals scored after the Beijing Olympics.

President Barack Obama makes an appearance at No. 49 ($2.5 million) as the first sitting head of state to appear on Forbes’ Celebrity 100 list. He was chosen because of his worldwide fame, his historic election and his career as a best-selling author.

Although he’s one of the biggest acts in entertainment, Justin Timberlake went from 12th to falling off the list completely, since ending his lucrative “FutureSex/LoveShow” concert tour. Jennifer Lopez, Johnny Depp and Tyra Banks also dropped off the list.

From the NY Daily News:

Tyra Banks is expected to take the stand this week as a hulking drifter goes on trial for stalking the TV personality.

No one disputes that Brady Green tried to get close to the famous supermodel-turned-talk-show host, but his lawyer says he’s just a fan.

“She invites fans that are inspired by her show to reach out to her,” defense lawyer Sydney O’Hagen said in opening arguments at Green’s trial. “Mr. Green was a fan, albeit perhaps an overzealous fan.”

O’Hagen claims Green was simply trying to get tickets to “The Tyra Banks Show.”

Prosecutors have a different version – and cite statements made by Green that they say prove his guilt.

While we don’t condone harassment of any kind, after looking at the pics below we can understand being an “overzealous” Tyra Banks fan.

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The 39-year-old man charged with stalking former supermodel Tyra Banks started his trial on Friday, with prosecutors claiming he terrified the talk show host by sending her packages and making threats against her assistant.

In March of 2008, police arrested Brady Green after he appeared twice at the Manhattan studio where Banks films her daytime talk show.

Green repeatedly contacted “The Tyra Banks Show,” sent the host flowers with the note “When I see you, I love you,” and threatened to slit the throat of her assistant, causing Banks to “fear for her physical health and safety,” prosecutor Shawn McMahon said in opening arguments in New York State Supreme Court.

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The 18-year-old former boyfriend of Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol had a lot to say about their relationship on The Tyra Banks Show, and the ex’s camp is not happy.

In the show, airing today (April 6), Levi Johnston tells Banks that he believes Sarah Palin knew he and Bristol, 18, were having sex when they lived under her roof.

“I’m pretty sure she probably knew. Moms are pretty smart,” Johnston says, adding that he and Bristol practiced safe sex “most of the time.”

Camp Palin released a statement expressing outrage about Johnston’s interview.

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Producer Evan Rogers, the music mogul who discovered pop star Rihanna, spoke to Entertainment Weekly about all of the unsolicited advice she has received from celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey and Tyra Banks regarding her domestic dispute with Chris Brown.

Rogers said the celebrities who have publicly urged Rihanna to break off her romance with Brown, aren’t helping the “Umbrella” singer, who had reconciled with her boyfriend after the alleged beating.

“It turns up the heat in terms of it seeming like the whole world is telling her what to do,” said Rogers. “At the end of the day, people forget that, at 21, your perspective is very different. These kinds of things can happen to anyone, whether you’re a celebrity or not.”

“She’s very aware of everything that’s going on. Just like anyone else, she watches TV, she goes online. And I think that it matters to her, but there’s a line that she walks between being human and caring when you hear these kinds of things, and separating your personal life from your professional life.”

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If the powers-that-be would allow it, Roseanne Barr should blog for The Urban Daily. She’s found herself on the site three times now and hasn’t seemed to let off of the Chris Brown situation, yet. The latest target of the former sitcom queen’s rant are Oprah Winfrey and Tyra Banks.

Check out what she had to say about them below:

“on female victims of domestic abuse was out of date, and irrelevant and made me mad.
They have twisted the facts so that they fit their already dangerous and wrong suppositions. Rhianna is a victim of chris brown to be sure, but nothing will ever change as long as the FACT is ignored that in the beginning of domestic violence, the female often (like Rhianna) colludes and ALSO IS VIOLENT!
ignoring this and painting a false and one sided politically correct and WRONG picture about the victim is a big reason why women do not leave abusive relationships and I am sick of this lie that often ends in the death of the woman!
I was in a lot of groups and noticed how many women said that they stayed because they mistakenly thought: “I am not like all these other helpless women who get beat, I hit back, or I hit first. I am not a helpless victim, I am a strong fighter, and I can handle this”. Then comes the time when his strength is too much to withstand, and the sobering reality that you are in fact just another victim hits you.
I lived through this myself, so I know what I am talking about.
The thing that finally made me leave, was an article in the new york times where a woman wrote: “Roseanne took Tom Arnold back after accusing him of abuse and is acting like a grateful fat girl who got invited to the prom”.
That so shamed me into looking at my behavior, and not Tom’s, that I think now it is what saved my life. (watch how this story about me and tom will be ignored by the press, and by all the women who profess to be domestic abuse activists).
I am confronting Rhianna and I will continue to confront her because I want her to LEAVE that monster and do the right thing. I want her to live!”

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Can’t really blame him. I’d try to play up to the new Oprah Winfrey too!

Whoopi Goldberg, Tyra Banks, Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry appear on Entertainment Weekly’s 25 Smartest People in TV, a list of small-screen titans who are driving today’s sharpest shows and deals.

Goldberg and her co-hosts on “The View” were listed at No. 25.5 for “juicing their ratings by pumping up their political banter.” During election week, “The View” reached No. 1 in total daytime viewers for the first time in 12 seasons.

Banks, 35, ranked No. 23 on the list. EW noted, “She’s still in the running towards becoming America’s next top TV mogul. Her talk show (moving from syndication to The CW next fall) has the youngest median age in daytime, and ‘America’s Next Top Model,’ which just completed its 11th cycle, remains The CW’s highest-rated series. (Spin-off ‘Operation Fabulous’ launches next year.) Now the Emmy winner is developing other reality projects that fit the Banks ‘brand,’ like ABC’s upcoming ‘True Beauty,’ and she recently branched into film with the direct-to-DVD tween drama ‘The Clique.’”

Winfrey came in 6th on the tally because “her talk show still rules daytime, her first foray into reality (‘Oprah’s Big Give’) averaged 11.6 million viewers, and she’ll launch her own network — appropriately named OWN — in 2009,” said EW. “Her production company, Harpo, responsible for daytime hits ‘Dr. Phil’ and ‘Rachael Ray,’ will debut a new series next fall with Oprah staple Dr. Mehmet Oz. All this and she was funny on 30 Rock (‘Sweater capes!’).”

Atlanta-based mogul Perry ranked 4th for proving that “one need not exist within the borders of Hollywood to become an industry heavyweight. Through his Tyler Perry Studios, he created and produced ‘Tyler Perry’s House of Payne’ — and persuaded TBS to buy 90 additional episodes in 2006 after a 10-show run earned major ratings. Then in August, he struck a deal with the cable net to produce a new sitcom, ‘Meet the Browns,’ based on his hit play and movie. The biggest sign of his growing success? This fall, Perry ditched his 70,000-square-foot studio for a twice-the-size production complex in Atlanta, which includes five soundstages and a backlot.”

Seth MacFarlane, the executive producer of “Family Guy,” “American Dad” and the forthcoming “The Cleveland Show,” topped the list. EW noted: “The apple-faced prankster secured a full-season order for a ‘Guy’ spin-off called ‘The Cleveland Show,’ and he still manages to find time to shoot his Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy Web shorts (and animated ads) for a separate deal with Google. With Guy reruns airing approximately 20 hours a week on various networks, it’s no wonder MacFarlane is now the highest-paid writer in TV.