America’s Next Top Model Documentary Producer Addresses Tyra Banks’ Involvement

The team behind the new documentary Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model have opened up about Tyra Banks’ participation.

Premiering on Monday, the three-part series charts the rise of America’s Next Top Model in the 2000s, as well as tackling some of its thornier and more controversial moments.

Many were surprised to see that Tyra agreed to be interviewed for the series, facing questions about her role as the host, head judge and executive producer of America’s Next Top Model, as well as her involvement in some of the show’s more shocking moments.

And in case there was any doubt, executive producer Vanessa Golembewski has now clarified that Tyra was not given any special treatment as an interviewee.

“From the beginning, this documentary took an incredible amount of trust,” Golembewski told Tudum.

“Tyra’s perspective was always important to the series, but it was just as important that her involvement was as an interview subject only. She afforded us the same level of trust as everyone else who participates in the documentary.

“She never asked to have any creative input or control, and she’s seeing the footage for the first time alongside the rest of the world.”

Reality Check, the much-hyped Top Model documentary, has received generally positive reviews from critics, although most were also in agreement that producers could have been more forensic in their questioning, especially when it came to Tyra.

The former supermodel executive produced all 24 seasons of America’s Next Top Model, and hosted all but one, with Rita Ora filling in for her as host and head judge on one cycle in the mid-2010s.

Near the end of Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, Tyra teased that a new season of the divisive reality show is in the works, telling viewers: “I feel like my work is not done.

“You have no idea what we have planned for Cycle 25.”