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SMIZE!!! WHO’S GONNA BE ON TOP!!! FLAWSOME!!! Those are the words you won’t hear anymore from Tyra Banks’ lips after the 4th of December 2015 when the winner of cycle 22 will be crowned as America’s Next Top Model.
The program has aired 22 seasons (“cycles”), and each cycle sees a number of aspiring models compete for
the title of “America’s Next Top Model”, providing them with an opportunity to begin their career in the modeling industry. It is hosted by supermodel and television personality Tyra Banks, who additionally serves as its executive producer and presenter. It brought extra credits for many artists like Jay Manuel, Nigel Barker, Miss Jay and Kelly Cutrone.
The seventeenth season became an All-Stars version and after that there wouldn’t be a “normal” season of the show 
anymore. With the start of the eighteenth British Invasion cycle, the program converted to high definition and season 20 became the first one where guys and girls were mixed together after having only girls allowed on the show. Lisa D’Amato is the only winner who won cycle 5 and 17 and Keith Carlos the first male winner in cycle 21.Who will win the last cycle 22???
“America’s Next Top Model was a successful franchise for two networks, first at UPN and then The CW, 
and it became not just a ratings hit, but a global pop culture phenomenon,” said CW president Mark Pedowitz in a statement. “I want to thank Tyra [Banks] and Ken [Mok] for all their years of success in establishing a show that was not just popular in the U.S., but all across the world”
ANTM Top 11 OMG Panel Moments (Cycle 1-18):
ANTM first premiered in May 2003. To celebrate its tenth 
cycle, America’s Next Top Model aired a special installment called America’s Next Top Model: Exposed in two parts on the CW. It reviewed the best cat fights, mishaps and most memorable photoshoots, personalities, defining moments and contained other segments about the show. Though no confirmed plans have been made yet, the network is reportedly considering a retrospective Top Model special in 2016.
Epic Tyra Banks shuts down Top Model homophobe: https://youtu.be/SUDSaRXng9I
“Thinking #ANTM #cycle22 should be our last cycle,” Tyra wrote. “Yeah, I truly believe it’s time. Our diehard fans know we’ve expanded the definition of beauty, presented what Flawsome is, tooched and booched and boom boom boomed, shown the world how to show their neck, rocked couture/catalogue/commercial poses, have found our (and your) light, strutted countless runways, gone on tons of go-sees, added guys to the girls mix, and have traveled around the globe and back again. Yeah, it’s time. It really is.
“Wow, I am SO proud of what Top Model has done.
#ANTM brought the intimidating modeling world to the masses. We were the first reality show based in the fashion world. I never thought my little idea would have people everywhere thinking differently about how they take photos. And I never thought we’d do 22 cycles. Whoa! So many!!! And what rhymes with 22? You. And you and you and you and you! YOU made Top Model what it is. We are a global force that has so many international versions around the world because of YOU! That’s amazing and beyond anything that I ever dreamed.
I set out to create a show where Perfect is Boring. So I hope you continue to love your freckles, your moles, your big forehead, your big eyes, your small eyes, your pointy chin, your tiny boobs, your full chest, your ivory or ebony skin (or every color in between) – the stuff about you that makes you well…you. And I hope you’ve learned a heck of a lot from watching. I have an inkling you have. May your photos (and selfies) be forever fierce. May you always find your light. And may you werk hallways like runways. Always remember, you are beautiful & BOOTYful. And please, keep on Smizing each and every day for TyTy.
Fierce & Love, – Tyra Banks
We gonna miss the show with all the sexiness, great shoots, catfights and one-liners. It was fun to watch and was a great inspiration for upcoming models. But we are sure another version of a modelling contest will arise soon, but they won’t have Tyra to be on top. So let’s smize one more time, give a booch and tooch and be FIERCE for Tyra!!!
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Big kiss,
Lesley Middleton