Huge congratulations to all the winners at the 2011 Do Something! Awards, which aired August 18 on VH1, especially to Sarah Cronk, the 18-year-old founder of The Sparkle Effect and winner of the evening’s $100,000 grand prize. Cronk (pictured above right with Glee star Lauren Potter) was in good company at the awards show, rubbing elbows with fellow winners Justin Bieber, Sophia Bush, David Beckham, and Will Ferrell, among others. The show featured musical performances from Demi Lovato, Foster the People, and OneRepublic featuring B.o.B. and some hilarious moments courtesy of host Jane Lynch — the full list and photo gallery of winners, plus a few shots of our favorite moments are after the jump.
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The 2011 VH1 Do Something! Awards air this Thursday, August 18 at 9 p.m. ET. We’ve already shown you what everyone was wearing on the blue carpet tonight, but we have yet to pass along any of our sartorial assessments of who wore what. So, if your name is Tyra Banks, Adam Lambert, Zach Levi, Demi Lovato, Victoria Justice, Kim Kardashian, Amy Poehler, Charity Shea, Dax Shephard or Olivia Wilde, take a deep breath: You’re either on our Best or Worst Dressed list for this year’s Do Something! Awards. With that in mind, we’d like to pass along our fond “Congratulations! or sincere “Better luck next time!” to all of our finalists.
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Madame Tussauds wax museum unveiled a brand new Tyra Banks statue, and the fake thing is – dare we say it – fiercer than the real deal! Can you tell which is which?
Wow – Tyra Banks ain’t f*cking around. She got crazy fierce on the mic while accepting her Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show (Informative) and we don’t blame her – that’s some legitimate sh*t! Tyra may be a little crazy sometimes, but she’s the real deal – and she’s got the Emmy to prove it. Even better, she used her win to give a shout out to the empress of daytime talk, Ms. Oprah Winfrey. “I want to thank Oprah Winfrey for her inspiration,” said TyTy. “She is the queen. She will always be the queen.” Nice point Tyra, but we bet being the #1 talk princess ain’t that bad. Also – congrats! With all those shows about vaginas and fat suits, you earned it.
More pics below!
In honor of the Sex and the City movie opening this weekend and the awful frocks its stars have worn in episodes of the hit HBO show, we’ve gathered the best of the worst fashion flops to ruin Hollywood this year. Not everyone can star in the greatest chick flick of our time, but you sure can dress like you’re straight out of the movie!
From the left: Sarah Jessica Parker and pals (Coco, Heidi Montag, Paris Hilton, Katie Holmes, Tyra Banks, Rumer Willis, Jenna Jameson, Anna Wintour) model their poor picks in crap couture.
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Calm down, Top Model fiends. We know it was alleged today that Tyra Banks is desperate to dump the popular American’s Next Top Model in order to focus on her mediocre talk show. Apparently there’s also a rift between her and Mr. Jay Manuel that’s also adding to her supposed exit. But let’s be real – that ain’t NEVER gonna happen!
1. If Tyra doesn’t like someone, she just gives them the boot! If Mr. Jay was really that much of an issue, wouldn’t he be expelled just like Janice Dickenson, Twiggy and Nole Marin? Tyra loves kicking people off her show – it’s the whole basis of Top Model!
2. Let’s be frank – girlfriend LIVES for this show. She loves counseling young souls who look up to her with giant doe eyes almost as much as she loves berating them from her perch in the judging room (see video above for proof). How could she give that up?
3. America’s Next Top Model is by far THE most important show to air on television since its inception over sixty years ago. I Love Lucy, Sixty Minutes, Saturday Night Live – these shows pale in comparison to the cultural significance Top Model represents. It is beyond groundbreaking and earth shattering programming – it is a weekly revolution. [Ed. note: I'm only saying this in case Tyra IS serious about taking away Top Model. We need our weekly fierce fest!]
Dear Brady Green, age 27 of Dublin, Georgia,
Leave Tyra Banks alone. Seriously. Don’t come to New York City again trying to make contact with her, and definitely do not lurk at her studio with a duffel bag full of magazine clippings about the supermodel and notes about your previous stalking attempts. Just because you’re reportedly big and muscly, doesn’t mean you scare us – or Tyra! The police may have let you go this time, but if you come back to mess with our Top Model, you better believe we’ll be calling the cops – or taking you down with a citizen’s arrest! Stalking ain’t cool, Mr. Green, and just because Tyra’s studio supposedly has no security doesn’t mean we won’t be guarding our beloved chatterbox with all our might. Not that TB needs our help – when life deals her something scary, she just turns it into a photoshoot on America’s Next Top Model. Now THAT is fierce (unlike you).
Signed,
The Tyra Banks Stalker Patrol
The girls of America’s Next Top Model learn so much in their time under Tyra Banks’ watchful eye – how to pose, walk on a runway and smile with their eyes, for example. But now we can add “total destruction of property” to the list of top model requirements! Yes, Tyra’s girls are already acting like divas, after they apparently wrecked the $6 million loft that served as their Big Apple home during the taping of the popular show. An insider revealed that, “These girls not only destroyed the floors, it appears they had food fights. There’s ketchup and coffee splattered all over the landlord’s $20,000 white drapes. There’s lipstick on the walls. They moved in furniture and made holes all along the walls.”
Classsssssy. The production crew didn’t help the mess either, and they apparently destroyed floors and walls while trying to rig lighting. Now the landlord is supposedly freaking out with $500,000 worth of damage and no one to live in the loft. Tyra’s peeps reportedly tried to settle for $125,000, but the owner ain’t having that ish. Now that’s fierce! [NYP]
Only one of us can be America’s Next Top Media Mogul, and Tyra Banks is determined to win that title. The model-turned-dream-crusher-turned-Oprah-wannabe has begun working on her latest TV venture, a reality competition about the magazine business, of which she knows nothing about. Sure she’s been in a billion magazines, but you know, I’ve been in a lot of skyscrapers, yet you don’t see me trying to build one. “It is a competition show about aspiring assistants looking to become assistant editors at a fashion magazine,” says Tyra BFF/executive producer Ken Mok. “At the same time they’re trying to prove themselves as aspiring fashionistas, that they have a sense of style and savvy – all the things to make it in the fashion world.”
Hurray! More skinny girls crying and fighting over who ate whose food. Riveting, surely. Next thing we know Tyra will go from making a show about the biz, to naming a magazine after herself. There’s no stopping the genius (or the ego) of Tyra Banks. [Reuters]
Pretty much everything that comes out of Tyra’s mouth is comedic genius. She takes herself – and everything she does – so seriously, that it only accentuates the campiness of her endeavors. So it’s hard for us to feel any sympathy when she complains about the hollowness of her personal life. Tyra is the new cover girl of this month’s Essence, and she dramatically unleashes her woes to the mag in her interview. “I’d go to work [on 'The Tyra Banks Show'], and women would be crying in my arms,” she reveals. “But then I’d go home and put my key in my door and … nothing. No friends, no husband, no children. I feel so full when I’m at work but so empty when I come home.”
That’s funny, because when we come home we feel totally full after we leap into Tyra’s virtual arms and watch her show on our TiVo. We’d suggest that she spend less time worry about our vaginas and more time fretting over hers, but then we’d be lost without her. It’s a vicious cycle.
