{"id":2284191,"date":"2026-02-16T15:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2284191"},"modified":"2026-02-16T15:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:18:26","slug":"jay-manuel-shares-tyra-banks-friendship-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jay-manuel-shares-tyra-banks-friendship-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Manuel Shares Tyra Banks Friendship Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TV host and makeup artist Jay Manuel has been opening up about his friendship with Tyra Banks<\/a> amid the release of Netflix<\/a>\u2018s new documentary, Reality Check: Inside America\u2019s Next Top Model<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Manuel served as the on-screen creative director for America\u2019s Next Top Model<\/em> for nine years before leaving to pursue other opportunities. He originally worked as a makeup artist with Banks, who brought him aboard the reality competition series when it launched in 2003.<\/p>\n

However, in Cycle 8 of the hit show, Manuel was ready to move on, and he emailed Banks to let her know.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe didn\u2019t respond,\u201d he said in the doc, per People<\/a>. \u201cIt was probably the longest three days ever. And she ultimately wrote back just three words. \u2018I am disappointed.\u2019 After that email exchange, all communication just stopped. It should\u2019ve been the opportunity to have a heart-to-heart, but that did not happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Network executives eventually persuaded Manuel to return for Cycle 9 while they figured out a replacement. Manuel described his experience that season as \u201cmental torture,\u201d claiming that Banks would only talk to him when the cameras were rolling.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was so broken by the end of that cycle because of the mental torture of what was going on,\u201d the Canada\u2019s Next Top Model<\/em> host told People.<\/p>\n

Banks was asked about the situation with Manuel in the Netflix doc, though she declined to answer. Instead, the model and host said that she \u201cshould call\u201d her former friend and deal with the matter personally.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never got that phone call,\u201d Manuel shared in his update. \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019m getting a phone call. She\u2019s got my number.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manuel did reveal he bumped into Banks at BeautyCon in 2017 and had a \u201creally nice conversation\u201d with her. But since then, the pair have had \u201cno communication of any sort, text, email, anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTyra and I were close, and when we were in New York shooting, or even in L.A. shooting, she\u2019d be at my house or I\u2019d be at her house, and we would really download,\u201d he added. \u201cBut at the same time, and she knows this to be true, the things that are those really, really trusted important things that she has said to me, I will never repeat. I will forever honor my relationship with her in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also said he is still \u201copen\u201d to talking to Banks if she wants to, noting, \u201cI\u2019m in a healed place. I wish her no ill will.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reality Check: Inside America\u2019s Next Top Model<\/strong><\/em>, Streaming Now, Netflix<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the latest entertainment news on TV Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TV host and makeup artist Jay Manuel has been opening up about his friendship with Tyra Banks amid the release of Netflix\u2018s new documentary, Reality Check: Inside America\u2019s Next Top Model. Manuel served as the on-screen creative director for America\u2019s Next Top Model for nine years before leaving to pursue other opportunities. He originally worked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2284192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[442523,23191,392150,318808],"class_list":["post-2284191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-jay-manuel","tag-netflix","tag-reality-check","tag-tyra-banks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Jay-Manuel-Shares-Tyra-Banks-Friendship-Update.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284193,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284191\/revisions\/2284193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}