Banks said she has “so many different ideas for my life” in the future.

America’s Next Top Model returning for cycle 25, Tyra Banks says: ‘My work is not done’

Banks said she has "so many different ideas for my life" in the future.

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February 12, 2026 11:03 a.m. ET

Tyra Banks on 'America's Next Top Model'. Credit:

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*America's Next Top Model* is cat-walking back to the runway.

*ANTM* host and former supermodel Tyra Banks has revealed that the controversial modeling competition series, which aired its last new cycle in 2018, will return for cycle 25 in the future.

"After the show, I had so many different ideas for my life. I'm obsessed with pivoting," Banks, 52, says in the upcoming Netflix docuseries *Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model *(out Monday, Feb. 16). "And I live in Australia now!" she adds, referencing her work with her SMiZE & DREAM ice cream line.

She adds in the third episode of the three-part program, "I feel like my work is not done. You have no idea what we have planned for cycle 25," before the docuseries ends.

Tyra Banks in 'Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model' docuseries on Netflix.

** has reached out to a representative for Banks for comment.

The announcement comes seven years after Banks previously told EW in an interview for her* Life-Size 2* movie that she considered bringing the show back for cycle 25 — which she said at the time would be its last, and might even be the franchise's second all-star cycle featuring fan-favorite contestants from prior seasons.

While it was beloved during its original run on UPN, The CW, and VH1 from 2003-2018, *America's Next Top Model *underwent a modern re-evaluation in the age of social media, with many users pointing out problematic depictions on the program including body-shaming judges, segments where Banks insisted that a model close a gap in her teeth to become more marketable to the masses, and photo challenges that tasked models with wearing dark makeup to portray women of different races on cycles 4 and 13.

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Banks appears in *Reality Check* for her first in-depth interview about the controversial show's most scandalous moments, and she addresses several of them — but refuses to comment on others, including the firing of longtime creative director Jay Manuel.

EW's 20th anniversary oral history on *ANTM* saw contestants speak out on various shocking moments from the show, including the switching-races shoots.

"I know Tyra got a lot of flak for all this, as she should, because it's her name on it," cycle 4 contestant Kahlen Rondot previously told EW about the moment. "She needs to take responsibility for certain things. I realize this was 20 years ago, but how did we think this was actually okay?"

In a statement to EW in 2023, a spokesperson for Banks said that the intention of the shoot was to combat an industry where "lighter skin and straight hair were pervasive beauty standards," which "perpetuated deep insecurities within women." The spokesperson maintained that such challenges were "meant to be a moment celebrating and spotlighting underrepresented ideologies of beauty — textured hair and darker skin — on a global scale." (*ANTM* executive producer Ken Mok declined to comment for that story, and representatives for producer Laura Fuest Silva and Manuel did not respond to EW's multiple requests for comment.)

*Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model *premieres Monday, Feb. 16 on Netflix.

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