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America's Next Top Model: Should it ever have been made?

"I was rooting for you! We were all rooting for you! How dare you?"

Tyra Banks' rant – angry and disappointed – at America's Next Top Model (ANTM) contestant Tiffany Richardson is the stuff of reality TV legend.

Watching the former supermodel lay into the young hopeful in front of millions of viewers still ranks as one of the show's most shocking moments, 20 years later.

Body-shaming, race-swapping, dangerous stunts and "humiliating" challenges were all ingredients of the show's huge success, keeping viewers hooked.

Even at its peak, ANTM ignited "how far is too far" conversations around reality TV shows.

But during the Covid-19 pandemic, when a new audience discovered it for the first time, they had one question.

Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model review – Tyra Banks comes across terribly in this expose

This three-part documentary has remarkable access to people involved with this 00s TV hit. It’s an awful tale of body-shaming, humiliation and toxic treatment

If you’re a millennial woman, America’s Next Top Model may have been your first experience of appointment TV. The show, which ran for 10 years from 2003, was an early reality juggernaut and made a household name of the supermodel Tyra Banks, its creator and host. At its peak, Top Model drew more than 100 million viewers globally, and left a niche but indelible impact on culture. “Smize”, meaning to “smile with your eyes”, is in the Collins dictionary, while Banks’ infamous tirade (“We were all rooting for you!”) at an unruly model still circulates as a meme.

‘It was very scary’: Inside the shocking America’s Next Top Model documentary

It’s judgment day for America’s Next Top Model and, true to form, it’s televised. When the reality show premiered in 2003, it promised to give viewers a glimpse behind the scenes into the modelling and fashion industries. However, the show – created and hosted by supermodel Tyra Banks and producer Ken Mok – soon became infamous for the extreme lengths it was willing to go to in order to shock its audience and make “good TV”.

Now, a slick three-part Netflix documentary, Reality Check: America’s Next Top Model, is unpicking the series, which ran for 24 seasons (or “cycles” in ANTM speak) and, at its height, drew more than 100 million viewers worldwide.

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