Tyra Banks Supports The Troops

And Is Way Too Excited To Be In NYC

Tyra Banks, who announced her NYC arrival Monday in the most obnoxious way possible (see above and below), was a little more discreet at a send-off party for her Marine brother, Devin.

Spies spotted the former Victoria's Secret model at Chin Chin on East 49th Street last Friday at a "very private" party for her younger brother, Devin Banks, an Air Force cadet who is leaving for Iraq on Aug. 9. "Tyra was with her brother and their mom and Devin's wife. Everyone was hugging and kissing and sending him off." A rep for Banks declined to comment about her patriotic family.

She flew relatively under the radar in LA, mainly because the paps have bigger (or should I say, smaller and whiter?) fish to fry, like Paris, Lindsay, Hilary, Nicole, Hayden, etc. But the NY press seems inordinately excited about Tyra's arrival. There goes her privacy — and John Utendahl's.

[NYP, MG]

Aug 2, 2007 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 5 Responses

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Comments (5)

No. 1 · JillyBean819

All of those people on that tour bus look nauseated.

They were probably excited to be on the bus with her until they realized how annoying she is.

Posted: Aug 2, 2007 at 11:23 am

No. 2 · blkmaleperspective

She looks terrible in all of those pics. Get it together.

Posted: Aug 2, 2007 at 12:36 pm

No. 3 · blackmistressdiva

Tyra flew under the radar b/c she's not a huge star. And, and also b/c she's not getting busted for coke every other day ;-). Seriously though it's not like she's some big A-list actress. Not sure why she's gonna be hot in NYC though either. Her talk show is booty half the time and her other show is a reality show. Not sure how much actual respect that's supposed to garner her. I like her, but she aint interesting from a tabloid or pap standpoint

Posted: Aug 2, 2007 at 1:55 pm

No. 4 · solitaire

Paris, Nicole, Kim Kardashian, Alana Stewart, and even Lindsay aren't big A-list actresses either. In LA Tyra was just a black fish swimming in a white sea.

Posted: Aug 2, 2007 at 5:50 pm

No. 5 · blackmistressdiva

Which is why I made the off-handed comment that "and also b/c she’s not getting busted for coke every other day ;-)"

Tyra is boring regardless of race. She got a little pub for being fat for a hot moment, and then she went back to being boring. I'm not saying that there's anythign wrong with that, but to the the greedy, media whore masses who read the Enquirer (and the blogs!) Tyra is kinda blah.

Posted: Aug 2, 2007 at 6:28 pm

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