{"id":14324,"date":"2012-05-03T17:04:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T21:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14324"},"modified":"2012-05-03T17:04:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T21:04:28","slug":"tyra-banks-fires-next-top-model-stalwarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14324","title":{"rendered":"Tyra Banks Fires &#8216;Next Top Model&#8217; Stalwarts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tyra Banks<\/strong> is mixing things up at<em> America&#8217;s Next Top Model<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, she confirmed on Twitter that longtime co-stars fashion photographer <strong>Nigel Barker<\/strong>, 39; runway coach <strong>J. Alexander<\/strong>, 53, and creative director <strong>Jay Manuel<\/strong>, 39, are leaving the show come fall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fierce &amp; love 2 my @NigelBarker, @MrJayManuel &amp; Miss J. #ANTM turned us in2 a family. Excited for what the future holds for us,&#8221; so the model wrote to address the departures.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post reports that the three, who have been with the show since 2003, were told yesterday their contracts were not being renewed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barker<\/strong> didn&#8217;t appear to have any hard feelings, as he tweeted back to <strong>Tyra<\/strong>: &#8220;Best of luck with cycle 19, It has been a pleasure working with you the past 8 years. Much love<strong> Nigel<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyra Banks is mixing things up at America&#8217;s Next Top Model. On Thursday, she confirmed on Twitter that longtime co-stars fashion photographer Nigel Barker, 39; runway coach J. Alexander, 53, and creative director Jay Manuel, 39, are leaving the show come fall. &#8220;Fierce &amp; love 2 my @NigelBarker, @MrJayManuel &amp; Miss J. #ANTM turned us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}