Former America’s Next Top Model creative director Jay Manuel has a subtle update about his fractured friendship with Tyra Banks.
“It’s also difficult to separate friendship from business when the two become so deeply intertwined,” Manuel, 53, wrote in an essay for The New York Times published Saturday, March 21. “At its core, Top Model was a business built to produce television that millions would watch, and it succeeded in that, but not without losing something along the way.”
He continued, “Relationships are complicated. Power imbalances can exist within and alongside a genuine friendship. T...
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