Tyra may be shutting up, but her employees sure aren’t: Just a few days after Tyra Banks announced her Emmy Award-winning daytime talk show would end its five year run at the end of the current season, same of the fashionistas employees are stepping forward to reveal that working the diva was nothing to smize about.
“There had been high turnover of employees for years,” The New York Daily News quoted a past crewmember as saying. The staffer revealed that many people quit after just a few months because it was “pretty difficult to work for Tyra.”
“She and the higher-ups on the production staff could be extremely brutal. She really is a diva,” the source added.
A second industry source, who has worked on the show agreed, adding, “Everything had to be done Tyra’s way.”
The Tyra Banks Show provided some of the 2000s most memorable TV moments: including ones that saw the ex-Victoria’s Secret Angel donning a fat suit, dressing as a man, and wearing no makeup.
“This will be the last season of ‘The Tyra Show,’” Banks told PEOPLE on Monday. “I’ve been loving having fun, coming into your living rooms, bedrooms, hair salons for the past five years.”
Banks said she’ll focus on the launch of her New York-based film production company Bankable Studios in an effort to bring “positive images of women to the big screen.”
The final episode of The Tyra Banks Show will air this spring.