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Kelly Cutrone weighs in on Netflix's Reality Check special about America's Next Top Model, calling Jay Manuel a mean figure and noting he wasn’t a fashion insider (she points out he once worked at a MAC counter in Toronto). She also comments on Tyra Banks’ role and even jokes that Manuel could become a spokesperson for spray tanning or filler as the ANTM drama unfolds.
Reality Check reveals a souring in the Jay Manuel–Tyra Banks friendship after cycle 8 of America’s Next Top Model, with Manuel saying he isn’t expecting a reconciliation and hasn’t spoken to Banks since 2017, whom the docuseries shows declining to discuss the relationship. Banks offers no commentary, while Miss J. Alexander notes Banks invited a visit but hasn’t followed through; Manuel and Alexander rely on each other to process the fallout.
Miss J Alexander reveals in Netflix's Reality Check that after his December 2022 stroke and a five‑week coma, Tyra Banks has not visited him while former ANTM judges Jay Manuel and Nigel Barker did visit; he continues to recover and hopes to walk again, with the docuseries detailing his journey and a potential ANTM comeback.