Is America's Next Top Model returning for cycle 25?
What could this mean?!
The inner workings of America's Next Top Model have been dissected in new Netflix documentary, Reality Check.
Featuring interviews from the show's key players, including Tyra Banks, the three-parter examines the show's legacy and its many highs and lows.
"From the beginning, this documentary took an incredible amount of trust," executive producer Vanessa Golembewski told Tudum. "Tyra’s perspective was always important to the series, but it was just as important that her involvement was as an interview subject only.
"She afforded us the same level of trust as everyone else who participates in the documentary. She never asked to have any creative input or control, and she’s seeing the footage for the first time alongside the rest of the world."
Tyra's participation has been enlightening and her last words in the documentary have left many wondering, will America's Next Top Model return?
Read on to find out more...
Will there be an America's Next Top Model cycle 25?
Though there has been no official confirmation, Tyra Banks did leave a rather cryptic message at the end of Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model to suggest a new season could be on the cards.
At the end of the final episode, Banks said: "After the show I had so many big ideas for my life. I'm obsessed with pivoting and I live in Australia now. I feel like my work is not done. You have no idea what we have planned for cycle 25."
Like with any shows as popular as Next Top Model, there have always been whisperings it could return and Banks has never been against stepping back into the judges' chair.
When asked about it in 2024, Banks told E! News: "We have tried, so it's not us. It's the powers that be. I'm not the biggest boss in the room, so it's not my doing. Maybe one day."
So while there is no confirmed news of a potential 25th cycle for America's Next Top Model, watch this space.
When did America's Next Top Model end?
America's Next Top Model aired its final season in 2018 after 24 cycles. It had been on television for 15 years and aired a whopping 322 episodes.
Kyla Coleman was the winner of the 24th and final cycle.
Want to see this content?
To show this content, we need your permission to allow Google reCAPTCHA and its required purposes to load content on this page.
Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model is streaming now on Netflix. Sign up for Netflix from £5.99 a month. Netflix is also available on Sky Glass and Virgin Media.
Check out more of our Entertainment coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
Authors
Katelyn Mensah is the Senior Entertainment Writer for Radio Times, covering all major entertainment programmes, reality TV shows and the latest hard-hitting documentaries. She previously worked at The Tab, with a focus on reality TV and showbiz news and has obtained a BA (Hons) in Journalism.
