This lackluster season of Top Model may have finally found a way to get interesting: Race play. According to The CW, on tonight's episode, "Tyra surprises by transforming them into bi-racial models." Insert the world's biggest cringe right here. (That's Nicole in the photo.) The CW had nothing further to add when asked about the episode, and a rep for Banks did not respond to requests for comment. It's impossible to "transform" someone's race without setting off some serious blackface alarms, and Top Model has historically been pretty tone-deaf about how problematic and often offensive images like this can be.
- 10/28/2009
- by EW staff
- EW.com - PopWatch
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