Tyra Banks will reportedly be leaving her role as host of America's Got Talent on NBC.
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Representatives for the America's Next Top Model creator and America's Got Talent have yet to comment on the news.
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"Tyra's been inundated with producing and acting requests... She wants to produce and create TV. She will not be returning to AGT in the new year," a source told Page Six.
Back in November, Tyra hinted she might be leaving America's Got Talent in order to pursue other projects.
"I don't know [if I'll be coming back]," the former supermodel told Access at the time, shortly before the release of her latest film, Life Size-2: A Christmas Eve, on Freeform.
"I think I had a really nice run with AGT. I had a lot, a lot of fun. I'm really focusing on Life-Size... I'm going to be producing TV and I have a massive project starting next year. I'm not so sure, but if I don't come back, I had a lot of fun."
Tyra declined to reveal more details on the huge, secret venture she has coming up, but she did share with Access it's "something that has never been done before."
"It is so massive. It's really making me look at everything that I'm doing and saying, 'What can I peel off? What can I not do? What can I truly focus on?' It's coming out in the fall of next year," Tyra said.
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Life-Size 2 is the sequel to Tyra's 2000 film with Lindsay Lohan that premiered on Freeform earlier this month.
"Life Size-2 went way beyond expectations... it was Freeform's biggest premiere of the year... executives were over the moon with the cult classic sequel," said the Page Six source.
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In addition to starring in the movie, as Tyra plays a Barbie doll that comes to life, she also executive produced the made-for-TV movie.
Although Tyra hosted America's Got Talent this past summer, Terry Crews is going to host the show's new spinoff, America's Got Talent: The Champions, which debuts with a two-hour episode on Monday, January 7 at 8PM ET/PT on NBC.
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