The ANTM alum is making her first public appearance since her family got into a kerfuffle with Hairspray plus-sizer Nikki Blonsky and her pops in an overseas airport.

And where has she chosen to speak out?

Why, the Tyra Banks show, of course.

Golden tells Banks that Nikki’s father reportedly threw a punch. “Her father… punched my mom.” She added, “He knocked her out — he hit my mom with such force she stumbled back, and when she stumbled back, the whole family got up and attacked my mom.”

Bianca claims the “Hairspray” star then kicked Golden’s mom, who was on the floor. Golden states that her mom suffered a broken nose, fractured skull and internal bleeding, and is recovering and in therapy. “She walks now, and she’s back,” says Golden.

Bianca added, “Listen, Tyra, this chick is so horrible up close. I mean, if she were a contestant on ANTM, you wouldn’t know if she was the token plus-size or the token cross-dresser. It’s that bad.”

Okay she didn’t really say that. But she should have.

At NY Fashion Week.

Look, it was amusing for the first few “cycles,” but when you’re turning to trannies as a ratings ploy, I believe you’ve officially jumped the shark. Time to move on, Ty-Ty baby.

The CW had strong Monday and Tuesday nights with the Gossip Girl and 90210 premieres, but the premiere of America’s Next Top Model: Tranny Edition crashed and burned. Ratings were down 11% from last February’s cycle, and down 32% from last September in the adult demo. Among the network’s all-important 18-34 demo, the number were even worse. It marks the lowest-rated premiere since the show debuted in 2003 on UPN.

Some optimists are theorizing that the CW spent so much money advertising the premieres of GG and 9-0 that ANTM got left in the dust. But I think America is finally over this show. Eleven seasons is no small feat, but it may be time to call it quits.

What do you guys think?

The entire Tyra-as-Michelle-Obama spread in Harper’s Bazaar has been released.

I’ll be honest: I’ve looked at this from quite a few angles, and I just don’t know what to make of it. Is this a cool thing? Is this a dumb thing? Is this a poignant thing? Or does it fall flat? Does it minimize the work Michelle Obama’s done? Or does it honor it? I really don’t know how I feel. So I’m gonna do what I do best: look at photos, decide which ones I like, and then post them here for you guys to look at too. I can’t go wrong that way.

If you’re one of those “reader” types, the full article is here.

Everyone getting waxed!

Up now: Tyra Banks, whose wax likeness was unveiled at the Madame Tusseauds in NYC on Thursday.

I look at this, and all I can think is “She needs to fire her stylist!” Sorry. It’s sheer habit.

Word on the street is that Miz Tyra Banks is getting a little tired of baby-sitting 18-year-old drama queens from Middle America all day, and she wants to ditch her post on America’s Next Top Model to focus her energies on her talk show.

She’s also reportedly feuding with Jay Manuel.

“It’s gotten so bad that Tyra and Jay aren’t speaking,” says an insider. Um … doesn’t Tyra Banks executive produce Top Model? And doesn’t Jay Manuel not executive produce Top Model? It seems that if they were feuding, Tyra wouldn’t be the one to go. I call bullshit on this part of the story.

Continues the source: “Tyra barely interacts with the contestants and only wants to show up on judging day.”

Dude, can you blame her? Do you want to interact with the contestants of America’s Next Top Model? I mean, except for in a sex way? It’s become painfully, almost comically, clear over the years that this show is a farce when it comes to producing actual top models. The most famous of the show’s graduates is Adrienne Curry, who went on to the fame and success of marrying a Brady and scoring a spot on not one but two additional reality TV shows. If I were Tyra, I, too, would be a little bored of trying to keep a straight face while teaching these girls how to tilt their chins just so, a skill which will certainly come in handy when they return to their jobs at the K-Mart in Tuscaloosa.

Says another source: “She’s really throwing all her weight behind her talk show. She’s putting lots of pressure on her staff to keep her show on the map. She had Barack Obama on, she had Hilary Clinton on — she got a taste of playing with the big boys and now ‘Top Model’ seems to detract from her big plans.”

Tyra had no comment on the story. She’s ignoring the whole thing, hoping that this little 10-cycle career misstep doesn’t interfere with her plans to moderate the 2012 Presidential debates.

Check out Danielle Fishel talking about her DUI on Tyra.

Part II of the interview is after the jump.

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