Their fashion feud was legendary - but now Naomi Campbell and Tyra Banks' acrimony is spilling over to our TV screens. British supermodel Naomi, 42, launches her new modelling show The Face tonight - while MailOnline can reveal that Tyra's TV hit, America's Next Top Model is being cut from two seasons a year to one as it comes to the end of its shelf life.
Frenemies: Supermodels Tyra Banks and Naomi Campbell pose at the 38th annual NAACP Image Awards in LA some years back..
Naomi and Tyra had an infamous feud that lasted 15 years until they made up on Tyra's former chat show in 2005. Fighting back tears, Tyra said: 'Today is a healing day for me and I hope it is a healing day for Naomi too.'
She recalled backstage tantrums and fashion shows and catty remarks through the years, but insisted a location shoot in Anguilla was the first time the rivalry turned really nasty.
Tyra accused her guest of having her kicked off the photoshoot after a spat on a boat, saying: 'You turned. You went from (being) the sweetest woman who was giving me vitamins to someone that terrified me on that trip. 'I was told on that trip I was sent home because you didn't want me there anymore.'
While Naomi denied this, Tyra also recalled a spat backstage at a European fashion show, when she recalled her rival telling her, "You'll never be me, don't ever think that you'll be me.' Shocked Naomi retorted, "I said that..? I know the person that I am and I'm not someone to go and give myself away and say that to anybody, I've never said that in my life. But if that's what you remember, I accept that, but it doesn't sound like me.' The two models put their differences behind them at the end of the show ,and sobbed after Naomi told her former rival: 'However I've affected you or you've felt that I've affected you I take my responsibility, I must say I'm very proud of you. You've been a powerful black woman... Please continue.' Tyra ended the show by telling viewers: 'I can rejoice because I have made peace with this woman here.'
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