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A girlfight was about to jump off between Tyra Banks and your girl Karrine Steffans on the set of Tyra's new daytime talk show, which is scheduled to premiere in national syndication next month.
Steffans was there to promote her best-selling book "Confessions of a Video Vixen," a memoir that includes vivid details of her sexual encounters with famous rappers, actors and athletes.
According to New York Daily News contributor Jawn Murray, Steffans says Banks dissed her, stating "I wrote 'Confessions' because I was angry and wanted revenge. ...She said, 'These are my colleagues. They're people I know well!'"
"Despite what she thinks, she and I are not that different," Steffans tells Murray. "I have even heard her being referred to as a 'Hollywood Hop' for the many men in Hollywood who have bedded her and moved on."
Steffans says she was so mad, "all I could think about was snatching her wig off!"
Banks' manager Benny Medina came to his client's defense, stating: "Tyra certainly never slept around. You can count her relationships on one hand."
According to Medina, the animosity between the two stemmed from Steffans not wanting to talk about passages from the book.
"She glorifies this lifestyle in the book," Medina says. "But on the show, I think she is ashamed of it."
Ironically, Banks' former boyfriend, director John Singleton, is said to be interested in developing "Video Vixen" as a feature film.
In related news, Steffans' boyfriend Bill Maher told the newspaper that he isn't worried about her turning on him like former girlfriend Coco Johnsen, who filed a $9 million palimony suit (which a judge recently threw out).
"People say I'm into black women," says Maher. "Robert De Niro is into black women. I'm just into women who are real, and they happen to be black."
Steffans was there to promote her best-selling book "Confessions of a Video Vixen," a memoir that includes vivid details of her sexual encounters with famous rappers, actors and athletes.
According to New York Daily News contributor Jawn Murray, Steffans says Banks dissed her, stating "I wrote 'Confessions' because I was angry and wanted revenge. ...She said, 'These are my colleagues. They're people I know well!'"
"Despite what she thinks, she and I are not that different," Steffans tells Murray. "I have even heard her being referred to as a 'Hollywood Hop' for the many men in Hollywood who have bedded her and moved on."
Steffans says she was so mad, "all I could think about was snatching her wig off!"
Banks' manager Benny Medina came to his client's defense, stating: "Tyra certainly never slept around. You can count her relationships on one hand."
According to Medina, the animosity between the two stemmed from Steffans not wanting to talk about passages from the book.
"She glorifies this lifestyle in the book," Medina says. "But on the show, I think she is ashamed of it."
Ironically, Banks' former boyfriend, director John Singleton, is said to be interested in developing "Video Vixen" as a feature film.
In related news, Steffans' boyfriend Bill Maher told the newspaper that he isn't worried about her turning on him like former girlfriend Coco Johnsen, who filed a $9 million palimony suit (which a judge recently threw out).
"People say I'm into black women," says Maher. "Robert De Niro is into black women. I'm just into women who are real, and they happen to be black."
