Jay Manuel was withAmerica’s Next Top Modelfrom the get-go, dating back to the 2003 seriespremiereon the now-defunctUPNnetwork.
So, whatreallyled Jay Manuel to exit the show after 18 cycles?
Read on to discover the real reason why Jay Manuel leftAmerica’s Next Top Model.
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“It wasn’t a shock.
I’m friends with Tyra [Banks] and the producers,” Barker toldE!
“There had been a discussion that ratings were down and that something like this would happen.”
Barker even revealed that he “had actually survived the chopping block before.”
“We’re really doing this?”
he recalled asking himself.
However, by that point he had learned to keep any apprehension to himself.
At that point, he felt he’d lost control of the photo shoots.
The decision to exitANTM, he said,was “100%” his.
At the time, however, he was contractually forbidden from discussing his exit from the show.
He also pointed to added “pressure” to increase the show’s ratings as viewership waned.
By that point, he said, “it just became very difficult to manage.”
Will Jay Manuel ever return to America’s Next Top Model?
“I actually produced.
As Manuel toldVarietyin May 2020, he’d been working on the novel since 2014.
We were all rooting for you.”
