EXCLUSIVE Ugly war breaks out between former American's Next Top Model stars

Former America's Next Top Model: All Stars winner Lisa D'Amato has ripped the show's Tyra Banks and Janice Dickinson in a new interview with Dailymail.com.
The Los Angeles-born D'Amato found fame on the small screen opposite Tyra Banks on America's Next Top Model in the show's fifth cycle in 2005 before winning America's Next Top Model: All Stars six years later, in 2011.
Not averse to controversy, D'Amato has made headlines in the years since criticizing Banks - and now Janice Dickinson - over aspects of the reality series.
'I think that Tyra's heart and soul has just like zero moral compass - she thrives on profiting off young girls' pain and sorrow, and still to this day, I don't think she's evolved - I don't think she's taken any accountability,' D'Amato told Dailymail.com.
D'Amato said she feels that Banks is still all about manipulation and glossing over the type of trauma that she's caused - not only to viewers but to contestants of America's Next Top Model.'
Dailymail.com has reached out to multiple reps for Banks for comment in response to the latest round of remarks from D'Amato.
Dickinson and D'Amato appeared on a 2005 episode of the reality show together titled The Girl Who Gets a Boob Job.
Asked for her thoughts on about the stalwart model, D'Amato said, 'When people ask me about Janice Dickinson, still to this day, I'm mostly irritated because she's the self proclaimed 'first supermodel" or whatever - first of all, that's not true ... there's not one thing she has done that has made a positive impact in her entire career.
'She's just a puppet to whatever is trending, she hasn't escalated or raised anyone up. So when people ask me about her, I'm really confused - I don't know ... there's nothing inspiring and she just does whatever's trending.'
Asked if Dickinson did anything specific to her when she was on the show, D'Amato said, 'Yes, she started a fight with me for no f***ing reason because the show told her to - her whole career is her playing the victim, being a drug addict, and being the Simon Cowell of America's Next Top Model, and also the entertainment world.
'I'm just over it, like f*** Janice Dickinson, next question please.'
A rep for Dickinson told Dailymail.com in response, 'Janice has never made it a secret that she was brought onto ANTM to be a Simon Cowell-esque character, which was the climate of the time.
'During Janice's time as a judge, she was in an active addiction and she's had to work hard to maintain that sobriety, while also working hard to take responsibility and make amends with people she did hurt.
Dickinson's rep explained to Dailymail.com that 'it's important to note she is the only judge who has ever apologized and met up with many of the girls, now women, to discuss their experiences on the program,' while standing 'in solidarity with many of the contestants.'
'Janice has stood Janice is very sorry to hear Lisa didn't have a great experience, both on the show and afterwards, but she wasn't a judge on that cycle and therefore, doesn't know Lisa or why she's being brought up.'
In recent years, D'Amato has focused her energies into projects including her ongoing modeling career, other reality shows and a musical catalogue, among other endeavors.
She has more than 274,000 followers on her primary Instagram account. and was te subject of a a 2024 Reddit thread under the ANTM subreddit titled, 'I think Lisa D'Amato is actually probably a genius,'
The original poster said: 'If you think about it, she actually is very successful in modeling, singing, and now as an entrepreneur.
'Its like life gets boring for her because she just automatically succeeds at everything without having to try too hard so in order to "not be bored to death" she does her crazy antics.'
The poster went on to say that they felt D'Amato was 'just too smart for her own good and life probably "bores" her as a result so she acts super outrageous to stay entertained.'
D'Amato strongly agreed with the assessment, telling Dailymail.com exclusively, 'I would say that is 1,000 percent true - I do get very bored.
'I don't have fear, fear doesn't hold me back - I look at fear in the face and I jump right towards it with a f***ing sword! I jump into fires - yeah, that quote is correct, it's so funny.'
She described her career path as 'eclectic,' detailing the different endeavors she's explored professionally.
'I've put out three albums in Electra Rap, I've worked with some of the best producers in Los Angeles,' D'Amato said. 'I've modeled since I was 12-years-old, worked with some of the best brands in the world. I went on America's Next Top Model - won the All-Stars.'
D'Amato has also been seen on the 2024 docu-series Dark Side of Reality TV; and reality shows such as Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars and Shark Tank, the latter of which she successfully pitched Dare-U-GO!, a bib with airtight sealing that can store food.
D'Amato (who is mother to two sons, ages 11 and eight, with her estranged spouse) said that when she 'became a mom,' she 'invented a product' she saw a need for.
'I went on Shark Tank with it and got a deal - it sells in 22 countries,' D'Amato told Dailymail.com, adding that she has multiple licensing deals linked to the business.
D'Amato told Dailymail.com she is currently residing in Southwestern Europe caring for her ailing father, who is battling Type 2 Diabetes and multiple sclerosis.
She said they 'came as medical refugees' thinking he could get better healthcare there than in the states.
'My dad was not well - I took him out of the U.S. and he's thriving,' D'Amato said. 'The USA was basically eating him alive and made my dad like a vegetable while robbing him blind. Since moving my family - I guess it's the new American dream to get out of the United States!'
D'Amato told Dailymail.com she was going to continue her life living abroad and has 'a new show coming out um on a major network' this fall, in addition to her ventures involving Dare-U-GO!, as well as real estate investments.
'I'm just going to continue um living the best life I can,' D'Amato said, 'and trying to create the best life for the people I love.'

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