As Banks confessed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, walking away from the show after a whopping 22 cycles simply "wasn't that hard" for her. She originally tried to do so all the way back in 2007, due to stress over starting a new business while also shooting for the show. Banks confided in her lawyer that someone else could take over the show to take some of the pressure off her while she continued in her capacity as an executive producer.
"I won't say the name of that person, but I actually brought a different person to the network, met with them, and said, 'This is the person I want to take the reins of this show,'" she revealed, noting it was around the time of cycle 8 (Top Model had launched four years prior, in 2003). Thankfully, her lawyer stepped in and "held an intervention of sorts," ultimately convincing Banks to reconsider her position.
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