Tyra Banks: Gossip Girl guest-star

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Model-turned-TV-host Tyra Banks is set to join the cast of Gossip Girl. The star has signed on for a guest role in the hit teen show – but she will not be playing herself.

Instead, Banks will star as an actress co-starring in a film with Hilary Duff, who is also appearing on the show as a movie star called Olivia Burke. Banks is scheduled to appear in episode four of the new series, which begins airing in the US in September. This is her first acting role since 2004, when she guest-starred in an episode of American Dreams. Banks currently has her own talk show and is both the host and executive producer of America's Next Top Model.

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