Tyra Banks has delivered her justifiable share of viral moments through the years, however her newest public look has followers involved. The 50-year-old supermodel, entrepreneur, and former “America’s Subsequent Prime Mannequin” host took the stage at a pub in Sydney, Australia, over the weekend, the place she was booked to DJ a festive vacation set. However what started as a enjoyable, Christmas-themed look shortly spiraled into probably the most chaotic celeb movies to hit social media this season. Wearing a knee-length yellow Santa hat, an identical canary-yellow wig, and a skintight black costume, Banks shocked the gang when she abruptly paused the music to launch right into a weird monologue about Santa Claus sabotaging her SMiZE & DREAM ice cream model. Inside hours, clips from the night time went viral, leaving followers equal elements entertained, bewildered, and anxious.

Within the now-viral video circulating throughout TikTok and X, Banks warns the viewers that Santa shouldn’t be the healthful cookie-and-milk icon he pretends to be, no less than not in the case of her ice cream.

“Youngster, he ain’t biting that cookie. He ain’t sipping that cream,” she declares dramatically as the gang laughs nervously. “He taking a bowl out of your cupboard… and he placing just a little little bit of cookie, and he placing just a little little bit of that milk, and he mixing it up. After which he put it in your freezer. And he attempting to make it style like Santa SMiZE, and it tastes like Santa sh-t!” The viewers seems not sure whether or not to chuckle or brace themselves for no matter she would possibly say subsequent as Tyra continues describing Santa’s alleged “counterfeit” ice-cream-making operation.

The video options extra snippets from the night time, together with Tyra out of the blue proclaiming, “I feel I am going loopy!” in a tone that solely added to the net frenzy.

As soon as the clip of Tyra’s Santa monologue hit TikTok and X, the web wasted no time weighing in, and reactions ranged from amused to genuinely involved.

Some followers rushed to her protection, insisting this was merely traditional Tyra. “I am sorry that is so humorous to me lol,” one consumer wrote. “She’s all the time been quirky like this and her whole model is centered round it so again up off Tyra Banks.” One other fan echoed the identical sentiment, including, “I like Tyra Banks. She deserves extra respect, and I hope she is aware of that she is an icon.”

Others, nonetheless, have been way more baffled by the second. “She on cloud 9,” one viewer joked, whereas one other commented bluntly, “Child woman is drunk as hell proper now. She is lit like a candle on Christmas.” The commentary did not cease there, with one consumer calling the second “unhappy.”

Tyra’s surprising rant additionally arrived on the heels of one other headline-making second. She was absent from this 12 months’s Victoria’s Secret Style Present. After returning to the runway for the model’s extremely publicized 2024 comeback, many followers assumed she would as soon as once more seem within the 2025 manufacturing, particularly because the present streamed dwell on Amazon Prime and throughout the model’s social platforms.

However when the night time arrived on October 15, the previous “America’s Subsequent Prime Mannequin” host was nowhere to be seen, sparking hypothesis on-line. In a current interview with Leisure Tonight, Tyra addressed her absence immediately, explaining that she wasn’t snubbing the occasion; she was merely on the opposite facet of the world.

“I am in Australia,” she mentioned, noting that she was there specializing in her SMiZE & DREAM ice cream enterprise. “I do not know. We’ll see.”

Tyra’s uncommon onstage conduct is touchdown at an particularly delicate time for the previous supermodel, who lately revealed she misplaced her Los Angeles dwelling within the devastating wildfires earlier this 12 months.

She had initially saved the tragedy non-public, explaining that she did not wish to shift consideration away from the numerous different households struggling related losses. “I simply did not wish to pull loads of consideration to me,” she mentioned on the time. “I really feel like there’s lots of people that want that focus. … However I can not sit right here and never inform the reality.”