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>> NY DAILY NEWS/LLOYD GROVE...
>> --Does rich, beautiful Tyra Banks really need Maya Angelou to get her a
>>
>> date? "The dating thing is hard, Dr. Angelou. It is so hard," Banks
>> complained on the celebrity poet's XM Satellite Radio show. "Do you
>> know anybody?" Banks asked. Angelou replied: "I think you need to let
>> it be known that you're interested." Banks answered: "Yes, I am, and I
>> know you know somebody that's a nice, upstanding young gentleman that
>> you can hook me up with." What better use of Angelou's Presidential
>> Medal of Arts and 35 honorary degrees?

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> STAR MAGAZINE...
> -Tyra Banks is wasting no tears over ex-boyfriend, Madea's Family
> Reunion producer and star Tyler Perry. In fact, a source tells Star
> that the supermodel/mogul has been busy playing footsie with rapper
> Chingy! The pair first met on an episode of Tyra Banks' talk show
> last year when Chingy revealed to Tyra that he had a thing for fine
> women's feet. Tyra immediately tore off her shoes and plopped her
> tootsies right down on Chingy's lap - embarrassing the poor rapper!
> (It seems that Tyra had neglected to have a recent pedicure.) Hoping
> for a second chance with the handsome St. Louis native, Tyra recently
> invited Chingy back to her show to tape not one but two episodes for
> November sweeps - and this time, Tyra made sure to have her toes
> done! "On the first episode, Tyra tried to kiss Chingy, and he seemed
> to be taken aback by her forwardness," an audience member tells Star,
> "But the next day, Tyra teased Chingy, saying, 'I have a fresh
> pedi!" Chingy immediately rubbed and kissed Tyra's bare feet and
> then said, 'I know I was a little taken back the other day, but now
> I'm ready for a real kiss!' and the two locked lips! You could see
> the sparks fly!"