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Tyra Banks is leaving her new talk show ‘FABLife’ to focus on beauty line

"FABLife" cohost Tyra Banks is leaving her syndicated talk show to focus on her cosmetics line.

“FABLife” cohost Tyra Banks is leaving her syndicated talk show to focus on her cosmetics line.

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Tyra mail! Tyra Banks is no longer in the running to host her daytime talk show, “FABLife.”

After three months on the air, the former supermodel announced her exit from ABC’s syndicated talker on Friday because she plans to focus on her cosmetics line, Tyra Beauty.

“This is a very difficult decision, but necessary,” she said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times. “I will be devoting more time to my new, growing cosmetics company, Tyra Beauty, which is expanding faster than anticipated, as well as overseeing my company’s other entertainment ventures.”

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However, Banks will stay on as an executive producer through December and will “continue to support the growth and success of ‘FABLife,’” she said. She’ll also continue to appear on the lifestyle show a few times a week until then and occasionally thereafter.

The 41-year-old added that she greatly admires her fellow cohosts, Chrissy Teigen, Joe Zee, Leah Ashley and Lauren Maak, as well as the production team behind the show.

Banks, who hosted the Daytime Emmy-winning “Tyra Banks Show” for five years until 2010, also recently announced that in December she’ll wrap her long-running reality competition “America’s Next Top Model” after 12 years and 22 cycles.

“Thinking #ANTM22 should be our last cycle. I truly believe it’s time,” she confirmed with a tweet last month.

The “black-ish” guest star and Harvard Business School grad took to Facebook on Friday to further tout her new endeavor.

“Tyra Beauty is all about being the CEO of your life, creating amazing opportunities and zagging when others zig,” she wrote. “I’ve made an executive decision to keep following my heart and spend more time focusing on my army of entrepreneurs, my Beautytainers, so we can bring the power of transformation to people everywhere.

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“You all inspire me. Sharing how hard you’re working to make your life better. Showing your friends that beauty is right at their finger tips. Rackin’ up those Bank$igns and achieving your BFOGs - those Big Fierce Outrageous Goals, baby! What you put into your biz is what you will get out of it, and I’m doubling down and working even harder for YOU.”

Follow me on Twitter @NardineSaad.

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