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The upcoming season of America’s Next Top Model will have some serious  star power.

Executive producer Tyra Banks has booked Alicia Keys and Tyler Perry to make  appearances on season 19 of the reality show modeling competition. Perry will give the  aspiring models an acting challenge. According to TV  Guide, the acting challenge winner will get a role in a Tyler Perry  movie.

If that’s not a cool enough prize, show viewers can also look forward to  seeing Alicia Keys as a celebrity mentor in one episode.

The 19th cycle of America’s Next Top Model, which will be the show’s  first college-themed…

According to the New York Post model turned media mogul Tyra Banks swung the ax at her  longtime “America’s Next Top Model” co-stars J. Alexander, Jay Manuel and Nigel Barker yesterday,  dismissing three of the competition’s longest-running personalities in one fell  swoop.

Sources tell Page Six that the three mentors were informed yesterday morning  that their contracts would not be renewed for the next season.

Barker is a photographer and a judge on the program, while Alexander helped  contestants work the catwalk as the “runway trainer.” Manuel served as the  show’s creative director. All have been with the program since…