Tyra Banks to auction dress for charity

Talk show host Tyra Banks and a number of top models will be donating their dresses to charity in order to raise money for electricity in Rwanda and Haiti.

"We have asked about 30 top models, including Tyra Banks, Eva Herzigova, Brooke Shields, Elle Macpherson and Christy Turlington to donate ‘one frickin dress’ they have worn on the red carpet," said top fashion model Elletra Wiedemann, who is organising the collaboration between her OneFrickinDay charity and online auction site Charitybuzz for the new Model Behaviour initiative.

Wiedemann hopes the auction will help with the attempt to raise at least USD 100,000 to provide solar panels for clinics in Rwanda and Haiti.

She said: "These gorgeous dresses will be auctioned off on Charitybuzz and the money will go towards buying solar panels for clinics that currently have zero access or very limited access to electricity in Rwanda and Haiti."

Tyra Banks named highest earning women by Forbes

Supermodel Tyra Banks has topped the Forbes list of the highest earning women on primetime TV.

The stunner is leading the list with her earnings in the last year, raking in 20 million pounds for America’s Next Top Model, as well as her daytime talk show.

Following her is Katherine Heigl, who earned 12 million pounds for her role in Grey’s Anatomy and her film projects, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation actress Marg Helgenberger with 6.3 million pounds in earnings.

Forbes’ full primetime top earners list is as following:

1) Tyra Banks - 20 million pounds

2) Katherine Heigl - 12 million pounds

3) Marg Helgenberger - 6.3 million pounds

4) Eva Longoria Parker - 6 million pounds

5) Mariska Hargitay - 5.6 million pounds

6) Julia Louis-Dreyfus - 5.3 million pounds

6) Maura Tierney - 5.3 million pounds

8) Tina Fey - 4.6 million pounds

9) Marcia Cross - 4.1 million pounds

10) Jennifer Love Hewitt - 4 million pounds.