Tattle Tart

Tyra Banks is “difficult” to work with, staff on her chatshow have reportedly said.

Banks announced the end of The Tyra Banks Show earlier this week, but her former employees have now allegedly described her as a “diva”.

“There had been a high turnover of employees for years,” a source said, adding that it was “pretty difficult to work for Tyra”.

“She and the higher-ups on the production staff could be extremely brutal,” the insider added. “She really is a diva.”

The source added that it “wouldn’t be surprising” if rumours that staff hadn’t been told about the end of the chatshow were true.

“When the show moved from LA to New York, several staffers weren’t even directly told about the change,” the insider said. “They heard through the grapevine it was going to move locations. Even so, a lot of those people gave up their lives on the West Coast so they could continue working for the show. Now they’re out of luck.”

Another insider agreed that the America’s Next Top Model host is hard to work with, explaining: “Everything had to be done Tyra’s way.”

However, one employee claimed that they had enjoyed working with the former supermodel.

“Honestly, I don’t know how it would be to work under her,” the source said. “But for me, it was a good experience. Tyra just knows how she likes things done. And as for her ‘diva-ness’, well, it sells.”

George Clooney has ruled out sitting through any more press conferences to promote his movies – because he’s tired of getting marriage proposals from journalists and being part of silly stunts.

The movie star was left a little embarrassed when a male stripper posing as a journalist took off his clothes while professing his love for Clooney at a Venice Film Festival press conference in September 2009 – and that may have been the last time the actor sits to take questions from a room full of journalists.

Clooney started to become elusive when he refused to promote hit new movie Up In The Air, and left interviews to co-stars Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick – and he insists the media had better get used to the fact that he won’t be available to them in 2010 and beyond.

He said: “When you’re at a certain place in your career where people know you, it’s not like you have to get known. I don’t want to be more famous. You realise that movies are either going to be successful or not based on the trailer and how it’s sold and what people’s perception of the movie is.

“I’ll do the red carpets, but I’m not going to do the press conferences any more. You focus on a few smart interviews and try to do them every once in a while and make them hard to get.”

Some people just can’t get over their ex – just ask Alex Rodriguez. Sources are saying that the end of the baseball player and actress Kate Hudson’s eight month relationship was A-Rod’s obsession with his old flame Madonna. A source close to Kate said “Kate was mad with jealousy. She gave A-Rod three chances to stop contacting Madonna. When she found out that he was still calling and texting her, she hit the roof. How would you feel if your new boyfriend kept calling his ex?” I guess the Queen of Pop is one hard lady to get over. And no, I’m not talking about her giant muscly form when I say hard.