What Happened to Miss J After America’s Next Top Model?
America’s Next Top Model had its share of outrageous characters, but none were so fabulous as Miss J, a.k.a.. J. Alexander, a.k.a. Alexander Jenkins, runway coach extraordinaire who helped Tyra Banks herself develop her signature walk.Miss J was reportedly Banks’s first call when she began developing the ANTM team, and was promoted from coach to judge for cycle 5. If you aren’t familiar with the show, the TL;DR is that he gave us multiple reaction GIFs you’ve probably seen, and hasn’t been the target of much scrutiny since the show ended, since the show’s controversial moments tended to spring from photo shoots, and Miss J was all about the catwalk.© 2026 Netflix, Inc.Read MoreTyra Banks' infamous “I was rooting for you!” tirade is tame, at this point.But after 18 cycles, Miss J was let go, along with photographer Nigel Barker and fellow judge Jay Manuel, in a shake-up meant to reinvigorate the franchise (which…didn’t really work). According to Miss J, he was blindsided by the firing, though that’s not actually where his ANTM story ended.Now he’s back in the zeitgeist thanks to Netflix’s new docuseries, Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, we’re all wondering: What happened to Miss J? Well, he continued coaching and judging on international versions of the show, making guest appearances on both Canada’s Next Top Model and Britain’s Next Top Model, as well as the Estonian and Russian iterations. And he actually came back to ANTM for cycles 21 and 22. He also worked as a teacher at the prestigious Savannah College of Art and Design, as he mentions in the docuseries.© 2026 Netflix, Inc.
