Bikini-Teacher on National TV

You may not have heard much about her lately, but there she was, Tiffany Shepherd of Ft. Pierce, on "The Tyra Banks" show this week, on national television. The episode aired Wednesday October 29.

"Take a look at these photos of Tiffany. She's a high school biology teacher and she says she was fired after she took a second job as a bikini mate on a charter fishing boat," Tyra Banks told the studio audience, as she introduced the segment.
Banks found the story of the teacher and part-time bikini-mate fascinating. Shepherd took a job, wearing a bikini, on the Smokin' Em Charters fishing boat last spring. She still works on the boat. Her job involves chatting with customers, serving drinks and so forth.
"Once it all came out, they (the school district) came back and said that they let me go because of unexcused absences, which was not true," Tiffany told Banks.
"It was because of the pictures that got out? How did they see the pictures of you doing the.. I'm not quite sure," Tiffany said.
Shepherd told the talk-show host she thinks a jealous co-worker was to blame for alerting the school board to her part-time bikini job.
"I don't think it's the most gross thing for you to be on a boat with a bikini on, honestly I honestly don't. But i'm a little confused why the school thought it was so bad?" Banks asked.
"Well you know there were rumors that went around. People are mean. They want drama. So they tried to say that I was doing porn, had websites. All this stuff. All I was doing was going fishing," Tiffany replied.
During her segment Shepherd got plenty of sympathy from Tyra Banks.
"I wish you luck to get your teaching job back," Banks told Tiffany on the show.
At the time the story broke in April, Tiffany said she was considering suing the St. Lucie County School District to get her job back.
We could not reach her for comment, but as far as we know she has not filed suit.