Tyra Banks and Greg Hayes: What Is Their Connection?

There is no public confirmation that Tyra Banks and Gregory J. Hayes, the former RTX chief executive, are a couple, spouses, relatives or significant business partners. The name “Greg Hayes” is also ambiguous, so it should not automatically be assumed that every search for “Tyra Banks and Greg Hayes” refers to the aerospace executive.

Banks’ documented relationship history points elsewhere. People has identified Louis Bélanger-Martin as her longtime partner, saying the pair have been publicly linked since at least 2019. Banks also discussed Bélanger-Martin as her boyfriend during an April 2025 appearance on Today with Jenna & Friends. As of February 2026, People was still describing him as her partner.

That distinction matters because a number of recent web pages have paired Banks with “Greg Hayes” without producing an original interview, photograph, public statement or record that establishes a relationship between them.

Which Greg Hayes does the name refer to?

The most common interpretation in recent pages is Gregory J. Hayes, the longtime United Technologies and RTX executive. But that is not the only public figure with the name.

For example, office-furniture company Branch identifies its own CEO as Greg Hayes. Branch says Hayes founded the company after encountering the difficulties of furnishing offices in 2018.

That namesake problem makes a categorical identification risky. If the intended person is Gregory J. Hayes of RTX, his documented career is in corporate finance, aerospace and board governance, while Banks’ public career has centred on modelling, television, production and consumer businesses. No major joint venture or shared public project between them has been documented.

Tyra Banks built two distinct public careers

Tyra Banks first became widely known through modelling, but her career soon expanded beyond fashion.

Sports Illustrated records that she shared the 1996 Swimsuit Issue cover with Valeria Mazza. In 1997, Banks became the first Black woman to appear alone on the magazine’s Swimsuit cover, an important distinction because the 1996 and 1997 milestones are sometimes collapsed into one.

Her move into television eventually became just as important as her modelling work. Banks created, executive-produced and hosted America’s Next Top Model, which premiered in 2003 and ultimately ran for 24 cycles. The format mixed modelling challenges with reality competition television and became one of the defining programmes of her career.

Banks also worked as an actor, producer and television host. Her screen credits have included Life-Size, Coyote Ugly and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, while her hosting work later extended to programmes including Dancing with the Stars.

By the 2020s, she had also developed business interests outside television, including the ice-cream brand SMiZE & Dream. Her professional activity helped draw her to Australia, where People reported in February 2026 that she was living with her son York and Bélanger-Martin.

Her entertainment career remained active in 2026. Netflix released the three-part documentary Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, in which Banks participated, and Freeform announced her as a recurring judge on season 22 of Project Runway.

Her documented relationship is with Louis Bélanger-Martin

Banks has kept much of her personal life relatively private, but her relationship with Canadian businessman Louis Bélanger-Martin has been publicly documented for years.

The pair have been linked since at least 2019 and appeared together at the 2022 TIME100 Gala. Banks later referred to Bélanger-Martin as her boyfriend during her April 17, 2025 appearance on Today with Jenna & Friends.

That public record is important when considering claims that Banks was secretly dating Greg Hayes. There is no comparable statement from Banks, Hayes or an established publication identifying Gregory J. Hayes as her boyfriend, husband or former romantic partner.

Banks’ son, York Banks Asla, was born in 2016 via surrogacy. His father is photographer Erik Asla, Banks’ former partner. Neither Gregory J. Hayes nor Bélanger-Martin should be described as York’s father.

Gregory J. Hayes made his name in corporate leadership

If the Greg Hayes in the search phrase is Gregory J. Hayes, his biography belongs to a very different professional world.

BD, which appointed Hayes to its board in 2025, says he joined United Technologies Corporation in 1999 through its merger with Sundstrand Corporation. That date is worth preserving because at least one recent biography-style page has incorrectly given 1989.

Hayes went on to become UTC’s chief financial officer, serving from 2008 to 2014. He became chief executive in 2014 and chairman in 2016. His tenure coincided with a major reshaping of the company, including the divestiture of Sikorsky Aircraft, the acquisition of Rockwell Collins and the eventual separation of Carrier and Otis.

In 2020, UTC’s remaining aerospace businesses combined with Raytheon Company to form what is now RTX. Hayes became chief executive of the combined company.

According to RTX’s own leadership-transition announcement, Christopher T. Calio succeeded Hayes as CEO on May 2, 2024. Hayes then became executive chairman.

He stepped down as executive chairman and left the RTX board effective April 30, 2025, before serving as a special adviser to the CEO through January 2, 2026. Describing him as RTX’s current chief executive is therefore outdated.

Hayes also holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Purdue University and is a certified public accountant, according to BD.

His current work is in corporate governance

After leaving RTX’s executive leadership, Hayes remained involved in large-company governance.

BD appointed him to its board effective March 26, 2025. In May 2026, Phillips 66 appointed Hayes as its lead independent director.

Those roles fit the pattern of his later career: finance, strategy, industrial leadership and board oversight rather than entertainment or media.

That makes the online pairing with Banks unusual, but professional differences alone do not prove two people have never met. The narrower, supportable point is that there is no established public record of a significant collaboration between them.

Why are Tyra Banks and Greg Hayes appearing together online?

The origin of the pairing is unclear.

By mid-to-late 2026, numerous websites had begun publishing pages about “Tyra Banks and Greg Hayes”. Some simply compared their careers. Others correctly stated that no relationship had been documented. At least one went much further, describing private dates, dinners, quiet walks and emotional support between Banks and Hayes without providing an identifiable source for those claims.

Those details should not be treated as biographical fact.

Repeated publication can make two names appear connected even when the underlying pages are recycling the same assumption. What matters is whether the supposed relationship can be traced to something concrete: a direct statement, an interview, a photograph with clear context, a company record, a public event or established reporting.

In this case, Banks’ recent relationship record identifies Louis Bélanger-Martin, while Gregory J. Hayes’ public record centres on UTC, RTX, BD and Phillips 66.

Their current public lives remain separate

As of September 25, 2026, Tyra Banks was still active in entertainment and business. Her recent work included the 2026 America’s Next Top Model documentary and a recurring judging role on Project Runway. Her most recent strong relationship reporting continued to identify Bélanger-Martin as her partner.

Gregory J. Hayes, meanwhile, had moved beyond his RTX executive career into corporate-board work, including his 2026 appointment as lead independent director at Phillips 66.

So the most accurate way to understand “Tyra Banks and Greg Hayes” is not as a confirmed couple or partnership, but as two separate public figures whose names have become linked online without a verified relationship behind the pairing.

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