Headlines: Nick Fradiani, Kris Allen, Jordin Sparks and More

Another Houseguest is evicted from Big Brother tonight. We’ll be live blogging at 9/8c PM CBS.

‘American Idol Live’ coming to Santa Rosa – The Soul Patrol is coming after you, Nick! Q: So if you look back at past American Idol winners, and you have Soul Patrol (Taylor Hicks) on one end and Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood on the other. What’s going to prevent you from winding up like Soul Patrol? A: The songs on this first album. Some of the winners took off and for others that first album just didn’t have any hits on it. If you don’t have any hits, unfortunately I think people kind of have ADHD and they forget really quickly about you. – Read more at Press Democrat

American Idol winner Kris Allen talks ‘Horizons’ – Allen reflected on the finale of the reality competition, American Idol, which is coming to an end next year. “I am actually going back to Little Rock this weekend, and I will do a little bit of judging in the auditions, and I went back a couple of weekends ago and helped them out. It was really fun, and I got to see some of the producers. As far as the show ending, the show has done so much. It is arguably the best show of all time in that realm. It lasted so long and it created so much success for people, and people love the show.” – Read more at Digital Journal

Jordin Sparks: 10 things you didn’t know – And a coding novice. “I have an app on my phone called Swifty. My manager turned me on to it and it teaches you HTML and coding for computers, because that’s really interesting. I also have Japanese language apps, because that would be really cool to learn eventually.” – Read more at USA Today

Jordin Sparks’ Top Feel-Good Tunes – Singer and American Idol alum Jordin Sparks, whose third album, Right Here Right Now, is out Aug. 21, tells Us Weekly her favorite feel-good tunes. – Read more at US Weekly

Travis Wall (‘SYTYCD’) Emmy interview: Marriage equality inspired nominated dance (Exclusive Video) – Emmy-nominated choreographer Travis Wall has come full circle on “So You Think You Can Dance.” He tells us in our exclusive video chat (watch it below), “For me to be a contestant [in season two], and then to be brought back as a choreographer, and to be nominated [for five straight Emmys], and then maybe this year, maybe next year, to win, it would be a full wrap-around moment. It would just be incredible.” – See the Video at Gold Derby

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