Idol Headlines for 12/23/14

One Direction: The TV Special airs tonight on NBC at 8 PM.  Kelly Clarkson’s Cautionary Christmas Music Tale, the special from last year, will repeat at 10 pm.

Jordin Sparks: “I have never been in a better place” – The 25-year-old R&B/pop singer says she feels like her life has been on “fast forward” over the past few months as she gears up to release her new album, “Right Here, Right Now,” in early 2015. It marks her first new studio effort since 2009’s “Battlefield.” “I’m really really excited to do this. It’s really happening this time,” Sparks told CBS News. “I’m ecstatic. I’m terrified. I’m beyond words.” – Read more at CBS News

Phillip Phillips Remembers Joe Cocker: “He Was the Definition” of Passion – The passing of the great Joe Cocker has inspired an outpouring of tributes from other artists, but one surprising artist to chime in via Twitter is a guy who wasn’t even alive when Cocker recorded his greatest hits: American Idol season 11 champ Phillip Phillips, who wrote, “RIP Joe Cocker. Such an inspiration to me and music. His voice will carry on.” – Read more at ABC News Radio

‘American Idol’ Alums Casey Abrams, Taylor Hicks, More Remember Joe Cocker – When Casey Abrams competed on the tenth season of American Idol, he was asked to perform music inspired by their own musical idols. Abrams didn’t even have to think about it: he chose Joe Cocker. “He was one of the first guys I was introduced to that really felt the music as opposed to just hearing it, you know?” Abrams tells The Hollywood Reporter. “He wasn’t just singing it, but the music was pulsating throughout his whole body. His body had to play music and he let it come through him.” – Read more at The Hollywood Reporter

An ER Visit Doesn’t Stop Kelly Clarkson from Killing It (and Raising $200K!) in Nashville – It took some medical magic for Kelly Clarkson to pull off her Miracle on Broadway Saturday night at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. “Y’all, I spent all morning in the ER!” the Texan-turned-Tennessean told the festively dressed crowd. “But don’t worry. They gave me a shot of B12 and I’m feeling great and so excited to be here!” – Read more at People.com

M&M’S® Crispy Caroling with Jessica Sanchez

Jessica Sanchez spent the day Friday shilling for Crispy M&Ms, part of the day was spent caroling in her hometown.

.@CassadeePope: A @PeopleMag #PWTV Power Woman (Watch!) – I never went to college and I play college shows sometimes, and I go on these campuses and I just think “this is a gap of my life that I missed”; I never experienced. And I’m like, you know, not mad at it. I feel like my college years were when I was eighteen and I went on tour with my old band. You know? It’s just weird the things we miss out on and the things we get to experience that other people don’t. – Read more at CMChatLive

‘Amazing Race’ winners Amy and Maya ‘loved the twist’ even if fans didn’t – Hands down, Amy DeJong and Maya Warren would not have won Season 25 of the “The Amazing Race” if the new twist allowing four teams into the finals hadn’t been introduced to the show. In the penultimate episode of the season, host Phil Keoghan revealed that for the first time in the show’s history, four teams would be making it to the final leg of the race. For DeJong and Warren, that meant that even though they came in last in the second-to-last leg and would have been eliminated in any previous season, they were automatically allowed to continue racing. “It really shows ‘The Amazing Race’ is completely unpredictable — there’s always a new twist around the corner,” DeJong tells Zap2it. “You just have to run the best race you can.” – Zap2it

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