Tonight, the American Idol Top 8 sing their audition songs. 8/7c PM FOX. Survivor continues on CBS at 8/7c PM. Nashville is back on ABC at 10/9c PM.
Carrie Underwood, OneRepublic and Ellie Goulding are among the artists up for the fan-voted award at this year’s BBMAs – Imagine Dragons, John Legend, Luke Bryan, OneRepublic, Ellie Goulding and Carrie Underwood are the six Milestone Award finalists at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards, to be held May 18 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Billboard is giving fans an opportunity to play a big part in the celebration. Fans voting for their favorite finalist will determine who takes home the Milestone trophy at the BBMAs – Read more at Billboard
The Sing-Off Winners, Home Free, Begin Work on Album – We’ve had to keep a lid on this for the last several weeks, but we finally can tell you we have some REALLY exciting news for all of our Home Fries today! We’ve already started work on our next album, and we have some of Nashville’s best studio musicians laying down all of the instrumental tracks for it! More news to come soon! Announcement via Facebook
Idol’s Majesty Rose: “I Think My Performance Was Save-Worthy” – “I think my performance was save-worthy,” Majesty tells TVGuide.com. “But I know it’s a tough decision for them to make, because there’s so many great contestants. I can’t say that I deserved it more than anyone else, because we all worked really hard to get where we are.” – Read more at TV Guide
‘American Idol’ Castoff Social Chat: Majesty Rose on How Being ‘So Diverse’ Confused Her Fans – Majesty had a style all her own, which drew the praise of Harry Connick Jr., but may have led to her downfall. “When Harry pointed out that I am so diverse, I didn’t know if it was a good thing or a bad thing; I just went with it. I couldn’t fix it then,” she explained. “I would say to somebody who is going to ‘American Idol’ now that it is probably not a good idea to be so diverse in this competition… your fans could be confused about who you are.” – Read more at Yahoo.com
Kris Allen: Why He Would Never Share His Favorite ‘Idol’ Contestant – When HollywoodLife.com spoke with Kris prior to the show, we just had to ask him about American Idol Season 13 and which contestant’s got his vote, but he wouldn’t tell us! He said that he knows all too well what it’s like to be on the show and he doesn’t want to pick favorites or to make anybody feel bad. “You want people from the show to be on your side no matter what,” he explained. (Makes sense, but… it’s Jena Irene, right? Or Malaya Watson? Alex Preston? Come on. Call us back — we’ll never tell.) – Read more at Hollywood Life
Ex-‘Idol’ Hopefuls Lean on Stats to Save Racism Lawsuit – Three weeks ago, the defendants, including Fox Broadcasting, Freemantle, 19 Entertainment and executive producer Nigel Lythgoe, brought a motion to dismiss that argued that the allegations were too late, barred by the First Amendment and that some of the plaintiffs lacked standing. Further, the defendants firmly denied that Idol is a rigged contest, that it was hardly falsely advertised and that contestant agreements are valid. Read the full motion to dismiss here. Now comes the plaintiff’s entertaining lawyer, who about midway through an opposition brief gets very statistically wonky. – Read more at The Hollywood Reporter
Dancing With the Stars Backstage Scoop: Billy Dee Williams Opens Up About “Tough” Decision to Quit the Show – When we asked how he was feeling, Williams admitted, “My back is killing me right now.” Williams and Slater chose to leave DWTS after his doctor recommended resting his back in order to prevent further injury. “He just said, ‘Look, if you want to continue doing this, it’s up to you, but my advice is just to relax this back now,'” Williams explained. “It’s chronic, it’s arthritic. I made a tough choice, but it was a choice I think I needed to make.” Unfortunately for Slater, their decision to leave the competition makes her ineligible for the upcoming Switch Up twist, which will change up the pairings on next Monday’s show. But Slater isn’t too upset over not taking part in the first-ever Switch Up.- Read more at EOnline
