Idol Headlines for 6/21/08

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David Archuleta’s Dad Will Join Him On Idol Tour

American Idol runner-up David Archuleta, 17, will have close supervision as he hits the road for the summerà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s American Idols Live! Tour. His father Jeff, who had his backstage privileges revoked in the final weeks of Idol, will be on the tour bus with his son and the other top five guys (Michael Johns, David Cook, Chikezie and Jason Castro).

People

David Cook Points Finger at American Idol Prankster

The top 10 of American Idol’s season seven are coming to the Sprint Center in August, and they’re getting excited.

“Yeah, I like that we get to go reconvene with the top 10 and then go out on the road and meet the people who voted for us and really get to perform without worrying about what Simon has to say,” said David Cook.

Get the complete report in the video attached in the sidebar of this story.

MyFoxKC.com

Jennifer Hudson’s relationship song

Jennifer Hudson says her new song is about her relationship insecurities.

The singer-and-actress, who is releasing ‘Spotlight’ as the first single from her new album, revealed the lyrics were inspired by her love life.

Jennifer, who has been dating James Payton since 1999, told US TV show ‘Entertainment Tonight’: “It definitely tells a story of me and my life. What I sing really happens to me.”

Monsters And Critics

Regulars From American Bandstand Join Radio Broadway 6/30

It was announced today that members of the original AMERICAN BAND STAND will be joining Radio Broadway Presents “The Radio Hits of 1958,” on Monday, June 30 at 8 p.m. at The Town Hall, Times Square’s landmark concert venue. The show will feature a cast of Broadway stars and American Idol’s Constantine Maroulis performing songs that topped the Billboard charts in the year 1958.

Broadway World.com

14th annual Vallejo Outreach includes Mandisa performance

Pastor Scott Peterson of Church on the Hill still has a day left of prayer, but he’s already made one: Weather on Saturday that won’t roast thousands of people at the 14th annual Vallejo Outreach and late-afternoon concert by “American Idol” finalist Mandisa.

“Cool weather,” Peterson said of his wish.

Maybe a group prayer is in order for this one. The Weather Channel predicts a high of 86 in Valllejo, though stranger things have happened in this city.

Times Herald

Get Out

Pride Pittsburgh 2008 kicks into high gear this weekend.

Tonight the annual celebration for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community will offer a bar crawl and a 7:30 p.m. à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Passages of Gay Prideà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  reading series at the New Hazlett Theater on Pittsburghà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s North Side.

From 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday, a Pride in the Street party will close a block of Liberty Avenue downtown, for a party featuring à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“American Idolà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  semi-finalist Kimberly Locke, DJ Escape and Frank Decaro from Sirius Satellite Radio. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the gate.

Times Online

Paula Abdul’s Ex Blames Work for Breakup

After more than a year of dating, Paula Abdul and her restaurateur boyfriend JT Torregiani have split due to their hectic work schedules, his rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.

“It became too hard to maintain the relationship,” says Torregiani’s rep, who adds: “They remain best of friends.”

People

Paula Abdul Says She’s Split With Boyfriend

“American Idol” judge Paula Abdul and restaurant owner J.T. Torregiani have broken up after a year together, her rep told Us Weekly.

The couple parted ways two months ago, and Torregiani has moved out of Abdul’s Los Angeles home, the magazine reported.

Fox News

Simon Cowell may not be Mr Nasty after all

Mandrake hears that the star of Britain’s Got Talent paid for a  £2.3 million house for his girlfriend Terri Seymour to ease the pain of their reported separation after five years.

“It certainly ensured that they parted amicably,” says a friend of Cowell, 48, who now steps out with Jasmine Lennard, the 22-year-old daughter of the former Bond girl Marilyn Galsworthy.

Telegraph.co.uk

Reality Check: ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ Puts Dancers in Their Place

It was only a matter of time before I was going to have to take this yearà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s “So You Think You Can Dance” finalists off the pedestal I put them on … I just didnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t think it would be so soon.

After dazzling us last week by dominating in unfamiliar styles, this week, many of the same dancers crumbled while well within their comfort zones. It was like a group bait-and-switch, and top spot on the fraud list goes to Susie.

Fox News

Susie Garcia and Marquis Cunningham Say Goodbye

I definitely was surprised being eliminated,à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  admitted recently cut à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“So You Think You Can Danceà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  contestant Susie Garcia during a conference call with the media this morning. à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“I was looking forward to doing the tour as well. Unfortunately that didnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t happen for me.à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 

So, now that her time on the show is over, Susie will be heading back to Miami to resume her life as a high school teacher. And thanks to her time on the show, her students will be especially jazzed to see her. Susieà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s students have supported her tirelessly, sending her scrapbooks and organizing à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“SYTYCDà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  viewing parties. à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“They just always would say that they look up to what Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ve done,à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  explained Susie.

LA Times

Marquis Cunningham not ‘expecting’ ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ cut

Marquis Cunningham said he was just as surprised that he was eliminated as the studio audience, which gasped and booed at the announcement during last night’s live So You Think You Can dance fourth-season broadcast.

“I was surprised. I wasn’t expecting to go home last night and I wasn’t expecting to go home this early,” Cunningham told Reality TV World during a Friday conference call.

Reality TV World

Susie Garcia “surprised” about ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ ouster

Susie Garcia concedes she was the “hot” So You Think You Can Dance fourth-season finalist, but also wishes she was able to prove she’s more than that before she was eliminated during last night’s live results show.

“I’ve always been known as that on the show, and I have so much more to offer. I’ve taken modern and ballet and flamenco. It’s a little downfall that they do call me hot,” she told reporters during a Friday conference call. “But I can’t help what other people see me as. I’m not just the hotness. I take my dance very seriously and I love the art.”

Reality TV World

The evolution of Canadian Idol and host

Every season of Canadian Idol has its own signature. This year’s signature, Ben Mulroney insists, is talent. It’s of a higher calibre than it’s ever been before.

“In all honesty,” Mulroney said in an interview, “without a hint of hyperbole, I think that if our Top 24 live up to their potential this year, we have the possibility of discovering some true talent.

“And I’m not just talking about talent specific to Idol. I’m talking about talent that will eventually have careers, that people will latch onto.”

Canada.com

 
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  • Ladybug

    His father Jeff, who had his backstage privileges revoked in the final weeks of Idol, will be on the tour bus with his son and the other top five guys

    :eek_wp:

  • http://www.myspace.com/gwendolyndiane GwendolynD

    Heh. What a buzz kill….

  • Skylark

    I adore David and expected he would be accompanied by a parent, that is appropriate. But on the same bus as the other guys? So wrong. What a bunch a freaking 19 cheapskates.

  • http://myspace.com/girlgeek mj

    Archie posted a My Space Bulletin today:

    Today we did a bunch of press stuff for the tour. Carly and I were partners and it was pretty fun haha. She’s kinda like my mom of the group because she’s always making sure I’m doing what I’m supposed to. I also had a photoshoot today which was a lot of fun. I actually used to hate pictures and would like run from any camera until about last summer. Yeah I was pretty weird haha. But anyway I’ve gotten a lot better with cameras and don’t mind them, especially since they’re everywhere now. I can probably thank Fish for overcoming my fear of cameras, since she had one everywhere we hung out last summer and I started getting the hang of it.

    Tomorrow I have some other music stuff for the album and then I’m going to the Wall-E movie premiere. I know I’m pretty immature, but Pixar movies are my favorite. They’re just really clever and I love being a kid lol. I can’t wait to see it. So tomorrow should be another fun day. That’s all for right now!

  • sciencefan

    Thanks for posting that, mj!
    Poor Jason has great intentions of communicating with his fans, but he has some difficulty with the follow through. Not everyone is into blogging on the internet.

    Cookie said Archie would be the noisy one, but I have a feeling that was said, tongue-in-cheek.

  • MN Sue

    à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“But I canà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t help what other people see me as. Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m not just the hotness.

    Allow me to analyze this. Drag queen make up applied with a spatula. Check. Spray tanned to a toxic level. Check. Banana hair extensions which must have come in contact with her cherry jello shots. Check. Vegas week necklines advertising the girls to the world. Check.
    Nope, I think we got it right.

  • gingerly

    I can’t find the video on the sidebar that Fox KC is talking about :(
    Nevermind….I’m slow this morning lol.

  • Jolene

    The other 4 guys on that bus must be so thrilled to have a chaperone present for the entire 2 1/2 montes.
    Regardless of the rumors, Jeff Archuleta is a parent… not what you want on a tour bus, I should think.
    Does anybody know if they actually sleep on the bus? If they do, I really pity those poor boys. I wouldn’t want Dadchuleta as my roomate for one day, let alone 70-something days….

  • Frogpond

    As for our question Jolene I believe they do sleep on the bus most of the time .I think the exception is when they will be in the same town for more than one night then I think they get a hotel.
    (I only followed season 5 and thats what I read happened then )

  • http://myspace.com/girlgeek mj

    The Idols get a hotel at every stop. They may only get to sleep there for a few hours, but the do get to check in somewhere after they arrive at the next tour stop on the bus.

    Sleep is usually split between the tour bus and a few hours at the hotel on any given night. That’s how it worked last year.

  • http://www.xanga.com/hisaki_chan707 Hisaki

    Archie has a friend named Fish? LOL. And I’m really liking these bulletin posts from Archie. They’re fun to read.

    Well, Dadchuleta of course had to chaperone since his kid is underage (see, this is exactly why they should raise the age limit to 18 already), but now that he’ll be on that bus the entire time, we’re going to get a hell of a lot less “tour bus moments”. :( /selfish

  • Layla

    No matter how cool Dadchuleta may be, his presence will change the dynamics on the guys’ bus.

    I read somewhere that his Mom was going to accompany him…guess not.

  • justic

    according to that MyFoxKc video
    they are singing the black eyed peas song “where is the love” on tour, right? did i hear it correctly?
    is that the song they are singing while brooke is on the piano?

  • http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=84731174 purplesmile

    I went a little “huh?!?” at Carly’s (myspace team’s) new blog, which quoted in full Richard Rushfield’s article “American Idol’ Tracker: Elegy for Carly Smithson.”

    Also, in case anyone else missed it…on Carly’s myspace is posted an old interview (she was still talking about the possibility of doing a song on the tour with one Idol backing her on guitar and another on drums) with Gerry Ryan (I had never heard it before).

  • http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=84731174 purplesmile

    Syesha in OK! Magazine (according to her myspace bulletin)

    Former “Idol” hottie Syesha Mercado heats things up in a teeny bikini! Check out the smokin’ pics.

    I can’t view this teaser video (outside the US, pffft!), but from the little screencap I can see, smokin’ Syesha seems about right. ;)

  • jan

    Just checked the video – yes – Syesha looks very nice in a bathing suit – several shots – girl looks like a model.

  • Jenn_AI Fan

    I think it’s a shame that the Archuletas did not agree to the other contestants “chaperoning” David A. The rapport he has with DC is great, he’s commented on Brooke and Carly “mothering” him, and it seems pretty clear that the whole group cares about him. Obviously, it’s a personal choice for them, and as parents it’s hard to question them too much, but I suspect that it would have been a great experience for him to be on the tour with just his tourmates.

  • hicksaholic

    Allow me to analyze this. Drag queen make up applied with a spatula. Check. Spray tanned to a toxic level. Check. Banana hair extensions which must have come in contact with her cherry jello shots. Check. Vegas week necklines advertising the girls to the world. Check.
    Nope, I think we got it right.

    That’s really funny!

  • skylight1219

    What a great gig for Constantine, although I can’t stand to hear him sing. LOL

  • jpfan

    I’m not sure how many hijinks they’ll be. Cook and Archie will spend every free minute working on the albums. If the rest of them are smart they’ll be using their free time to line up deals/contracts/gigs for when the tour is over.

  • abbysee

    Wouldn’t it have been a bigger buzzkill if mamachuleta was ont he boys bus? Something tells me that they will appreciate a guy instead of a mom. Mama would be making sure they eat their peas and spinach. Jeff will probably make sure they pick up the beer cans and keep the girls from Archie.

  • skylight1219

    Not sure where I read this, but, it seems that Archie was picked on a lot at school before he was on AI. So, I’m hoping he enjoys the fame. Same with Clay Aiken, he was bullied so much while in school, and, look at him now.

  • abbysee

    Skylight where did you hear that about Archie being bullied, I haven’t heard anything like that. And frankly, I am not so sure the look at him now in regards to Clay would be reassuring to Archie, since it seems to have come full circle for Clay.

  • skylight1219

    I read about it on another blog. It has been a while ago, and, I just can’t remember where. It said they would give Archie wedgies. Regarding Clay. Whether some of the things are true or not, he made his decisions in life, and, has to live by them. I’m no one’s judge. I know that a lot of stuff said about him simply isn’t true. But, that goes with fame.

  • TylerWV

    Is it me or has the fonts changed and gotten a lot smaller here on the blog?

  • http://myspace.com/saltwatercures pj

    Allow me to analyze this. Drag queen make up applied with a spatula. Check. Spray tanned to a toxic level. Check. Banana hair extensions which must have come in contact with her cherry jello shots. Check. Vegas week necklines advertising the girls to the world. Check.
    Nope, I think we got it right.

    Thatà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s really funny!

    Funny, sure. However, too easy. Sure, her dancing wasn’t up to par. She didn’t have any training and obviously was a “street” dancer, but I thought she did a decent job with the waltz. She also is a high school teacher, so she must have a college degree. There could very well be more to her.

    Wouldnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t it have been a bigger buzzkill if mamachuleta was ont he boys bus? Something tells me that they will appreciate a guy instead of a mom. Mama would be making sure they eat their peas and spinach. Jeff will probably make sure they pick up the beer cans and keep the girls from Archie.

    Momchuleta wouldn’t have been on the guys’ bus. I don’t the Sanjaya’s sister was. I also don’t see Jeff picking up beer cans. YMMV.

  • Tony

    I hear that Blake’s label dropped him. Can’t say that I’m surprised.

  • Trina

    I thought I’d put this here..the other day there was some speculation on who Cookie’s manager is and someone mentioned they thought Simon Fuller was. This article about the 20 most powerful managers and producers to the stars confirms it:

    Life and Health Guardian

    Recently he took on the global representation of Claudia Schiffer, adding her to a management roster that also includes Annie Lennox and fashion designer Roland Mouret, as well as Idol graduates such as Kelly Clarkson and this year’s winner, former bartender David Cook. Future plans include breaking Matt Lucas and David Walliams in America.

  • Jolene

    David Cook article/interview from a Tulsa Newspaper: ‘American’ Made.
    I find the behind the scenes descriptions interesting, maybe even moreso than the interview itself (there isn’t much of it).

    It’s been about a month since his slam-dunk, 12-million-vote victory on “American Idol,” and Cook is still in high demand.
    “I can maybe get you 10 or 15 minutes on the phone with him while he’s in the car on his way somewhere,” a publicist says.
    He makes no promises, and wonders: “Can you e-mail questions instead?”

    David is still not getting any sleep, it seems.

  • http://www.dancin.ca dancin

    Tony
    Jun 22nd, 2008 at 12:40 am
    I hear that Blakeà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s label dropped him. Canà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t say that Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m surprised.

    hes still showing on aristas group of artists
    where did you hear that?

    as for the chaperones on the bus
    jordin and sanjaya must have had one last year ? no?

  • Jenn_AI Fan

    I read that Jordin’s parents agreed to have Melinda chaperone her on the tour.

    That Tulsa World article was great.

  • sleepyinsomniac

    Sucks about Dadchuleta joining the guys on the bus. I hope it doesn’t put a damper on any Cook/Castro/Johns shenanigans. Come to think of it, maybe David A can just hang in the girls bus in exchange for Carly hanging with the guys in the boys’ bus. That plus some vlogs from MJ would be the perfect tour scenario for me.

  • Revolver

    C’mon Dad … on the tour bus?

    That seems wholly inappropriate. Even 13 and 14 year old kids are horrified if their parents volunteer to be the chaperone on field trips. I can’t imagine how mortifying bringing your dad along to be the chaperone on a professional music tour bus would be.

    I feel bad for Archie and the guys.

    Couldn’t they have just assigned Brooke to be the chaperone and check in on him? She was the nanny for twins, I’m sure she could handle making sure Arch flossed nightly .. or whatever.

    And Syesha … hotness. She looks like a model because, uhmmm, she was a model prior to Idol lol.