*Mike Lynche is now on twitter. Follow him here: @BigMikeLynche
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Kara Dioguardi worked in the studio with Lee DeWyze and Marti Frederikson yesterday according to a tweet. Frederikson has worked with Aerosmith, Def Leppard, Buckcherry and Bo Bice.
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Most of the Idols (looks like everyone but Lee and Crystal) landed in Michigan yesterday to prepare for the first top on their summer tour in Auburn Hills on July 1. Andrew Garcia took a twitvid of the landing here. Katie Stevens arrived from Connecticut, where she was attending her High School graduation. Eta: Crystal is leaving for Michigan today, via twitter.
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Taylor Hicks has taped an episode of FOX’s “Don’t Forget the Lyrics” set to air this fall. Check out a short clip HERE.
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Carrie Underwood Takes Over Vegas For Her Bachelorette Party
Eyewitnesses tell Hollyscoop that Carrie and a group of her girlfriends were dancing the night away at LAVO at the Palazzo Hotel in Vegas.
Don’t get any ideas, Carrie didn’t have a cheesy bachelorette party with a lot of feathers and dildos on her head. Sources tell us that “she was very tamed and did not wanna attract any attention.”
Carrie was on her best behavior throughout the night. She was just having a great time dancing with her girlfriends.
Daytime Emmys go glam – Ryan Seacrest, Simon Cowell salutes Dick Clark
But the highlight of the night will likely be a special salute to Dick Clark in honor of his iconic “American Bandstand.” Hosted by Clark’s heir apparent, Ryan Seacrest, the tribute will feature appearances by Barry Manilow, Cher, Simon Cowell, Frankie Avalon, Marie Osmond, the Spinners and Garth Brooks, among others — that’s when the show is not handing out baubles to soap operas, cooking series, daytime talk shows and children’s animated programming.
Glam factor aside, the show’s historic shift to Vegas — no Emmy Awards telecast has ever taken place outside Los Angeles or New York — actually makes good financial sense for the franchise, says Lynn Leahey, editorial director of Soap Opera Digest and Soap Opera Weekly.
(Daytime Emmy Awards air tonight on CBS @ 9 pm et/pt. The Ellen Degeneres Show is nominated for Best Talk Show)
Winning ‘Idol’ was the beginning, not the end for Lee DeWyze
Before auditioning for “American Idol” just over a year ago in his hometown of Chicago, Lee DeWyze was a local musician and daytime paint salesman who admits he “was probably one of the people that was like, ‘American Idol, ’ yeah, right, whatever … ”
He’s singing a different tune after being crowned the ninth season champ of “Idol” on May 26, with a Top 30 single — his cover of U2’s “Beautiful Day” — to go with it and a debut album expected this fall.
Fantasia gives free concert in Newark park to support school choice bill
NEWARK — After winning American Idol, starring on Broadway, and making a platinum album, soul singer Fantasia Barrino said one of her proudest accomplishments was getting her high school diploma.
“I take it with me everywhere I go, ” she said today before performing to a crowd of over a thousand at Newark’s Washington Park. “At the end of the day, I still need that education.”
Fantasia joined a roster of hip-hop stars including Kurtis Blow, Terrence J and Erick Sermon at the free concert held in support of the Opportunity Scholarship Act, a bill currently before the state legislature that would create a scholarship fund for kids in failing schools.
Adam Lambert brings glam-rock show to Borgata
ATLANTIC CITY — Glam rock is alive and well, and Adam Lambert is loving every campy, over-the-top second of it.
Hitting the stage dressed like a trippy circus ringmaster and singing his hit “Voodoo, ” Lambert, the Season 8 runner-up of “American Idol, ” kicked off the Atlantic City portion of his “Glam Nation” tour with a non-stop, one-hour set Saturday night at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa.
The show, of course, brought out the expected, and sometimes rabid, Idol worshippers — the fans who scream at the first strum of the guitar for Lambert’s current radio hit “Whataya Want From Me.”
Katharine McPhee Runs Errands in New Convertible!
Katharine McPhee takes her dog for a walk before heading out for the day with her husband Nick Cokas in their new Aston Martin convertible on Thursday (June 24) in Los Angeles.
The 26-year-old American Idol runner-up will perform TOMORROW (June 26) at the Azure Luxury Pool at the Palazzo Hotel in Las Vegas! The special appearance is part of the ‘Stereo Love Live’ event and Katharine will host the daytime party from the poolside stage.
Jordin Sparks sees her career thriving
Platinum pop singer Jordin Sparks, the impossibly young Season 6 winner of American Idol three years ago, hasn’t even hit her 21st birthday.
But she is currently headlining a tour and will make her Broadway debut in August.
“It’s a different sort of pressure than when I was an opener, ” Sparks said.
In that role, leading off for the Jonas Brothers and Britney Spears, she just wanted to get noticed as she rushed through a 20-minute set. Now the Grammy-nominated singer has an hour to fill.
VIDEO: Katharine McPhee Plans to Release Christmas Album; She’s a Twilight Saga Fan
Katharine McPhee from season 5 of American Idol stopped by the luxury ultra pool Azure at the Palazzo on June 26, 2010. The songstress performed tunes from her album “Unbreakable” [sic] as well as talked about her future projects.
McPhee will be releasing a Christmas album for the holiday season this winter and one of the tracks, she reveals, will be “Oh Holy Night.”
More videos HERE.
