Idol Headlines for 10/16/11

SYTYCD tour at the BOK Center, Tulsa, OK

Chris Richardson at the Woodlands Pavilion, The Woodlands, TX
Crystal Bowersox at the State Fair, Dallas TX
Melinda Doolittle at Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Nashville, TN
Read more at IdolStages

IT’S ON! The X Factor Judges Houses Part 2 airs tonight at 8/7c PM on FOX.

Jordin Sparks tweets, “Recording 3 songs today! If you think about it, send up a prayer that my voice holds up! Thanks loves.”

Lee DeWyze tweets, “Great write with Brett James yesterday in Nash, feel very very Good about the song headed to breakfast and then back at it. Love you guys!”

Lauren Alaina was back at her old stomping grounds at Magoos last night to sing a little Karaoke (“Midnight Train to Georgia”) Watch it Here.

Kelly Clarkson uses perks of fame

Kelly Clarkson loves using her celebrity status to get tables in restaurants.

The ‘Breakaway’ hitmaker insists she would feel like a “tool” if she called a venue to make a booking for herself but is happy to have her assistant arrange things for her.

She said: “I do love it when you call a restaurant and they’re booked, then you have an assistant call, dropping your name, and somehow a table is found.

Read more at Winnipeg Free Press

US pop sensation Kelly Clarkson admits she never seen herself as a singer until high school

KELLY CLARKSON has revealed that a passion for pistols helps her let off steam when she’s taking time out from her busy music career.

The original American Pop Idol winner likes to swap her status as a million-selling singer for that of gunslinger when she returns home to Fort Worth, Texas.

She insists the anti-gun lobby are unlikely to persuade her, or her fellow Texans, that they should give up their right to bear arms because “guns don’t kill people, people kill people”.

Read more at Daily Record.co.uk

Kris Allen Is A Poet and I Bet You Didn’t Know It

Kris Allen tweeted, “Moms cleaning out her house and she found this poem I wrote when I was a kid. Must say I was pretty deep back then. #dontknowwhathappened…What’s sad is that I think I could draw better back then.”

Kris Allen's photo Sorry I blew it.
Kris Allen on WhoSay

LULZ!

Chris Daughtry was robbed Ya’ll

Via twitter:

“This tweet is LONG overdue: WHOEVER stole my luggage at LAX Delta baggage claim #3 on Tuesday Oct 4th: DO THE RIGHT THING AND RETURN IT!!!… I’ve been holding out, hoping it would show up but the fact that Delta says it was SCANNED at baggage claim tells me SOMEONE STOLE IT!… This happened 11 days ago and I was hoping it would show. Delta says the bag tag was scanned IN LAX so it DID show up…b4 someone took it Good news is, only clothes…nothing too personal like family stuff and demos, etc…I’ll never understand how someone can do such a thing…it’s such a violation…If someone MISTOOK the bag, there would have been a similar looking bag left behind AND they would have returned it to LAX by now…”

Meanwhile, Chris had to fly back to North Carolina before he could fly to Toronto because he forgot his passport, “So check this out! This dude forgot his passport and had to fly all the way home to get it before flying to Toronto…that dude is ME…Found out at the airport…turns out you can’t get into Canada without one:) And FedEx doesn’t overnight on a Saturday. AND I don’t even get to see my family…land, get passport, and get right back on another plane. Never leaving the airport”

Lauren Alaina draws crowd in Fort Oglethorpe

Chandler Smith walked up to the blue line, feet together, head back, hands crossed. In front of her, the biggest deal since she first listened to Justin Bieber.Plus, Lauren Alaina’s a local. Chandler, the 12-year-old mouthpiece of her family, isn’t known for her silence. But seconds away from meeting her musical hero, the usually talkative girl fell silent. “I’m going to let her do the talking, ” she said about her older sister Taylor.

The people in front of Chandler, Taylor and their mother, Jeanie, got their signatures and left.

Moment of truth. Chandler slowly walked in front of her sister and mother and up to Alaina. “How are you doing?” Alaina asked.

Read more and see a photo at Times Free Press.com

Katharine McPhee – This week’s “Saturday Sneaks”

Katharine McPhee will post a little sneak peek every Saturday on her Facebook. She’s in New York City rehearsing and shooting her new NBC drama, Smash, set to premiere at midseason.

This week’s sneak:

“Sneak a peek from the director’s chair as I film a dance call scene for Smash! #saturdaysneaks” Facebook

Kellie Pickler To Appear At Nashville Charity Event For Musicians On Call

Kellie Pickler has signed on to appear at the upcoming Musician’s On Call fourth Anniversary celebration on November 4.

Musicians on Call is a charity organization that brings live music performances and recorded music into hospitals and healthcare facilities. The Nashville branch of the charity has brought music to over 40, 000 patients since its inception in 2007.

Read more at RTT News

Adam Levine and his Girlfriend get Naked for Russian Vogue

Remember Syesha from Season 7?

Here she is singing “At Last” at a charity event in Texas last night

Jennifer Lopez & Bradley Cooper – Together Again?

Bradley Cooper was seen in Los Angeles Saturday with a woman paparazzi say is Jennifer Lopez and who our exclusive photos reveal to be a woman who sure looks an awful lot like the American Idol judge.

A source close to Lopez says the two spent time together on Saturday. Reps for both did not respond for comment.

Read more at People

In with the out crowd

In a cover story for Entertainment Weekly last month, Neil Patrick Harris wrote about surviving in show business and bypassing the curse of the child star. The Hollywood overachiever, who plays the neurotic womanizer Barney on “How I Met Your Mother, ’’ mentioned coming out as gay to the public in 2006. “I must say, ’’ he wrote, “the indifference that most people expressed was the greatest reaction of all – and a reflection of a nicely evolving culture.’’

Read more at Boston.com

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