The American Idol Live tour heads to Charleston, SC, home of QUEEN ELISE TESTONE!
American Idol Comes to Billings – BILLINGS – American Idol is in town and casting for Season 12. The show will be holding auditions in Billings Monday at ZooMontana. Read more at KULR8
‘American Idol’ to host Casper auditions this week – “American Idol” hopefuls in Wyoming won’t have to travel far for their shot at a spot on the Fox TV show next season. “American Idol” producers will stop in Casper this week to audition potential contestants as part of the “American Idol Small Town Audition Bus Tour.” – Read more at Trib.com
‘American Idol’: Phillip Phillips finds ‘Home’ success ‘pretty insane’ – Have you heard “Home” on the Olympics? “I’ve heard a lot about it, but I’ve hardly watched any of the Olympics. It’s an honor for them to use that song, and I’m so proud of it and how well it has done.” When will we see your first album? “We’re trying for the end of November or beginning of December.” – Read more at Orlando Sentinel
iHeartRadio @ Lollapalooza: Haley Reinhart
Haley Reinhart sings “God Bless America” at Sunday’s White Sox game
She forgot the words. Oops.
Haley fared better with The National Anthem
Lauren Alaina, ‘Eighteen Inches’ – Lyrics Uncovered – “Carrie, Kelley Lovelace and I wrote this song a couple of years ago when we were writing for Carrie’s album,” Gorley tells Taste of Country of writing the ‘Eighteen Inches’ lyrics. “I think I was playing the chords and groove, and we were all tossing out melodies and lyrics, trying to find the right idea. The music sounded like a story song, and we ended up chasing the concept of young love and the crazy things it makes you do.” – Read more at Taste of Country
Jordin Sparks meets Aretha Franklin at the Sparkle Screening in Detroit
‘Idol’ winner Jordin Sparks returns to metro Detroit for ‘Sparkle’ premiere – “We spent more than two months filming here, the movie is based in Detroit and, for me, there was no other place to have the premiere,” said Sparks, 22, who skyrocketed to fame in 2007 after winning “American Idol.” She spent roughly an hour before the film started meeting fans, talking to reporters and re-connecting with people who worked on the movie. – Read more at Detroit Free Press
Jordin Sparks on Whitney Houston
‘Smash’ Cast Remembers Marilyn Monroe 50 Years After Death – Smash cast members Megan Hilty, Debra Messing, and Christian Borle take a break on the set of their show to remember Marilyn Monroe fifty years after her death on Sunday (August 5) in New York City. The musical within the show, Bombshell, revolves around the life and death of the iconic movie star, who passed away on August 5, 1962 after a Barbiturate overdose. – See the Photos at Just Jared
Horizontal horror: Pia Toscano breaks all the style rules in an asymmetric striped dress – She shot to fame on American Idol, but it doesn’t look as though Pia Toscano will be becoming a fashion idol any time soon if her latest ensemble is anything to go by. The 23-year-old singer broke all the style rules when she stepped out in a garish combination of horizontal and diagonal stripes while on a shopping trip this weekend. – See the photos at the Daily Mail
Sharon Osbourne is quitting ‘AGT’ after NBC axes Jack – Sharon Osbourne is quitting “America’s Got Talent” after a nasty dispute with NBC involving her son, she told The Post. The long-time TV judge, 59, is fuming over how the network’s new reality TV series “Stars Earn Stripes” cut ties with son Jack, 26, after he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Producers of the “Stars Earn Stripes” show — which will pit celebrities against one another in military training exercises — fired Jack by e-mail two days before he was to report to work, then lied about it to the press, Osbourne claimed. “I just can’t be fake,” she said. “It’s discrimination, and it was badly handled.” – Read more at The New York Post
Jane Lynch Says ‘Fuck Chick-Fil-A’: Roast Master Kicks Off Comedy Central’s Roast Of Roseanne Barr With A Bang – Jane Lynch kicked off the Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne with a jab at America’s favorite anti-gay chicken sandwich joint on Saturday, and the crowd definitely approved. Before introducing the evening’s honoree, Roseanne Barr, Lynch took a few quick jabs at the assembled roasters, which included Carrie Fisher, Katey Sagal and Ellen Barkin among others. Lynch quipped of the woman-heavy dais, “This show is serving up more old spoiled hens than a Chick-Fil-A. Oh, that reminds me… Fuck Chick-Fil-A.” Judging from the riotous laughter and applause the joke received, there were few Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day attendees in the audience. – Read more at The Huffington Post
