Headlines: Katharine McPhee Extends Broadway Run, Maddie Poppe Hollywood Bowl

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Katharine McPhee Extends her Run in Broadway’s Waitress Through August 19

Since her CBS show Scorpion has been cancelled, American Idol season 5 singer Katharine McPhee can extend her run in Broadway’s Waitress.

Brynn Cartelli on Winning The Voice and What’s Next – “I really mean that,” she told Parade.com. “I honestly never thought that I would win. Until my name was called, I didn’t believe it.” While it hasn’t quite sunk in yet that she’s this season’s winner of The Voice, Brynn already has plans to get some music out as quickly as she can. She doesn’t want to be forgotten when next season starts in the fall and there is a fresh crop of hopefuls. “I definitely have a lot of ideas coming up,” Brynn says. “It’s been a crazy, crazy journey, but I want to get started on that as soon as I can.” – Read more at Parade.com

Recap: Beauty and the Beast in Concert at the Hollywood Bowl – We knew we were in for a treat when we purchased out tickets, but we had no idea just how many wonderful surprises were awaiting us! After the costume contest, the first performer to take the stage was none other than newly-crowned American Idol, Madde Poppe. The delightful Madde took the stage to play her favorite Disney song, “The Bare Necessities.” – Read more at The Laughing Place

Maddie Poppe and Caleb Lee Hutchinson on instagram live

Maddie Poppe Q&A she’s a Kelly Clarkson Fan – Show Funniest Moment Drawing American Idol 2018 Winner

Kyla Jade welcomed home with block party – Hundreds of fans gathered outside the Topeka Performing Arts Center to welcome singer Kyla Jade back to her hometown. The free event was sponsored by CoreFirst Bank and Trust. Jade said fans encouraged her all the way through the competition. “Topeka did not have to rally behind me the way that they have, and it has just been such a blessing,” she said. The Topeka Fire Department drove her to the party in a firetruck. A drum line and cheerleaders from her high school, Shawnee Heights, performed along with other local artists. A flash mob danced to “This Is Me,” one of the songs Jade sang on The Voice. – Read more at Ksnt.com

Kelly Clarkson Celebrates Honesty

Nick Cannon on quitting ‘America’s Got Talent’: ‘One of the best decisions I ever made in my career’ – “I’ve probably made so much more money since walking away from [AGT] and doing it the way that I wanted to do it. I’m almost like, ‘Man, I should’ve stepped away earlier,’” Cannon says. “You ever had those decisions where you’re kind of in your comfort zone and so you kind of go about the mundane process, and as soon as you step out of your comfort zone it’s all of this freedom and the universe starts to just throw so many things in your direction? That’s what happened. I’m elated with everything that I’ve been doing since I stepped away from America’s Got Talent.” – Read more at Yahoo.com

The Most Hated Bachelor in America Explains Himself – Arie knew his actions would be “wildly unpopular,” he tells me in between bites of an egg white omelet. Of course he knew. But he had to do it. He’d made the wrong decision, and his heart was elsewhere. What he can’t understand is why more people don’t see that he was just trying to do the right thing for everyone. Really, wasn’t that the brave thing to do? To admit you made a mistake and follow your heart to make it right? “Yeah. I left, came back. I stepped away from the couch, I went back to the couch.” But they kept talking him into staying. “They cut out, obviously, production talking to me from 10 feet away,” he says, and calling it unedited “was super unfair to me.” – Read more at GQ.com

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