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*“I’ve been wanting this all of my life, so it feels great,” a beaming Candice Glover told The Hollywood Reporter after “American Idol’s” top three results show on Thursday. Still, the 23-year-old St. Helena Island, South Carolina native said she’d spent weeks “practicing my songs for when I get cut. … Just because you have [...]
*Hours after rumors of an “American Idol” judging panel overhaul hit the web on Thursday, original judge Randy Jackson announced that he is leaving the show after the current season ends. “Yo! Yo! Yo! To put all of the speculation to the rest, after 12 years of judging on ‘American Idol,’ I have decided to [...]
*Mariah Carey and Randy Jackson have ended their business relationship and are going back to being just friends. The original “American Idol” judge is no longer co-managing Carey, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. In November 2011, THR first reported that Jackson and Irving Azoff were representing the singer. “Randy was more of an in-between guy,” [...]
*”American Idol” is fixin’ to kick its entire judging panel to the curb and start fresh next season with four new celebs replacing Mariah Carey, Randy Jackson, Nicki Minaj and Keith Urban, according to a new report. Even longtime executive producer Nigel Lythgoe will get the pink slip, according to the Wrap, citing an unidentified [...]
*Turns out that not only Mariah Carey and a few “Idol” fans are finished with Nicki Minaj and her regular antics. But now journalists are getting pissy with the artist. “Access Hollywood” correspondent Laura Saltman was on the “Idol” red carpet interviewing contestants and judges, where she apparently rubbed the Young Money rapper the wrong [...]
*“American Idol” judge Mariah Carey will premiere her new song, “#Beautiful,” featuring Grammy winner Miguel, on Thursday night’s results show. The single, which launched at radio and online on May 6, is the lead track from Carey’s new studio album, due out in the coming months. Indeed, the soulful duet, which opens with the lines [...]
*Nick Cannon is speaking out about the feud going on between his wife Mariah Carey and her “American Idol” nemesis Nicki Minaj, claiming the network and show producers have been trying to milk it for all it’s worth. “She didn’t sign up for that,” he said to LA’s KTLA-TV morning show host Sam Rubin (video [...]
*The meanest pair (toward one-another) of American Idol judges, Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj revealed why they decided to join the singing competition show, both admitting the decision wasn’t as easy as expected. “I was on the fence about the whole thing,” Mariah told The Hollywood Reporter. “[Nick] said I should do it because it’s [...]
*The Nicki Minaj/Mariah Carey feud flared up again this week. A day after getting into an argument with Carey on “American Idol,” Minaj tweeted a series of insults at her fellow judge, referencing a recent report that said “Idol” producers considered replacing Carey with Jennifer Lopez. On Wednesday’s “Idol,” Minaj disagreed with Carey’s critique of [...]
*As speculation grows about another judging shakeup, one friend to the show has popped up as a serious contender. Crooner Harry Connick, Jr. confirmed to reporters after Thursday’s results show that he has been talking with producers about joining next year’s panel. “They wanted to know if I would be interested and it’s a blast, [...]
*British girl group Stooshe, who supported “American Idol” judge Nicki Minaj on her “Pink Friday” tour last year, said she was a diva during the tour, and at one point they weren’t allowed to walk down a hallway at the same time she did. “She was lovely but she does have her few demands,” one [...]
*Fantasia’s powerhouse performance of her current single, “Lose to Win,” on last Thursday’s “American Idol” has literally paid off. [Scroll down to watch.] Before her return to the “Idol” stage, the season three winner had been garnering airplay with this first single from her new album, “Side Effects of You,” according to Billboard. “Lose to [...]
*Nicki Minaj is set to make her live action film debut in “The Other Woman,” a Nick Cassavetes-directed comedy starring Cameron Diaz as a woman who finds out that she is “the other woman” in an affair. She teams up with the wife (Leslie Mann) to get revenge on the cheater, being played by Nikolaj [...]
*“American Idol” season three winner Fantasia returned to the show that made her a star, performing her new single “Lose to Win” on the April 18 elimination broadcast. The 28-year-old North Carolina native dedicated the song to families in need, especially those in Boston and Texas following the recent tragedies. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter [...]
*Candice Glover’s rendition of The Cure’s “Lovesong,” famously remade by Adele, caused a sustained and emotional reaction from the judges and audience on “American Idol” last night that hasn’t been seen since Fantasia’s “Summertime.” Each of the final six contestants had to perform twice – a Hal David/Burt Bacharach-penned tune for the first song (Candice [...]
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