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It’s Hollywood Week Part 3 and tonight we learn who some of the Top 24 will be.  Typically, IDOL waits until Hollywood Week Part 4 to reveal the Top 24, but not this year.  We’ll learn part of the group tonight and part tomorrow night.  71 contestants will be culled down to 24.  The good news is […]

*****SPOILER ALERT****  If you live on the West Coast, don’t read this.  For those of you on the East Coast, YES!  YES!  YES!  These are the Idol episodes we have been waiting for.  It’s Hollywood Week where we separate the men from the boys, the women from the girls and the queens from the, well, […]

This is a new show but it spans all of the audition cities featuring great talent.  In the past, IDOL has been criticized for not doing enough to promote some of the folks who make it to Hollywood.  Therefore, this show is aptly titled “The Best For Last.”  Here’s hoping. MINI-RECAP *Name to Remember: DIDI BENAMI, inspired by […]

It’s the Mile High City – Denver, CO.  It’s where Chris Daughtry got his start in 2005 and he didn’t do too bad.  Can someone from the Denver auditions follow in his footsteps?  MINI-RECAP *City:  Denver, CO *Celebrity Judges: Victoria Beckham (Skeletor is back)  *Number of Contestants: Unknown (they didn’t say) *Name to Remember:  DANELLE […]

MINI-RECAP *City:  Dallas, TX *Celebrity Judge:  Neil Patrick Harris / Joe Jonas  *Number of Contestants: 11,000 *Name to Remember:  ERICA RHOADES, the former “Barney” actress who shed’s her little girl image with a whip and big voice. *The One You Hope To Forget: VANNESSA JOHNSTON whom Simon calls the sights and sounds of his nightmares. *Most […]

MINI-RECAP *City:  Orlando, FL *Celebrity Judge:  Kristin Chenoweth, “Wicked”ly awesome, but only for a day *Number of Contestants: 10,000 *Name to Remember:  MATT LAWRENCE, seeking redemption through music *The One You Hope To Forget:  JARROD NORELL, the audition so bad he gets arrested. *Most Heart Warming Story:  MATT LAWRENCE, the jailbird turned songbird *Quote of […]

American Idol lands in the Windy City (and my home for a year until it got too cold), CHICAGO! It’s the largest stop so far on the Idol Audition Tour. MINI-RECAP *City:  Chicago *Celebrity Judge:  Shania Twain , she still “Feels Like A Woman” and confesses she would pee on herself if she had to […]

The next stop on the American Idol train is Atlanta, Georgia, ya’ll.  It’s Idol’s 5th time in HOT-lanta and in the past it has found great success there.  Clay Aiken, Fantasia, and Jennifer Hudson all auditioned in Atlanta.  Will the next Americal Idol come from the A-T-L?  Only time will tell. MINI-RECAP *City:  Atlanta *Celebrity […]

THIS…IS…AMERICAN IDOL!   Season 9 auditions begin in Bean Town, Boston, Massachusetts.  With the absence of Paul Abdul this year, celebrity judges will be filling in during the auditions, including, Shania Twain, Joe Jonas (don’t you need to be able to sing to judge and not just be from a pop band?), Kristin Chenoweth, Mary J. […]