American Idol 3 finalist and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson appeared on OWN’s Season 25: Oprah Behind the Scenes, the fascinating and entertaining series that follows Oprah’s producers as they assemble the show. But Jennifer’s appearance wasn’t all that happy. That’s because Jennifer rehearsed, and then, without telling producers, left Chicago and flew to Dallas for …
American Idol 3 winner Fantasia Barrino will release a new album tomorrow and appear on VH1’s Behind the Music Tuesday, two weeks after trying to kill herself. In the VH1 special, she admits that’s what she was trying to commit suicide: “I didn’t have any fight in me. I didn’t care about anything. I just …
American Idol 3 winner Fantasia Barrino is in stable condition and will soon be released from the hospital after overdosing on aspirin and sleeping pills last night. The police report, which was published by Radar, classified it as a suicide attempt. A statement [PDF] released by her management connects this directly to accusations from a …
One of American Idol 3 winner Fantasia Barrino’s two houses is in foreclosure, and may be auctioned off early next year. The $1.3 million, 6,232 square-foot house has six bedrooms and five and a half bathrooms, and is located on Bevington Place in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Real Estalker reports. BestDamnAfternoonShow.com has a copy of …
American Idol 3 finalist and Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson’s mother and brother were found dead Friday, and her seven-year-old nephew is missing. She “and her family offered a $100,000 reward Sunday for the safe return of her missing nephew,” Julian King, the AP reports. Jennifer is in Chicago with family, and “the Cook County medical examiner’s …
Oscar winner and American Idol 3 finalist Jennifer Hudson is engaged to be married to a cast member from I Love New York 2. Punk, aka David Otunga, proposed Friday “with a Neil Lane diamond ring on the Dreamgirls Oscar winner’s 27th birthday,” People reports. The magazine says the two Chicagoans “have been dating less …
Since her debut as Celie in The Color Purple on Broadway earlier this year, Fantasia “has missed nearly 50 performances, production sources said,” according to New York Post columnist Michael Riedel. Because Broadway shows refund or exchange tickets if a show’s star is gone, “absences have wreaked havoc at the box office.” The paper says …