American Idol‘s fifth-season winner, Taylor Hicks, finally has a new hit on his hands: a popular video of him parodying the viral video of Rebecca Black’s performance of “Friday.” On Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert challenged Fallon to raise money for charity, and after raising $26,000 for DonorsChoose, which funds classroom projects, Colbert …
A contestant who was rejected during the audition stage of American Idol 5, and who said he was frequently confused for a girl because of his feminine appearance, has changed his looks significantly and now has a career in gay porn. Zachary Travis works under the name Kirk Cummings (really), and as The Sword reports, …
A woman who auditioned for American Idol 5 and was identified as judge Paula Abdul’s “number-one fan” was found dead of an apparent suicide outside of Paula’s house last night. On the show, Paula Goodspeed, who identified herself as a student, said, “I really like Paula Abdul a lot. She’s really cool. I’m, like, a …
A few weeks ago, I saw Tropic Thunder, and perhaps the most shocking thing I saw that day in the theater was a drunk girl going down on American Idol 5‘s teenage finalist Kevin Covais. A friend turned to me and said, “Is that…?” “It can’t be,” I replied–but no, there was Kevin’s name in …
American Idol 5 winner Taylor Hicks is following his many Idol colleagues to Broadway, where he’ll appear in Grease this summer. He “will begin performances as Teen Angel June 6” and “is scheduled to stay with the production at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre through Sept. 7,” Playbill reported. Taylor, who was recently dropped from his …
Elliott Yamin’s 65-year-old mother, who “had been hospitalized during the weekend at a local hospital,” died Monday, and a private service was held today, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports. Claudette Yamin “moved briefly to Los Angeles” last year, but “returned to the Richmond area in February” for her health, as “[a] broken hip had never fully …
The RCA Music Group has shed another American Idol star. After J Records dropped Ruben Studdard and Taylor Hicks, American Idol 5 runner-up Katharine McPhee is no longer signed to RCA Records. “McPhee is no longer on the label’s roster,” Entertainment Weekly reports, after her debut album “never reached gold status.” An RCA spokesperson said, …