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10/19: Diana DeGarmo on CMT reality show with Bobby Brown
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
CMT is producing a new reality show “Gone Country” in which non-country singers will live in a mansion and compete to see who could best adapt to becoming a country singer. The celebrities include our very own Diana DeGarmo, as well as former Atlantan Bobby Brown, ex-Wilson Phillips singer and “Surreal Life” alum Carnie Wilson, “Brady Bunch” and “Celebrity Fit Club” alum Maureen McCormick, Sisqo (“The Thong Song”), Julio Iglesias Jr. and Dee Snider (Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It”).
Production is currently underway in Nashville, according to CMT story, excerpted below.. The show is set to air over six episodes in January.
The celebrities will live in a Nashville mansion together and will compose songs with Nashville songwriters. In each episode, the cast will compete against each other in challenges that will test them musically and physically to adapt to a country music lifestyle, both on and off the stage. At the end of two weeks, the artist who is most prepared to impress a country audience, as determined by [John] Rich [of Big & Rich], will record and release a song.
I called Brenda, Diana’s mom, and she didn’t seem to know much about it. (Brenda is no longer managing her daughter.) I’ll update this entry if I get any more details.
Seriously, Diana could do well in this competition, especially compared to her fellow castmates. She did sing Martina McBride’s “A Broken Wing” during country week season three, three years before Jordin Sparks did it. I thought she did a pretty good job, especially that long note at the end. Simon even said that this style suited her. But he added: “You’re not yet connecting with the audience properly.” Alas, she landed her in the bottom three after this performance. (Reminisce with the video below of Diana’s performance in 2004.)
It will be amusing to see Diana interact with the likes of Sisqo, Dee Snider and especially Bobby Brown, who is doing this show just days after being in the hospital for a heart attack he denied he actually had.
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