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Why ‘Idol’ booted Golightly (and lost to the Olympics)
The Associated Press is reporting that ousted “American Idol” finalist Chris Golightly was cut loose because of a “veracity” issue.
The report quotes “a person close to” the show as saying it was the singer’s failure to disclose that he’d had a recording contract — not whether or not the contract was still in force — that led to his removal from the Fox show’s top 24 finalists.
In other “Idol” news, NBC’s Olympics broadcast — which lost to the musical juggernaut on Tuesday night — whooped Simon Cowell and company on Wednesday. An Associated Press story reports that in the hour the two shows directly competed, 30.1 million people chose to watch Shani Davis, Lindsey Vonn and Shaun White win Olympic gold, while “Idol” netted only 18.4 million viewers.
The upset marks the first time in six years that any competing programming has beaten “American Idol” in the ratings.
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By gdub
February 18, 2010 3:11 PM | Link to this
could it have anything to do with the fact taht Idol took two hours to announce 17 names that they then re-capped in the last 5 minutes of the show??? maybe???