By Rodney Ho/rho@ajc.com, filed Dec. 2, 2014
Sorry, "Idol" fans. It's been awhile. I never got around to posting anything Turkey week.
Here are highlights from the past two weeks in "Idol" land:
Season 6 "Idol" winner Jordin Sparks, now single, is still smarting from her break up with singer Jason DeRulo.
She dated him for three years until September and he later claimed she was pressuring him to get married, something he didn't want to do. (Story as old as time, eh?)
She did a remix of a Drake song on a mixtape, which TMZ quoted:
"Member I deleted all my other guys numbers on my phone for you.
Member when you broke your neck and I had to wash your back for you.
You probably don't remember half the **** that I did for you."
"Once you blew up, head got big and you started changing.
Can't believe all the things that you started saying.
Like I'm with you for your fame and your name. What?"
He has not officially responded.
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"American Idol" launches Wednesday, January 7, 2015, relatively early for the show. It makes me wonder if the show will also end earlier than normal. For the first time in recent memory, opening night will be just a single hour, followed by a two-hour audition night on Thursday, January 8.
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That lawsuit that smacked of desperation and opportunism by 10 former black "Idol" contestants was thrown out, TMZ reports.
Nine of the contestants had filed well past the statute of limitations. The judge threw out of the 10th because he didn't see racial animus in "Idol's decision making. Chris Golightly was disqualified because he was under a recording contract at the time, something that disqualified a white candidate a year earlier, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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Speaking of digging up old dirt, Chris Daughtry filed a lawsuit against old bandmates from the time before he became famous on "Idol." He said he didn't learn until 2012 that the bandmates of Absent Element filed in 2006 that they were co-writers on several songs. He said he wrote them himself. Wow. This sounds pretty darn petty. I mean, how much income could anyone possibly earn from these songs anyway?
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I recall last month that some female record exec was going to be mentor on "American Idol." But now rumors are out that Scott Borcheta, who launched Taylor Swift's career, may be the mentor instead. Useless Randy Jackson was dropped as mentor after two years with the always fun Jimmy Iovine.
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I saw one of the tabloids in the supermarket (I can't even remember which) slagging on Kelly Clarkson's weight gain since her baby. They even said she looks "55" and she's only 32. Those tabs like to have it both ways, often getting on women's cases when they get too skinny, too. Here is Kelly from two weeks ago:
Credit: Rodney Ho
Credit: Rodney Ho
Kelly will fete her friend Reba McEntire on the American Country Countdown Awards on Fox. She is receiving a Nash ICON award on Monday, Dec. 15 on Fox.
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Adam Lambert and Queen sing "Somebody to Love" on X Factor UK:
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Candice Glover, forgotten season 12 winner, actually got a gig on Thanksgiving at least in Philadelphia singing "Let It Go."
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Bono's injured and out of commission. So on World AIDS Day, Carrie Underwood filled in to sing "Change." U2 and Carrie - never thought we'd see that combo, eh?
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Danny Gokey, season 8 finalist, his wife Leyicet, ushered in his second baby, a girl named Victoria Isabella Gokey. Season 10's James Durbin and his wife Heidi also welcomed his child, a girl named Kinzee.
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The Harry Connick Jr. promo:
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