The spectre of rigged voting on Americal Idol is once again rearing its ugly head after what we've been told was the decision of 37 million phone calls and text messages following the end of the singers' performances this week. Getting the boot were Antonella Barba, Sabrina Sloan, Jared Cotter, and Jason "Sundance" Head. Even the celebrity judges questioned the legitimacy of the voting.The suspense was stretched all the way to the end, when only Head and Sanjaya Malakar, the perpetually smiling young man who mysteriously keeps slipping under the Idol radar, were left to make a decision about who would stay and who would go. When Ryan Seacrest announced that Malakar would go on and Head was being cast off, you could almost hear jaws drop across America. More...
Los Angeles (eCanadaNow) - Have our friends to the south gone deaf? For some reason, millions of voters decided that one of the worst singers in the competition deserved to stay at least one more week.
Not only is Sanjaya Malakar one of the worst singers ever to make it this far in the compeition, but he is one of the worst perfromers as well.
As Simon so delictaly put it he’s just “weird”.
The bottom line is, the 17-year-old entertainer should never have made it to Hollywood. More...
The horribly bearded Sundance Head was booted from "American Idol" last night -- and today he admits there's one cocky SOB left in the bunch.
The rejected singer was on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM morning show, where he said one of the guys remaining on the show -- whose name he wouldn't mention -- thinks he already has the competition in the bag.
Sundance also confessed he was shocked he was kicked off -- as the pseudo-vocal stylings of Sanjaya Malakar remained in the Top 12 -- saying, "I had not prepared myself for that ... I was a little angry ... at this point I'm just bitter this morning." More...
Here are the top 12 American Idols
1. Melinda Doolittle
2. Lakisha Jones
3. Blake Lewis
4. Stephanie Edwards
5. Jordin Sparks
6. Gina Glocksen
7. Brandon Rogers
8. Chris Richardson
9. Chris Sligh
10. Phil Stacey
11. Haley Scarnato
12. Sanjaya Malakar
Antonella Barba
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