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The TVClubHouse: American Idol/Canadian Idol/Other Talent Shows ARCHIVES: American Idol IV: ABC Expose about Idol (ARCHIVES): Archive through May 06, 2005 users admin

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Kep421
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08-11-2001

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 9:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
its nude pictures of the guy WITH all his teeth...LOL

Make it any better for you Watching?

Fruitbat
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08-07-2000

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 9:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Corey and his friends are <la>. That is all there is to that. I don't see why a friend of Corey posing nude on the internet would relate to the AI scandal.

I do think that Paula saw this coming which is why, all of a sudden, we see her high on some of the more recent shows.

I read through this thread looking for the Cindy Adams article from awhile back. I could have seen it elsewhere but that is unlikely.

Anyway, Cindy had seen Corey's book, or at least a first draft, and she made no menion of Paula. He must have added it later which is odd. That is the biggest issue.

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 9:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Not really, Kep! It makes me ill to even think about it! LOL

Alisons
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01-10-2003

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 10:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hmmm, interesting about the book. Corey said on TV that the part of the book about Idol is only 3 chapters of it, the rest is just "his story." (His rise from nowhere to, well,....nowhere.)

Maris
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03-28-2002

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 10:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Report: Abdul to Make Appearance on 'SNL'


By Associated Press

May 6, 2005, 12:45 PM EDT


NEW YORK -- Paula Abdul, the "American Idol" judge being investigated for an alleged affair with a former contestant, will make an appearance on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" this weekend, the entertainment magazine show "The Insider" reported Friday.

A spokesman for the show would say only that NBC was hopeful that such plans would come together.

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Alisons
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01-10-2003

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 10:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hmmm, wonder if they will bring on Constantine?

Babyboo
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06-16-2003

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 10:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lmao, Alisons.

Maris
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03-28-2002

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 11:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I am guessing she will be singing "hit and run" while in a car chasing a Corey lookalike.

Bonzacat
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07-08-2003

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 11:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Corey was nothing, if not busy:

An 'Idol' three-way tie?

Fallen "American Idol" contestant Corey Clark must not have been completely monopolized by Paula Abdul. He still found time to make time with other contestants, according to judge Simon Cowell.

Buried in Cowell's 2004 tell-all is the rumor that Clark had engaged in a threesome with fellow fame-seekers Kimberly Caldwell and Trenyce.

But Corey doesn't want to dredge up that part of his past.

"That's not going to be part of his book," his lawyer Richard Jefferson tell us. "Even if it is true, it was three years ago."

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Fruitbat
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08-07-2000

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 11:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh god that is funny. That was 3 years ago!! Oh this is looking very good for Paula now. That is too much.

Fruitbat
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08-07-2000

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 11:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
STATEMENT FROM THE PRODUCERS OF "AMERICAN IDOL," FREMANTLEMEDIA, 19 ENTERTAINMENT AND FOX BROADCASTING


We have concerns about the motives behind last night's purported news special, as much of it was filled with rumor, speculation and assertions from a disqualified contestant who admitted during the special to telling lies. Regardless, we are absolutely committed to the fairness of this competition. We take any accusations of this nature very seriously, no matter their source, and we have already begun looking into them.

Despite documented procedures and multiple opportunities, as well as contractual requirements for contestants to raise any concerns, we were never notified or contacted by Mr. Clark or any other individual, nor presented any evidence concerning these claims.

Upon recently hearing rumors of Mr. Clark's claims, we contacted him and requested that he detail his accusations to us. That has yet to happen.

It should also be noted that the ultimate decision on which contestants move forward on "American Idol" has always been determined by the voting public. We have gone to great lengths and great expense to create a voting system that is fair and reliable. Judges may offer opinions, but viewers vote using their own subjective criteria; and it is the voters who ultimately determine each season's American Idol.
__________________


Maris
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03-28-2002

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 11:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Bonza and dont forget Carmen was sleeping in the next bed too.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 11:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I feel bad for Mr. Clark primarily because he says Ms. Abdul broke his heart. It seems like she got a play thing for a while and then *poof* abandoned him in his hour of need. I can easily see how a young man of modest means would be taken in by a successful, famous, middle-aged woman with access to prescription medications.

Maris
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03-28-2002

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 11:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kind of Liz Taylor and her Construction guy

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 11:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yup. But at least Mr. Fortensky got a good alimony settlement.

Bonzacat
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07-08-2003

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 11:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yep, at least Paula didn't marry Corey, for the love...

And yes, Carmen in the next bed, confused as to if that was Paula with Corey... or was it Trenyce and Kimberly?

BTW - does anyone think that if Trenyce had been on the PTL special, they might have brought up Simon's book? Can't you just hear John Q.... "so, Trenyce, you had sex with Corey Clark?"

Max
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08-12-2000

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 12:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
There are at least two sides to every story; we've really only heard one on this.

Let me say that if the genders were reversed and the circumstances were all the same, if the "victim" had waited three years to come forward -- despite contractual obligations to report anything that was concerning about the process of the AI experience -- I would feel the same way I do here.

The timing of these accusations is highly suspect. Regardless of what did or did not happen, if the situation was really as upsetting as Mr. Clark now claims it to have been, he should have spoken up sooner. I don't buy that his contract forbade him from reporting any kind of occurance that he felt was sexual harrassment or other improprieties on the part of a judge. It just doesn't wash.

I think the whole thing is a trumped up excuse for agents (Corey's) to get exposure for his book/CD and for networks who are being beaten by AI on FOX (ABC, in this case) to get some viewers during a crucial May sweeps season.

The whole thing reeks of corporate manipulation, to me, and I don't like the smell.

In the meantime, Corey and Paula are both being hurt by the whole thing and once the corporations have milked either or both of them for all they can get, they will cast them aside like last week's leftovers.

Thus grinds the corporate machine. Agents and network executives will line their pockets while walking over whatever bodies they need to along the way.

Maris
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03-28-2002

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 12:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
and remember ABC turned down Idol when it was first being pedalled. So add sour grapes into the mix.

Max
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08-12-2000

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 12:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Good point, Maris.

Alisons
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01-10-2003

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 12:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh yes, it would be easy to mistake Kim Cauldwell and Trenyce. "All cats are grey in the night, " eh, Ben? Are we sure that Carmen would even know what sex looks like? Yo-li-di-la-de whoa!!

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 12:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL Alisons!

Alisons
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01-10-2003

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 12:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just read on the idolonfox boards that Corey was on Howard Stern this morning and apparently Howard had him giving all kinds of details about what went on - a real boy's lockeroom talk. I can't find a transcript anywhere online now but it will probably be on howardstern.com tomorrow.

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 12:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Now, ewwwwwww on that. Corey is taking on every invitation, isn't he?

Lori
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04-18-2003

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 1:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ditto on the ewwwwwwwwwww!

Maris
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03-28-2002

Friday, May 06, 2005 - 1:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Paula Abdul Voicemails Not Linked to Terrorism, Feds Say

Federal agents reportedly recorded the messages that American Idol judge Paula Abdul left for Idol wannabe Corey Clark as part of a terrorist sting operation. The agents, who were monitoring Clark's phone calls under a provision of the Patriot Act, were after suspected Jordanian terrorist Buelah Abdul.


The Patriot Act snares a celebrity

By Deanna Swift

WASHINGTON, DC—Inquiring minds want to know: exactly how did ABC get the hot-and-heavy voicemail messages left by American Idol judge Paula Abdul for Idol-wannabe Corey Clark? Blame it on the Patriot Act, says a high-ranking US intelligence official who claims that Ms. Abdul was the unintended victim of a sting operation intended to sniff out Jordanian terror suspect Buelah Abdul. The messages were recorded by federal agents under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

"I can't give you a lot of details," says the intelligence source. "But I can confirm that Paula Abdul is no longer being investigated as a suspected terrorist, and the voicemail messages that she left for Mr. Clark have been returned to him."

Paula no friend of Patriot Act
The FBI agents who conducted the top-secret investigation apparently confused the Hollywood A-list Abdul with her similarly named counterpart on the US terror list. They reportedly relied on roving wiretaps to monitor the lovebirds' conversations as well as to tape numerous voicemails left by Ms. Abdul for the 22-year-old Clark. Under the Patriot Act, passed in the weeks after September 11, 2001, the federal government may monitor the phone calls of individuals "proximate" to the primary person being tapped, in this case, Ms. Abdul.

Talk of 'judges' raises alarm
The intelligence source says that FBI agents believed that they had correctly targeted suspect Buelah Abdul because of the content of the conversations overheard between Ms. Abdul and Mr. Clark. Agents reportedly heard talk of 'silencing the judges,' leading them to believe that Ms. Abdul and the American Idol hopeful planned to target federal judges as part of a terror operations. Suggestions that Mr. Clark 'trim his beard in order to look more mainstream' also raised a red flag, as did references to a person or persons being "the bomb" or "bombing."

The suspicious terms and phrases used by the Ms. Abdul and Mr. Clark were automatically picked up by the National Security Agency's ECHELON program, a global surveillance operation that listens for key words used by terror suspects.

Was Paula profiled?
But when Buelah turned up in Amman, Jordan in February and was detained by police there, the FBI realized that they'd been after the wrong Abdul. Agents reportedly removed the wiretap from Ms. Abdul's phone and inadvertently returned the voicemail messages to Mr. Clark, who then sold them to ABC.

A spokesperson for the ACLU quickly condemned the incident, charging that Ms. Abdul was singled out because she is a prominent Arab-American. Ms. Abdul was recently featured in a brochure created by another prominent Arab-American, Casey Kasum, entitled "Arab Americans Making a Difference." "You have to understand that to the Bush Administration all Abduls are the same," says ACLU spokeswoman Lucy Travis. "Paula Abdul epitomizes what's great about this country. She's the star of a show that features amazing talent, where everyone has a fair shot at becoming famous. Isn't that really what America is all about?"

What star on 'tap' next?
The number of court-authorized wiretaps in the US jumped by 19% in 2004, not counting the 1,754 court orders for terror-related investigations under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, like the one that entrapped Ms. Abdul. Ms. Abdul is the first star to be snared under the Patriot Act, the federal law that greatly expands the US government's ability to conduct surveillance operations on its citizens.

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