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Grooch

Wednesday, April 09, 2003 - 09:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I just checked the smoking gun and this is what they had to say *** 4/1 UPDATE: "Idol" finalist gets the boot, court appearance moved to May 7 in light of plea negotiations.

Car54

Wednesday, April 09, 2003 - 09:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well no legal hassles this week.


Closest thing we have to scandal is that thread over at SS about Clay,l and that was really much ado about nothing!

Seamonkey

Saturday, April 12, 2003 - 08:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've seen Corey twice on shows complaining that of course nothing really happened.. in one of the appearances his mother and sister are there, too.

Corey figured it was ok not to tell about it, because, in his mind it was "nothing".

he's complaining that they used him for ratings and that first they told him it was ok, then told him it wasn't (this was after the news broke).

I smell a potential lawsuit and also think he's swallowing a poison pill with this attitude; he's less likely to find a champion for a singing career.

Monkeyboy

Saturday, April 12, 2003 - 11:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
scandal about Clay? Do tell Car! :)

Seamonkey

Sunday, April 13, 2003 - 09:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Not a scandal at all, just that he's said to be gay.

Tabbyking

Sunday, April 13, 2003 - 10:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
so now we have to call ourselves 'gaymates' not 'claymates'? doesn't bother me in the least if he's straight or gay; he is just a delight.(and i would guess it probably doesn't bother anyone else here, either...well, hermione may have to settle for shoe shopping and barbra streisand concerts rather than passionate kisses with clay...)but he is a complete doll!

Monkeyboy

Sunday, April 13, 2003 - 10:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
oh thats all? doesnt really bother me.

Walker

Sunday, April 13, 2003 - 01:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
gay or straight clay is great..love him.

Grooch

Monday, April 14, 2003 - 12:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Looks like Neil Sedaka is going to be a guest judge.

Link

Tabbyking

Monday, April 14, 2003 - 02:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
oooooh, ooooh! then we really can all be calendar girls!!!

Pagal

Monday, April 14, 2003 - 04:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
From People.com


April 14, 2003


'Idol' Expands to Make Room for Monica


STEPHEN M. SILVERMAN



Good thing Simon Cowell has so much to say: FOX intends to spread even more "American Idol" magic around.
The talent hunt, already running two nights a week, is about to be expanded even more. According to Variety, FOX has scheduled an hourlong "Idol" special for next Monday, April 21, right before the debut of its new dating show "Mr. Personality" -- hosted by Monica Lewinsky, 29.

("Idol" has already helped launch the new FOX sitcom "Wanda at Large," which quickly established itself in the ratings.)

There will be even more "Idol" come May sweeps. The show's Wednesday results will expand to an hour on April 30 and May 14, and to two hours for the show's May 21 second-season finale.

Pagal

Monday, April 14, 2003 - 04:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Also on People.com


April 14, 2003


Corey's Story


Feeling burned by his abrupt ouster from American Idol, finalist Clark tells his side of what happened.






"We have a good relationship," Alysha says of Clark (in Mt. Juliet, Tenn., on April 7).
(John Chiasson)








At 8:30 a.m. on March 31, Corey Clark was awakened by two American Idol production assistants. The news wasn't good: The Smoking Gun Web site, they said, was reporting that Clark was facing trial on charges of hitting his sister and resisting arrest in Topeka, Kan. Still in pajamas, Clark hurried to the game room of Idol's Hollywood Hills mansion to see for himself. Before he could panic, a FOX publicist phoned. "He said, 'Just don't talk about it and everything will be all right,' " says Clark, 22. But 20 minutes later a P.A. told Clark he had to pack up and go have a talk with Nigel Lythgoe, the show's co-executive producer. Clark crammed his clothes and finalist booty into four suitcases and nine boxes. "I said, 'I'll just leave.' The P.A. said, 'No, you really need to go down and talk to Nigel. He wants to hear your side.' "
Clark was hastened off to the meeting with Lythgoe, then to a studio where, without preparation, he taped an interview for the April 1 Idol show — then into ignominy as the butt of Jay Leno jokes. If scandals on this season's Idol are gold, Corey Clark had just gone platinum. "I feel like I was exploited for ratings," he says. Claiming he neither hit his sister Alysha, 15, nor took on four policemen, Clark also maintains he was misled during his 40-minute meeting with Lythgoe, a session that was attended by a psychiatrist. "I was told that depending on how I handled the situation and helped them get through it, that I still had a chance to be on the show," says Clark. "I wasn't able to talk to a lawyer, my parents or a PR person. They were just rushing me along." (Idol producers declined to respond to the singer's charges.) An hour later, according to Clark, Lythgoe told him that FOX wanted him off the show.

Clark claims the interview that aired "was so spliced that it frustrated me." He was particularly irked by the use of his comment, "I was a little scared," which he says he made in response to a question about how he felt when Topeka police arrested him last October. As edited, it sounded like he was referring to why he never mentioned his arrest to Idol producers. "They put it out there like I was a liar," he says.

Well, is he? Clark admits that the documents he filled out during his Idol background check deny any arrest record. He says that a canceled November court date, the refund of his $100 bond and comments by court officers led him to believe the case had been dismissed — an account his attorney Robin Mitchell Joyce corroborates. As for the battery charges, his sister Alysha says, "He never hit me. We just started arguing, like any brother or sister would." By Clark's account, when they took their feud outside, a neighbor "showed up and got involved"; when he cursed at the woman, she called the cops. Refuting media reports, he says, "I did not beat up four police officers. I was not screaming." He admits to arguing with them and stepping through handcuffed arms to bring his hands in front of his body. (The police declined comment.) Clark spent the next three nights in jail, waiting to post bail after the long Columbus Day weekend.
His mom, Jan, calls the episode "a babysitting gig gone bad." At the time, Cracker Barrel had just relocated her to Nashville to manage a store, and her husband, Duane, 53, a professional singer, was recuperating from throat surgery. "Our son came home to help us out," says Jan, 44. "We didn't ask him to — he offered because he loves his sisters." She doesn't doubt the sibling spat was noisy. "As one tries to outtalk the other, the volume gets louder." Case documents say the parties are discussing a "nontrial resolution," but Jason Coody of the Shawnee County D.A.'s office says, "To my knowledge, the case is still on." In the meantime, Clark has moved to Rialto, Calif. "I may work at McDonald's or Blockbuster to keep some stuff coming in," he says. But Clark, who began his showbiz career at 14, says the Idol debacle is not a career-ender. "They played a major part in getting my face out there," he says. "But my hard work, determination and talent did not start with American Idol."

— JILL SMOLOWE
— BEVERLY KEEL in Mt. Juliet and PAM GROUT in Topeka

Seamonkey

Monday, April 14, 2003 - 04:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
AI may have launched "Wanda", but personally, I switch the channel as quickly as possible to avoid even seeing commercials for that.. and the same will hold true for Monica..

Thanks for including the Corey info.. that is exactly what I had seen and heard.

Grooch

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 09:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Some things Corey said in an interview.

'Idol' days, restless nights

So what's it really like to be living among the cast of Fox's American Idol 2, a top-5-rated show each week?

Here are some insights from Corey Clark of Mt. Juliet, who was booted from the show April 1.

• Fellow Middle Tennessean Kimberley Locke of Gallatin has ''some fine feet!'' Clark says. ''I mean her skin is soft and her toenails are always painted up the right way.''

• Guys, you don't have to be too upset about the rumors that hottie Kimberly Caldwell is dating a contestant from the first American Idol. Theirs, Clark reports, ''is an open relationship.''

• Clark roomed with Ruben Studdard and Rickey Smith in what they called ''the boom-boom room.''

• Clark's fave judge: Paula Adbul. ''That lady is one of the biggest sweethearts in my life.'' But he's got love for Simon Cowell, too, who surprised Clark by talking to him and encouraging him after the TV cameras were off.

• Clark said some contestants grumbled about work days that ran between 13 and 17 hours but he loved them because he loves to sing. ''They weren't fading me, man.''

Clark says he and the Marine, Joshua Gracin, had a falling out after show producers (incorrectly) told Gracin that Clark picked a certain song to sing because he had heard Gracin on the phone earlier saying he wanted to sing the same song.

Clark says Gracin then complained to other contestants, saying Clark was a jerk.

Clark said it got straightened out after Clark approached Gracin and told him the truth. But Clark says he didn't like the way Gracin handled it.

''I said, 'You're a Marine, dude, stop acting like a ballet dancer.' ''


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Grooch

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 09:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Latest moves are baffling as Rickey gets sent home
Apr. 15, 2003 12:00 AM


Watching Rickey Smith getting kicked off American Idol was as exciting as the season finale of the first Survivor. OK, not really, but last week's show did have its nail-biting moments for the bottom three, Smith, Kimberly Caldwell and Kimberley Locke. Former Valley contestants Lindsey Gort and Rebecca Bond give their inside take.

QUESTION: How did you take the news about Rickey going home?

LINDSEY: I'm confused. I know they combined the votes from last week, and last week he didn't (perform) that well, so maybe it caught up with him. But how in the world did Carmen (Rasmusen) or Trenyce not make the bottom three? Ryan Seacrest was on Good Day Live the next day, and he was saying that right before the cuts he had talked to Carmen's mom, and she was saying, "I'm terrified." So that makes me even more mad! I mean, her mom didn't even think she deserved to stay.

REBECCA: I cried. To me, American Idol lost its integrity when it went outside the 32 for the wild-card show. Ever since that move, I haven't been surprised at anything that happens.

Q: What does Clay Aiken have to do (aside from cutting back on the lip gloss) in order to have the winning edge against Ruben Studdard?

REBECCA: He does wear lip-gloss! Going up against Ruben will be a close shot. Clay needs to let himself come out a little bit more. Ruben lets go and lets you love him because he shows his personality. Clay is too conservative. He is a funny guy with a lot of wit. I wish he would let that come out onstage.

Q: Who deserves to go this week?

LINDSEY: Kimberly Caldwell. She isn't doing anything wrong but she keeps getting in the bottom three. And Carmen, too. She just keeps slipping through.

REBECCA: If it was a fair game, Carmen would be on her way out. She just doesn't have "it" like the others do. I have not been a fan of her voice from the beginning.

Q: What do you think is her secret to staying power?

LINDSEY: I was reading an America Online message board, and they were saying her secret is that any 10-year-old can vote, so of course they are going to go for the tan blonde just because they feel sorry for her. She doesn't have any bad baggage like Kimberly Caldwell. That's why I don't think America's vote should count for everything. The judges should have a say in it, too.

REBECCA: Simon (Cowell). He is the one who picked her. People don't want to rock the vote by booting her off. She is 17, very marketable, moldable and is a cute girl. Carmen can be made to fit what they want.

- Kathy Cano Murillo


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Hobbs

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 10:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
<<She is 17, very marketable, moldable and is a cute girl. Carmen can be made to fit what they want.>>

Exactly what I have been saying all along!! (He says smugly)
smug

Walker

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 10:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
thats true and the girl can't even sing worth crap
but she is a cutie pie.

Hobbs

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 10:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
What does singing have to do with marketability? I can name plenty of pop music stars that can't sing. As long as the teeny-bopper girls imitate her and the lust crazed boys dream of her, the producers will get rich!

Weenerlobo

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 11:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
But we don't need another one! (runs from the room, wailing and clutching head in her hands)

Hobbs

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 01:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Poor Weenerlobo. It's not her day. I think we need to send her over to the Clay Clubhouse for a Clay fix!

Monkeyboy

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 01:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
<<To me, American Idol lost its integrity when it went outside the 32 for the wild-card show. Ever since that move, I haven't been surprised at anything that happens.>>

Someone sounds bitter! :)

Obviously Carmen is *better* than you if she made it into the top 12, hon!

I actually know Rebecca Bond (havent talked to her since Dec. and i bet AI went to her head), but when i see her im going to laugh in her face and say i havent been a big fan of your voice!

Im so mean, but oh well she needs it. :)

Ladytex

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 01:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL, Monkeyboy, you ARE mean!
*running giggling from this room*

Walker

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 02:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
hobbs what i was trying to say is that talent does'nt seem to be needed anymore.

Seamonkey

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 03:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Talent may not be a requirement, but it sure is nice.. and since Kelly won last year, I suppose we now expect talent to be a big factor this year. I don't consider Carmen to be without talent, but others still around (and some already gone) have more, right now, today. Carmen has potential, but so do many people.

Mygetaway

Wednesday, April 16, 2003 - 01:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Just found this over at TVGuide.com

TVGO: Are you going home to Texas?
Rickey: I'm headed to Kansas. I'm doing a concert with Busta Rhymes, 50 Cent... all of them. It's in Wichita, Kans., tomorrow. I don't know much about it. It just got set up, and they asked me if I wanted to do it.

Go Rickey!!
http://tvguide.com/newsgossip/insider/