American Idol XIII, eliminated contestant, Emily Piriz, spoke with reporters on Friday in her exit interview. Here is what she had to say about her journey: What’s the best piece of advice one of the judges gave her? EP: “They’ve all given me great advice.  Keith told me the other [...]

For a kid who never was able to see his baseball field of dreams come true, Scotty MCreery is certainly getting to at least step on to those fields of dreams. Sunday it was Petco Park in San Diego. He had never been there before as hetrotted out mid-game to [...]

DEL MAR – On my Facebook page, where my likeness is supposed to be shining bright for all the world to see I have a picture of Adam Lambert. I took it in Oakland four summers ago when he was part of the American Idol Summer Tour. Now comes the [...]

So how does 12 minus 9 equal 31? Only on American Idol, that’s how. Idol had its lowest ratings in just about forever this past season – Season 12. So, when ticket sale dropped like a lead balloon for the annual Idol Summer Tour something had to give and it [...]

When June Gloom fades away hereabouts it just doesn’t get much better. Sit on a seawall, soak up the sun and the cool breezes off that blue ocean, watch the brown pelicans soar overhead and have a phone conversation with James Durbin. Do what? Yes, talk to James Durbin. The [...]

The American Idol executives didn’t wait long to replace their former top two executive producers of the show. Over the weekend they summarily dismissed Nigel Lythgoe and Ken Warwick and on Monday morning th0ey announced that Per Blakens is the new executive producer of AI. For a little over five [...]

Remember this past American Idol season as each of the Top 10 finalists were eliminated the execs cued the song “Gone, Gone, Gone” and off the contestants went into oblivion. Well, now Idol’s top two executive producers – Nigel Lythgoe and Ken Warwick – are just that, gone, gone, gone. [...]

Two down. One to go? Earlier this week, via her publicist, Mariah Carey announced that she would not be returning to the Idol judges’ panel. Now, via twitter, Nicki Minaj said she too will not be coming back for her sophomore season. Fox responded this way: “Nicki Minaj is a [...]

Scotty McCreery was less than five months shy of his 18th birthday on May 25, 2011 when he was crowned American Idol’s Season 10 winner and that singular moment catapulted him into the world of country music. “I know it hasn’t been that long ago,” McCreery said last week while [...]

The rumors continue to float around American Idol just a week after the Season 12 finale. Even ex-judge Randy Jackson got back into the mix on Friday morning. Good Morning America caught up with Jackson in Florida where he was donating some of his guitars to the military. He said [...]