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Posted Monday 3/26/18 at 2:46PM EDT
American Idol alum returns five years later -- competing in drag
Adam Sanders, who competed in Season 12 and made it to Hollywood Week, returned last night as "Ada Vox.
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Posted Wednesday 3/21/18 at 11:27PM EDT
Luke Bryan defends Katy Perry in American Idol first-kiss controversy
“It’s unfortunate that stuff like that turns into a story that big,” says the Idol judge of contestant Benjamin Glaze getting...
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American Idol's new judges seem to get that they're not judging a singing competition
Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie have already rejected some perfectly good singers because they know that the show...
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Katy Perry's Idol flirting is treated as a joke, but is it problematic in the #MeToo era?
Perry ran into some controversy last week for giving contestant Benjamin Glaze his first kiss without permission.
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Posted Friday 3/16/18 at 10:02PM EDT
Where did American Idol and Katy Perry go wrong in this week's first-kiss hubbub?
"ABC’s decision to treat it as a playful, feel-good moment—and use it to advertise the show—is bafflingly obtuse," says Christina...
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Posted Thursday 3/15/18 at 9:38PM EDT
American Idol contestant kissed by Katy Perry has since had his "first kiss in a real way"
Benjamin Glaze entered his first relationship after auditioning for the ABC reality show, and his new girlfriend is totally cool...
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Posted Thursday 3/15/18 at 5:20AM EDT
American Idol contestant clarifies: "I do not think I was sexually harassed by Katy Perry"
After The New York Times posted a story Wednesday about the "unwanted kiss" Benjamin Glaze received from Katy Perry, which...
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Posted Wednesday 3/14/18 at 1:13PM EDT
American Idol contestant isn't happy Katy Perry gave him his first kiss without his permission
”I was a tad bit uncomfortable,” says 20-year-old Benjamin Glaze, who was 19 when he filmed his Idol audition last...
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Posted Wednesday 3/14/18 at 1:13PM EDT
American Idol "Chicken Little" finalist Kevin Covais made a cameo on the This Is Us season finale
Covais, who competed on Idol in 2006 as a 16-year-old, was shown briefly working the counter at an ice cream...
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Posted Tuesday 3/13/18 at 10:17PM EDT
Katy Perry has already proven she's worth her $25 million American Idol salary
"Katy Perry gives the reboot both the dazzle factor and gravitas it needed to work," says Malcolm Venable.
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Posted Tuesday 3/13/18 at 12:23PM EDT
American Idol's second night was no match for The Voice
After premiering Sunday to a strong 10.
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Posted Monday 3/12/18 at 10:04PM EDT
ABC's "Disneyfied" American Idol reboot is "eerily upbeat"
The Idol revival "packs an Epcot Center’s worth of anti-cynicism," says Spencer Kornhaber.
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Posted Monday 3/12/18 at 2:09PM EDT
American Idol returns to solid ratings, while Fox's O.J. Simpson special tanks
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O.J. Simpson: The Lost Confession? brought Fox back to its "tacky, tawdry shock-TV past"
"There wasn’t much there there" in the two-hour special that mostly rehashed everything you probably knew about O.
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American Idol is pretty much the same on ABC, but a little sappier and more Disney-fied
Just about everything on Sunday's premiere is like the Fox version, right down to the host, the emotional contestant backstories,...