You probably won’t believe it after watching her joy-hop her way through the Savannah audition episode, but Ashlee Altise says she was shy in high school. Clearly, she’s over that. If her audition wasn’t enough to convince you of that, check out the interview footage below. Stick with it, Ashlee sings a snippet of a…
Top 9 — A Song for You Top 10 — My Life Top 11/12 — Right Here Waiting Top 13 — All in Love is Fair Semifinals — Angels I’m pretty sure most of that nervousness Heejun Han displayed during the Pittsburgh audition episode of American Idol was an act. I mean, the guy’s quite…
American Idol’s first two audition episodes were filled with contestants giving it another shot after failing to make the semifinals a year ago. That includes teenager Travis Orlando, of Bronx, N.Y, who’s hard-luck story hasn’t exactly turned around in the meantime. When we met Travis in last year’s New Jersey auditions, he and his family…
It had all the earmarks of one of those crazy auditions. Sam Novacek of Sutersville, Pa., was about to audition on American Idol, but the camera crew wasn’t focusing on her. They were focused on sister-in-law Patricia Bell. And more specifically, her planking. Which apparently is a yoga position in which one lies on his…
Hallie Day, 24, of Baltimore, certainly impressed the Idol judges during her audition in Pittsburgh. They saved her audition for last in the Pittsburgh episode, and Jennifer Lopez left saying they might have found the one, much as Steven Tyler did last year after Lauren Alaina’s audition. But the Idol judges weren’t the first to…
Gotta admit, I cringed a bit when Eben Franckewitz said people tell him he looks like Justin Bieber during Idol’s Pittsburgh audition episode. That’s because I think Idol would be much better off with less focus on finding the next young teen sensation and more focus on pure musical/vocal talent. That said, Eben was likable…
You might say William “W.T.” Thompson has a little riding on American Idol. He gave up a job at a federal prison to audition for the show last summer. His wife, Laura, was 6 1/2 months pregnant a the time, with a baby due in December. “I had to make a decision, either a job…
Wow, what a week ahead for fans of Idol music. Check it out. ** On Tuesday, Kellie Pickler released her third album, “100 Proof.” Simply put, it’s been way too long since we’ve had new music from Kellie. The Season 5 contestant released her last album, self-titled, in September 2008. Two singles from the album,…
I was pretty sure Creighton Fraker was going to be one of those crazy auditioners I consider a waste of time on Idol. After all, the 28-year-old from Queens was introduced to us as a starving artist. The next thing you know, he’s strolling down the streets of New York wearing bunny ears. Then he’s shown…
I thought this guy looked awfully familiar, though he wasn’t on the screen for all that long in Thursday’s Pittsburgh audition episode. Last year, Aaron Marcellus competed on Idol as Aaron Sanders. What’s more, he made it all the way to the Green Mile episode before being cut. He also made it to Hollywood in…
