Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Robyn Troup, the 19-year-old singer from Houston who won the chance to sing with Justin Timberlake at the Grammys Sunday, was tossed from "American Idol 6" in Tuesday’s telecast. Troup made it through the first round in Hollywood and was sent packing during the group round when she sang with fellow Texas contestant Sundance Head and another woman. Her disqualification was based on her not performing well enough for the judges. While she won the Grammy contest, she pretty much did not reach the top 50 on Fox’s "Idol." For the "My Grammy Moment" contest, Troup beat out thousands of other contestants who submitted videos of unaccompanied singing. Grammy viewers voted online to select a winner, but during the Grammy competition, no mention was made of Troup being an "Idol" contestant.

Variety (story) and AP (photo)

I wonder if the Idol producers are kicking themselves for eliminating her?

AMERICAN IDOL: FINAL 24:
Seated L-R : Blake Lewis, Nicole Tranquillo, AJ Tobaldo, Hayley Scarnato, Stephanie Edwards and Sabrina Sloan.
2nd row L-R: Gina Glocksen, Melinda Doolittle, Leslie Hunt, Lakisha Jones, Nick Pedro, Alaina Alexander and Sundance Head.
3rd row L-R: Sanjaya Malakar, Brandon Rogers, Amy Krebs, Antonella Barba, Chris Richardson and Chris Sligh.
Top row – L-R: Rudy Cardenas, Phil Stacey, Paul Kim and Jordin Sparks.

American Idol (photo credit Micheal Becker/Fox)

I have not picked an Idol yet out of the bunch, have you?
ONTD compilied a list of the top 24’s MySpaces and Fan pages if you want to start checking them out!

"American Idol" executive producer Cecile Frot-Coutaz promises a big event midway through the coming season of the red-hot talent show – but she won’t say what it is. "If there’s one thing that makes ‘American Idol’ so big, it’s a huge event," she told the Daily News. "Something we’re working on is a big-event show, sometime in the middle of the season, something that will blow America away," she added. Hard to believe the folks behind "American Idol" can get the show any bigger than it already is. When it’s on – and it’s only around 19 weeks a year – the show is the biggest thing on the small screen, generating huge Nielsen ratings and daily water-cooler buzz. Each season the show rolls around, there are gentle warnings that the audience level will drop. And, each year, the show does better. "American Idol" returns with two-hour editions on Jan. 16 and 17 at 8 p.m. Few shows have had the run "American Idol" has and remained as strong. But Frot-Coutaz said a drop is not out of the realm of possibility. "Look," she said, "it’s always in the back of your mind. The only thing we can do is make the best show we can and find the best talent as possible. The rest, some of it is up to Fox and how they promoted it. The rest is the competitive landscape. If we keep giving [viewers] something entertaining, it will be fine." While most of the world goes into a slow-down mode this holiday season, the folks at 19 Entertainment and FremantleMedia North America, which produce "Idol," are in overdrive preparing the early editions of the show. "We’re in production pretty much year-round," Frot-Coutaz said. "We start our casting in August." This time of year, she admitted, gets a bit tense. "It’s that time when you get apprehensive about how it’s going to launch," she said. "We keep our fingers crossed." The early episodes are "great" she said, with some of the best audition shows ever. They key, she said, is mixing the good people with the truly bad ones, like, say, William Hung. "There’s some great talent out there," she said. "But there’s also some people who are delusional about their talent, too. That’s the beauty of an open call – everybody comes. Everybody thinks they’ve got a great voice."

New York Daily News

I wonder what it going to be? I have to know? What? What? What? Could it be a double elimination? Getting rid of Paula? A live concert? Bring someone back? What?

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