Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Former American Idol contestant Elliott Yamin helped one special fan’s dream come true over the weekend. The singer, who was the third runner-up in the most recent season, spent time backstage in Richmond, Va., during the "American Idols Live" tour with Amanda Jones, a die-hard fan who was recently diagnosed with leukemia. Jones, 19, from Jonesboro, Ark., tells PEOPLE that when she received her diagnosis just two weeks ago, she had two questions for her doctors: 1. Is the disease curable? 2. Could she go to Richmond to see the "American Idols Live" tour? "I had to see my Idol in his hometown," says Jones, referring to Yamin, a Richmond native. Not only did she make it to Richmond on Saturday night, but thanks to a connection through a Yamin fan forum, she snagged a backstage pass from a friend of Yamin’s who’d heard about Jones’s leukemia diagnosis. "He is, by far, one of the sweetest people I ever met," says Jones. "He was rubbing my back and told me not to worry and that everything would be okay."  Jones is such a big fan of Yamin’s that, in May, she camped out at Graceland in Memphis to catch a glimpse of him when the top Idol contenders visited Elvis’s former home. Now, she says, "He’s my hero. He went through so much in his childhood, struggled through so much, and in the end, he came out on top. That’s what I pray and hope I can do." Yamin, 28, suffers from Type 1 diabetes and is 90 percent deaf in his right ear. After a series of childhood ear infections and ear-drum replacement surgery at 13, "it just hasn’t worked right," he told PEOPLE in March. As for being able to sing in spite of that, "I don’t know how to explain it, because I’m not a religious person. It’s a gift." Backstage, Yamin signed Jones’s program, writing: "Amanda, thank you for all your support. I thank you for driving a long way to see us. God bless you, sweetheart." In return, Jones gave him a card and a LiveStrong bracelet. As she turned to leave, Yamin hugged her one more time. "That just boosted me up," Jones tells PEOPLE. "I forgot I was the kid with leukemia."

People

If history repeats itself every time he does something good Taylor will sue someone like Clay and Ruben. Record labels take notice. 

THE producers of "American Idol" are angry about suggestions in the upcoming Fantasia Barrino movie on Lifetime that they pushed her to quit because she was an unwed mother."Certainly, under no circumstances was she ever approached to be talked out of taking part in [the show]," "Idol" executive producer Ken Warwick told The Post. "We knew she had a baby right from Day One, and she was always strongly tipped to win the competition because she was so good. "I can absolutely refute that nothing was done, or even remotely suggested to her that she shouldn’t take part in the competition," he said."It’s a complete fabrication."The Post reported on Friday that the biographical movie – called "Fantasia: Life is Not a Fairy Tale" and set to air in mid-August – about her unlikely rise to the top of the pop music world in 2004, hints that the producers of the show subtly pres sured her to quit.In the film’s opening scene, a surprised Fantasia – who plays herself in the movie – is stopped coming off stage from the show’s weekly telecast and told a producer wants to see her in her dressing room.The "Idol" producer asks if she’s read the Internet chatter about her – that she was an unwed teenage mother and a high-school dropout and that she was not a role model as the next Idol. The producer then suggests no one would blame the then-19-year-old if she decided to quit the show."It’s absolutely and totally untrue," Warwick says. "I’m the executive producer, Nigel [Lythgoe] is the other executive producer and nobody – to my knowledge – would have said anything like that to her."In the film, the executive is not identified other than by a first name, Ed. (No producer with that first name is listed in the show’s credits.)The scene serves as a set-up for the rest of the film – a flashback to her roughshod upbringing in small-town North Carolina and the road to the "Idol" finals.The dressing-room conference comes back near the end of the movie – where again she is offered the option to get off the show. Of course, she turns it down and goes on to win the 2004 edition of the show.Fantasia’s representatives did not make her available for an interview over the weekend.

NY Post 

It is not like she read the script. 

Questions and Comments
1-  Where is Elliott Yamin?
2 – Why is Paris’ mom in the picture?
3 – When did Kellie Pickler get that weave?
4 – I love how Katherine McPhee was able to make it back in time to meet the President and look at her bulimic a$$ standing next to him. Well we all know she likes older men. 

EVERYBODY loves a rags-to-riches tale. And when that rags-to-riches tale happens to include a winner of "American Idol" – well, oh baby!So you can just imagine how beside myself I, a slobbering, shamelessly rabid "Idol" fan, was when a copy of the upcoming Lifetime movie, "The Fantasia Barrino Story: Life is Not a Fairy Tale," showed up in the office.Directed by Debbie Allen, the movie, based on Fantasia’s best-selling book of the same name, gives away a dirty little secret that the producers of "Idol" probably would rather have kept to themselves: They tried to get her to quit the show after she’d already made it to the finals.Why? Because they were afraid that the revelations that came out on the Internet during that time and spread faster than bird flu – that not only had she been a high-school dropout who had literacy issues, but that she was an unwed mother who had her daughter when she was in her early teens – would hurt the show.The suits at "Idol" pushed her to quit, but the kid pushed back. She’d been through too much to quit – again.Her mother had quit her dreams to have babies. Her grandmother (a minister) was a struggling unwed mother, and Fantasia knew that if she quit then, she’d face nothing more than life in the projects raising her daughter alone.Needless to say, she not only won that fight, but won the whole deal, and became 2004’s Idol winner.

 NY Post

And I 100% agree with the producers. Fantasia by winning American Idol is suppose to be a role model and by not being able to read and by being a mother at 16 is not the best example. In a time when teenage pregnancies are down, it was not the best idea to have someone who is teenage mom represent America. Plus the screechy ugly singer who looks and sings like Donald Duck couldn’t fucking read. If you can’t read, you do not deserve to be an American Idol.

And goes lawsuit happy.  

"American Idol" winner Taylor Hicks has obtained a temporary injunction preventing his former producer from releasing a song Hicks wrote and recorded nearly 10 years ago, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The order will delay the release of "The Fall" by William Smith Productions for at least 10 days. Hicks claims the song proposed for release is an unfinished version. … Busta Rhymes will perform Thursday night on Fox’s "So You Think You Can Dance." … Outkast held a listening party for their long-delayed album Idlewild at the London Eye Tuesday night, according to the New Musical Express. The party was followed by an afterparty, held on a cruise liner called the Silver Sturgeon, that was attended by both Andre 3000 and Big Boi. The album, which features 25 tracks (including interludes), is slated for release on August 22, with the film of the same name coming three days later.

MTV

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