https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDPdRYF7hTQ America’s Got Talent is back on NBC and I was not sure how the new judges, Gabrielle Union and Julianne Hough, would do. Well, Union is proving to be the heart of the show.
Kodi Lee, a 22-year-old man who is blind and autistic, came out with his amazing mom Tina. The judges asked him some questions and he told them that he is going to sing for them. He sat down at the piano and started to play Donny Hathaway’s A Song For You. Once he sang his first note and you heard his soulful voice, the tears began to stream down our faces. When he was done, the judges and the audience rightfully gave him a long standing ovation. Making a special moment even more special.
However, it did not stop there. All four judges, including Simon Cowell, praised him, and Union took it one step further. She hit the Golden Buzzer sending him directly to the live shows.
Lee said he will never forget that moment and neither will we. This is what talent competitions are all about. Finding extraordinary people with amazing talents. It is about giving people a shot that would normally not get one. I hope he goes all the way!
However, who knows who else we will find out about this season because yesterday was only night one.
To hear Lee talk about his audition, then click here!
Yesterday on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon played Phone Booth with Gabrielle Union. A game he quickly regretted playing.
It is a very simple game, they answer questions in a phone booth. If they get it right, a person is put in their opponent’s booth. If they get it wrong, they are placed in theirs.
Fallon thought he was in the clear when he got the first question right. Unfortunately for him so did the LA’s Finest star. When it came time for the NBC host to find out who would be joining him, he got a surprise. Animal Trainer Grant Kemmerer brought a friend with him, a 10′ python. How did Fallon, who is afraid of exotic animals, feel about it? As a disgraced comedian once said, “First you say it, then you do it.”
Bad Boys was good, but they have nothing on the television spinoff LA Finest. Jessica Alba and Gabrielle Union bring their sass to Spectrum OnDemand today. The networks might have rejected it, but Spectrum was smart to make it their first scripted show.
Syd (Union) moved from Miami to LA to have a calmer life as a detective after being shot and left for dead. That past makes her the tough cop that she is, but she does not share her former life with anyone including her partner.
Nancy (Jessica Alba) also has a troubled past, but she turned her life around. She is now married to Patrick McKenna (Ryan McPartlin) and together they are raising his teenage daughter Izzy (Sophie Reynolds). Patrick just got offered the job to be the District Attorney and that is going to affect the McKenna household
You don’t care about that. You want to know if they are going to be explosions, car chases, shoot outs, fights and all those other things that come with Dick Flicks. The leads might be females, but they have bigger balls than most of their male competition.
Before Gabrielle Union was one of LA’s Finest, she was dating the finest guy on City Guys. She has not aged a day since she was 24 in that 1997 episode.
We know that America’s Got Talent changed it up this season, but when will we see those changes? NBC announced today talent competition show will return on May 28th.
That is when we will find out if the new judges, Julianne Hough and Gabrielle Union, work well with Howie Mandel and Simon Cowell and new host Terry Crews. I think it will be interesting because we know that Hough doesn’t like to share the spotlight and neither does Cowell. Since it is the latter one’s show, I think we know who will win out.
