Jennifer Hudson has a new talk show, and she got an old friend to be her first guest. That friend is Simon Cowell, and he asked her the money question.
What was it? If she could go back and change the song she performed on American Idol that caused her to get eliminated early on, would she do it?
The EGOT winner would keep the Barry Manilow song because it is what landed her her Oscar-winning role in Dreamgirls.
You see, Manilow structured Weekend in New England after I’m Telling You. So it was like she auditioned for the role without auditioning for it.
So, had she not chosen that crappy song that got her eliminated, then she would not have gotten the role in the movie. Had she not gotten the part, then someone else would be hosting her daytime talk show, and she would be home wondering what it would’ve been like to have the life she has now.
To see the performance that led to her saying goodbye to Idol, then
