Paula Abdul
American Idol Just Can't Stay Out of the News
Idol Producers Told Paula to Zip It
TMZ reports that the Idol big wigs contacted Paula Rehabdul before her David Letterman appearance to tell her to stop knocking them. Paula is upset that Paula Goodspeed was allowed on Idol despite her protests. Can we all just agree that the Idol producers and Pauler should take this feud to a desert island and never come back?
Paula Abdul on Letterman 12/10/08
Paula drunkenly slurs through her interview, Letterman calls Simon a tool, then Letterman encourages Paula to sue the producers of Idol and Fox. We love David Letterman. <3
Paula Abdul Says American Idol Producers Intentionally Put Her in Danger
Paula's definitely begging to be let go from Idol at this point it seems. The never sober one is now leveling accusations at Idol producers, saying that they knew that her "stalker" Paula Goodspeed probably wasn't completely mentally stable and intentionally put her on the show multiple times, despite Paula asking them not to. We all know the producers on Idol will do whatever they want to humiliate and hurt people for entertainment, but now they do it to their own staff too. Shocking... not. The audio above is from a Barbara Walters interview with Paula on this topic.
Paula Abdul's Rep Says She's Not Leaving Idol
Paula Rehabdul's publicist Jeff Ballard said on Friday that Paula is most certainly not leaving Idol. Sounds like spin to us. A little birdy told the Los Angeles Times that Paula's camp may have instigated the "leaving" rumor to try for a higher salary renegotiation when her contract is up. Stupid move, Paula. The show has been trying to get rid of you for years due to your behavior, and you're giving them the out. Guess we'll see what happens. Hopefully Paula does not sleep with any of the contestants this year to speed up her exit.
Paula Abdul Says She's Gone After American Idol 8
Drunken mess Paula Abdul says she wants to leave American Idol after season 8. OK Magazine reports that Paula is leaving to work on other projects (aka she was fired so she can go to rehab). As if we didn't call this months ago, Idol must have brought in Kara DioGuardi to replace Paula to ease the transition. As much as we mock her, we're gonna miss Paula when she's gone. Who else will mess up the producers' script and reveal to us that the show is rigged? Kara better be a world class train wreck to replace the one that's leaving.
Former Idol Auditioner Found Dead in Car
A woman was found dead in a car by Paula Abdul's home in Los Angeles. The AP article states that it was a "fan" of Paula's, but TMZ goes further to update that the woman is Paula Goodspeed. You may remember Paula, who auditioned for American Idol during season five. We'll keep you updated if we find out anything else.
Paula Says This Season Sucks So Far
Leave it to our favorite boozehound to let it slip how things are going. Paula Rehabdul let the Johnjay and Rich Show (who names these things?) that so far the auditions have sucked. VFTW Victory! Paula also said if there's a 2-2 tie now that they have 4 judges, Simon is the tiebreaker. Boring. He never votes the terrible ones through. Oh well.
No matter what, American Idol is seemingly always in the news. Can't the judges, producers, and former producers take a break from famewhoring for 10 minutes? Paula's been blubbering about her dead stalker Paula Goodspeed, and former producer and current douche nozzle Nigel Lythgoe just had to weigh in on Goodspeed's suicide. Figured. Nigel says, "To sort of tie that to an audition on 'American Idol' I find ... upsetting, and for it to continually to be raked over, I find upsetting for her family." Sure, Nigel. You profit off of exploiting crazy people and then say that your show embarrassing them in no way affected them...
TMZ also reports that this season of Idol is going to be more Big Brother-ish with backstage fighting taking precedence. Fine with us. We need to get to know these people better, and the more fighting someone does, the more likely we are to make them the VFTW pick. Because, really, what did we know about someone like Syesha Mercado besides the fact that she's batshit crazy, has a nice rack, and can make irritating baby noises? Or maybe that's because there really is nothing else to know about her...