Category — Paula Abdul

Great news for Andrew Gunsberg or Andrew G as he used to be known as he will be hosting a new reality show with Paula Abdul called Live To Dance.

Paula Abdul will anchor the expert line-up, alongside Pussycat Dolls singer/dancer Kimberley Wyatt and choreographer Travis Payne.

The show will premiere in January on CBS. Hopefully an Australian TV station will fast track the show here.

Source: Daily Telegraph

News.com.au has a story in it that says that Paula Abdul may be coming to Australia to replace Kyle Sandilands.

Somehow I think the $1 million (Australian dolllars not US) would not be enought for her. However if she does come, can she replace Marcia Hines, and then we get two new judges for this season. Now that would improve ratings.

The word that it is JayDee Springett just keeps getting stronger.

News in from the US is that Paula Idol has quit American Idol. She was a judge on the show for eight seasons. She won’t say why she is leaving.

But this is how I think it played out.

1. American Idol producers decide they have had enough of her zonked out/crazy behaviour.

2. Hire saner, younger and female fourth judge Kara DioGuardi for “one season”.

3. Negotiate with Kara to come back for another season for peanuts.

4. Offer Paula contract that is insultingly low, claiming Global Financial Crisis, and Simon Cowell’s astronomical pay demands.

5. Paula quits to save what little dignity she has left, and plays right into the hands of the producers.

6. American Idol does not hire a fourth person, but goes back to a three person panel.

Now Fremantle Media Australia and Channel Ten this is an opportunity to get Paula going crazy on our screens.

American Idol judge Paula Abdul has a new boyfriend, name unknown at this stage. He looks like a cross between uber chef Anthony Bourdin and George Harrison.

Apparently they went on a date to Beso her ex-boyfriend’s restaurant. Is she trying to make him jealous.

Full story on Idolstalker.

In other reality TV romance news winner for cycle 3 of America’s Next Top Model Eva Marcille is engaged to Lance Gross, an actor. Full story here.

Is Paula Abdul accusing American Idol producers putting her in harms way by allowing her now dead stalker Paula Goodspeed to audition for the show some sort of publicity stunt to get people to watch the new season of Idol? (Previous post on Paula flipping out here.)

With Idol ratings falling in 2008 this could be a strategy to get people interested in the soon to be starting eight season.

This allowed the former producer of Idol Nigel Lythgoe to then come out and defend the show generating more publicity.

Will this supposed conflict bring in the punters? If it doesn’t American Idol producers have made other changes to the show.

Reality TV Mag writes about the changes. They include:

• A fourth judge – Kara DioGuardi a songwriter is now a judge, possibly increasing Paula’s paranoia.
• Fewer audition weeks featuring “fewer bad singers and more “˜aspirational’ singers”;
• Instead of a Top 24, the show will feature a Top 36 which will eventually be narrowed down to 12.
• The Wild Card round will return while the charity-based Idol Gives Back isn’t on the schedule for this season.

Fox 8 will be screening American Idol fasttracked from the US from the 14 January 2009.

Anyway you make your own judgement on whether Paula has gone loopy or if it is a publicity stunt by looking at the You Tube clip above.

Paula Goodspeed who has been found dead outside the house of Paula Abdul, the American Idol judge’s house auditioned for Idol in 2005.

She has been stalking Paula for a few years and at the audition below she reveals her fandom to Ryan Seacrest.

This video footage does raise the issue of whether American Idol has some responsibility in not making fun of people who clearly have mental issues. You decide.

Michael Johns Has Hit Sydney
Aussie American Idol contestant Michael Johns is now in Australia for a promotional trip for Idol. Not sure what he is going to do, but Fox 8 has brought him out.

He will probably hit the radio airwaves and TV talk shows.

Small SMH article here.

Hilarious article pointing out Paula Abdul’s weird and unexplained moments.
MTV has an article here that outlines American Idol judge Paula Abdul’s other unexplained faux pas on the show. It has been all over the world about last weeks slip up of judging the song before it has been sung. But MTV have dredged their memories to come up with some more.

Natalie Gauci Recording An Album
Sightings of last year’s Australian Idol winner have been slim as she is in the studio recording an album. Apparently they are wanting to take it slowly to ensure it is a quality album. A strategy which worked for Damien Leith last year, as well as Leona Lewis.

Revlon say Alice Burdeau stood them up at an event because of partying too hard.
Revlon allege that last season’s winner of Australia’s Next Top Model Alice Burdeau stood them up for an event the night after the Logies. It was rumoured that she may have knocked back to much of the free champagne and was not in any shape to make it.

Her people deny it of course, and say Alice was never confirmed for the event. However apparently she was unable to speak at the MTV awards, this was reported on Vega. Maybe she is trying to emulate fashion icon Kate Moss too much. Or maybe she should just eat a few more canapes with her champagne.

An addendum to the above article in today’s Daily Tele states an ‘anon source’ said she did look disorientated at the Logies. She apparently arrived 3 hours before the start of the ceremony and was a bit squiffy even before it started. A minder said she was back in her hotel by 1.00am.

Personally I thought it was obligatory to get smashed at the Logies as that was the only way to cope with the evening.

The American Idol forums are on fire after the Paula Abdul stuff up last night when she started commenting on songs that had yet to be sung.

If you missed it you can see her confusion here. It is hilarious.

The debate raging is whether the producers write her lines, or is she on the drink or drugs or both?? You decide.

Reggie from Big Brother’s Pregnancy Scare.
I don’t usually trade in Big Brother banter, however it is Reggie…

In this weeks Woman Day there is an article about her near death pregnancy. She had an ectopic pregnancy and was in severe pain and bleeding. She seemed to have to see a lot of Doctor’s before someone actually gave her a definitive diagnosis, clearly the Queensland Health system still has some issues after Dr Patel!

Guy Sebastian Concert Review

Rodney Olsen’s Blog has a very positive review of the Guy Sebastian gig in Perth. The backing band are apparently sensational. To think I refused free tickets to a show in Sydney. I was feeling particularly lethargic at the time.

Paula Abdul Could Not Speak For Two Years.

Now some people might think that is a good thing, however she was in an emergency plane landing and did severe spinal damage and one of the operations severed her vocal chords. Therefore could not speak for two years, and was out of the limelight for six years.

Paula fans probably already know all this and I had just thought it was a career slump.

Now Magazine has all the details. The other thing I did not know about Paula was she wrote Kylie Minogues come back song “Spinning Around”.

I have to confess I have new found respect for her. Also is this why she is so loopy, the pain killers she might still be on?