American Idol Fixed? – An American Idol staffer is reportedly saying that American Idol is fixed and the final four are already picked, according to the New York Daily News.
One of Idol’s staffers is running around telling anyone who’ll listen that the team of producers and judges has already picked the final four contestants — despite the fact that at present eleven contestants are still battling to be the latest manufactured pop star.
The female “AI” worker told reporters that “the last four are going to be Danny Gokey, Lil Rounds, Adam Lambert and Alexis Grace.” Asked if this was opinion or actual fact, the staffer vehemently retorted, “Those ARE the people,” saying it wasn’t mere speculation.
If it was just her prediction, she’d be spot-on with this week’s TV Guide, which also chose those exact same four wanna-be crooners as its picks for stardom.
But the lass took it a step further, claiming that higher-ups at American Idol were taking an issue with two of the top contenders, especially Adam Lambert who is openly gay.
“Adam Lambert and Lil Rounds are better singers and musicians than Gokey and Grace, but they’re too much like past winners and ‘A’ successes,” the woman said. “Adam’s too close in style and sound to Chris Daughtry, while Lil Rounds is a dead ringer for Fantasia. Even their background stories are similar!”
“The producers really want it to be Danny or Alexis. They think they’re very commercially viable, have a good image and a great story.”
Gokey’s sorrowful story of the death of his wife, Sophia, during heart surgery a month before his audition is “a huge reason viewers are tuning in,” said the staffer. “Fox likes the attention that he’s getting, and they’ve taken to giving Danny much more airtime as a result.”
While Fox’s reps had no comment on the allegations, another TV insider told us, “It’d
be very hard to manipulate the entire final four. Sure, the judges get one vote to save someone, but that’s before the top five, so theoretically, it’s just delaying the inevitable.
“There’d have to be so many people lying for them to pull something like this off — so I doubt it’s true.”
And that’s the latest on the rumor about American Idol fixed?
Tags: adam lambert, alexis grace, american idol, american idol fixed, american idol season 8, danny gokey, lil rounds
March 19th, 2009 at 7:29 am
Alexis Grace was voted off last night, so obviously the Idol employee was just playing the media to hype the show.
Too bad, because spunky little Alexis could really sing…
September 24th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
As Mike Myers would say…Schwing!
September 27th, 2009 at 7:17 am
yea nice Work