Posts with tag KelliePickler
Posted Apr 29th 2008 12:03PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: American Idol, Contestants, Alumni, Performances, News and Gossip
Welcome back to
"AI Aftermath," where we explore
Idol's past. Each week, as one more
American Idol hopeful is eliminated from the competition, we take a look back at contestants past who were eliminated in the same week. We'll examine how they did on the show and what they've been up to since their eliminations. In honor of Carly Smithson's elimination last week we'll be looking at other sixth place finishers.
This week: 6th place finishers, featuring featuring Christina Christian (Season One), Carmen Rasmussen (Season Two), John Stevens (Season Three), Constantine Maroulis (Season Four), Kellie Pickler (Season Five) and Phil Stacey (Season Six).
Continue reading AI Aftermath: 6th place finishers
Posted Mar 19th 2008 8:45PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: American Idol, Reviewcaps, Contestants, Alumni, Episode Reviews
(S07E23) Everyone had so much fun in the live chat during the Top 11 performance show that we're doing it again! We'll be hosting another live chat during the live 9pm ET broadcast tonight. And we may just do it for the rest of the season, too. Watch the results and sound off about the painful group number as it happens. Critique Kellie Pickler's return to the
Idol stage and vent about all the "filler" Ryan subjects us to before voting out ... well who do
you think it will be?
You can join the chat by following this link. Look for the full episode review right here later tonight.
Continue reading American Idol: Top 10 Revealed
Posted Mar 18th 2008 10:24AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: American Idol, Alumni, Performances
She didn't win
American Idol Season 5, in fact she came in sixth place, but Kellie Pickler has still gone on to become one of the bigger success stories from the franchise. This week, the blonde bombshell who was made famous by her ditzy comments and naivete about ... well, everything, returns to the stage that made her a star.
Idol continues it's trend of inviting contestants past onto the results show each week to perform, self-promote and serve as inspiration for the current
Idol wannabes.
Rather than continue the tour of
Idol runner-ups begun with Blake Lewis and Katharine McPhee the past two weeks, the show is sticking with Season 5 and going with Kellie Pickler. The move makes sense, as Pickler has had more commercial success than Season 4 runner-up Bo Bice. In fact, I think Season 5 has more success stories in the music biz than any other season, so maybe they'll just stay here for a bit and check in with Elliott Yamin, Bucky Covington and Chris Daughtry while they're at it.
Continue reading American Idol welcomes back Kellie Pickler
Posted Feb 14th 2008 3:07PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: American Idol, Alumni, News and Gossip
Kellie Pickler gained infamy for her dim-witted charm on Season 5 of
American Idol, and has since gone on to some success in the country music field. She had a memorable return to the show that launched her career last year, facing off against Ryan Seacrest who wondered if she'd picked up a new pair of ... oh, anything with the money she'd made since leaving the show.
Now,
she's offering sage advice through
People magazine, to this year's crop of
Idol-wannabes. I'm sorry, but there's plenty of people I'd gladly take advice from, but "Pick Pickler" is hardly one of them. I still can't decide if the bumpkin idiocy is a farce, in which case she's brilliant, or real. If it's real then ... wow!
Continue reading Kellie Pickler has advice for new Idol contestants - VIDEO
Posted Mar 1st 2007 11:15PM by Liz Finn-Arnold
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, FOX, American Idol, Music and Variety, Reviewcaps, Contestants, Episode Reviews
(S06E16) Ryan sums up the last two nights by saying "The girls ripped it up and the boys threw it down," and tells us that once again they received almost 32 million total votes.
Let's just skip all the other stuff and get to it. AJ TABALDO is going home! I'm shocked. I really didn't see that coming. I would place AJ above Phil, Brandon, Jared, and definitely Sanjaya. He gave a good performance Tuesday night and received praise from all of the judges. He has a great personality to match a great voice. Yet, AJ's journey ends tonight...and Sanjaya (adorable, yet flawed) lives to sing another song.
Oh yeah, ALAINA, NICK, and LESLIE are also going home, but I'm not surprised at all. I pretty much expected that. Did I mention that I'm still in shock over AJ getting the boot?
Continue reading American Idol: Live Results Show #2
Posted Jan 16th 2007 12:23PM by Liz Finn-Arnold
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, American Idol, Celebrities, Contestants, Alumni
Howard Cohen of
MiamiHerald.com seems to think so. In today's post he points out that several
AI finalists didn't take top prize, but the show still helped catapult them to success. Jennifer Hudson's Golden Globe win last night certainly puts her on the top of the list for "Most Successful Ex-
American Idol Losers," well, at least for the time being.
Continue reading Are American Idol losers the real winners?
Posted Apr 27th 2006 12:32AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, FOX, OpEd, Music and Variety
Ah, man. I thought I'd be
really glad to see Kellie go, but she's so sweet and innocent that I felt really bad for her when she got voted off.
But, America doesn't need any more dumb blonde singers (although, Britney doesn't seem to be doing much lately, so
maybe there is an opening). Hopefully Kellie gets some professional help with her voice, because she was the amateur of
amateurs in this bunch of six.
When Ryan split the final six into three groups of two, we learned that Chris
and Katherine received the most votes this week. I wouldn't be surprised if those two battled it out in the final two.
I think they're evenly matched-- with personality and vocal ability. Next week, Taylor, Elliott, and Paris are all in
extreme danger of being sent home.
On a side note, wasn't Andrea Bocelli spectacular? The man's voice is
like butter.
Posted Mar 29th 2006 11:06AM by Lacy Hall
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, FOX, OpEd, American Idol, Music and Variety
For lack of a better word or description, last night's show was weird and anti-climatic. At first, I was really excited about the contestants doing modern hits from the last 6 years, but then...nothing happened. I kept waiting for that one really great performance that would put the show into overdrive, but it never came.
First off, the show was cut down to a hour last night since there are only 10 contestants left. This made everything feel very rushed. It felt less like a national hit show and more like a filler before House came on. Secondly, all the judges were in agreement last night, and yet they were still fighting. Always weird. Thirdly, lack of time translated into lack of Seacrest zingers. Seacrest zingers are always the cheesiest of zings, and yet, I miss them when they're gone. It's like getting a dollar every year in your birthday card from Grandma. A dollar doesn't get you much (heck, it doesn't get you anything), but that first year when it's not in there...it burns. Finally, I think Kevin might have been eliminated prematurely. I'm convinced that if given the chance, he would have performed Britney Spears' "Toxic" and it would have been the best thing to happen to American Idol since Bobby sung the praises of the Copacabana.
Continue reading American Idol: Modern Hits...or Misses?
Posted Mar 16th 2006 9:29AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: American Idol, Music and Variety, Celebrities
It must be the crowd, and
not the cameras or the lights, that is making Kellie Pickler nervous. After all, she has been on a televised singing
competition before. And it wasn't too long ago.
TMZ
has a short video clip of Kellie competing in a 2005 Charlotte, North Carolina singing competition called
Gimme the
Mike (we have a version here in Portland, too). Kellie made it into the top five but did not win. The clip over at
TMZ shows Kellie singing
Independence Day and
Stand by Your Man. I think she's yelling the songs,
but, then again, I think she yells every song. There are also
photos from her high school yearbook where she's totally
into cheerleading and she still has naturally blond hair.
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