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To: silent_jonny
Jonny, LOL! Sometimes I wonder why the AI producers have kept Paula on the show so long. She clearly has--ummmm--issues.

She was also involved in some kind of homeland security flap at the Las Vegas airport. Here's the link: ReviewJournal article

Paula Abdul, a judge on "American Idol," won't get high marks from her fellow airline passengers, and she might be hearing from Homeland Security officials.

According to an Abdul spokesman, the former pop singer and dancer was running late Thursday, trying to make her Southwest flight at McCarran International Airport, when a group of fans mobbed her.

A Southwest representative at the scene whisked her through a back access, bypassing security, and onto the Los Angeles-bound plane.

However, upon arrival in Burbank, it was announced that security had been breached, and no one could leave the plane until the re-screening process was completed.

Abdul, whose six No. 1 hits included "Rush, Rush," was trying to make the flight so she wouldn't miss Thursday's live "Idol" show.

A Southwest representative who was asked to respond did not return a call by deadline.

In January, two employees at the Silverton accused Abdul of having them fired from their graveyard-shift jobs because she says they caused her to miss a flight.


8,882 posted on 03/03/2006 4:34:43 PM PST by Wolfstar (I am sailing, home again 'cross the sea. I am sailing stormy waters, to be near you, to be free.)
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To: Wolfstar
Hi, Wolfstar :) It's Paula-gate!

A Southwest representative at the scene whisked her through a back access, bypassing security, and onto the Los Angeles-bound plane.

Wonder why the rep did that? Was Paula carrying something she shouldn't?

8,884 posted on 03/03/2006 4:39:04 PM PST by silent_jonny ("... anger rests in the bosom of fools" -- Ecclesiastes 7:9)
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