Posted on 02/24/2007 8:18:34 AM PST by meg88
People: 'Idol' star Barba creating uproar
09:52 PM CST on Friday, February 23, 2007
Antonella Barba this season's Frenchie?
The American Idol contestant and New Jersey native has been getting a lot of negative publicity lately due to some rather risque photos that have popped up on the Internet, including one of her in the bathroom
Fox TV Antonella Barba on 'American Idol' Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe says that he has not seen any of the Internet pictures and that he only learned of the sexually explicit shots from EW.
''We have really good background checks on everybody, and we deal with that every season,'' he told EW.
''It's sad, isn't it, that your best friends are the ones that come forward with information that will go to Smoking Gun or put your photographs on the web?''
The risque photos of the 20-year-old contestant began circulating around the Internet earlier this week.
Despite unimpressive reviews on American Idol for her off-key performance of ''I Don't Want to Miss a Thing'' this week, Barba somehow got through to the next round of the competition, EW reported.
In 2003, contestant Frenchie Davis got axed from the second season of Idol after the show found out she had worked for a porn Web site.
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gee its like the producers knew all about this and thats why they keeping her around....nooooooooo they wouldnt do that
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