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ara DioGuardi Admits That the Producers Decide Who Stays on American Idol
Posted by thefunnystone on Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 10:53 AM EDT
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In a Rolling Stone article that takes bits out of her new book, Kara DioGuardi admits that the producers of American Idol are the ones who send the contestants packing during the Hollywood rounds, not the judges.
During the season 9 Hollywood week one contestant was eliminated in what seemed like an oversight by the producers. “I saw her walking out of the auditorium crying,” DioGurardi writes. “She was still on the judges’ list. So Randy, Ellen, Simon, and I tried to fight for her, but we weren’t permitted to change the decision. There was one other contestant some of us wanted as well, but there seemed to be an air of suspicion that Simon might be trying to sabotage the contestant pool in the wake of his leaving. I don’t know about that, but from my perspective he was definitely trying to help the show. I felt awful for these contestants...By the end of the week I didn’t have a good feeling about the mix of talent we’d ended up with, and I was right.”
So basically, the producers do whatever they want and the judges are there to look like they make decisions? That’s what we thought. It’s also interesting to see that the producers felt that Simon Cowell was trying to sabotage the show in his last season - he clearly succeeded since we ended up with Lee DeWyze as the winner.
Dear Kara, we already knew all that. KTHXBAI.
It’s not really that shocking though. We have always sort of suspected they mess with the results.
Bruno Mars is built like a dwarf. If you just saw his head, you would think he was 3’8”.
Oh, peggy...that’s like telling me there’s no Santa Claus...or Easter Bunny...or Tooth Fairy. ;)
A lot of them from Hollywood week don’t make it much further. Not sure that it really matters til you get the top 12 and even then...
Well that sucks.