American Idol is an annual American televised singing competition, which began its first season on 11th June 2002. Part of the Idol franchise, it originated from the British reality program Pop Idol.
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Directors
- Bruce Gowers (233 episodes)
- Ken Warwick (32 episodes)
- John Pritchett (III) (14 episodes)
Writers
- Simon Fuller (340 episodes)
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- During the Atlanta tryouts of Season 3, a young woman named Kristen Powell, clad in a leotard and leg warmers, gave a tone-deaf and rhythm-less performance of "Flashdance", which the judges…
[show]During the Atlanta tryouts of Season 3, a young woman named Kristen Powell, clad in a leotard and leg warmers, gave a tone-deaf and rhythm-less performance of "Flashdance", which the judges quickly rejected. Though Powell burst into tears and begged for the chance to be "synthesized" to look and sound like a star, it was revealed that she and LaMosa Rowell (her companion at the audition) were merely performing a stunt for a radio broadcast (which included an obscenity-laced tirade by Rowell, complete with angry posturings at the camera). LaMosa and Kristen were interns for the MJ Morning Show, a radio morning show based on 93.3 WFLZ-FM in Tampa, Florida. The show is also heard in Jacksonville, FL (on 97.9 Kiss FM) and St. Louis, MO (on Z107.7 FM). MJ's other American Idol activities included an "American Idiot" competition in which people submitted video tapes of themselves doing foolish things to compete for cash prizes.
[hide] - Steven Tyler is not the only judge on the show who has a past involving a classic rock band. Randy Jackson was actually a session bass player for Journey (II) in the mid-1980s.
- Season Eight is the first season to present a trophy to the winner.
