The much-anticipated eighth season of American Idol is currently underway, and Ryan Seacrest is wasting little time living up to his dumb-as-rocks pedigree.

As series veterans know, each season begins with the search for the contestants who will ultimately compete on live television. Naturally, this process brings out the strange and absurd… a...

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Gina Glocksen is bringing in the New Year with a new hubby. The American Idol star tonight will marry Joe Ruzicka, a high school science teacher. Fellow Idol contestants Hayley Scarnato and Jordin Sparks will be part of the wedding party.

The LA Times reports:

Season six's pioneering Idol female rocker, Gina Glocksen, will be tying the knot on...

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For our generation, who grew with Paula Abdul as the wacky judge of “American Idol” rather than as a pop culture star, it’s hard to imagine an obsession with her. However, it seems such adoration is possible. A woman supposedly obsessed with Abdul was found dead in her car outside of the singer’s house today in a possible suicide.
 

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It must be in their genetic makeup, alongside the the DNA that makes them want to belt it out for Paula and Company on Fox: those American Idol ladies are all over the guys from The Bachelor. First, there was Jennifer Hudson and David Otunga, now it’s Carrie Underwood and Travis Stork. Media gossips (like CollegeOTR, apparently) are reporting th...

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Blake Lewis has had a tough year. After 2007, the year that he was named one of People magazine’s Hottest Bachelors and released his first solo album A.D.D. (Audio Day Dream), he was unceremoniously dropped from Arista as the label was restructured, and the publicity trajectory of earning runner-up on American Idol was more short-lived than anti...

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It’s difficult to believe, but even a guy so desperate and histrionic as to appear on I Love New York 2 (which is even less redeemable than the first season of I Love New York) can find love, or at least a fiancée. David Otunga, who appeared on the VH1 Celebreality show under the moniker “Punk,” gave his girlfriend of less than one year, Jennife...

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During the upcoming eighth season of American Idol, Grammy-nominated songwriter Kara DioGuardi will join Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson as the fourth judge on the hit television show.

According to Mike Darnell, the president of alternative programming at Fox, Kara will provide “some backup [to Paula]” and add “a lot more ‘girl pow...

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