'IDOL' SCANDAL LARGELY IGNORED.Byline: - David Kronke ``American Idol'' host Ryan Seacrest Ryan Seacrest (born December 24, 1974) is an American radio and television personality. Seacrest is also a former children's game show host, who gained prominence as the host of the reality television amateur-search series American Idol. referred winkingly to the hit reality series' latest controversy - Paula Abdul's alleged affair with a former ``Idol'' contestant while he was on the show - but no one on the show addressed the charges Tuesday. Seacrest opened the show with a rhetorical question rhetorical question n. A question to which no answer is expected, often used for rhetorical effect. rhetorical question Noun : ``How was your week?'' then dismissed the controversy with a joke. ``Lots of shock and outrage surrounding the show. I just want to say, that's what happens when you lose a guy like Scott Sovol.'' Sovol, considered by most critics to be an ongoing irritation on the show, was finally voted off last Wednesday. After Seacrest introduced the judges, Simon Cowell Simon Cowell (born 7 October, 1959) is a British artist and repertoire ("A&R") executive for Sony BMG in the United Kingdom and a television producer, more commonly known as a judge on television programmes such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, American Idol and Randy Jackson This article is about the American Idol judge. For the former member of The Jacksons, see Randy Jackson (musician). For other uses, see Randy Jackson (disambiguation). Randall Darius Jackson pointed at Abdul, who turned and blew kisses to the crowd. Cameras showed supportive signs, one reading, ``We love U Paula!'' There was no further mention of the scandal. Clearly, so far ABC News and reporter John Quinones have wound up looking more foolish than ``American Idol'' and Abdul. Quinones' melodramatic, heavily padded and under-researched report on Corey Clark, the inarticulate inarticulate /in·ar·tic·u·late/ (in?ahr-tik´u-lat) 1. not having joints; disjointed. 2. uttered so as to be unintelligible; incapable of articulate speech. former ``Idol'' contestant who claimed to have had an affair with the judge in 2003, has largely been dismissed as a cheap publicity stunt, by both ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. and Clark. Clark was dismissed from the competition for withholding information about his arrest record; he's currently peddling a CD and a book proposal. Meanwhile, the New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10 reported that Abdul broke into tears backstage at ``Saturday Night Live'' hours before participating in a sketch parodying the ABC news report, and Clark, unwilling to relinquish his tenacious grasp on those 15 minutes of fame, issued a statement through his attorney insisting that he has ``explicit'' evidence of his affair. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) ``American Idol'' judge Paula Abdul appears on ``Saturday Night Live'' shouting the show's opening line in a sketch with Kenen Thompson, left, Amy Poehler, center, and Chris Parnell. Dana Edelson/NBC |
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