Fantasia Appreciates "Nice Butts"
Fantasia Barrino loved being compared to Beyonce Knowles and Jennifer Lopez yesterday at LAX -- butt we weren't talking about her singing!
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Fan-tush-ia Barrino Tests the Power of Spandex
It ain't bad to be "American Idol" alum Fantasia Barrino right now ... girl says she's got a job, a couple of homes -- and a booty that just won't quit!!!
Take a wild guess which of the above our cameraman was most excited about.
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Fantasia: Going Once, Twice, Not so Fast!
Fantasia apparently has figured out the new way in a bad economy -- cut a desperate deal.
The "Idol" winner was about to lose her $1.1 mil pad in North Carolina because of $$$ probs -- she owed $58,000 to Broward Energy Partners and the company had put the house on the auction block. She had borrowed the cash from the company to pay taxes.
At the last minute, the woman who is now most famous for being a no-show when she starred in an Oprah play on Broadway struck a deal with the company and her home is safe -- for now.
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Fantasia: I Believe My Man's Wasted
David Archuleta's "Idol" dream wasn't the only thing that got smashed last night -- check out Fantasia's boyfriend!
He looked good coming out of dinner -- but less than two hours later, at the "Idol" finale after party, the guy was completely obliterated, just like Fantasia's career.
Filed under: American Idol, Drunks
Carrie to Fantasia: How's the Hoopty?
Truth is Carrie Underwood is a bigger star than Fantasia -- and they have the rides to prove it.
While Jesus and a chauffeur took the wheel for C-Wood in a Lincoln Navigator today outside the "Idol" hotel, her predecessor was left to drive herself ... in her shiny blue Toyota.
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Fantasia -- If You Can't Say Something Nice ...
The judges didn't weigh in after Fantasia's interesting performance on "American Idol" last night -- but Simon's thoughts were written all over his face.
What a lovely shade of Detroit Hair Show red!
Filed under: Wacky & Weird, American Idol
Fan to 'Tasia: "You Sho Iz ... Pretty"
Despite her unfortunate two-tone 'do and glamorous tat/gown combo, Fantasia Barrino still got some love from an admirer outside of Mr. Chow on Sunday.
With her run as Miss Celie in "The Color Purple" now over, maybe she'll get her second wind as Wesley Snipes' wife in "Demolition Man 2."
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Lewis and Clarkson: Who Will and WON'T Perform Tonight
Kelly Clarkson may be feuding with her label head Clive Davis, but she's got nothing but love for "American Idol."
TMZ has learned that Kelly -- and all winners from seasons past, except Fantasia -- will be back performing on the "American Idol" stage for tonight's finale.
Clarkson, Ruben Studdard, Carrie Underwood and Taylor Hicks are headed to the Kodak Theater, but Fantasia Barrino won't be, since she is headlining Oprah Winfrey's production of "The Color Purple" on Broadway.
Sources tell TMZ Gladys Knight will perform "Midnight Train to Georgia" with the top six female finalists, while Smokey Robinson will join the top six male finalists for a rendition of "Ooh Baby Baby." Most recently booted finalist Melinda Doolittle will sing with brother and sister gospel duo BeBe and CeCe Winans, while the hairiffic Sanjaya duets with Aerosmith's Joe Perry to the Kinks' "You Really Got Me." It's sure to be an unbeweavable night!
Beat-boxing finalist Blake Lewis will show off his mad skillz against rapper Doug E. Fresh, and then duet with fellow finalist and probable winner, Jordin Sparks, to the Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There." Since producers were able to finally get clearance to use Beatles music, a medley of Fab Four hits will be performed as well.
Luckily, we're told no one is expected to be exhumed a la Elvis on tonight's finale!
UPDATE: A well-placed source tells TMZ that anti-establishment rockers Green Day sold out and will be on the "American Idiot" "Idol" finale too!
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Is Broadway the "American Idol" Graveyard?
The Great White Way is riddled with the discarded musical corpses of former "American Idol" wannabeens of yore.
As of May 29, Season One finalist Tamyra Gray will join the cast of "Rent" (she previously starred in "Bombay Dreams"), and simultaneously, rejoins the club of former "A.I." contestants who have been making ends meet on Broadway. It's not a J.Hud Oscar but it beats the late shift at Applebees!
Other contest losers trading Hollywood dollar bills for Playbills include: Season Two's impeached diva Frenchie Davis, who has been performing in "Rent" off and on for four years, Season Four's creepy crooner Constantine Maroulis, who hammed it up in "The Wedding Singer" last year, and Anthony Federov (memba him?), who just this month joined the revival of long-time hit, "The Fantasticks." While Diana Degarmo, who came in second on Season Three, took a break from her soccer-mom 'do and non-existent record sales to don a beehive in "Hairspray."
Even Fanatasia Barrino, who actually won "Idol" and at one time sold millions of records, has hit the NYC stage. To her defense, Miss B. has been getting rave reviews and selling out the house as Miss Celie in Oprah's production of "The Color Purple."
So while America may have become immune to the McPheever ("Over It," anyone?), you never know, she may just turn up on Broadway -- in "Kats."
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Fantasia Barrino Is a Hot Mess!
Playing Miss Celie in "The Color Purple" is causing Fantasia Barrino to bare more than just her soul!
The Season Three "American Idol" winner arrived to the musical's after-party on Sunday dressed in a trash-tastic, skin-tight, green, leopard print dress. Maybe she was headed to a "Flavor of Love" casting?
Fantasia may be starring on Broadway, but decked out in this hoochie mama ensemble, she looks more appropriate for Times Square! Need a date?
Filed under: American Idol, You Might Want to Rethink
Angie: Takes One to Know One
Angelina Jolie's weird brother James Haven says that he and sis Angie now consider themselves "orphans," following the death of their mother Marcheline Bertrand this past January -- even though their estranged father, actor Jon Voight, is still kicking up dust.
Haven says, "There were times when our father was awesome, but my biggest memory is that he would look more to our faults than to our strengths, and that's what was so hard."
"Now that our mother has died, we're two orphans, Angie and I, so she has a deep understanding of the orphans she adopts."
So Angie's recent spate of adoptions is because she can relate so much to the plight of orphaned children? She adopted Thai orphan Pax Thien, 3, this past March, who joined adopted son Maddox, 5, Zahara, 2, and biological daughter Shiloh Nouvel, 10 months.
Click here... it's not over yet
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Barrino Haunted By a Ghost(writer)
Clearly, "American Idol" winner Fantasia Barrino didn't write an entire book without some help. Now her ghostwriter wants some credit.
According to Radar Magazine, Kim Green, the ghostwriter for Barrino's memoir "Life is Not a Fairy Tale" is fuming over the lack of recognition she's received for a book that made the New York Times' best-seller list.
Green claims she was paid $45,000 for a book which sold more than 48,000 copies and has received no credit, even though it was obviously not written by the "Idol" winner.
The breaking point for Green was when she received no compensation for the Lifetime film based on the book she had written. She tells Radar, "Nobody even called me to say 'Do you have any insights? Do you want to tell us some anecdotes?'" adding, "I found it to be so appalling that nobody thought, 'Oh, we should call Kim Green.'"
This new controversy comes just a day after Barrino's father, Joseph, filed a $10 million libel suit against the book's publishers, Simon & Shuster, for printing "false, exaggerated, sensational, intentional and malicious untruths." In a strange twist, the lawsuit also alleges Barrino's grandmother Addie Collins, not Green, was the ghostwriter for the book.
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