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Grease is the Word for Ace and Taylor

Season 5 pals Ace Young and winner Taylor Hicks are sharing the stage together again. Both men are currently performing in the touring production of the musical Grease. Ace stars in the lead role as Danny Zuko. In 2008, Ace participated in the Broadway production of Grease, but he played the part of Kenickie. Ace met his fianc, Allison Fischer, during their time in Grease on Broadway, and Allison is in the national touring production in the role of Patty Simcox.

American Idol Taylor Hicks continues in the role of Teen Angel. He made his Broadway debut as Teen Angel and the tour has brought him around the country.

The tour is taking a break for the holidays, but it will resume January 12 24 at The Fox Theatre in St. Louis, MO. For more tour dates and schedules, be sure to check out the Weekly Idol Scoop each week.

Recently, AmericanIdol.com interviewed Ace Young exclusively. He caught us up on life after Idol, Grease, Idol Rewind, and more. Watch the video.

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Grease is the Word for Ace and Taylor

Season 5 pals Ace Young and winner Taylor Hicks are sharing the stage together again. Both men are currently performing in the touring production of the musical Grease. Ace stars in the lead role as Danny Zuko. In 2008, Ace participated in the Broadway production of Grease, but he played the part of Kenickie. Ace met his fianc, Allison Fischer, during their time in Grease on Broadway, and Allison is in the national touring production in the role of Patty Simcox.

American Idol Taylor Hicks continues in the role of Teen Angel. He made his Broadway debut as Teen Angel and the tour has brought him around the country.

The tour is taking a break for the holidays, but it will resume January 12 24 at The Fox Theatre in St. Louis, MO. For more tour dates and schedules, be sure to check out the Weekly Idol Scoop each week.

Recently, AmericanIdol.com interviewed Ace Young exclusively. He caught us up on life after Idol, Grease, Idol Rewind, and more. Watch the video.

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Happy Birthday, Jordin Sparks!

Season 6s American Idol, Jordin Sparks, has grown up in front of Americas eyes. She auditioned for the show when she was 16 years old and sang in front of millions of viewers each week as a 17 year old. Now, Jordin turns 20 and is an extremely successful pop star.

As the youngest winner in American Idol history, Jordin has accomplished a lot as a teenager. After winning Season 6, Jordin released her self-titled debut album in 2007. Entering the Billboard 200 charts at #10 in the albums first week, it was certified Platinum just 13 months later. There were four top twenty singles off the album including her Idol coronation song, This Is My Now, and her duet No Air, which assisted in landing Jordin on Billboards Decade End and Year End charts which were released last week.

This summer, Jordin released her sophomore album entitled Battlefield. The album peaked at #7 on the Billboard 200 chart, and it includes the hit singles Battlefield and S.O.S. (Let the Music Play). To promote her new music, Jordin toured in 2009 with the Jonas Brothers and she also joined Britney Spears on her Circus tour.

Jordins other accomplishments include singing The National Anthem at Super Bowl XLII in her hometown of Glendale, Arizona. At this time, she became the first American Idol and the youngest person ever to sing the anthem at the Super Bowl. In addition, Jordin has an NAACP Image Award, two BET Awards, a Teen Choice Award, an American Music Award, and a Peoples Choice Award.

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Danny Gokey’s Opry Debut

Season 8s second runner-up, Danny Gokey, will make his Grand Ole Opry debut this January. For the fifth consecutive year, the worlds of country music and NASCAR will collide in Music City on January 8^th & 9^th, 2010. Some of the greatest names in country music will kick off the two-day event at the Grand Ole Opry when Sound & Speed hits the stage of the Ryman Auditorium on Friday, January 8^th, when Danny makes his Opry debut. The next day, the event will continue at Nashvilles Municipal Auditorium, where fans will have the opportunity to get up-close and personal with the folks of NASCAR and country music.

Since its inception, the event has attracted an estimated 40,000 fans and has raised more than $800,000 for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and Victory Junction, a year-round camping experience founded by Kyle and Pattie Petty for children ages 6-16 with chronic medical conditions or serious illnesses. Tickets for the shows are available on TicketMaster.

Danny’s new single, “My Best Days Are Ahead Of Me,” became available for purchase today. An exclusive pre-order for Danny’s debut album will be announced on his website tomorrow.

December has been a very busy month for Danny. Read about what hes been up to, here.

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American Idol Scandal: Textgate

If you thought the voting scandal in Florida that saw George W become the 43rd president of the United States was about as big as it got you’d best think again.

As it turns out, the surprise to many that Adam Lambert hadn’t actually won American Idol and that the dark horse Kris Allen had somehow managed to pull off the biggest upset in history now appears to have been rigged by block voting - thanks in part to AI corporate sponsor AT&T

Of course, AT&T claim that it was only reps who attended two parties in Allen’s home state of Arkansas and that only 80 phones were given out. Some math has been done which suggests those 80 phones could only have drawn a maximum of 96,000 votes and that they wouldn’t have affected the final result because the gap between Kris and Adam was a large margin.

Whether or not it didn’t affect the outcome, it’s still fairly dodgy to have a sponsor handing out tools that could assist in one person winning over the other. Especially when the other person’s fans aren’t treated in the same way. The bias stinks!

And as for the “large margin”, what does that mean? Most polls had it either very close or swinging Adam’s way. That didn’t happen. This entire situation smells and could be damaging to the future of the show unless the voting system can be refined.

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