Idol's Golden Tickets Not Guaranteed
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Tuesday, 13 February 2007 |
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On "Amrican Idol," the so-called golden ticket is a singer's passport to the Hollywood round, and possibly beyond.
Except when it's not.
A 23-year-old Texas man seen receiving one of those yellow-hued pieces of paper on last week's San Antonio audition episode says he was disinvited frm the competition days before leaving for Hollywood and "Idol's" next round.
Or as Akron Watson's MySpace page puts it: "A golden ticket, but no plane ticket!!!"
According to one "Idol" expert, Watson is one of a handful of pop-star hopefuls who get cut frm the top-rated show each season, usually between the first and second rounds, for reasons that the show and typically the hopeful don't talk about.
"Mostly they don't show them on the show," says Joe "Reality" Blackmon, editor-in-chief of the Website Reality TV Magazine. "You [just] hear the chatter of them going to alternate status."
And then they disappear. |
