American Idol Ratings Down 10%

Fox Not Happy

January 14. 2009

Paula Abdul (wearing everything in her closet at one time)

America Idol is off to a terrible start. Not only are ratings down 10%, following in Simon Cowell’s footsteps, Ryan Seacrust made fun of the disabled, a blind man.

Ryan Seacrest, making fun of the disabled, tries to high-five blind man Scott McIntyre

Some are wondering what the new season of American Idol will bring – like will talent judge Simon Cowell kill off another contestant.

Paula Abdul

In the mean time, fellow talent judge, Paula Abdul, is backpedaling regarding everything negative she stated when she slammed the show recently. Now she's denying uttering any of it and has been caught in a lie in doing so.

Contestant killer Simon Cowell

It’s ironic that Abdul is conveniently getting selective amnesia, because she slammed the show on satellite radio and national TV. The public heard and saw her or was she so drugged up she forgot!

Not to mention, the show’s former producer, Nigel Lythgoe responded to and refuted her unflattering comments in People magazine.

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Updated: American Idol ratings down 10% in overnight ratings

Posted on 14 January 2009 - Update: American Idol averaged 30.074 million in the overnight numbers, down just under 10% from last year’s 33.24 million. American Idol host Ryan Seacrest made a stunning faux pas when the new series of the hit talent show returned to US screens last night. Confronted with 23-year-old blind contestant, Scott McIntyre, Seacrest attempted to give the auditionee a high-five.

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Paula Abdul denies saying anything disparaging about 'American Idol'

Paula Abdul is apparently changing her tune regarding American Idol producers' treatment of her and obsessed fan Paula Goodspeed. Abdul denied that she said anything disparaging about American Idol during her now-infamous December radio interview with Barbara Walters while speaking on a panel at the Television Critics Association press tour with new judge Kara DioGuardi and some of the show's producers on Tuesday afternoon, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Abdul also denied she'd had any confrontations with the producers over the decision to let Goodspeed auction for Idol's judges. "First of all, I did not have any confrontation with any of the producers at all. At all. At all," Abdul told reporters during the panel, according to the Times. "I mean not one thing. I was not quoted as saying anything disparaging about American Idol. At all." "I'm a big fan of the show," she added. "I am blessed to be the show. It's the greatest show on television all around the world."

During her interview with Walters, Abdul was quoted as saying that she had known about Goodspeed prior to her tryout on American Idol's fifth season. "I was lucky enough that all the letters would come through my fan club, my fan mail club. But come American Idol when everyone can audition, she showed up," Abdul told Walters. "I was pre-warned by the producers 'Wait until you see this next girl, oh my god she is crazy about you' ... [and I said] 'This girl is a stalker of mine and please do not let her in.'"

However according to Abdul's interview with Walters, the producers had dismissed her concerns and decided to let Goodspeed audition "for [the] entertainment value." "[It was] fun for them to cause me stress and I couldn't even look up," Abdul told Walters at the time. "If you watch the YouTube [video] of her auditioning, I can't even look up... [and] this was something that [they thought would] would make good television."

When a journalist attempted to point out what Abdul had previously alleged happened when Goodspeed -- who, according to Abdul, had been sending the Idol judge disturbing letters for nearly two decades before she was found dead near the Abdul's home in November -- auditioned, Abdul said her December comments had been true but failed to provide any additional explanation about the apparent contradictions in the two sets of comments...

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