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American Idol winner, Carrie Underwood, has been hacked! A staffer at TMZ.com, had been receiving emails from someone identifying themselves as Carrie through the mega star’s MySpace account.

The emails were said to contain invitations to listen to ringtones, lol. Also, the following message was sent out to fans from “Carrie”:

“Hey, this is Carrie Underwood. OK here’s the deal, I need EVERY SINGLE myspace friend to stop what he/she’s doing and GO HERE RIGHT NOW and put your cell # in. You’ll recieve every ringtone from every myspace artist (including MY favorites)… (sic).”

Carrie’s reps are aware of the situation and have changed the password.

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What’s a day without gossip? In fact, what’s a day without gossip involving Jessica Simpson??? TAKE THE FOLLOWING NATIONAL ENQUIRER STORY WITH A HEAPING GRAIN OF SALT!!!

Apparently, American Idol winner, Carrie Underwood’s been asked by Tony Romo (her romantic interest) to back off and give him space as he prepares for the coming football season. “Carrie thought that they were moving closer to a more committed relationship,” a source close to Underwood told the Enquirer. And now she’s upset. “Carrie wants a firm commitment from Tony.”

Ted Casablanca of E! Online has suggested that maybe Jessica Simpson is the reason for Tony’s recent “need for space.” Supposedly, “Tony invited (Jessica) to Dallas, and she’s going. Of course, he doesn’t want Carrie to find out.” The source went on to say that they’re already spending lots of time together, as in entire weekends.

Uhhh…if this is true, I can’t help but wonder if neither Tony, nor Jessica, has heard Carrie’s song, “Before He Cheats.”

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In an interview prior to the start of the fifth season of American Idol, Executive Producer Nigel Lythgoe revealed for the first time that Clay Aiken had led the fan voting every week from the Wild Card week onward until the finale, when the possibly-random voting result gave Ruben Studdard the win. Of course, the truth will probably never be known and Clay went on to have a great career but that is besides the point.

During season four, several major voting errors were reported and confirmed. The first resulted in the first-ever re-vote in American Idol history. Mikalah Gordon was eliminated during “Billboard #1 Hits” week when the show mixed up the voting numbers for three of the Top 11 contestants, Anwar Robinson, Jessica Sierra and Gordon herself (FYI – I think Mikalah needed to go anyway). As if that wasn’t bad enough THE MISTAKE HAPPENED AGAIN!!!! After Anthony Fedorov’s second performance, the phone numbers displayed in the closed captioning were incorrect. As visible in the image above, the first two numbers that appeared were 1-866-IDOLS-01 and 1-866-436-5701, and the last number was Text Vote 5704. The “01″ number is actually for Carrie Underwood! Two more contestants were victims that night…

As was the case with Anthony’s number, Bo Bice and Vonzell Solomon’s phone numbers were incorrectly listed as 1-866-IDOLS-01 and 1-866-436-5701, which, again, was the number for Carrie Underwood!!! Carrie is a great artist and this is nothing against her – I’m just relaying facts.

One contestant, Frenchie Davis, was disqualified and removed from the competition after topless photos of her surfaced on the Internet. She later appeared in the Broadway musical Rent. Antonella Barba did not suffer the same fate.

According to the Howard 100 News, LaKisha Jones’ departure was not because of America’s vote, but rather a predetermined outcome. Their source claims that travel arrangements for LaKisha to return home were made prior to the start of the May 8, 2007 performance show, well before the phone lines were opened. The source also claims that a significant sized crew was sent to Flint, Michigan for reaction shots, however crews were not sent to the remaining contestants’ home towns.

Since the 2004 season, American Idol producers have battled online community services such as the weblogs DialIdol.com, Worldsentiment.com, and VotefortheWorst.com. DialIdol predicts the winner of each week’s contest based on how often an automatic dialer encounters a busy signal for each contestant; Worldsentiment uses very large samplings and algorithms to predict the outcome of the vote-off; and VotefortheWorst exhorts viewers to vote for what the site deems to be the worst contestant, rather than the best. Some in the media have implied that Las Vegas odds makers exert behind-the-scenes influence in protecting the services.

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Chris Daughtry — #6
Carrie Underwood — #8 (#1 Country)
Bucky Covington — #44 (#9 Country)
Elliott Yamin — #67 (up from #87) (#4 Independent) (#49 R&B/Hip-Hop)
Fantasia — #93 (up from #112) (#15 R&B/Hip-Hop)
Paris Bennett — #133 (#15 Independent) (#47 R&B/Hip-Hop)

Also Noteworthy:

Kellie Pickler — #121 (2 weeks ago)
Katharine McPhee — #156 (2 weeks ago)
Kimberley Locke — #160 (2 weeks ago) — 4,800 copies
Paula Abdul “Greatest Hits” — (#86 R&B/Hip-Hop)

Kelly Clarkson’s “Never Again” is on two lists this week:

Hot 100 – #15 (down from #12) and on the Pop 100 at #14 (down from #12).

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American Idol winner, Carrie Underwood, is set to perform at the Delaware State Fair but people who bought tickets may not actually get to see the show.

On Wednesday, about 1,200 music fans thought they bought tickets for Carrie Underwood, Toby Keith and others. Late Thursday, they received a notice from the State Fair via e-mail telling them their tickets were not valid – but that their credit cards had been charged.

Dedicated fans had already had a rough week as the schedule changed and the on-sale date got pushed from Monday to Wednesday. Then, the ticket system crashed.

The owners of the 1,200 invalid tickets were told, by email, that their credit cards had been charged by E-Tickets Software Inc., the California-based ticketing service initially used by the fair, and that they would have to dispute the charge with their credit card companies.

The e-mail also told customers the state fair will try to fill their requests with available seats if they filled out an additional order form and made another purchase.

WHAT?!?!?!?!?!

This is ridiculous and more than a little suspcious. May I add that the front-row seats at this STATE FAIR (!!!) cost $284 U.S. Dollars!!!! Some people are talking about boycotting the fair this year.

Dude, I don’t want to even talk about how I would be behaving if I were one of those people who “bought” a ticket. Lemme just say that you’d probably hear about it on the news. Terrible.

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