American Idol finalist, Kellie Pickler, has announced some tour dates for early next year.  Her newest (self-titled) album featured songs like my favorite "Don’t You Know You’re Beautiful" and serves as a follow up to her successful debut album Small Town Girl.  I think this album is very country and, like her last effort, it’s quite honest.  It should be great to see her perform these songs live.  Let me know if you go!
Here are the scheduled tour dates:

January 8 – Snoqualmie, WA Snoqualmie Casino, 8:00 PM
January 9 – Lincoln City, OR Chinook Winds Casino, 8:00 PM
January 10 – …read more

Ha, ha! Yes, Kellie Pickler is dating Jordin but it’s not Jordin Sparks – it’s NHL Hockey player Jordin Tootoo. He is the first Inuk to play in the NHL (hooray for Nunavut!) and is one of my favorite Canadians in the game with an amazing but tragically sad life story. He’s the definition of a survivor and I love him!!! Plus, he is cute! Good luck to you both!
Oh, watch out, Kel. He’s a rough little guy – even for a hockey player!

Kellie Pickler recently made an appearance at the Academy of Country Music Awards. Here are 10 great photos for you Kellie lovers!

The Boob Discussion

Kellie Pickler may think she is being mysterious when she refuses to give a straight answer on the plastic surgery chatter, but even Scooby Doo could solve this mystery! On Ryan Seacrest’s radio show on Monday, Ryan asked about the breast augmentation rumors to which Kellie replied “Are you talking about my boobs again? Why are you looking at my boobs anyways, you pervert?” Of course, Ryan, who has had to battle Simon Cowell for six seasons was ready with a comeback: “I’m not looking at them, America is looking at them” and then straight-out asked her …read more

“The girls ripped it up and the guys through it down.” – Ryan Seacrest
Time for four more to go home. I’m really read for the narrowing down of contestants and getting to the point where we can see more of the ones that can really sing. Special guest and former idol tonight will be Kellie Pickler.
WOW! Over 32,000,000 votes came in this week. Here are my picks for tonight’s losers:
Guys:

Sanjaya Malakar
Brandon Rogers

Girls:

Alaina Alexander
Antonella Barba

The group song tonight is “Joy to the World”, not the holiday themed song of the same title either. This is the one about Jeremiah being a …read more

Twice as many girls this year as guys.
Jory Steinberg starts off the individual performances again. No judge feedback. We just keep going. Not too bad.
Wow nobody really made much of an impression. Simon Cowell just sent the entire first set of 6 girls home. Let’s just put the pressure on the girls right out of the gate. Can you imagine being in the next set of girls going up to perform? Would it make that big of a difference on you or not? Are they just being hardcore out of the gate because there are so many girls?
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A variety of past American Idols will be appearing on the Larry King Live show on CNN tomorrow night, Thursday, February 8th at 9:00pm EST.
Jennifer Hudson on going from “Idol” reject to Golden Globe winner, and now Oscar-nominated “Dreamgirl.” Plus, last year’s “American Idol” runner up Katharine McPhee.
Visit the official website for more information and a link to e-mail your questions to Larry for the show.

2006 was the inaugural year of Idol Stalker. Jeremy Wright, b5 CEO, was the original blogger on this site, I then jumped in to help him out and co-write the blog. With his responsibilities quickly absorbing every waking moment of his day, it wasn’t long before I was the lone blogger on this site.
What were the most popular posts on this site in the 9 months of our existence? This is the list that will give you that information. Here it is, the Top 10 Posts of 2006:

DialIdol’s Predictions
Tamyra Gray Gets Badd Singer and Sexed Up
Paris Bennett Audition
Do You Hate …read more

Kellie Pickler now has her own sweepstakes to go along with her new “Small Town Girl” album.
Here are some of the details:

Free roundtrip coach airfare for two.
Hotel accommodations in Minneapolis for 3 days/2 nights.
Roundtrip shuttle transportation between the Airport and the Hotel.
$250 shopping money for use at the Mall of America.
And you’ll see Kellie perform live and meet her at the Mall of America!

Granted, I’ve never been to Minneapolis, but I’d think we could have done a little bit better on the location of a sweepstakes don’t you?

Chris just looks like the ultimate tough guy on the album cover don’t you think? He’s absolutely got a career ahead of him and I think it may end up being in a little bit more than music. November 21st will be the release date for Chris’ album.