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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
10/22: Idol’s biggest trainwrecks
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
With Nikki McKibbin and her coke habit on display onVH’1s “Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew” debuting Thursday at 10 p.m., I figure I’ll post my top 5 biggest “Idol” trainwrecks so far. (I’m not talking about individual trainwreck performances. That’s for another blog. These are just trainwrecks in general.)
1- Jessica Sierra — Her time on the show was relatively indistinguished though I found her oddly appealing. Basically she was a trashier version of Carrie Underwood, which barely got her in the top 10. Afterwards, she never quite got her career in gear and dabbled in cocaine, landing in jail for possession. She then did VH1’s “Celebrity Rehab,” but it didn’t stick because late last year, she was arrested again for disorderly intoxication. Last reported, she was still in a rehab facility in California. She also had a saucy sex tape that’s floating around on the Web.
2- Corey Clark — It’s hard to find anything likable about this guy. On the show, Sideshow Corey with his Justin Guarini wannabe hair came across as arrogant, his singing Justin Timberlake lite. And he is the only guy disqualified from the show for not revealing an arrest ahead of time. Oh, and he claimed he hooked up with a certain “Idol” judge, who denied it. Class act!
3-Paula Abdul — She’s a trainwreck not for any arrest record but for her general history of loopiness, punctuated this past season by her ability to critique a song before it was even sung! Whether med-induced or not, her unpredictability makes for great TV. Unfortunately, her crappy short-lived reality show on Bravo “Hey Paula” revealed that her so-called best friends seem to be hired help, a sad state of affairs.
4-Nikki McKibbin — The drinking, the cocaine, the mom who died of a drug overdose, her depression driven deeper by Simon Cowell’s comments. (Boo hoo!) Hmmm… I wonder why she hasn’t been able to carve out much of a post-“Idol” career, eh?
5-Sanjaya Malakar — The most polarizing contestant in “Idol” history, he often seemed more concerned with his hair than his singing. And his own ability to generate buzz was both brilliant and bizarre. Long after we’ve forgotten who LaKisha Jones and Blake Lewis are, Sanjaya will remain our generation’s Tiny Tim.
Any others you’d like to add?
-Any surprise Toni Braxton went home yesterday on “Dancing With the Stars”? She was a very good dancer but she didn’t have the fan bases of Susan Lucci, Lance Bass or Cloris Leachman. She lacks the sparking personality of Warren Sapp. And she wasn’t as good as Brooke Burke. I tried to get an interview with her since she used to live in Atlanta, but ABC said she’s too busy.
