Simon Cowell, the most vocal straightforward judge, had a lot to say about the coming finale next week on American Idol. But, for the first time, he doesn’t have a fearless forecast as to who’s gonna win this year’s contest. He’s always been opinionated when it comes to this one (and oftentimes right about his predictions)…but not this time.
Highlights from the AI conference call article by Nichola Groom of Reuters.
When asked about his prediction in next week’s finale:
“I can’t call it at this stage…For Blake, he’s a brilliant entertainer, but the negative is he’s not a fantastic singer. The advantage for Jordin is she is a great singer and the negative is she hasn’t done one performance yet which I can remember as a ‘WOW!’ “
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On him being “rude” to the contestants:
“They all think they are going to be voted off if they are rude to me,” he said. “If I’m rude to them they are more than entitled to be rude to me back.”
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On the whole Sanjaya Malakar frenzy:
“The whole Sanjaya thing was hysterical…I don’t think I’d be happy if he was in the final, but looking back I think it was quite amusing.”
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On Melinda Doolittle being out of the finale:
“It was unfair…She had delivered 10 weeks in a row better than anyone else…”When you allow the public to choose, you’ve got to live and die by the vote”