TMZ.com: YouTube phenom Tay Zonday, a baritone William Hung without the pitch problems, made a splash with his doofy rendition of "Chocolate Rain." Now, Tay-Z is back with a blinged-out video choc-full of strippers, rappers -- and product placement?Zonday has... Read more
TMZ.com: In a perfect Zone, the forthcoming sex tape from Season Two "American Idol" contestant Olivia Mojica would play out to the sounds of William Hung's "She Bangs," but for this sorry lot, a simple funeral march will suffice.Don Imus: We had Don on last... Read more
Sanjaya Malakar is doing more than just (inexplicably) sending people to the phone lines.
He's also sending them to the hospital, the car dealership rooftop, the unemployment line, the radio call-in shows and, as the latest influx of anti-Sanjaya assaults proves, to the mattresses.
The polarizing 17-year-old from Federal Way, Wash., sailed through another round of competition on "American Idol" this week, prompting a renewed effort in his elimination from detractors across the country who, it seems, would have thought it less a travesty for William Hung to be crowned season three's victor than for the faux-hawked anti-Idol to survive another results show.
Not that a slew of Idol purists aren't doing everything in their power to weaken the talent-deprived contestant's stronghold on the hearts and phone lines of teen girls and pop culture saboteurs.
Happy Birthday to kitschy "American Idol" reject William Hung (1983), English actor Orlando Bloom (1977), "Baywatch" actress Nicole Eggert (1972), "Grey's Anatomy" star Patrick Dempsey (1966), screen and stage actress Penelope Ann Miller (1964), country singer Trace Adkins (1962), "Seinfeld" actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961), film composer/Yes guitarist Trevor Rabin (1954), voice actor Richard Moll (1943), flamboyant confetti tossing comedian Rip Taylor (1937), celebrity game-show panelist/actor Charles Nelson Reilly (1931), and "The Untouchables" (TV Series) actor Robert Stack (1919; d. 2003).
