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| | Adam Lambert News : 13th February 2014 | |
Adam Lambert returning to 'American Idol' The former San Diego vocal dynamo will guest Feb. 18 & 19 on the TV series that made him famous. A tour with Queen may be looming. - George Varga wrote:
- The former San Diego vocal dynamo will guest on the TV series that made him a national star on Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 18 and 19. His second-place finish in 2009 earned him a major label record contract, a devoted following and a spot as the lead singer in the legendary English rock band Queen, which may embark on a U.S. concert tour with Lambert later this year. (We'll have more on that in a moment.)
Lambert and 2006 "Idol" alum Chris Daughtry will be featured together on Tuesday and Wednesday's editions of the show. Both will serve as mentors on "Boot Camp," a new competition phase of the show that will be overseen by former "Idol" mainstay Randy Jackson. The camp is a two-day workshop designed to familiarize viewers with this year's 30 "Idol" semi-finalists before the show's live episodes begin airing and the viewer voting period kicks off...........read more
Randy Jackson on 'Idol's' Adam Lambert, Chris Daughtry 'I Thought They Could Win
- Michele Amabile Angermiller for the Hollywood Reporter wrote:
- American Idol viewers will welcome back three familiar faces next Tuesday, as the show will debut its first-ever "boot camp" episodes with Randy Jackson, Adam Lambert and Chris Daughtry.
Speaking with reporters on a conference call Thursday, Jackson said that the idea is something he had wanted to do for a while -- and alumni Lambert and Daughtry were his first choices to helm the concept. The longtime Idol mainstay said the workshop, as well as other new changes, will help the show, which needed what he called "a refresh."
"I wanted to have them there," he said. "They were actually in the trenches as people we were judging … and they can tell it from a completely different side.............read more
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