Paula Abdul Owes Jason Castro an Apology
Check out Paula Abdul’s big-time excuse making on this morning’s Ryan Seacrest show. You can read a transcript of her interview at Entertainment Weekly.She claims that she and the judges only found out about the show setup–that the critiques would wait until after the second round–when Ryan announced it at the top of the show. Geez, the judges should start reading my blog. I knew it at 6:30 ET. Our weekly rehearsal reporter, Caffiend, told me on the phone after she left the CBS studios. I posted that bit of info on the blog. Meanwhile, Paula claims she was in the studio with her family for part of the dress rehearsal.
She also keeps insisting that she mixed up Jason’s Castro’s review with David Cook’s, and that she read “second song” off her notes due to the confusion caused when head of Reality Programming, Mike Darnell, supposedly ordered Nigel Lythgoe, at the last minute, to march the contestants out on stage for an impromptu post-first round critique.
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Hey, I can understand Paula getting discombobulated and screwing up. But, why can’t she just say “I wrote a bunch of notes during the dress rehearsal and wasn’t paying attention when I was reading them off?”
More importantly, Why can’t Paula just say, “My apologies to Jason Castro for possibly throwing him off his game by mistakenly critiquing his performance based on what I heard at dress rehearsal?” Because really, while Paula and TPTB try to cover their asses, they are completely glossing over the fact that at the center of this controversy is a contestant who was just royally screwed over.
Until she apologizes, I don’t want to hear anything else.
Do it tonight, Paula. Apologize.
Bonus: Debra Byrd is psychic too! She was also interviewed by Ryan (the crew worked damage control hard) this morning, and thinks Jason will be relieved if he’s eliminated tonight.
Paula dissembles more on Entertainment Tonight.
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My goodness, they finally turned up Jason’s mic and he sounded terrific on Cracklin’ Rosie. I wanted him to sing the whole song. He was smiling and just having a good time. His fans always knew he had a unique sound. I am so happy for him.
Grammie — I agree — he was truly the best, those two too-short lines in the beginning fracklin’ Rosie — and then it all turned to shit.
I rewatched those to parts more than once. FF between the rest of it.
So glad Jason’s safe.
Castro/Cook for the final would be my choice.
I’m not shocked we didn’t get the apology. But, I am kind of surprised that they decided to turn this moment into a “we love Paula, and so should all of you, no she’s not a crazy pill junkie cause Ryan says so” thing.
From the obvioulsy planted “Why are you so nice Paula” phone-in question, to her demure “look at me I’m trustworthy” outfit – the whole thing was just bizarre. However, a couple of weeks ago, I did mention that I was tired of seeing Paula’s boobs, so I am at least glad that Nigel managed to convince her to cover up the girls.
My only hope is that perhaps she apologized to him privately. Still, I feel for the kid.
Funny, from her question asking the little girl if she wanted to be a singer to the rambling segue about how hard the contestants work, I kind of thought that that was her idea of an apology (or sorts)- without any admission of guilt and under heaps of typical addled Paula-b.s. It felt like Paula wanted that moment to be significant somehow.
whoops, deleted.
Looks like Slezak agrees with MJ and many of us. I’m sure this will be posted shortly but in the meantime… here is his article. Check out page 2 – “what should have been said”:
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20007164_20171835_20196803_2,00.html
I have just watched Paula’s interview on ET and I am furious. It is all about Paula. Poor Paula and the rumors. Excuse me Paula, but you could have said, “I am sorry for what I did to Jason.” Not one word about the fact that he had only sang one song. She is so self-centered it disgusts me.