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  Drunken Couple Ends Flat 'American Idol' Season With Mutual Stabbing

  May 24, 2013 – American Idol fever — and the drinks — were so strong in one Pennsylvania home that a couple ended up stabbing each other during the recent season finale.According to the York Dispatch (via the Hollywood Reporter), 48-year-old Karen Elaine Harrelson and 57-year-old Gregory L. Stambaugh were watching the show and drunkenly arguing about which of the two finalists should win: Candice Glover or Kree Harrison. …
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  Peace, Dawg: Randy Jackson Is Leaving 'American Idol' for Real This Time

  May 10, 2013 – American Idol's last standing original judge, Randy Jackson, will step down when the show's 12th season wraps on Thursday, May 16. The Grammy-winning producer's egress has been rumored for some time now — and the show's ratings have been in decline over the past couple of years — but the news was finally confirmed in a statement from his publicist. "Yo! Yo! Yo!" it actually begins. …
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  Nicki Minaj on 'American Idol,' Week Six: Minaj vs. Iovine

  February 22, 2013 – Let's just get this out of the way because at this point, the show is in full-on competition mode and these contestants actually kind of matter. Wednesday night's show narrowed the women contestants down to Tina, Kree, Angela, Amber, and Adriana. Thursday night's show gave us these dudes, in the end: Devin, Charlie , Elijah, Curtis, and Paul. …
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  Nicki Minaj on 'American Idol,' Week Five: Just Listen to 'Freaks' Instead

  February 15, 2013 – So, Randy Jackson was absent for much of Wednesday's show because he was “busy in the studio.” Is Aldo Nova recording a comeback record? What could the only remaining O.G. American Idol judge have to do that's more important than the show? Kind of feel like he just caught feelings because Keith Urban gets to wander off whenever he wants to, and Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey's lateness was a plot point a few weeks back. …
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  Nicki Minaj on 'American Idol,' Week Four: The Only Judge That Matters

  February 8, 2013 – This week, American Idol came to Hollywood, which means the competition officially begins, which means there's a lot less drama between the judges and hardly any all-too-real moments enabled by Nicki Minaj's mix of boredom and frustration with this entire stinking show she signed up for and maybe now regrets. …
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  Nicki Minaj on 'American Idol,' Week Three: She Was Late, NBD

  February 1, 2013 – The big deal, if you are concerned about the narrative of American Idol and not, say, how boss Nicki Minaj is behaving, or how awesome her outfits are, or the way in which she seems to, with little provocation, expose all kinds of backwards-ass assumptions about the soul-killing music industry, is that Thursday night's show provided viewers with the last batch of contestants who would be going to Hollywood. …
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  Nicki Minaj on 'American Idol,' Week One: Posh Accents, Side-Eyes, and Empathy

  January 18, 2013 – Reality shows are great equalizers of taste. If you don't find a sitcom like Parks & Recreation funny, or a fancy drama like Homeland emotionally devastating, then there's not a lot that those shows can do for you. But reality television works differently. If you want to kick back and condescend and get your thrills that way, then you can. …
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  'American Idol': Not Even the Minaj/Mariah Steel Cage Match Can Get People to Watch

  January 17, 2013 – Not even the contrived feud between Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey could save American Idol's ratings last night (January 16). As Reuters reports, viewership for the first night of the singing contest's two-part Season 12 premiere plummeted 19 percent compared with Season 11's opening episode. …
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  'American Idol' Season 12 Cheat Sheet: Catfights Welcome, Rappers Aren't

  January 16, 2013 – American Idol's two-night Season 12 premiere begins tonight (January 16) at 8 p.m. EST on FOX. Here's what you need to know.Ratings: The show’s ratings still lead other TV singing competitions (via TV Guide), but viewership has been on the decline. …
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  Stevie Nicks Says She'd Kill Nicki Minaj, Apologizes For Saying She'd Kill Nicki Minaj

  October 10, 2012 – So here's what you've missed. Following Nicki Minaj's inspired curse-out of Mariah Carey about a week ago, Barbara Walters, via The View, claimed Carey told her that several people heard the Young Money rapper mutter as she left the American Id set, "If I had a gun, I would shoot the bitch." Whoa. …
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